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George Mason Reef Building

May 12, 2025, 12:00 PM - May 13, 2025, 2:00 PM

Bull Run Parking Lot, SciTech Campus (Manassas)

May12

14th Annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium

May 12, 2025, 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Dewberry Hall, Johnson Center

May13

IPN Dissertation Proposal: Aya Nusir

May 13, 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 AM

KB 229 or via Zoom. Please RSVP to gscott21@gmu.edu for the Zoom link. 

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MS Project Presentation - Environmental Science and Policy

Dec 1, 2023, 9:00 - 11:00 AM

Zoom (contact the ESP Grad Office at espgrad@gmu.edu for info to join) 

MS Project
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
College of Science
George Mason University

 

Candidate: Breanna Hart

Date and Time: December 1, 2023 at 9:00AM

Location:  Zoom

Title: Manuscript on the Treatment of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease on Reefs of Roatán, Honduras

 

Thesis Director: Dr. Esther Peters
Committee: Dr. Jennifer Salerno, Dr. Vivek Prasad

 

ABSTRACT

 

Since 2014, stony coral tissue loss disease has caused death in more than 20 species of hard corals on reefs of Florida and the Caribbean Sea. After a study was performed in Roatán, Honduras, the data were sent to GMU Master’s student Breanna Hart for review, analysis, and writing of a manuscript. Missing and incorrect data were identified, corrected, and analyzed; hundreds of pictures of corals were examined to add missing data and to ensure accuracy; GIS maps were created to visually aid the manuscript; and correspondence with the data collectors from Roatán Marine Park occurred during the entire process.

 

 

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