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The Marine Sciences Program is located on UConn's coastal campus at Avery Point, on the shores of Long Island Sound. Our Program includes the Department of Marine Sciences and the Marine Sciences and Technology Center. Within this program, faculty, staff, and students carry out cutting-edge research in coastal oceanography using cross-disciplinary approaches. We offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees that are characterized by an interdisciplinary foundation, high faculty-to-student ratio, and individualized plans of study and research. Our program offers the intimacy and support of a small campus, coupled with the resources of a top-notch public university and internationally renowned scientists.

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DMS represented at the 9th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant
Professors Fitzgerald and Mason, students Susan Gichuki, Terill Hollweg, and Amina Schartup, and former postdocs Maria Andersson, Eun-Hee Kim, and Bian Liu recently attended the 9th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) in Giuyang, China.
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Quake Zone Expedition: The NanTroSEIZE Project
UConn geologist Timothy Byrne is one of five co-chief scientists directing the second stage of a major earthquake zone expedition off the coast of Japan, the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE).
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ScienceDirect TOP 25 Hottest Articles July - September 2008
Oguz Yigiterhan, a postdoc in Marine Sciences working with Rob Mason, Bill Fitzgerald, and Ann Bucklin is an author of a paper ranked at #5 and a co-author of a paper ranked at #7 by ScienceDirect.
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Danielle Calini recently represented the Department of Marine Sciences at the twelfth annual Frontiers Conference
Danielle Calini recently represented the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut’s twelfth annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Conference where she presented her research on the use of biocontrols for fouling in shellfish aquaculture.
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