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Research Interests:
The goal of my research is to understand
complex life cycles of marine and estuarine fishes, especially as they
relate to the management and conservation of critical habitats and
fishery resources. I am particularly interested in spatial variability
in vital rates of growth and mortality and how these rates are linked
to ontogenetic niche shifts and individual movements between nurseries
and adult habitats. Further, I am interested in how variability in
adult migration relates to spatial patterns of fishery exploitation
and the timing, location, and extent of reproduction. Ultimately, I
wish to advance knowledge of the linkages between recruitment and
adult migrations in order to understand how these processes interact
to regulate population dynamics, and then to
provide life history information to state and federal managers to
support conservation of natural resources.
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