Mary K. Schubauer-Berigan. 1990. Abundance, production and mercury resistance of bacteria in the surface microlayers and water columns of Lake Superior, the Duluth Harbor and the St. Louis River. M.S. Thesis, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN. (Currently employed by the US E.P.A. in Cincinnati, OH)
Peter Aas. 1992. Factors affecting the microbial degradation of organic particles in Lake Superior. M.S. Thesis. University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN. (Currently medical student at the University of Minnesota)
Daniel T. Weaver. 1994. Degradation of organic matter by Lake Superior microbial assemblages. M.S. Thesis. University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN. (Currently a Physical Therapist in St. Cloud, MN)
Mark Tapper. 1995. Abundance of free viruses in Lake Superior and the induction of temperate phage by mitomycin C and UV light. M.S. Thesis. University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN. (Currently Research Technician at the EPA Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth, MN)
David A. Pascoe. 1997. Community DNA Similarity and Metabolic Diversity of Bacterioplankton Communities. M.S. Thesis. University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN. (Currently Research Technician at the University of Minnesota-Duluth)
Ryan Maki. 2000. Effect of Suspended Particles on the Survival and Viability of Salmonella typhimurium in a Freshwater Microbial Community. M.S. Thesis (Biology). University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN. (Currently Research Technician at the South Florida Water Management District, FL)
Jonathan Pundsack. 2000. Pathogen Removal by Alternative On-Site Systems for Treatment of Single Home Wastewater Flows. M. S. Thesis (Water Resources). University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. (Currently a Knauss Fellow working at the U.S. Office of Global Programs, NOAA, Washington, DC.)
Brendan Keough. in progress. Origin and Distribution of Archaeal Nucleic Acids in Bacterioplankton Communities of Great Lakes of the World (tentative title). M.S. Thesis (Biology). University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN.
Jennifer Schreiber. in progress. Survival and Invasiveness of Salmonella in Natural Aquatic Microbial Communities (tentative title). M.S. Thesis (Biology). University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN.
Matthew Olson. in progress. Virus Removal by Alternative On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems (tentative title). M.S. Thesis (Biology). University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN.
Wendy Hieb. in progress. Source of Fecal Coliform Bacteria in Watersheds and Their Relationship to Land Use (tentative title). M.S. Thesis (Water Resources. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
1987 Stella Horton. Undergraduate summer intern. (recipient of Lake Itasca Forestry and Biology Station scholarship).
1987-88 Crystal Stephas. Factors controlling bacterial production in the Upper Mississippi River. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend; Stephas, C. L. 1988. Changes in heterotrophic bacterial abundance in the Mississippi River headwaters. Pp. 165-70 in Proc. 2nd Nat. Conf. Undergrad. Res., University of North Carolina-Asheville.)1988 Vassey Lartson. Undergraduate summer intern. (recipient of Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station scholarship).
1988 Terry Barnes. Measuring coliform bacteria in well water.
1988-89 Christopher J. Owen. Carbohydrate source and fate in deep lake basins and shallow lake ecosystems. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend)
1988-89 Craig A. Black. The efficiency of bacteria converting hydrogen peroxide treated straw into biomass. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend).
1988-89 Joeseph R. Dierkes. Abiogenic particle formation in North Shore streams. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend).
1991-92 Christine Jankovich. Influence of temperature on bacterioplankton production and metabolic activity in the western arm of Lake Superior. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend; currently employed at Protein Technologies International, St. Louis, MO)
1991-92 Kim Salo. Synergistic effect of organic nutrient additions and extremely low temperatures on bacterioplankton production.
1992-93 Travis Alexander. Conversion and optimization of ribosomal database programs for use on Unix-based computer systems. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend)
1992-93 Kristine Saxrud. Bacterioplankton abundance and cell morphologies in the North American Great Lakes. (paid Undergraduate Research Assistant)
1993 Cheryl Dubois. Mortality of bacterioplankton. NIH Minority Teacher Program.
1994-96 Shane Kirlin. Extraction of DNA from bacterial assemblages for community similarity analyses. (paid Undergraduate Research Assistant)
1995-96 Lourdes Cantu. Detection of Salmonella spp. by in situ hybridization with fluorescent oligonucleotide probes. (American Indians into Marine Science program student)
1995-97 Sandy Fritzlar. Isolation of Archaea from Picoplankton communities in Lake Superior. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend)
1995-97 Francis Walsh. Survival and reproduction of Salmonella spp. under conditions that model the natural aquatic environment of Lake Superior. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend)
1996 Timothy Duffy. Abundance and productivity of heterotrophic bacteria in the WLSSD sewage effluent in the Duluth-Superior harbor. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend)
1997-98 Angela Malley. Verifying the presence of archeal nucleic acids in picoplankton from the North American Great Lakes by PCR. (recipient of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program stipend)
2001 Jessie Heimer. Survival and Invasiveness of Salmonella in Natural Aquatic Microbial Communities. (paid Undergraduate Research Assistant)