Description of my Current/Recent Research Projects

Here is a list of the titles of some of the research projects on which my students and I are working or have recently worked. If you are interested in any of them, send me a note for more information. For information on the students who are working on some of these projects, see the Ireland Center link in my home page.

  • The role of yellow perch in Lakes Martin and Yates, Alabama.
  • Re-establishing long distance fish migration pathways: feasibility of passing fish through two Alabama River lock structures.
  • The relationship between shoreline development and resident fish communities in Lake Martin, Alabama.
  • Interactions between catfish and sport fishes in Alabama's state fishing lakes.
  • Searching for additional populations of Tulotoma magnifica in tributaries of the Coosa River, Alabama
  • A Mobile Delta Initiative: establishment of ecological baseline data on the Mobile-Tensaw Delta to assess future changes and to enhance economic potential in the region.
  • Largemouth bass in the Mobile River Delta: information needed for managing this unique resource.
  • Recreational fishing fisheries management: Maximizing the impact of small impoundment management
  • Evaluating changes in the Tulotoma magnifica populations in the Coosa River and its tributaries during 1992 through 2004.
  • Evaluating movement patterns in estuarine fishes: application of microchemical techniques to fish otoliths.
  • Mercury in the Mobile-tensaw Delta: using fish otoliths to explore bioaccumulation patterns.
  • Survey of the Tulotoma magnifica population in the island reach below Jordan Dam on the Coosa River
  • Status survey of red shiner in the Coosa River drainage, Alabama.
  • Largemouth bass in the Mobile River delta: quantifying population characteristics.
  • Survey of Alabama's freshwater anglers.
  • Effects of gizzard shad on largemouth bass-bluegill communities in a state fishing lake and small ponds.
  • Assessing the Coosa river fishery between the dam and the powerhouse.
  • Juvenile largemouth bass recruitment: using countergradient variation to optimize first-year growth.
  • Fisheries induced changes in the structure and function of shallow water "nursery habitats": an experimental assessment. (co-PI with Drs. Ken Heck, John Valentine, and Jim Cowan, Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory).
  • Sampling paddlefish eggs and larvae in the lower Tallapoosa River: testing a model for predicting paddlefish year-class strength.
  • Intermediate regulators of reservoir communities: strong regulators, stochasticity, and the generality of the trophic cascade hypothesis.
  • The influence of gizzard shad on largemouth bass-bluegill fish communities in ponds and state fishing lakes.
  • A study of the early life history of crappies and its relationship to their recruitment at age-0.
  • The endangered Tulotoma snail: its current range and population status.
  • Tallapoosa Drainage Survey for Listed and Candidate Crayfish, Mussels, and Snails.
  • Assessment of the influence of limnological and ecological factors on recruitment of black basses and crappies in Alabama reservoirs.
  • Survey of freshwater catfish populations in Alabama.
  • Evaluation of paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) populations in the Tennessee River, Alabama.
  • Tallapoosa Drainage Survey for Listed and Candidate Crayfish, Mussels, and Snails.

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