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Since its inception, high school students, middle school students, undergraduates, graduate students, and 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 City College. You may contact us at:

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

Harvey *, 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*, 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*, N., R. H. Nehm, Y. Hidalgo**, 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*, 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).

Arshad*, M. and R. H. Nehm. 2004. The confounding effects of ontogenetic variability in the analysis and detection of between-sample morphological differences in gastropods: A case study using Prunum apicinum . 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*. 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., L. Reilly, 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., A. Disla, 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, J., R. Rivera, 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., T. Burton, 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, 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.

Ramos, J. M. Mendia, Larancuent, 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.

* CUNY undergraduate
** Middle/High school student
*** Science teacher