Semester by the Sea Seminar Day
Event starts on this day
Apr
24
2026
Join us in celebrating our Semester by the Sea students as they present their research, field experiences, and reflections from a semester on the Texas coast.
Description
Kelly Dorgan — Welcome and Introduction
Brode Kessler — Methanogenesis in coastal sediments: effects of seagrass and seaweed detritus on methane production
Annette Carranza — Small changes, big impact: how infauna shape sediment structure and erosion on mud island
Victor Trejo — Seasonal variation in aquatic respiration in the Port Aransas ship channel
Priscilla Teran — Refining tissue digestion and extraction methods for micro- and nanoplastic analysis
Break
Citrine Briseno — Characterizing the trophic ecology of Porites asteroides across an environmental gradient
Samantha Pastrano — Investigating how prey coloration and nutrition shape predator preference
Kaci Craddock — Developmental effects of PFAS on early life stage southern flounder
Davis Barnett — The effects of atorvastatin on embryolarval Cyprinodon variegatus gene expression