Shayna Keller

Shayna is working at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at Horn Point Laboratory, in Cambridge, MD. She is working on a research project with her advisor Judy O’Neil, studying the effect of a benthic filamentous cyanobacteria, called Lyngbya, on a large recovering aquatic grass bed on the Susquehanna Flats, in the Northern portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The project includes partners from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and MDNR, with the goal of learning what factors are driving the Lyngbya growth on the aquatic grasses, and what the ecological effects of Lyngbya on the Susquehanna Flat are, including if the Lyngbya is producing any toxins that can be harmful to humans or the ecosystem.