Phone: 616-331-3749
231-728-3601
Fax: 616-331-3864
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Lake Michigan Center
740 W. Shoreline Dr.
Muskegon, MI 49441

Current Graduate Students

Angela Defore

Advisor: Bopi Biddanda
Research: Organic carbon
biogeochemistry of Muskegon Lake

marsupial_us@yahoo.com

Kelli Johnson

Advisor: Al Steinman
Research: Algal responses to
road run-off in an urbanized
catchment

k.adair.j@gmail.com

Matt Altenritter

Advisor: Carl Ruetz
Research: Recruitment and juvenile
ecology of lake sturgeon in Muskegon
Lake and the Muskegon River

ALTENRIM@student.gvsu.edu

Matt Zuellig

Advisor: Ryan Thum
Research: Genetics of Invasive
Aquatic Plants

zueligm@gvsu.edu

Jessica Higgins

Advisor: Rick Rediske and
Xuefeng (Michael) Chu
Research: Microtopography effects
on overland flow and infiltration

higginje@student.gvsu.edu

Amanda Potter

Advisor: Rick Rediske
Research: Polybrominated Diphenyl
Ether and Polychlorinated Biphenyl Concentrations in Fish from Lake
Michigan Tributaries and a
 Preliminary Risk Assessment
Concerning their Consumption by
Sport and Tribal Fishermen


Bill Keiper

Advisor: Carl Ruetz
Research: Stormwater effects
on biota in Little Black Creek

wkeiper@lssu.edu
 
Jordan Allison

Advisor: Carl Ruetz
Research: Walleye
Reproduction and Recruitment
in the Muskegon River

allisojo@mail.gvsu.edu

Deb Dila

Advisors: Bopi Biddanda
and Ryan Thum
Research: Microbial diversity
and community composition
along a land-to-lake gradient

debdila@gmail.com
  Elizabeth Hanna

Advisor: Rick Rediske
Research: PBDE levels in fish

hannae@mail.gvsu.edu

Whitney Nelson

Advisor: Al Steinman
Research: Composition and toxic
Sensitivity of Benthic Macroinvertebrate
Assemblages in Muskegon Lake, 
a Great Lakes Area of Concern

whitneyanelson@gmail.com
 
 
Hannah Tavalire

Advisors: Ryan Thum and Shaily Menon
Research: The role of genetics in invasion:
do hybrid variable leaf watermilfoil
(Myriophyllum heterophyllum) genotypes
out-perform non-hybrid genotypes?

tavalirh@mail.gvsu.edu
  Last Modified Date: November 12, 2009
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