Undergraduate students: (1996-97) 56 (1997-98) 50
Undergraduate degrees awarded (1996-97) 49 (1997-98) 48
Graduate students, (1996-97) 11 (1997-98) 13
Graduate degrees awarded MS, (1996-97) 5 (1997-98) 5
Graduate degrees awarded PhD, (1996-97) 2 (1997-98) 2
Faculty: 17
Web Address
www.uri.edu/cels/pls_home
Marine Degree Programs
Environmental Plant Biology BS
Funding Agencies
USGS Biological Resources Division
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Marine Research
Assessing declines in neotropical migrants at Fire Island National Seashore,
Phase II. Replication of 25-year old sampling and estimation of the relationships
among migrating birds, mammals, and ticks in the ecology of Lyme disease, Howard
S. Ginsburg, 1994-1999, USGS Biological Resources Division, $1,150,000.
Density dependent effect on grazing and success of seed-generated sea grass
(Zostera marina), S. Nixon, S. Granger and B. Maynard, NOAA/Cooperative
Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology, 2/98-1/01, $312,301.
Marine Publications
Ginsberg, H.S. & R.A. LeBrun. 1996. Population Regulation, Natural Enemies,
and Host-Seeking Patterns of Deer Ticks, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae).
National Park Service Technical Report NPS. 25 pp.
Ginsberg, H.S. & E. Zhioua. 1996. Nymphal Survival and Habitat Distribution
of Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)
on Fire Island, New York, USA. Experimental and Applied Acarology 20:
533-544.
Markowski, D., K.E. Hyland, H.S. Ginsberg, and R. Hu. 1997. Spatial Distribution
of Larval Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) on Peromyscus leucopus
and Microtus pennsylvanicus at Two Island Sites. Journal of Parasitology
83: 207-211.
Ginsberg, H.S., K. E. Hyland, R. Hu, et al. 1998. Tick Population Trends and
Forest Type. Science 281: 349-350. (Letter)