{"id":6919,"date":"2026-08-25T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/?page_id=6919"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:07:21","slug":"nylah-barber","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/fy21\/cohort-5-fy21\/nylah-barber\/","title":{"rendered":"Nylah Barber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOAA-EPP LMRCSC\u00a0Undergraduate Fellow<\/strong><br><em>B.S., Marine &amp; Environmental Science<\/em><br><strong>Hampton University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nylah Barber will graduate with a B.S. degree in Marine and Environmental Science from Hampton University in May 2027. They participated in the NSF-funded USF St. Petersburg Making Waves REU program in Summer 2025, working with mentor Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller. Their research focused on foraminiferal assemblages and Cassiopea jellyfish coverage across a human impact gradient in the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Puerto Rico. They joined the NOAA LMRCSC in December 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nylah&#8217;s current research involves microplastic presence and composition in estuarine invertebrates in the Hampton River, under the mentorship of Dr. Shawn Dash in the Department of Biology at Hampton University, which falls under NOAA\u2019s mission to support marine habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/research-themes\/\">Research theme<\/a>: Healthy Habitats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOAA LMRCSC Fellows attain the NOAA Core Competencies detailed in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2024\/02\/NOAA-Core-competency-rubric.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this rubric<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Academic Advisors:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Shawn Dash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-color-bg-alt-color has-css-opacity has-color-bg-alt-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center<br>University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Lead Institution)<br>(410) 651-7870<br>Award numbers: FY 2021 Award #NA21SEC4810005<br>Funding Agency:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/office-education\/epp-msi\">NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP\/MSI)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA-EPP LMRCSC\u00a0Undergraduate FellowB.S., Marine &amp; Environmental ScienceHampton University Nylah Barber will graduate with a B.S. degree in Marine and Environmental Science from Hampton University in May 2027. They participated in the NSF-funded USF St. Petersburg Making Waves REU program in Summer 2025, working with mentor Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller. Their research focused on foraminiferal assemblages&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/fy21\/cohort-5-fy21\/nylah-barber\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Nylah Barber<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"featured_media":0,"parent":6318,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-6919","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6919\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}