Recent Publications and Grants from the Research Faculty

 

It’s a mite different from Mobile Bay...Dr. Sean Powers takes a moment on the beach in Alaska.
   

Publications

Beck, M.W, K.L. Heck, Jr, K.W. Able, D.L. Childers, D.B. Eggleston, B.M. Gillanders, B.S. Halpern, C.G. Hays, K. Hoshino, T.J. Minello, R.J. Orth, P.F. Sheridan and M.P. Weinstein. 2003. The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries. Issues in Ecology, Number 11. Ecological Society of America, Washington, D.C. 12pp. (available at:: http://www.esa.org/sbi/sbi_issues/)

Heck, K.L. Jr., R.J. Orth and C.G. Hays. 2003. Critical evaluation of the nursery role hypothesis for seagrass meadows. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 253: 123-136.

Moran, M.A., Gonzalez, J.M. and Kiene, R.P., 2003. Linking a bacterial taxon to sulfur cycling in the sea: studies of the marine Roseobacter group. Geomicrobiol. J. 20: 375-388.

Toole, D.A., Kieber, D.J., Kiene, R.P., Siegel, D.A. and Nelson, N.B., 2003. Photolysis and the dimethylsulfide (DMS) summer paradox in the Sargasso Sea. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 1088-1100.

Grants

Aronson, R.B. NMFS Office of Habitat Restoration (2003-2005); Influence of reef surface characteristics on recruitment, survival and production of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica. Principal Investigator. $126,422.

Aronson, R.B. EPA Region 4 Water Quality Protection Program for the FKNMS (2003-2004); Coral population structure and dynamics in the Fully Protected Zones of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Co-Principal Investigator with S. Robertson Smith. $10,000.

Heck, Kenneth L. Jr., Just Cebrian, and Sean Powers. NMFS Office of Habitat Restoration (2003-2005); Ecosystem Services provided by oyster reefs: An experimental assessment.
Powers, Sean and K.L Heck, Jr. NMFS Office of Habitat Restoration (2003-2006); Quantifying fisheries benefits of oyster reef restoration in Mobile Bay.

Powers, Sean. North Pacific Research Board (2003-2005); Estuaries as essential fish habitat for salmonids: Assessing residence time and habitat use of coho and sockeye salmon in Alaska estuaries. $175,000.

Powers, Sean. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring and Research Program (2003-2006); Trophic dynamics of nearshore habitats in Alaska: interaction between top-down and bottom-up processes. $135,000.

Schroeder, W.W. U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service (2003); The geology and the branching corals and other macroepifauna that colonizes hard substrate surfaces at two deep-water sites on the upper-slope in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. $51,914.