个人简介

Jo-Marie Kasinak received her B.S. in biology in 2011 from Sacred Heart University, and a M.S. In biological sciences from Auburn University in 2013. Her undergraduate researched focused on the population genetics of horseshoe crabs within Long Island Sound. Her graduate researched focused on aquatic ecology, specifically on monitoring and managing harmful algal blooms in freshwater systems. As part of her thesis she helped develop and refine a method for using bench-top fluoremetry to quantify cyanobacterial abundance in water samples. Also she investigated the use of grass carp (an herbivorous fish) for controlling Lyngbya wollei (an invasive filamentous cyanobacterium) blooms in Alabama ponds. While at Auburn she was awarded research grants from the Auburn University Graduate School, as well as The Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, and a scholarship from the Mid-South Aquatic Plant Management Society.