Students in the CMSS program

Ramadan Gamal Abouelmagd Abdelrehim
Faculty Advisor: Mohamed Ahmed
Research: Integrated remote sensing, GIS, and geophysical approaches to improve water harvesting in coastal watersheds of southern Marsa Alam, Egypt
Started: Fall 2021, PhD student

Natalia Alekseeva
Faculty Advisor: Richard Coffin
Research: Marine sciences, modeling of gas hydrates processes, seismic profiling
Start: Fall 2021, PhD student

Chrissy Barrera
Faculty Advisor: Lin Zhang
Research: geochemistry
Start: Fall 2020, PhD student

Antonio Cantu de Leija
Faculty Advisor: Dale Gawlik
Research: Wetland and Waterbird Ecology and Conservation
Started: Fall 2021, PhD student

Neina Chapa
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Beseres Pollack
Research: ecological benefits of restored intertidal and subtidal oyster reef complexes in the Texas Coastal Bend
Started: Fall 2021, MS student

Patricia Cockett
Faculty Advisor: Paul Montagna
Research: Genetics
Start: Summer 2015, PhD candidate
Honors, Awards, & Affiliations: CCME Scholar

Ahmed Eid
Faculty Advisor: Dorina Murgulet
Research: hydrogeology
Start: Spring 2023, PhD student

Isabel Garcia
Faculty Advisor: Michael Starek
Research: UAS-Based Photo-Bathymetry and Monitoring of Nearshore Coastal Processes
Start: Spring 2019, PhD student

Kiersten Ivy
Faculty Advisor: Hussain Abdulla & Jeremy Conkle
Research: Environmental Chemistry
Start: Fall 2022, PhD student

Hyangim Ji
Faculty Advisor: 
Research: 
Start: Fall 2022,  student

EvaLynn Jundt
Faculty Advisor: Xinping Hu
Research: Carbon Chemistry
Start: Fall 2022, PhD student
Honors, Awards, & Affiliations: NRT STAGES Fellow

Nigel Lascelles Jr.
Faculty Advisors: Hussain Abdulla & Jeremy Conkle
Research: Environmental Chemistry
Start: Fall 2019, PhD student
Honors, Awards, & Affiliations: CCME Scholar, NRT STAGES Fellow

Kylee Lewis
Faculty Advisor: James Gibeaut
Research: The impacts of sea level rise on coastal communities
Start: Fall 2020, MS student
Honors, Awards, & Affiliations: CCME Scholar

Anthony Lima
Faculty Advisors: David Yoskowitz, Richard McLaughlin
Research: Exploring Aquaculture Potential and Investigating Economic, Ecological, and Legal Barriers
Start: Spring 2019, PhD candidate
Honors, Awards, & Affiliations: CCME Scholar

Molly Mcguigan
Faculty Advisor: Ed Proffitt
Research: Macroinvertebrates in mangrove leaf litter
Started: Fall 2021, MS student

Shelby Metoyer
Faculty Advisor: Darek Bogucki
Research: Remote sensing and artificial intelligence (AI): near-surface fluid dynamics
Start: Spring 2021, PhD candidate

Florian Morvais
Faculty Advisor: Chuntao Liu
Research: satellite and ground based lightning observations, lightning formation mechanisms, cloud properties
Started: Fall 2021, PhD student

Jessica Myers
Faculty Advisor: Hussain Abdulla & Jeremy Conkle
Research: Environmental chemistry
Start: Fall 2019, MS student

Mariana Carolina Nieva Tamasiunas
Faculty Advisor: Toshiaki Shinoda
Research:  Intraseasonal variability of the Indonesian Seas associated to the Madden Julian Oscillation
Start: Spring 2020, PhD student

Shankar Narasimha Harinarasimha Prasad
Faculty Advisor: Alexey Sadovski
Research: mathematical and statistical modeling of the coastal and marine systems
Started: Fall 2021, PhD student

Alexander Sharp
Faculty Advisor: Dale Gawlik
Research: Movement patterns of wading birds as a mechanism linking freshwater wetlands and coastal ecosystems in the Greater Everglades
Start: Spring 2021, PhD Student

Magkena Szemak
Faculty Advisor: Lindsay Prothro
Research: Studying diatom assemblages from the Antarctic to determine records of sea ice and warm water mass movement during the Holocene Epoch
Started: Fall 2021, MS student

Ulsia Urrea Marino
Faculty Advisor: Katya Wowk
Research: Sustainable Management of Coastal Zones in particular, the analysis of urban development in the Mexican coastal zone counties and adaptation and mitigation measures they adopt in the face of climate change.
Start: Fall 2020, PhD candidate

Quincy Walker
Faculty Advisor: Chuntao Liu
Research: 
Start: Fall 2023, MS student

Youwen Wang
Faculty Advisor: Alexey Sadovski
Research: Mathematical and statistical modeling of environmental, coastal and marine system
Started: Fall 2021, PhD student
Honors, Awards, & Affiliations: NRT STAGES Fellow

Tommy Winning
Faculty Advisor: Feiqin Xie
Research: Boundary layer observation and measurement using GPS Radio Occultation
Start: Fall 2014, PhD candidate