A5056276115- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Career Development and Diversity
- Marine animal studies overview
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
University of Maine
2023-2024
University of California, Santa Barbara
2022-2023
Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station
2023
Carleton College
2022
William & Mary
2019-2021
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
2021
Mote Marine Laboratory
2016
Global climate change is increasing thermal variability in coastal marine environments and the frequency, intensity duration of heatwaves. At same time, food availability quality are being altered by anthropogenic environmental changes. Marine ectotherms often cope with changes temperature through physiological acclimation, which can take several weeks a nutritionally demanding process. Here, we tested hypothesis that different ecologically relevant diets (omnivorous, herbivorous,...
Abstract Climate change is causing the warming and deoxygenation of coastal habitats like Chesapeake Bay that serve as important nursery for many marine fish species. As conditions continue to change, it understand how these changes impact individual species’ behavioral metabolic performance. The sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) an obligate ram-ventilating apex predator whose juveniles use a ground up 10 years age. objective this study was measure juvenile performance proxy overall...
Understanding how rising temperatures, ocean acidification, and hypoxia affect the performance of coastal fishes is essential to predicting species-specific responses climate change. Although a population’s habitat influences physiological performance, little work has explicitly examined multi-stressor species from habitats differing in natural variability. Here, clearnose skate (Rostaraja eglanteria) summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) mid-Atlantic estuaries, thorny (Amblyraja radiata)...
Coastal sharks can use shallow, nearshore habitats as nursery areas, which is a behaviour that may increase fitness. The ecological benefits of shark areas are well studied; yet the physiological mechanisms enable to exploit coastal habitats, especially those experience extreme and dynamic temperatures, remain understudied. We hypothesised neonatal able thermally because temperature does not strongly affect their physiology. To test this hypothesis, we defined patterns area...
Although most animals live in complex, thermally variable environments, the impact of this variability on specific physiological systems is still unresolved. The ectotherm heart known to change both structure and function ensure appropriate oxygen delivery under different thermal regimes, but plasticity upper limits stable or acclimation conditions remains unknown. To investigate role cardiac potential, we acclimated a eurythermal fish, opaleye (Girella nigricans), three static temperature...
Context Coastal habitats function as shark nursery areas; however, coastal can experience extreme variation in abiotic conditions and are susceptible to human disturbances. Aims Drivers of abundance were tested within a nursery-area system two populations reef-associated neonate sharks, namely, blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) sicklefin lemon (Negaprion acutidens). Methods Catch data from fisheries-independent gill-net survey (n = 90 sets October 2018 March 2019) at 10 sites...
Blood samples collected from wild-caught fishes can provide important information regarding the effects of capture (and thus post-release survival) as well other stressors. Unfortunately, blood often cannot be analysed immediately upon sampling, and parameters (e.g. oxygen levels acid-base parameters) are known to change with storage duration due metabolic activity red cells. We obtained both untreated stressed individuals blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) sicklefin lemon...
Ocean warming and acidification act concurrently on marine ectotherms with the potential for detrimental, synergistic effects; yet, effects of these stressors remain understudied in large predatory fishes, including sharks. We tested behavioural physiological responses blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) neonates to climate change relevant changes temperature (28 31 °C) carbon dioxide partial pressures (pCO2; 650 1050 µatm) using a fully factorial design. Behavioural assays...
Scientific professional societies are reviewing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices policies in response to recent calls for much-needed change. Organizations like scientific contribute establishing disciplinary norms, can influence the diversity of workforces multiple ways through both action inaction. This paper examines these issues using American Elasmobranch Society (AES), a medium-sized society, as case study. It consists three parts: (1) an analysis demographics AES...
Abstract Global climate change is increasing thermal variability in coastal marine environments and the frequency, intensity, duration of heatwaves. At same time, nutritional resources are being altered by anthropogenic environmental changes. Marine ectotherms often cope with changes temperature through physiological acclimation, which can take several weeks to occur a nutritionally demanding process. Here, we tested hypothesis that different ecologically relevant diets (omnivorous,...