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January 2006
Student interns Michelle Mendia and Fabriana Larancuent continue their work on Olividae from the Dominican Republic Neogene with undergraduate Jasainia Ramos.

November 2005
Tina Burton, Maria Harvey, Aurin Disla, Jermaine Lawson, Rysanek Rivera, Leah Reilly, Maria Rosa, Mila Susnjar, Michelle Mendia, and Fabriana Larancuent presented research posters at the annual CCAPP science research conference.

August 2005
New videos posted! See Multimedia Resources (Fossil coral reef and Lago Enriquillo).

April 2005
Moizah Arshad, Novia Jarrett, Maria Harvey, Tina Burton, Jermaine Lawson, and Rysenek Rivera present their Dominican Republic Project research at the “Einsteins in the City” conference.

March 2005
Multimedia resources added! A new interactive ecological map of the Dominican Republic is now on-line. Also, new photos of the fossils from Lago Enriquillo are posted under “multimedia resources.”

February 2005
Rosa Moreno and Gloria Guerra continue as student interns as part of the Mott Hall School “Student apprenticeship in science” program. They are using morphometrics to study the quantitative relationships between operculum and shell growth in living and fossil Turbo gastropods.

December 2004
Ross Nehm finishes teaching the new “Biodiversity Bioinformatics” curriculum on Dominican reef corals at the High School for Math, Science, and Engineering. This 6-week curriculum introduced students to the online database NMITA and had them test hypotheses about Dominican biodiversity patterns.

November 2004
Mott Hall School student interns Yulissa Hidalgo and Isamara Cabrera, along with CCNY biology student Novia Jarrett, present the results of their research on Dominican Republic biodiversity patterns at the national meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver Colorado. Maria Harvey, CCNY student, will also present her research with Prof. Ross Nehm at the conference. This work exemplifies the DRP's mission to bring together students, teachers, and scientists.

October 2004
A new lesson has been developed that allows high school and college students to explore coral reef biodiversity patterns through time using NMITA, a database on Caribbean marine life. Drs. Nancy Budd, University of Iowa, and Ross Nehm, CCNY, developed the lesson to expand students' understanding of bioinformatics. Teacher resources will be posted along with the lesson in late spring 2005.

September 2004
High School for Math, Science, and Engineering intern Amin Y Mirzaee, collaborating with DRP PI Ross Nehm, developed the new website for the DRP. The new site features multimedia resources for teachers working with Dominican American students.