NSF-funded research (see link below)

Our group employs acoustic telemetry and general surveying techniques to understand 1) how predatory fishes (e.g., red drum, speckled trout, and flounder) utilize large-scale living shoreline sills and 2) whether current permitting regulations are adequate for fish passage between landward and seaward habitats around sills.

Quantifying the nursery role of seagrass, salt marsh and oyster reefs.

Focus on North Carolina and northern Gulf of Mexico

Our lab group is caretaking a 50+ year old shark survey in coastal North Carolina.

We employ restoration as large-scale field manipulations to test ecological theory. We are currently collaborating with the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center to restore eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Back Sound, NC with the support of Restore America's Estuaries.

Predator-prey dynamics in an ecosystem-based management context

Exploring the services and potential disservices of shellfish mariculture in North Carolina estuaries.