Moncie V. Wright
Ph.D., Biology (2018)
Moncie's dissertation focused on interactive effects of grazing biota and contaminants on stream periphyton. She studied algal and bacterial responses to titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2NPs) with and without fish and snail grazing pressure in stream mesocosms (BEAR facility at the Lake Waco Wetlands). She also studied the mechanisms driving periphyton responses to TiO2NPs under snail grazing pressure observed in the previous TiO2NP field exposure experiment using laboratory streams (aka, "Baby BEAR"). She also coauthored a paper on effects of pulsed atrazine exposures on stream algae. Moncie is currently an Environmental Scientist with CDM Smith, Inc., in Austin, TX.