217th Commencement Program | University of Maine | Class of 2019

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Doctoral Degree Candidates Brian William Rolek, Wildlife Ecology ADVISORS: Cynthia Loftin, Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology; and Daniel Harrison, Professor of Wildlife Ecology THESIS: Effects from Forest Management on Avian Spruce-Fir Communities and Habitat

John Caleb Speirs, ª Physics ADVISOR: MacKenzie Stetzer, Assistant

Professor of Physics THESIS: Probing Student Reasoning Skills:

New Methodologies April May Spencer, Education

Pamela Elena Ruiz Martinez, Chemistry ADVISORS: Brian Frederick, Associate Professor of Chemistry; and William DeSisto, Professor of Chemical Engineering THESIS: Thermochemical Conversion of Guaiacol Over Unsupported Tungsten Oxide and Nickel Supported Catalysts Jessica Scheick, Earth and Climate Sciences ADVISOR: Ellyn Enderlin, Research Assistant

Professor, Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences THESIS: Remote Sensing of Icebergs in Greenland’s Fjords and Coastal Waters Allison K. Scherer, Microbiology ADVISOR: Robert Wheeler, Associate Professor

of Microbiology THESIS: Host Mediated Mechanisms of Fungal Cell

Spread in a Transparent Zebrafish Infection Model Won Joon Song, Earth and Climate Sciences ADVISORS: Scott Johnson, Professor of

Structural Geology and Tectonics; and Christopher Gerbi, Associate Professor of Earth Science THESIS: Fault-Adjacent Damage at the Base of the Seismogenic Zone and Seismic Anisotropy of Fold Structures

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Kathryn A. Warner, Ecology and Environmental Sciences ADVISORS: Jasmine Saros, Professor of Paleoecology; and Mario Teisl, Professor of Resource Economics and Policy THESIS: Ecological and Economic Implications of Abrupt Climate Change on Lake Ecosystems

ADVISOR: Janet Spector, Associate Professor

Emerita of Special Education THESIS: Teacher Judgment Accuracy in the

Domain of Spelling Michael Paul Torre, Ecology and Environmental Sciences ADVISOR: Yong Chen, Professor for Fisheries Population Dynamics THESIS: Linking Environmental Variability to the Biogeography of Placopecten magellanicus in the Northeast U.S. and the Development of Management Tools to Refine Survey Design and Improve Fishery Resilience Panagiotis Tsakiroglou, Food Science and Human Nutrition ADVISOR: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, Professor of Clinical Nutrition THESIS: The Effects of Wild Blueberry Bioactives on Endothelial Cell Migration and Angiogenesis: An In Vitro Mechanistic, Genomic and Proteomic Approach Daniel Harold Varney, ª Chemical Engineering ADVISOR: Douglas Bousfield, Professor of

Chemical Engineering THESIS: Prediction of Paper Coating Mechanical

Behavior Based on Particles-Scale Models

Zachary T. Wood, Ecology and Environmental Sciences ADVISOR: Michael Kinnison, Professor of Evolutionary Applications THESIS: Cascading Community Consequences of Fish Adaptation Fuyu Xu, Spatial Information Science and Engineering ADVISOR: Mary Kate Beard-Tisdale, Professor of Spatial Information Science and Engineering THESIS: Development and Applications of Similarity Measures of Spatial-Temporal Event Sequences and Spatial Setting


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