In April 2011 I began serving as an academic rotator in the Biological Oceanography
Program at the National Science Foundation. This is where I presently spend most of my
time, although I continue to be involved as I can in research, education, and public
service through the School of Marine Science and my office at the Darling Marine Center
in Walpole, ME. My research interests are in larval (meroplankton) ecology; the study of
coupled physical-biological processes; climate change impacts; the role of biodiversity
in the functioning of marine ecosystems; and linkages between basic science, policy and
management. Large projects over the past decade included leading the Gulf of Maine Area
Census of Marine Life Program; studying interactions between internal waves and submarine
topography and how those interactions affect euphausiid (krill) patchiness and whale
feeding; and larval ecology and connectivity of lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine.
Newer projects are taking a systems approach to understanding the provision of ecosystem
goods and services, and examining ways to represent ecosystem processes in management
considerations. 

My research interests are in larval (meroplankton) ecology; the study of coupled
physical-biological processes; climate change impacts; the role of biodiversity in the
functioning of marine ecosystems; and linkages between basic science, policy and
management. Large projects over the past decade included leading the Gulf of Maine Area
Census of Marine Life Program; studying interactions between internal waves and submarine
topography and how those interactions affect euphausiid (krill) patchiness and whale
feeding; and larval ecology and connectivity of lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine.
Newer projects are taking a systems approach to understanding the provision of ecosystem
goods and services, and examining ways to represent ecosystem processes in management
considerations.

Articles

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in the Gulf of Maine: Pattern and Role of Zooplankton and Pelagic Nekton (with C. L. Johnson, Jeffrey Runge, K. A. Curtis, E. G. Durbin, J. A. Hare, J. S. Link, G. D. Melvin, T. D. O'Brien, and L. Van Guelpen), Plos One (2011)

This paper forms part of a broader overview of biodiversity of marine life in the...

 

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Estimates of in situ Larval Development Time for the Lobster, Homarus Americanus (with E. R. Annis, N. Wolff, and Robert Steneck), Journal of Crustacean Biology (2007)

Larval development time is a critical factor in assessing the potential for larval transport, mortality....

 

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Early Life History and a Modeling Framework for Lobster (Homarus Americanus) Populations in the Gulf of Maine (with Richard Wahle, N. Wolff, C. Wilson, Robert Steneck, E. Annis, P. Lawton, Huijie Xue, and Yong Chen), Journal of Crustacean Biology (2006)

Beginning in the late 1980s, lobster (Homarus americanus) landings for the state of Maine and...