Principal investigator

Dr. Kelly Darnell

She/Her

Director, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

Associate Professor, School of Ocean Science and Engineering

Director, Mississippi Based RESTORE Act Center of Excellence

Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 703 East Beach Drive, Ocean Springs, MS 39564

kelly.darnell@usm.edu | (228) 818-8804

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post doctoral researchers


Graduate Students

Research Technicians

 

dr. kathleen hemeon

kathleen.hemeon@usm.edu

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Caitlin Young

Ph.D. Student, Division of Coastal Sciences

caitlin.young@usm.edu

 
 
 

matthew byrnes

matthew.byrnes@usm.edu

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previous lab members

postdoctoral researchers

Dr. Shannan McAskill (currently: St. Johns Water Management District)

graduate students

Devan Hildebrand, M.S. (currently: Laboratory Technician, Florida International University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute)

Jessica Woodall M.S. (currently: Outreach Assistant, Grant Bay National Estuarine Research Resever)

Christian Hayes, Ph.D. (currently: Assistant Professor of Biology, Waynesburg University)

Matthew Byrnes, M.S. (currently: Research Technician, USM)

Research TechnicianS

Samantha Smith

Candice Sheehan


undergraduate Interns and researchers

Emma Aitken, USM

Caylin Ashcraft, Wittenberg University

A. Paige Harrison, USM

Deborah McNeal, USM

Devan Hildebrand, USM

Rachell Pica, USM