Grad Program in Marine Biology/Grice Marine Lab - College of Charleston

The Grice Marine Lab is now Platinum certified! The College of Charleston's Center for Sustainable Development recognized our building as Platinum level for 2026 Green Office Certification Program! This award recognizes our effort and commitment to creating a positive working environment integrated with social inclusion and environmental consciousness. 💚♻️🌿

Attention all CofC Graduate Program in Marine Biology Alumni!

Please fill out this form to let us know where you currently are! We would love to hear about what our alumni are doing and we would like to stay in touch with your accomplishments and careers!
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We are active again! Please check out our GML Newsletters from the past few years (2023-2025), including the 50th Anniversary of the GPMB program!

2023: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DmXKgGUJp7hI7XgKoFhm6-bDW_RWq5nG/view?usp=sharing
2024: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K2EKkAbXwmquyV9ILewuwjcMZ1Ezqr7Z/view?usp=sharing
2025: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_R9kkSj6DLrziZofX9LLufqhfXPbwPT/view?usp=sharing

2025 GML Newsletter PDF.pdf

We hope you can join us to celebrate the anniversary of the Graduate Program in Marine Biology!

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How the time has flown! We had many successful theses this past summer. Taylor Williams defended in June about her research titled, "The reproductive system of Chondria tumulosa, the Papahãnaumokuãkea Marine National Monument’s first known nuisance alga." Ellen Reiber successfully defended her thesis on "Population genetic and stock enhancement tools for conservation of the overfished white seabass, Atractoscion nobilis," in July. Alex Barry defended his thesis also in July, and it was titled, "Assessing heterotrophic feeding in ecologically dominant Caribbean sponge species." Last but not least, Courtney Bayles defended her thesis this month, which was titled, "Assessment of strand-feeding in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the waters surrounding captain Sam’s Inlet, South Carolina." We want to congratulate all our GPMB students who did an amazing job with their research and defense. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

A huge congratulations to Gus Snyder on his successful thesis defense last week! His thesis is titled, "Physiological mechanisms underlying increased swimming performance in the spotted seatrout (Cynoscium nebulosus) associated with infection by a myxozoan parasite (Kudoa inornata)".

Courtney Saldaña won the People's Choice Award at the Graduate School Poster Session! Congratulations Courtney!

Courtney Saldaña is presenting their research at the Graduate School Poster session in the Stern Center Ballroom. Stop by before 3pm to learn about the predicted impacts to the coral lipidome from ocean acidification and dredging-induced turbidity!

Octoclaus won 3rd place in Most Original this past weekend in the Folly Christmas Parade! Thank you to the GPMB students that came out!

No surprise that Gabbie Kuba successfully defended her thesis yesterday on “Macroalgal-microbial relationships are influenced by phylogenetic and environmental characteristics in the Hawaiian archipelago.” Congratulations, Gabbie!

The student spotlight is 3rd year Gabbie Kuba! She has been working on characterizing the relationships between microbes and a variety of macroalgae. Go Gabbie!