PI: Dr. Cory J. Krediet
Email: krediecj@eckerd.edu
IG: @coryjkrediet
Spirit animal? Eagle Ray
Coffee or Tea? Coffee
Fun Fact? My first SCUBA dives were in the Red Sea!
Model Organism: Exaiptasia diaphana
Sea anemone helping to uncover many aspects of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis
IG: @ec_coralphysiologylab
Aidan Hess ('26)
Spirit animal? Volcanoctopus
Coffee or Tea? Coffee
Fun Fact? I taught myself to swim at age 2.
Jayden Kuhn ('26)
Spirit animal?
Coffee or Tea?
Fun Fact?
Grady Burling ('27)
Spirit animal? Platypus
Coffee or Tea? Both, but tea
Fun Fact? I am related to one of the original women convicted in the Salem witch trials.
Hans Johnson (Marine Science '25)
Cara DeLacluyse (Marine Science '24)
Connor Dempsey (Marine Science '24)
Josie Hook (Marine Science '24)
Daisy Wischmeyer (Marine Science '24)
Jolie Daniels (Biology '24)
Jerome Uy (Marine Science '23)
Sarina Baratta (Marine Science '22)
Stefan Anthopoulos (Marine Science '22) - Currently a paraprofessional at Eckerd College Marine Science Department
Nelson Vayda (Marine Science '22) - Current graduate student at San Diego State University
Max Miller (Marine Science '22)
Cody Miner (Biology '21) - Currently a PhD student at UF Whitney Laboratory - Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
Brandon Rose (Marine Science '21) - Currently a MSc student at UNC-Willimington
Herbert Leavitt (Marine Science '20) - Currently in graduate school at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Sophia MacVittie (Marine Science '19) - Currently in graduate school at UC-Merced and recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Grace Kozial (Marine Science '20)
Phillip Coker (Marine Science '20)
Trish Schranck (Marine Science '20)
Elizabeth Weatherup (Marine Science '19) - Now a MSc/PhD student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Haze Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Patrick May (Biology '19)
Danielle Gleason (Biology '18)
Eliana Sawyer (Marine Science '17)
Jason Baer (Marine Science and Spanish '17) - Now a PhD student at UCSD/SDSU Cellular and Molecular Biology Joint Program and recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship