Dave's Team

Current Students

• Geoff Bell (PhD) Effects of hypoxia on blue crabs

• Christina Durham (MS) Fisheries assessment and management

• Michelle Moorman (MS) How human alteration of the landscape impacts riparian ecosystems

• Ray Mroch (MS) Characteristics of blue crab nursery habitat

• Brandon Puckett (PhD) Oyster metapopulation dynamics and reserve design

Research Technicians

• Gayle Plaia

• Cindy Huggett

Past Students

• Geoff Bell, MS 2002, Behavioral response of free-ranging blue crabs to episodic hypoxia

• Darrick Blackmon, MS 1999, Factors influencing planktonic, post-settlement dispersal of early juvenile blue crabs

• Juan Chaves, MS 2002, Biological and operational factors causing mortality in North Carolina's soft shell blue crab industry

• Craig Dahlgren, PhD 1998, Population dynamics of early juvenile Nassau grouper : An integrated modeling and field study

• Meaghan Darcy, MS 2003, Influence of habitat corridors on dispersal success, predation induced mortality and colonization of estuarine macrofauna in seagrass

• Ashton Drew, PhD 2006, Spatial ecology of reef fish in backreef and coral reef habitats

• Ward Elis, MS 1998, Scale-dependent effects of patch age and starting conditions on floral accumulation and faunal colonization in seagrass

• Lisa Etherington, MS 1998, Large-scale recruitment of early juvenile blue crabs : linkages between postlarval transport, post-settlement dispersal, and alternative nursery habitats, and PhD 2001, Recruitment dynamics of juvenile blue crabs in North Carolina : ecological patterns and processes on a landscape scale

• Eric Johnson, PhD 2004, Population dynamics and stock assessment of the blue crab in North Carolina

• Todd Kellison, PhD 2000, Evaluation of stock enhancement potential for summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) : an integrated laboratory, field and modeling study

• Francis Nunoo, PhD 2004 University of Ghana

• Grant Parkins, MS 2005, Connecting high school students to research: testing blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) settlement and educational outcome hypotheses

• Darren Parsons, PhD 2006, Indirect effects of recreational fishing on spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) behavior, mortality and population dynamics

• Steve Ratchford, PhD 1999, The influence of chemical communication on shelter selection, shelter sharing, and aggregation among spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus

• Nathalie Reyns, PhD 2005, Biophysical dispersal dynamics of the blue crab in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina

• Steve Searcy, PhD 2005, Is growth a reliable indicator of essential fish habitat?

• David L. Taylor, MS 1999, Effects of hypoxia on an estuarine predator-prey interaction: foraging and mutual interference in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, and the infaunal clam prey, Mya arenaria

• Jenny Vander-Pluym, MS 2006, Impact of bridges and culverts on stream fish movement and community structure