Jennifer Kisabeth

I received my B.S in Marine Science in 2012 from Coastal Carolina University with a minor in environmental science. I greatly enjoyed the hands-on learning atmosphere of Coastal including numerous trips to the beach and marsh for labs, collecting and analyzing samples. During my undergrad I did my senior thesis on the timing and intensity of Crassostrea virginica spat across a spatial and temporal scale in Dunn Sound, Murrells Inlet and also completed research on the covering response of Lytechinus variegatus urchins in Discovery Bay, Jamaica. I decided to attend UVI after learning about the program and its similarity to my undergraduate experience from a UVI graduate student, and former CCU grad, while taking a coral reef ecology course in Jamaica.

While at UVI I worked as teaching assistant in the chemistry department teaching general chemistry and organic chemistry labs for my first year. During my second year in the MMES program I worked as a research assistant for Tyler Smith as part of the NOAA funded Acropora Monitoring and Mapping Program on endangered Acropora palmata stands around St. Thomas and St. John. My thesis revolves around cruise ship induced sediment resuspension characteristics in the harbors here on St. Thomas. I also help out with projects such as Ambient Water Quality Monitoring program and Ciguatera.