Participate

Since its inception, high school students, middle school students, undergraduates, graduate students, and science teachers have been important participants in Dominican Republic Project research.

A wide variety of research opportunities exist, including laboratory work, field-based study, computer programming, science lesson design, and classroom research. Lab research may involve studying the growth and development of living marine mollusks or studying the evolution of fossil species that are millions of years old. Field-based studies may involve travel to the Dominican Republic to document marine ecosystems or to sample remote exposures of sedimentary rocks rich in fossils. Science education projects include the design of culturally-relevant curricula for local schools or ethnographic research. Many opportunities exist for teachers to field-test new curricula and participate in culture and science workshops in the Dominican Republic. If you are interested in any of these activities, we welcome you to stop by the Nehm Laboratory at The Ohio State University. You may contact us at:

Dominican Republic Project at OSU
1945 North High Street
333 Arps Hall
Columbus, OH 43210

Email: nehm.1@osu.edu

Here is a sampling of some recent research that DRP participants have published:

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Rivera, R.* (Undergraduate student), Lawson, G.* (Undergraduate student), Harvey, M.* (Undergraduate student) and Nehm, R.H. (2008). Faunal Change in
Mollusc-Rich Assemblages from the Río Gurabo (Dominican Republic Neogene).
Pp. In: Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene.
Springer. Pp. 225-252.

Ramos* (Undergraduate student), J. M. Mendia** (Middle/High school student), Larancuent** (Middle/High School student), F. and R. H. Nehm. (2005). Establishing ontogenetic and taxonomic boundaries of extinct and extant Olividae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Dominican Republic using multivariate morphometrics and UV analysis. C.C.A.P.P. Annual Conference, Abstracts and Program, p. 24.

Nehm, R.H., Luna, J*** (Science teacher). and Budd, A.F. (2008). Science education and the
Dominican Republic Project. Pp. In: Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the
Dominican Republic Neogene. Springer. Pp. 281-300.

Harvey * (Undergraduate student), M., R. H. Nehm, and N. Jarrett ***. (2004). Exploring the relationships among mollusk community change and the tempo and mode of speciation in the upper Gurabo Formation ( Neogene , Dominican Republic ) Pp. In : Geological Society of America , Abstracts and Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. (in press)

Arshad* (Undergraduate student), M. and R. H. Nehm. (2004) . Environmental change in Florida Bay : Effects on the distribution, growth, and morphology of Prunum apicinum (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Northeast Ecology & Evolution Conference (NEEC), Abstracts, Pp. 1.

Jarrett*** (Science Teacher), N., R. H. Nehm, Y. Hidalgo** (Middle/High school student), and I. Cabrera**. (2004). Quantifying the effects of sampling method and effort on estimates of species richness and relative abundance of Neogene benthic marine mollusks ( Cibao Valley , Dominican Republic ). Pp. In : Geological Society of America , Abstracts and Program, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. (in press)

Jarrett*** (Middle/High student), N., R. H. Nehm. (2004). The effects of sampling method and effort on estimates of species richness and relative abundance of Neogene benthic marine mollusks ( Cibao Valley , Dominican Republic ). Journal of Scientific Research (In press).

Jarrett, N***., R. H. Nehm , and M. Arshad*. (2003). Sampling effects on estimates of species richness in Neogene marine mollusk assemblages ( Cibao Valley , Dominican Republic ). C.C.A.P.P. Conference Abstracts , p. 13. New York .

Arshad, M (Undergraduate student)*. and R. H. Nehm, (2003). Environmental effects on growth, development, and morphology of Prunum apicinum in Florida Bay . C.C.A.P.P. Conference Abstracts , p. 13, New York .

Burton, T. (Undergraduate student)*, L. Reilly* (Undergraduate student), and R. H. Nehm. (2005). A constructional-morphological model of skeletal ontogenesis in Prunum apicinum: implications for the interpretation of macroevolutionary change in extinct Prunum. C.C.A.P.P. Annual Conference, Abstracts and Program, pp. 3-4.

Harvey, M. (Undergraduate student)*, A. Disla (Undergraduate student)*, and R. H. Nehm. (2005). Holocene to Recent benthic marine mollusk biodiversity patterns in the Dominican Republic: Field data comparisons of Bahia Honda and Lago Enriquillo. C.C.A.P.P. Annual Conference, Abstracts and Program, p. 5.

Lawson* (Undergraduate student), J., R. Rivera* (Undergraduate student), and R. H. Nehm. (2005). Benthic marine mollusk trophic stability and change in the Gurabo Formation (Neogene: Dominican Republic): community response to pronounced environmental change. C.C.A.P.P. Annual Conference, Abstracts and Program, p. 7.

Rosa, M.* (Undergraduate student), T. Burton* (Undergraduate student), and R. H. Nehm. (2005). Intracapsular growth, development, and feeding of the marginellid Prunum apicinum: Evolutionary-developmental implications. C.C.A.P.P. Annual Conference, Abstracts and Program, p. 8-9.

Susnjar* (Undergraduate student), M. and R. H. Nehm. (2005). Mathematically modeling ontogenetic and phylogenetic change in Prunum (Marginellidae; Gastropoda) using Cerioshell. C.C.A.P.P. Annual Conference, Abstracts and Program, p. 10.

 

• * Undergraduate student
• ** Middle/High school student
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