Interested in joining the lab? We are looking for a Project Manager, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Research Technician (links TBA) to work on a collaborative project on low salinity tolerance and other stressors in oysters. Contact Dr. Stauffer for more information.
Beth Stauffer is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biology. She has been at UL Lafayette since January 2015 and is enjoying learning about the nearby coastal bays, bayous, and local Cajun culture. Dr. Stauffer was an Early Career Research Fellow with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program (2018-2020), Member-at-Large on the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO) Board (2019-present), and member of the Advisory Council for the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON, 2016-present). For more information, please see Dr. Stauffer's CV or Google Scholar profile.
Ph.D., Marine Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, 2011
B.S., Marine Science & Biology, University of Miami, 2000
Ph.D., Marine Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, 2011
B.S., Marine Science & Biology, University of Miami, 2000
Research Associate
Jennifer Raabe is a Research Associate and Lab Manager who is coordinating a pilot project funded by NOAA through the Alliance for Coastal Technologies to increase continuous nutrient monitoring across the northern Gulf of Mexico. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2009. In 2018 she received her Master's degree in Biology from the University of North Florida where she studied the vertical distribution of marine invertebrate larvae, and potential spatial competition between native and non-native bivalves, in a well-mixed estuary.
Graduate Students & Research
Andrea Jaegge is a PhD student and ICaWR Doctoral Fellow at UL Lafayette with interest in studying the dynamics of Louisiana’s coastal phytoplankton communities and the related water quality issues in the ecosystem. She received her B.S. from the University of Alabama in 2013 and spent two years working on water quality issues at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC before joining the lab.
Gulce Kurtay is a PhD student in the lab. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Hacettepe University in Turkey and received her Master’s degree in Marine Science from the University of Basque Country. She is interested in the hurricane impacts on phytoplankton dynamics and community composition in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulce also obtained a Master’s of Art degree from the Bilkent University in Biology Education by investigating the educational aspect of ocean biology.
Julia Sweet is a Ph.D. student and University Doctoral Fellow. She received her B.S. in Geography from the University of California in Santa Barbara where she was later hired to work as a Staff Research Associate and Laboratory Manager at the Marine Science Institute. During this time she worked towards a M.Sc degree through the Interdepartmental Program in Marine Science. She has broad research interests relating to biological oceanography and the biological carbon pump, with specific research questions on the consequences of our changing ocean conditions on the base of the marine food web and the source of half our planet’s oxygen — the mighty phytoplankton. Julia loves working at sea, sushi, yoga and dogs.
Hans Prevost is a M.Sc. student in the lab. He received his B.S. in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research focuses on the phytoplankton community responses to ocean acidification and eutrophication within the Gulf of Mexico. When he is not in the lab, he enjoys painting and cooking.
Undergraduate Researchers
Vivian Mire is a Biology major at UL Lafayette with a concentration in pre-medicine. She hopes to go on to medical school and become a dermatologist. In her spare time she loves to exercise, read, and hang out with close friends. She is being funded in 2021 by the Louisiana Sea Grant UROP program to conduct grazing experiments with grad student Gulce Kurtay.
Beau Phillips is a Biology major at UL Lafayette. He is interested in neurology and oncology and plans to attend medical school after undergraduate. In the lab, Beau is learning many of the tools and methods in the lab and working with grad students running samples on the FlowCAM. He is also working as a pathology research intern at LSUS Health in Shreveport in summer 2021, and his hobbies outside of school are chess, journaling, and exercising.
Alaina Hebert is a Biology major at UL Lafayette. After finishing her undergraduate degree, she hopes to go on and become a forensic lab technician. In her free time, she likes to read, play with her dog, and hang out with friends
Bryce Lavergne is a Biology major at UL Lafayette. Bryce has been working with grad student Andrea Jaegge on experiments testing temperature and salinity effects on Microcystis aeruginosa.
Eric Austin is a Biology major at UL Lafayette. He has been working with grad student Julia Sweet on culture-based experiments testing oyster consumption of changing phytoplankton communities.
Past Lab Members
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Graduate Researchers
Jaylyn Babitch (M.Sc.), 2016-2018. Currently Biologist with City of San Jose Mrunmayee Pathare (M.Sc.), 2016-2019. Currently Research Assistant II, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Christin Selle (M.Sc., co-advised with Dr. Kelly Robinson), 2017-2020. Currently Histotechnologist, Elephas, Madison, WI REU Students Tallie Foster, Fitchburg State University Rachel Humes, Indiana University Northwest Eliot Pell, Ball State University |
Undergraduate Researchers
Alexander Adams Lauren Broussard Quinnetta Humphries Amber Lauchner (currently M.S. Student, Plymouth State University) April Pruitt Gina Woods, currently Research Assistant, LUMCON Dalton Laroux Hans Prevost, currently M.S. Student, UL Lafayette Teri Lynn Lewis, currently Student Services Contractor, USGS |
