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Possible
thesis/dissertation topics:
Climate indicators in coral skeletons.
Paleostorm
evidence in Pleistocene Coral Reef lithologies.
Lagoon
depositional processes and seagrass density.
Current/recent
graduate student research:
Carbon budget of a Pleistocene aquifer.
Bacterial
communities in Andros Island aquifer.
Pleistocene
sea-level fluctuations revealed in coastal rock cores.
Influence
of seagrass communities on mollusc communities.
Death
assemblage of seagrass mollusc communities.
Selected
Publications:
Whaylen, L., Pattengill-Semmens, C.V., Semmens, B.X., Bush, P.G. and Boardman,
M.R. (2004) Observations of a Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus)
Spawning Aggregation Site in Little Cayman, Cayman Islands, Including
Multi-Species Spawning Information: Environmental Biology of Fishes.
Ritize,
R.W., Jr., Bukowski, J.M., Carney, C., and Boardman, M.R. (2001) Explaining
the thinness of the fresh water lens in the Pleistocene carbonate aquifer
on Andros Island, Bahamas: GroundWater, v. 39(5):713-720.
Boardman, M.R. and Carney, C.K. (2000) Joulters Cays and North Andros
Island, Bahama: Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas. 48 pp.
ISBN 0-935909-68-0.
Boardman, M.R. (1998) Understanding Forever, in Dragonfly Teacher's Companion,
National Science Teachers Association, Arlington, VA. November 1998.
Wolfe, P.J., Jacob, L., Hodl, S., Carney, C. and Boardman, M.R. (1997)
Resistivity, oolites and a fresh water lens: Proceedings of the Symposium
on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems
(SAGEEP), Bell, R.S. (Ed): Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society,
p. 645-656.
Selected
Grants:
National Science Foundation 1994 (with Hughes, Cantrell, Finley and Morton)
Acquisition of an automated x-ray powder diffractometer.
National Science Foundation 1990 - 1993 (with R.H. Cummins)
Taphonomic perspectives of carbonate sedimentation, Graham's Harbor
National Science Foundation 1990 - 1993 (with R.H. Cummins)
REU addition to NSF project.
Teaching
Interests:
GLG 244
- Oceanography - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 401/501 - Global Climate Change - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 414/514 - Coastal Ecology of the Bahamas - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 415/515 - Coral Reef Ecology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 444/544 - Oceanography for Teachers - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 491/591 - Geochemistry of Natural Waters - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 614 - Carbonate Depositional Systems - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 760 - Advanced Carbonate Sedimentology - click here
for a complete description.
For more information visit Dr. Boardman's personal
web page.
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