2011-2012 Cohort
Greg Barord
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Greg completed his B.S. in Marine Biology, as well as a minor in Chemistry, at Texas
A&M University at Galveston from 2001-2005. Greg worked at the National
Resource Center for Cephalopods maintaining large scale aquaculture systems for
octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses and conducting various research
projects from 2003-2008. After graduating from Texas A&M, he began working
at the quarantine facility at the Aquarium at Moody Gardens diagnosing and
treating all of the animals at the aquarium. From 2008-2010, Greg worked on
fishing boats in the Bering Sea collecting data for the National Marine
Fisheries Service to manage the quotas of the various fisheries in Alaska. Currently Greg is a 2nd year Ph.D. student at the City University of New York, Graduate
Center and Brooklyn College, working with the chambered nautilus. The chambered
nautilus (in photo) is a cephalopod, related to octopus, squid, and cuttlefish
and is the only cephalopod with an external shell. His work focuses on the
learning and memory abilities of the chambered nautilus in the lab. The
chambered nautilus is also heavily over-fished in the the Indo-Pacific region
(Philippines, Australia, etc.) for its shell so a large part of his research also
focuses on collecting information on the size of their wild populations to
determine whether or not the chambered nautilus should be listed as an
endangered species.
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Jennifer Drieves
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Jen is
currently a doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying
archaeology. Her research interests
include archaeological science and the investigation of unique prehistoric
construction materials. Jen holds a
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cooper Union and a master’s
degree in history from the University of Southampton in Southampton,
England. Prior to pursuing her degree in
archaeology, Jen worked as a mechanical engineer designing HVAC systems.
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Malgorzata Frik
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Malgorzata
is receiving her PhD in Chemistry, in the sub-discipline of Inorganic Chemistry
through CUNY, Graduate Center. Her research involves studies of luminescent
gold compounds with phosphine as antimicrobial agents. Malgorzata received her
BA in Chemistry and Anthropology at Brooklyn College.
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Andrea Huska
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Andrea received her B.A. in
Geology from DePauw University in Indiana. She is currently working towards a
M.A in Geology in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Brooklyn
College. Her research involves stream tin deposits that are associated with
Bronze Age settlement sites in Western Serbia.
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Annesia Lamb
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Annesia received
her B.S. in molecular biology from Western Kentucky University. Before
continuing her education in the Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD program at
CUNY's Graduate Center, she trained as a research assistant in a neuroscience
laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. Currently,
Annesia is studying the impacts of eutrophication in urban water bodies of New
York City. She received a National Park Service Learning Center Fellowship to
analyze the trends of water quality indicators in Jamaica Bay, New
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Lilja Nielsen
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Lilja completed a BA in biology, with special projects
focused in marine biology. After two years running a general biology
laboratory, and a year as a volunteer math teacher in Angola, Africa, she
returned to school. Her MS was completed in the University of Aarhus in
Denmark, which led to a publication on the effect of environmental estrogens on
the guppy. Currently a PhD student of the CUNY Graduate Center, she is
investigating the effect of environmental estrogens on neuronal circuitry in
the lab of Dr. Forlano.
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Remy Rovelli
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Remy Rovelli completed his B.S. in Geology at CUNY Brooklyn college from
2007-2011. He is now doing his Masters in Geology at CUNY Brooklyn College, with
specific interest in Paleontology. Remy has been working with the American
Museum of Natural History since 2009 looking at the Cretaceous/ Paleocene
boundary in Monmouth Ct. New Jersey, where they have found possible evidence of extinct cephalopods knows as Ammonites surviving past their perceived extinction
date, including the first occurrence of ammonite jaws found in the North Atlantic
Coastal Plain. Remy has had the opportunity of presenting his research at several
GSA conferences, as well as an International Conference for Cephalopods in
Dijon, France. As well as Geology, Remy has studied education, and has done a
few years of Student teaching in Public High Schools in Brooklyn. He hopes to
continue his research to reveal even more previously undiscovered historical
events, and to eventually plans on becoming a College Professor or Museum
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Tashana Samuel
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Tashana
earned her B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology at Brooklyn College. She is
currently a doctoral student in the Cognition, Brain and Behavior Psychology
program at The Graduate Center/Brooklyn College campus. Her research in the
Infant, Child and Adult Cognition Lab at Brooklyn College under the direction of
Dr. Laraine McDonough, seeks to investigate acquisition and everyday event
representation in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Tashana has recently examined functional generalization of objects and
sequential understanding of novel and familiar events in children with cognitive
and language delays and will replicate this experiment on children with
autism.
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Suzie Stempel
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Suzie is currently a Doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate
center in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program. Her research interests include urban water
systems, stormwater, geochemistry, environmental policy, and public science. She
holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Florida Institute of Technology and
an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Florida. Before moving
to NYC to pursue her Doctorate, she worked for the Natural Resources Management
Office of Brevard County, FL as an Environmental Specialist working on
stormwater quality assessments in the inter-coastal waters of Florida.
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