Email:
Phone: 609-296-5260 x262

Education: Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook

Research Interests:
My general research interests are in the mechanisms of establishment and maintenance of fish populations. Larval recruitment dynamics, dispersal, physiological ecology, invasion biology, and migration biology are all aspects of fish ecology that I wish to pursue as having a bearing on this broader field. My graduate and recent work reflects the development of this interest. With my masters thesis, I studied larval fish transport using a population genetics approach. For my dissertation, I examined the flux of larval fish around Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, an area of highly dynamic flow separating spawning and nursery grounds for several species. For that work, I used MOCNESS net collections in conjunction with oceanographic instrumentation arrays. As part of my post-doctoral fellowship, and in continuing work, I am studying the dynamics of Delaware Bay salt-marsh fish populations from larval ingress through settlement and recruitment. Most recently, I have become involved in studying striped bass migration as a mechanism for the segregation of existing populations and the establishment of new ones. This study starts with the real-time monitoring of acoustically tagged striped bass throughout the Great Bay/Mullica River estuary by the use of a moored listening array.

Personal Interests:
Freediving/spearfishing, Aikido

Research Lab:
Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS)