Research Team
The Long Island Sound Seafloor Habitat Mapping Initiative is comprised of scientists and technicians from academia (University of Connecticut, University of New Haven, Columbia University, Queens College, Stony Brook University) and a federal agency partner (U.S. Geological Survey, USGS).
Vicki Ferrini
Research Scientist, Marine Geology and Geophysics
Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Timothy Kenna
Research Scientist
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Frank Nitsche
Research Scientist
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Current Students and Postdoctoral Research Fellows
The Long Island Sound Seafloor Habitat Mapping Initiative provides opportunities for professional development of the next generation of scientists and resource managers through the support of postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students.
Students
Long Island Sound Cable Fund Management
The Long Island Sound Cable Fund Steering Committee and the Long Island Sound Partnership provide direct oversight over the Initiative. DeAva Lambert, from the Connecticut Department of Energy and the Environment, serves as the Long Island Sound Cable Fund Project Lead.
Student and Postdoctoral Alumni
The Long Island Sound Seafloor Habitat Mapping Initiative has supported three postdoctoral fellows, twelve graduate students and twenty-three undergraduate students since the first year of the Initiative in 2010.
UConn
- Lauren Stephaniak, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Christian Conroy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Alexis Guitard, Undergraduate Intern
- Annalee Mears, Undergraduate Intern
- Shaina Harkins, Undergraduate Intern
- Marisa Thompson, Undergraduate Intern
- Carlee Dunn, PhD Student
- Riley Pena, PhD Student
University of New Haven
- Shannon Penna
- Deena Chadi
- Jamie Frederick
- Michelle Biegaj
- Nicole Govert, Graduate Student
- Courtney Schneeburger, Graduate Student
- Olivia Walton, Graduate Student
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
- Erika Zacher, Undergraduate Intern
- Mary McElroy, Undergraduate Student
- Evelyn Mayo, Undergraduate Student
- Clara Chang, Undergraduate Student
- Sufyan Kahlkid, Undergraduate Student
- Celeste Pallone, Undergraduate Student
- Stephanie Arevalo, Undergraduate Student Summer Intern
- Sophie Izzo, Undergraduate Student Summer Intern
- Lela Kornfeld, Undergraduate Student
- Dayanna Maidueanam Undergraduate Student Summer Intern
- Adrian Puga, Undergraduate Student
- Shawronna Segupta, Graduate Student
- Emmet Sherman, Graduate Student
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
- Michael P. White, Master of Science Student
- Haikun Xu, Ph.D. Student
- Mohamed Elsie Abou-Mahmoud, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Jason Meuller, Master of Science Student
Queens College, City University of New York
- Parish Hosseini, Ph.D. Student
- Edwige Lauture, Master of Science Student
- Elisa Oliveira, Undergraduate Student
- Michael Delligatti, Undergraduate Student
- Adam Kaiser, Undergraduate Student
- Jamie Asan, Undergraduate Student
- Carol Calle, Master of Science Student
- Evelyn Law, Undergraduate Student
- Neftali Kratc, Undergraduate Student
- Humayra Khanom, Undergraduate Student
- Nazia Hannat, Undergraduate Student