● Studying sea level rise in the gulf based on concentration of fossilized calcareous foraminifera collected from coring of the Mississippi Sound. ● Sieving sample sizes of mud, heating them and transferring to vials of forams and sand particles ● Picking forams from a tray under a microscope and collecting and separating by genus into a slide. ● Counting and identifying diatom assemblages on filtered slides to determine absolute population.● Utilizing light microscope technology and high resolution photography of slide field of views through LAS EZ.

● Studying the dynamic change in morphology based on behavioral interaction and hormone exchange in the Mangrove rivulus fish ● Use of ImageJ to measure lengths of fish at different juvenile growth stages ● Feeding colony and “experimental” groups brine shrimp through a 60 mL syringe ● Measuring hatchling and egg morphology