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.

  • Largemouth bass in the Mobile River delta: quantifying population characteristics.
  • Evaluating movement patterns in estuarine fishes: application of microchemical techniques to fish otoliths.
  • Status survey of red shiner in the Coosa River drainage, Alabama.
  • Survey of Alabama's freshwater anglers.
  • Effects of gizzard shad on largemouth bass-bluegill communities in a state fishing lake and small ponds. Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.
  • Assessing the Coosa river fishery between the dam and the powerhouse. Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.
  • Juvenile largemouth bass recruitment: using countergradient variation to optimize first-year growth. Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.
  • Fisheries induced changes in the structure and function of shallow water "nursery habitats": an experimental assessment. Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies (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. Alabama Nongame Wildlife.
  • Intermediate regulators of reservoir communities: strong regulators, stochasticity, and the generality of the trophic cascade hypothesis. National Science Foundation.
  • The influence of gizzard shad on largemouth bass-bluegill fish communities in ponds and state fishing lakes. Alabama Game and Fish Division.
  • A study of the early life history of crappies and its relationship to their recruitment at age-0. Alabama Game and Fish Division.
  • The endangered Tulotoma snail: its current range and population status. National Biological Service.
  • Tallapoosa Drainage Survey for Listed and Candidate Crayfish, Mussels, and Snails. National Biological Service.
  • Assessment of the influence of limnological and ecological factors on recruitment of black basses and crappies in Alabama reservoirs. Alabama Game and Fish Division.
  • Survey of freshwater catfish populations in Alabama. Alabama Game and Fish Division.
  • Evaluation of paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) populations in the Tennessee River, Alabama. Alabama Game and Fish Division.
  • Tallapoosa Drainage Survey for Listed and Candidate Crayfish, Mussels, and Snails. Endangered Species Act (Section 6) funding, administered by Alabama Nongame Wildlife Program.

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