moved qmel members to alumni section

eastonwhite · eastonwhite · commit fbf4d012363f · 2026-06-27T21:48:18.000-04:00
diff --git a/_data/sources.yaml b/_data/sources.yaml
@@ -1,29 +1,4 @@
 
-- title: Section 5, Subsection 5b, Chapter 7: Pandemics, including impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
-  publisher: United Nations
-  authors: 
-    - Easton R. White
-    - Nsikak Benson
-    - Priyal Bunwaree
-    - Ian Butler
-    - Victoria Erasmus
-    - Amelie Laute 
-    - Candace May
-    - Carmen Mifsud
-    - Sindhura Polepalli
-    - Thauan Santos
-    - Sebastian Villasante
-  date: 2026-06-08
-  link: https://woa.un.org/third-world-ocean-assessment/socioecological-systems/one-health/chapter-7-pandemics-including-impacts
-  image: https://quantmarineecolab.github.io/images/journal_covers/2026_White_etal_WOA.png
-  buttons:
-    - type: pdf
-      link: pdfs/2026_White_etal_WOA.pdf
-  tags:
-    - COVID-19
-    - extreme events
-
-
 
 
 - id: doi:10.64898/2026.05.27.728265 
diff --git a/_members/andrew-villeneuve.md b/_members/andrew-villeneuve.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve
 image: images/headshots/andrew-villeneuve.jpg
 description: PhD Candidate
 role: grad
-group: current
+group: alumni
 aliases:
   - Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve
   - Andrew Villeneuve
diff --git a/_members/cam-ragland.md b/_members/cam-ragland.md
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 name: Cam Ragland
 image: images/headshots/cam-ragland.jpg
 role: researcher
-group: current
+group: alumni
 description: Lab Manager
 aliases:
   - C. Ragland
 ---
 
-Cam Ragland (she/her) is the Lab Manager at QMEL, where she facilitates research operations and fosters a collaborative lab community. She is passionate about supporting research that bridges ecological solutions with management strategies and quantitative applications.
+Cam Ragland (she/her) was a Lab Manager in QMEL, where she facilitated research operations and fostered a collaborative lab community. She is passionate about supporting research that bridges ecological solutions with management strategies and quantitative applications.
 
 Cam earned her bachelor's degree in environmental science and geology from Union College in 2022. After graduating, she worked as a marine technician at Sea Education Association, where she taught undergraduate students marine science field sampling techniques while sailing a tall ship at sea. She then joined UNH's Shoals Marine Lab, an island field station in the Gulf of Maine. At Shoals, she coordinated program planning and research facilitation for marine science field courses. Living and working on an offshore island deepened her appreciation for the intersection of fieldwork, education, and community building in marine science.
 
diff --git a/_members/olivia-jackson.md b/_members/olivia-jackson.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name: Olivia Fortunato-Jackson
 image: images/headshots/olivia-jackson.jpg
 role: researcher
-group: current
+group: alumni
 description: Research Associate
 aliases:
   - O. Jackson
diff --git a/_members/selina-cheng.md b/_members/selina-cheng.md
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 name: Selina Cheng
 image: images/headshots/selina-cheng.jpg
 role: grad
-group: current
+group: alumni
 description: Graduate student
 aliases:
   - S. Cheng
 ---
 
-Selina Cheng (she/her) is pursuing an M.S. in Marine Biology at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on intertidal eastern oyster populations and mechanisms of facilitation by macroalgae; specifically, examining how macroalgal cover impacts environmental factors (temperature, humidity, moisture) and predation on oysters at different life stages. She is also using electronic sensors to measure oyster behavioral responses among different habitats and environmental conditions. More broadly, she is interested in long-term ecological and environmental monitoring and how the two can inform management strategies.
+Selina Cheng (she/her) completed her M.S. in Marine Biology at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on intertidal eastern oyster populations and mechanisms of facilitation by macroalgae; specifically, examining how macroalgal cover impacts environmental factors (temperature, humidity, moisture) and predation on oysters at different life stages. She is also using electronic sensors to measure oyster behavioral responses among different habitats and environmental conditions. More broadly, she is interested in long-term ecological and environmental monitoring and how the two can inform management strategies.
 
 Selina earned bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Science and English from the University of Virginia in 2021. She developed a love for coastal ecology during her undergraduate research on blue crab abundance and habitat associations at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER. She most recently worked as a technician at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, MD, where she created data workflows, fabricated electronics, and maintained sensor networks for salt marsh climate change experiments. She is excited to return to the marine ecology world with QMEL!
 
diff --git a/_members/wilton-burns.md b/_members/wilton-burns.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
 name: Wilton Burns
 image: images/wilton_burns_headshot.jpg
-description: PhD Student
-role: grad
-group: current
+description: Researcher
+role: researcher
+group: alumni
 aliases:
   - W. Burns
   - Wilton Burns
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ links:
   linkedin: wilton-burns-aa17a264
 ---
 
-Wilton Burns (she/her/hers) is a Marine Biology PhD student. She uses long-term monitoring, high-frequency water quality sensors, and satellite images to evaluate the drivers of nutrient and cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater and coastal aquatic ecosystems.
+Wilton Burns (she/her/hers) was a researcher in the lab. She uses long-term monitoring, high-frequency water quality sensors, and satellite images to evaluate the drivers of nutrient and cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater and coastal aquatic ecosystems.
 
-Prior to starting her PhD at UNH, Wilton was a research assistant at the University of Vermont. She studied nutrient and cyanobacteria bloom dynamics two eutrophic bays in Lake Champlain. In 2017, she obtained a Master's in Oceanography in the Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. She investigated the metabolic response of marine phytoplankton and bacteria to increases in fine-scale turbulence in the photic zone. She received a B.S. in Environmental Sciences and Minor in Marine Science from the University of North Carolina.
+Prior to starting at UNH, Wilton was a research assistant at the University of Vermont. She studied nutrient and cyanobacteria bloom dynamics two eutrophic bays in Lake Champlain. In 2017, she obtained a Master's in Oceanography in the Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. She investigated the metabolic response of marine phytoplankton and bacteria to increases in fine-scale turbulence in the photic zone. She received a B.S. in Environmental Sciences and Minor in Marine Science from the University of North Carolina.
 
 1. **Burns, W. G.**, Marchetti, A., and Ziervogel, K. 2019. Enhanced formation of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) under turbulence during phytoplankton growth. Journal of Plankton Research. 41(3): 349 – 361.
 2. Cohen, N. R., Ellis, K. A., **Burns, W. G.**, Lampe, R. H., Schuback, N., Johnson, Z., Sañudo-Wilhelmy, S., Marchetti, A. 2017. Iron and vitamin interactions in marine diatom isolates and natural assemblages of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 62: 2076–2096.
