Paleonet: Research Experience for an Undergraduate Student (NSF/REU)

[Charlotte Brunner]

Hi, All,

I have a research opportunity for an undergraduate student this 
summer, examining the impact of the Macondo/DWH spill on the 
Louisiana/Mississippi marsh environment.  Please see below for 
details.  I would appreciate it if you could distribute this to 
undergraduates you might teach who would benefit from this opportunity.
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Research Experience for an Undergraduate Student (NSF/REU)

For 12 weeks this summer, my lab is offering a stipend to an 
undergraduate geology, biology, marine science or environmental 
science student to execute a research project on the impact of the 
Deepwater Horizon/Macondo well oil spill.

The student will test the impact oil on the living population of 
benthic foraminifera at a heavily oiled marsh in Louisiana.   The 
student will take replicate samples from a site polluted for a year 
and, after making a census of the live foraminifers in the samples, 
test if the population is altered compared to marsh populations that 
are oil free or lightly oiled by a single oiling event.  The results 
will cap a year-long NSF-RAPID project that examined the effects of 
oil on benthic foraminifers, the macrofauna, and bioturbation in 
several marshes in the Louisiana/Mississippi area.

The stipend is $400/wk with an additional $125 to offset living 
expenses.  The laboratory is located in the USM Department of Marine 
Science, which is housed at the NASA Stennis Space Center near Bay 
St. Louis, Ms. and about 50 minutes from New Orleans, La.

To apply, please send as an e-mail attachment (1) a CV including your 
contact information (phone, e-mail address, mailing address), (2) 
e-mail and phone contact for three references who are familiar with 
your academic abilities, and (3) a statement explaining your interest 
in the project.  Please send to charlotte.brunner at usm.edu.

Charlotte Brunner
Professor of Marine Science
Department of Marine Science
University of Southern Mississippi
1020 Balch Blvd.
John C. Stennis Space Center, MS 39529

Phone: 228-688-3576
FAX: 228-688-1121
E-mail: charlotte.brunner at usm.edu
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Charlotte Brunner
Professor of Marine Science
Department of Marine Science
University of Southern Mississippi
1020 Balch Blvd.
John C. Stennis Space Center, MS 39529

Phone: 228-688-3576
FAX: 228-688-1121
E-mail: charlotte.brunner at usm.edu 
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