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Mariena Hurley, Section Lead
Mariena Hurley, M.S., earned her Master’s degree in Biology from Central Michigan University with a focus in “Diel dissolved oxygen swings in streams (Pennsylvania, USA): importance of benthic primary production and nutrients. She has expertise in diatom taxonomy and background in environmental factors affecting freshwater algal communities. She is SFS certified in North American Diatom Species Taxonomy, Level II certification.
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Diane Winter, PhD, Algal Taxonomist
Diane Winter, PhD, is an algal taxonomist for the Phycology Section. She has worked with diatoms since the late 1990s, starting freshwater ecological taxonomy work in 2000. She has biostratigraphic experience with coastal and oceanic marine diatom taxa into the Miocene. Since 2014, she added biostratigraphic work with Plio/Pleistocene and Miocene calcareous nannofossils. She is SFS certified in North American Diatom Species Taxonomy, Level II certification.
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Gloria Avila, Laboratory and Field Technician
Gloria Avila graduated from Drexel University in 2022 with a B.S. in Environmental Science. During this time, she worked with Dr. Beth Watson in the bio geospatial lab in the BEES department focusing on wetland delineation. She also completed a co-op with Willistown Conservation Trust in the Watershed Protection Team. Currently she works in the Phycology Diatom Prep lab processing algal samples, preserving samples for the Diatom Herbarium, and assisting in maintain the NADED database. She also assists the other research sections in fieldwork for various projects.
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