Summer Internship Program 2014

The National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program accepted 13 college interns this summer at CMOP. Below you will find information about the interns, learn about their research projects, and access their weekly blogs.

2014 Summer Interns

Elizabeth Gass
Bio: senior, Chemistry, Oregon State University
Project: Microbes, Manganese and Oxygen: Tools to unweave the web.
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Jacqueline Hayes
Bio: rising senior, Environmental Science, Fresno Pacific University
Project: Determination of the effect of pH on cellular dynamics of the harmful algae Alexandrium catenella
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Madison Hibshman
Bio: rising senior, Biology, University of Portland
Project: Study of microbial dynamics in the Columbia River estuary using an autonomous adaptive sampling approach
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Adrian Hinkle
Bio: rising sophomore, Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University
Project: Redox probes to characterize environmental processes
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John Koberstein
Bio: rising senior, Biology and Chemistry, Whitworth University
Project: Using fluorescent in situ hybridization to study nuclear dynamics and differentiation in the bloom-forming ciliate, Mesodinium CRE
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Isla McKerrow
Bio: rising senior, Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Project: The Potential Effects of the Invasive Gastropod Potamopyrgus antipodarum on the Columbia River Estuary
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Stuart Ness
Bio: rising senior, Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University
Project: Environmental Fate of Munitions Compounds
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Cruz Orozco-Alvarez
Bio: rising senior, Computer Science, Heritage University
Project: Development of improved data selection interface for Data Explorer
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Paul Pan
Bio: rising sophomore, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Project: TBA
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Elizabeth Peterson
Bio: rising junior, Biology, Carleton College
Project: Exploring linkages between phytoplankton and salmon prey
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Ermenejildo Rodriguez
Bio:  graduating senior, Computer Science, Heritage University
Project: A Preliminary Computational Model of Ovarian Development in Mice
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Jessica Steigerwald
Bio:  rising sophomore, Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University
Project: Construction of mutants in biosythesis genes fore antibiotics in bacterium Teredinibacter turnerae, a symbiont of shipworms
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Colleen Xu
Bio: rising senior, Biological Sciences, Northwestern University
Project: Transcriptional regulation by ResD and NsrR
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