Julie Grisset  

Julie is an undergraduate studying Environmental Engineering at the University of Florida. She joined the lab in the Fall of 2019 to assist with benthic crab community research across mangrove, ecotone, and salt marsh ecosystems, and she is continuing her work with the lab during the Summer of 2020 as a GCE-LTER intern studying marsh disturbances and recovery and the associated impacts. Julie is passionate about coastal ecosystems and is particularly interested in studying water quality and coastline resiliency in the face of rising sea levels.

Payton Billingsley 

Payton Billingsley is a fourth year student studying Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State University. Payton joined the lab in the summer of 2020, and she assists with projects focused on the morpho-hydrodynamics of saltmarsh intertidal zones. Shoreline restoration, wave climate mapping, and marine ecology encompass her previous research. With research interests at the intersection of engineering and ecology, Payton hopes to use her findings to inform conservation and build resilient communities.

Jamie Rogers

Jamie is an undergraduate studying Biology at Georgia Tech. She joined the lab as a GCE-LTER Intern on Sapelo Island in the Summer of 2019 and has stayed on to continue more experiments on the island. The research she has been apart of includes investigation of ecosystem services and restoration potential of the ribbed mussel and evaluation of large and small scale salt marsh disturbances. Jamie is all about protecting and enjoying Georgia's magnificent, unique, and vital coast. 

Hallie Fischman

Hallie is an undergraduate at Brown University studying Biology with a focus in Marine Biology. Her research takes place on Sapelo Island, Georgia, and focuses on ecosystem resilience and response to climate change. Specifically, she is conducting field experiments to quantify ribbed mussel accession on salt marshes as it relates to sea level rise and is testing the effects of intra- and interspecific facilitation in mediating the recovery of sand dune ecosystems following hurricane disturbance.

Michelle Taubler 

Michelle Taubler is a fourth year Environmental Engineering Sciences student at the University of Florida. She joined the lab in the summer of 2018. Currently she assists in multiple research projects that explore concepts such as how natural variation in plant mass contributes to sand dune recovery and how estuary health threats vary across the southeast US. Her research interests are focused on ecological restoration.

Lab Undergraduate Alumni:
Michelle Taubler
Aliexandra Rubin
Alexa Cetta
Jaime Rogers 
Hallie Fischman
Thomas Pettengill
Eleanore Brown
Katherine Cronk
Bridget Chalifour
Wesley Inman
Emily Persico
Emma Johnson