APNEP & Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship
Since 2015, APNEP and the North Carolina Sea Grant have jointly funded a graduate student fellowship to conduct applied research within the North Carolina portion of the APNEP management area. Fellows conduct research that addresses focus areas identified in the NC Sea Grant Strategic Plan and management actions from APNEP's Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan.
Contact Aman Kohli, N.C. Sea Grant's Research & Program Coordinator, at akkohli@ncsu.edu or Tim Ellis, APNEP's quantitative ecologist, at tim.ellis@apnep.org, for more information.
Please note that APNEP and Sea Grant use different years for their fellows.
APNEP-Sea Grant Fellows
2026 Fellow Mary Kate Rinderle is to investigate how cyanobacteria use atmospheric N₂ gas as an alternative nitrogen source and the resulting ecological effects.
2025 Fellow Madeline Payne to investigate seagrass deepwater edge
2024 Fellow Cambria Miller to Investigate the Spread of Blue Catfish and Its Impacts in the Albemarle Sound.
2023 Fellow Yasamin Sharifi to Study How Quickly and How Long Seagrass Beds Store Carbon
2020 Fellow Haley Plaas to Study Algae Toxins in Chowan River and Albemarle Sound
2018 Fellow Mollie Yacano to Study Phragmites Impact on Sediment Nitrogen Processing
2016 Fellow Liz Brown Pickren - "Fishing Survey Results are In" from the Washington Daily News