Terry C. Hazen

Awards and Honors of Students

John Wear  Sigma Xi grant-in-aid, 1988; Oak Ridge Associated Universities Fellowship, 1989-1993.

Luis Jiménez  Oak Ridge Associated Universities Fellowship, 1988-1991.

José Marcos Soto  U. S. Environmental Protection Agency internship.  1987-1988.

Elena J. Biamón  UPR Outstanding Undergraduate Investigator in the College of Natural Sciences Award 1981.

Susan Joyner-Rivera  NSF pre-doctoral fellowship and MARC (NIH) pre-doctoral fellowship, both beginning June 1984; Peggy Wadsworth Memorial Award, Puerto Rico Natural History Society 1985.

Luis Báez  Puerto Rico Industrial Development Bank Fellowship 1984 for graduate study at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.

BetaBetaBeta excellent chapter award for 1984 from the National BetaBetaBeta.

Theses Supervised (23 completed, 13 postdoctoral fellows)

Baccalaureate (3 completed)

Ines Muñiz.  December 1987.  The Survival of Enterococci in a Tropical Rain Forest Stream.

Terricita Rodríguez.  September 1986.  Fecal Indicators in Tropical Shellfish.

Susan Joyner.  September 1982.  The Bacterial Communities of Bromeliads.

Master of Science (17 completed)

Arleen J. López-Torres.  September 1982.  The Ecology of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Aquatic Habitats of Puerto Rico.

Carlos F. Aranda.  September 1982.  The Ecology of Freshwater Zootychoplankton in the Mameyes River, Puerto Rico.

Martha Carrillo.  September 1983.  Evaluation of Bifidobacteria as a Potential Indicator of Human Fecal Pollution in Tropical Freshwater Aquatic Systems.

Nerybelle Pérez Rosas.  January 1984.  Distribution and Survival of Vibrio spp. in Tropical Freshwater and Marine Environments.

Ileana López de Cardona.  December 1984.  Survival of Poliovirus in Tropical Waters.

Carmen Ortiz Roque.  April 1986.  Distribution of Legionella in the Waters of Puerto Rico.

Jesús Santiago Mercado.  October 1986.  Comparison of Four Membrane Filter Methods and the MPN Method for Detection and Enumeration of Fecal Coliform Bacteria in Tropical Waters.

Yazmín A. Rojas.  February 1987.  Distribution and Survival of Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria in Treated and Untreated Rum Distillery Effluents.

Jorge W. Santo Domingo.  April 1987.  Comparison of the In Situ Survival Rates and Cell Activity of the Indicators of Water Fecal Contamination Streptococcus faecalis and Escherichia coli in Tropical Marine Waters.

Evelyn E. Elías Montalvo.  April 1987.  Survival of Yersinia enterocolitica in Tropical Freshwater and Evaluation of a Fluorescent Antibody Method for Detection of this Bacterium in Water and Food Sources.

Susan Joyner Rivera.  July 1987.  Autecology of Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Tropical Waters.

Norma E. CruzCruz.  July 1987.  In situ Survival and Plasmid Transfer Studies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains in Tropical Fresh Waters.

Madeline Bermúdez.  July 1987.  Use of DNA-DNA Hybridization and Determination of the Mol % G+C for the Genetic Analysis of Environmental Isolates of Escherichia coli from Tropical Waters.

Abigail Negrón Alvíra.  July 1987.  Isolation and Enumeration of Legionella spp. in Cooling Tower Waters in the Tropics.

José Marcos Soto Muñiz.  February 1989.  Evaluation of Total Coliform, Fecal Coliform, and Fecal Streptococci as Adequate Indicators in Monitoring Public Water Supply Quality in the Tropics.

Geralyne López de Victoria.  February 1989.  Chemotactic Behavior of Deep Subsurface Bacteria Toward Carbohydrates, Amino Acids and a Chlorinated Alkene.

Rachael O’Brien.  May 1999.  PCB contaminated soil chemical and biological treatment.  University of California at Berkeley, Environmental Engineering.

Doctor of Philosophy (4 completed)

Francisco A. Fuentes.  July 1987.  Petroleum Biodegradation in Tropical Near-Shore Coastal Waters: Effects of Environmental Factors on Oil Degraders Growth and Metabolic Activity.  UPR.

William E. Arias.  December 1987.  Ability of an Environmental Escherichia coli Isolate to Survive and Multiply in Algal Exudates of Tropical Microbial Epilithic Communities.  UPR.

Luis E. Jiménez.  September 1989.  Molecular Analysis of Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Bacteria.  UPR.

John E. Wear.  December 1992.  Environmental Diagnostic Analysis of Ground Water Bacteria and Their Involvement in Utilization of Aromatic Compounds.  Wake Forest University.

Post Doctoral Fellows (13 completed, 1 in progress)

Gary A. Toranzos.  1986-1988.  National Institutes of Health Grant RR-02657-01

Joel Dougherty.  1989-1992.  Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Michael Enzien.  1990-1993.  Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

John E. Wear.  1993.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Robin Brigmon.  1994-1995.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Robert Gorden.  1994.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Jill D. Young.  1995-1996.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Joann Radway.  1996-1997.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Jorge Santo Domingo.  1995-1998.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Geralyne López de Victoria.  1996-1998.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Albert Tien.  1996-1998.  Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

Sadhana Chauhan.  1999-2001.  University of California, Berkeley

Tracy Letain.  2000-2003.  Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research Program