Graduate Opportunities at CCU's Marine Science Program
Zhixiong Shen
Please share this message with students looking for graduate opportunities. Coastal Carolina University’s Marine Science is seeking strong applicants for the Master in Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies (CMWS) and the PhD in Coastal Marine System Science (CMSS) programs. Our graduate programs provide research and training opportunities in many subdisciplines in marine science and coastal systems science. We offer Graduate Assistantships with competitive stipends and in-state tuition or full tuition waiver as available. The application deadline is Jan 15 for full consideration. Applicants are encouraged to contact Marine Science, Biology, or Physical and Engineering faculties to discuss graduate opportunities related to marine science.
Specific recruitment plans include:
Dr. Diane Fribance (dfri...@coastal.edu) is seeking a master’s student to join an NSF-funded ongoing research project on river plumes focused on processes at fronts. The strong convergence at the front leads to interesting questions about what is gathering in these regions and the potential impacts on coastal productivity more broadly. There are also numerous questions related to the physics driving the system and how it varies under different forcing conditions.
Dr. Erin Hackett (ehac...@coastal.edu) is seeking exceptional applicants for M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Marine Science with focuses on basic and applied research in the areas of marine meteorology, ground-based remote sensing, ocean surface waves, boundary layer flows, and mixing and turbulence. A background in fluid mechanics, physics, mathematics, computer science, or engineering is ideal along with prior experience with computer programming and data analysis. Our research incorporates field, laboratory, and computational studies.
Dr. Zhixiong Shen (zs...@coastal.edu) seeks graduate students at all levels to study coastal hazards with a focus on flooding and their natural and anthropogenic drives. Specific projects include coastal flooding due to tropical cyclones, early to mid-Holocene flood change in the Southeastern US and its climate control, and sandy coast’s response to late Holocene storm-climate change.
Dr. April Abbott (aabb...@coastal.edu): My lab focuses on sediment geochemistry, with main interests in the impacts of early diagenesis on ocean chemistry and paleoclimate proxies with a focus on trace elements and their isotopes. Current projects involve element fractionation during clay authigenesis and understanding ocean circulation proxies in the North Atlantic.
Dr. Kaijun Lu (k...@coastal.edu): My research focuses on understanding the sources, distribution, and fate of organic compounds in aquatic systems, spanning both biogenic and anthropogenic origins, to push the boundaries of environmental organic geochemistry and contribute to a deeper understanding of aquatic geochemical systems. I am also deeply interested in the behavior and fate of anthropogenic contaminants in aquatic environments, such as PAHs, microplastics, PFAS, and newly emerging contaminants, such as 6PPD-quinone.
Dr. Chiara Gamberi (cgam...@coastal.edu): Research in my lab uses the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to model development and disease. High genetic conservation makes the fly an excellent model for studying fundamental biology and disease to build knowledge that can be translated to humans. Relevant to marine science, we use in vivo compound screening technology developed in our lab to search natural compounds of marine origin with anti-neoplastic and cyst-reducing properties that could remedy polycystic kidney disease, test water pollutants, and study the homologs of developmental genes in marine organisms.
Dr. Susan Libes (sli...@coastal.edu): The Environmental Quality Lab (EQL) has paid internship opportunities throughout the year for professional track MS students. Students will work as lab and field technicians in the state-certified EQL to learn regulatory-level water-quality sampling and analysis techniques and obtain certifications.
Thanks,
Zhixiong Shen
Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Programs
Department of Marine Science
Coastal Carolina University
PO Box 261954
Conway, SC 29528