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Former Lab Members

Colin Sabol

Seasonal Technician

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Colin started at the late in Spring 2024 assisting with Delaware Bay Oyster Stock Assessment program. This involved participating in monthly dock monitoring programs, as well as logistics prep for resampling and random sampling surveys the stock assessment workshops. He also assisted in processing video footage from previous offshore wind monitoring surveys, both manual scoring and building AI image annotation libraries. Hs is now currently in service to the Peace Corps, assisting in developing aquaponic systems and education in Africa.

Storm Moya

Seasonal Technician

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Storm Moya participated in the Borsetti lab from Summer 2023 to Winter 2024 as an Seasonal technician. Here she worked with various image detection systems to construct a database library for artificial intelligence recognition, also aiding in monitoring surveys for economically important species abundance on the New Jersey coast line. Storm is now currently employed at Princeton University as an Animal Care Technician. Here she maintains both terrestrial and aquatic species for various research studies through husbandry, veterinarian assistance, and observational monitoring. She plans to attend graduate school at California State University Long Beach for Marine Biology.

Ruhika Bhattacharya

RIOS Intern

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Ru joined the lab as a part of an undergraduate internship from 2023-2024 while pursuing a bachelor's degree in marine biology from the University of New England. Her research focused on the Ørsted offshore wind development sampling data and investigating the importance of multi-gear usage when sampling for offshore fisheries surveys. As of Fall 2024, Ru is a researcher in the Garvey Lab at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She leads the electrofishing and gillnetting efforts on the Illinois and Wabash rivers. Her broader interests lie in understanding how the changing climate is impacting the physiology and movement behavior of vulnerable species. 

Eli Schweitzer

RIOS Intern

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Eli completed the RIOs REU summer internship in 2024 while completing a bachelor's degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz. He researched morphometric differences between the Atlantic surf clam Spisula solidissima solidissima and the southern subspecies Spisula solidissima similis. He is currently studying urban conservation issues such as the pattern of bird-window collisions across the California bay area.

Emily DeHart

Seasonal Technician

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Emily, while initially assisting at Rutger's Aquaculture Innovation Center, joined the lab in the late summer of 2023. Her primary responsibilities were assisting with the NJ Delaware Bay Oyster stock assessment lab and field processing. She also assisted with long term disease monitoring by prepping and processing samples for MSX and Dermo analysis of prevalence. She also assisted with manual scoring of video data collected from Structured Habitat Survey, subcomponent for the Orsted offshore wind project. She is now currently a environmental consultant in Southern NJ.

Nick O’Connor

RIOS Intern

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Nick was a NSF RIOS intern with the group in Summer 2025. He is pursuing a bachelor's degree at the University of Rhode Island as a double major in Marine Biology and Aquaculture & Fisheries Science. Nick is researching the change in fish densities and assemblages at fixed gradients, utilizing camera-mounted chevron traps at artificial reef sites. Specifically, spatiotemporal changes in abundance for structure-associated species, such as black sea bass (Centropristis striata), but also other demersal finfish like sea robins (Prionotus sp.) and smooth dogfish (Mustelus canis). Nick’s broader interests lie in understanding the impacts that anthropogenic change is having on fish populations and in related fishery survey techniques.