Graduate studies within the Aquatic Biology Program
There is no graduate program within the actual Aquatic Biology Program, however many students have received or are working on Master’s Degrees in Biology while concentrating in aquatic sciences.
Some examples of current and recent thesis work by our students include:
Anita Merritt - Erosion and revegetation of shoreline on Lake Bemidji, MN. MS in Biology, May 2006.
Tara Solem - The influence of woody debris dams on leaf pack carbon degradation and invertebrate population dynamics in mountainous streams. MS in Biology, May 2005.
Erich Westrich – Zooplankton density and diversity in the upper Mississippi River-lake continuum. Anticipated graduation, May 2007.
Kayla Thompson – Wetland plant diversity in ephemeral forested wetlands. Anticipated graduation, May 2008.
Terrance Wilcox- Periphyton in streams and ditches of the Big Bog. Anticipated graduation, Dec 2006.
Craig Jarnot- Effects of rusty crayfish predation on walleye egg survival in Leech Lake, Minnesota (Funded by a $43,690 grant from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources through June 2008). Anticipated graduation May 2008.
Tony Dingman- Development of a walleye population dynamics model for small lakes in Minnesota (In cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Area Office in Bemidji). Anticipated graduation, May 2008.
Shane Bowe - Influences of forest age structure on macroinvertebrate communities and organic matter inputs in forest wetlands of hardwood-conifer mixed landscape. Anticipated graduation, Dec 2006.
Candy Ginter - Impacts of lakeshore development on benthic communities in a large mesotrophic lake, Rainy Lake, MN. Anticipated graduation, May 2007.
Josh Kragthorpe - Influence of forest age, stream geomorphology and woody debris on stream periphyton in northern hardwood forests, Porcupine Mountains, MI. Anticipated graduation, Dec 2006.
Carolyn Towler - Effects of large-scale forest blowdown and prescribed burning on lakes within a boreal forest, Boundary Water’s Canoe Area, MN. Anticipated graduation, May 2007.
For more information on BSU’s graduate program, please see the following links.
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