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Current Amsler lab M.S. and Ph.D. students:

  • Philip Bucolo: Sensory responses of microalgae and macroalgal spores to benthic chemical and physical microenvironments. (Ph.D. Candidate)
  • Kate Schoenrock: Chemical ecology of antarctic macroalgal-endophyte-mesograzer interactions. (M.S./Ph.D. Program)
  • Ruth McDowell: Chemical ecology of antarctic macroalgal-endophyte-mesograzer interactions. (Ph.D. Program)
  • Brittny White: Quantitative survey of benthic echinoderms from Antarctica (M.S. Program)

Previous Amsler lab students:

  • Andrew Mahon: Chemical aspects of defense and predator avoidance in benthic marine invertebrates in Antarctica. (M.S. 2000)
  • Michael Vickery: Development and utilization of a novel deuterostome model employing larval echinoderms for the study of regeneration genetics. (Ph.D. 2001; J.B. McClintock served as secondary co-advisor)
  • Stephen Greer: Physical and chemical factors affecting the swimming behavior, settlement, and survival of Hincksia irregularis (Phaeophyceae) spores. (Ph.D. 2003)
  • Kevin Peters: A comparative analysis of the nutritional and elemental compostion of macroalgae from the western Antarctic Peninsula ( M.S. 2004). The chemical ecology of anatartic sponges ( Ph.D 2009).
  • Katherine McKamey: Effects of temparature and light on growth of the Antarctic algae Geminocarpus geminatus (Ectocarpales: Phaeophyceae) and Cladophora repens (Cladophorales, Cladophorophyceae) in culture. (M.S. 2004)
  • Meghana Gavand: An investigation of sonication and advanced oxidants as a mechanism to eradicate ballast-borne invasive microalgae and macroinvertebrates (Ph.D. 2007 secondary co-advisor with J.B. McClintock as primary advisor)
  • Craig Aumack: Chemically mediated macroalgal-mesograzer interactions along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. (Ph.D. 2010)
  • Philip Bucolo: Responses of two heterokonts (classes Phaeophyceae and Bacillariophyceae) to environmental variables throughout their microenvironments. (Ph.D. 2011)
  • Kathryn Schoenrock: The impact of endophytic algae on growth and survival of Antarctic macroalgae (Rhodophyta). (M.S. 2011; continuing in Ph.D. program)

Previous Amsler lab Postdoctoral Associates:

  • Katrin Iken: Marine algal chemical ecology. (April 1999 - Dec. 2001; co-advised by J. B. McClintock)
  • Mikel Becerro: Marine invertebrate chemical ecology. (Feb. - Oct. 2000; co-advised by J.B. McClintock)
  • Anne Fairhead: Antarctic brown algal chemical ecology. (Nov. 2002 - Oct. 2004; co-advised by J.B. McClintock)
  • Jill Zamzow: Influence of fish predation on antarctic algal-amphipod trophic interactions. (July 2007 - July 2009; co-advised by J. B. McClintock)