2021 Senior Research Abstracts

• Analysis of the effectiveness of the oily water separator at removing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from bilge water on the training ship State of Maine (PDF)
• Assessing cadmium impacts on cellular growth and chlorophyll-a in Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Thalassiosira oceanica (PDF)
• Characterizing and quantifying trophic transfer and clearance rate of microplastics from the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) to the Jonah crab (Cancer borealis) (PDF)
• Characterizing dissolved organic matter in Penobscot Bay, ME, in relation to weather events (PDF)
• The effects of Epizootic Shell Disease on habitat selection of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) (PDF)
• Evaluating the relationship between salinity and total phenolic concentration of Fucus vesiculosus along the Penobscot River, ME (PDF)
• Impact of predator and prey presence on Asterias forbesi oscillatory gait (PDF)
• Quantitative analysis of 17α-ethinylestradiol in wastewater influent and effluent in Bangor, Maine (PDF)
• The selective feeding of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) when presented with varying amounts of microplastics (PDF)
• Separation efficiency of microplastics from water samples (PDF)
• Surveying for antimicrobial activity within the sponge Haliclona occulata against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis (PDF)