A5085995944- Avian ecology and behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and fisheries research
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Climate variability and models
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Biodiversity Research Institute
2024
Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board
2023
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
2023
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2020
North Carolina State University
2016-2018
University of Idaho
2017-2018
College of Staten Island
2014-2015
City University of New York
2014-2015
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2014-2015
UConn Health
2010-2012
Abstract The American sand lance ( Ammodytes americanus , Ammodytidae) and the Northern A. dubius are small forage fishes that play an important functional role in Northwest Atlantic Ocean (NWA). NWA is a highly dynamic ecosystem currently facing increased risks from climate change, fishing energy development. We need better understanding of biology, population dynamics to inform relevant management, adaptation conservation efforts. To meet this need, we synthesized available data on (a)...
Offshore wind energy development (OWED), while a key strategy for reducing carbon emissions, has potential negative effects to wildlife that should be examined inform decision making and adaptive management as the industry expands. We present conceptual framework guide long-term study of birds bats from OWED. This includes focus on exposure vulnerability determinants risk. For are exposed OWED, there three main interest may impact survival productivity: 1) collision mortality, 2) behavioral...
We studied habitat and behavioral interactions among the marine community of top pelagic predators over Atlantic continental shelf, observed from shipboard surveys off northeastern United States. hypothesized that foraging seabirds, specifically common terns Sterna hirundo roseate S. dougallii , associate positively with distribution abundance large, easily‐detected subsurface predators, as a result facilitative interactions. Few rigorous tests examine effect interspecific on seabird...
Proposed offshore wind energy development on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf has brought attention to need for baseline studies of distribution and abundance marine birds. We compiled line transect data from 15 shipboard surveys (June 2012-April 2014), along with associated remotely sensed habitat data, in lower Mid-Atlantic Bight off coast Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, USA. implemented a recently developed hierarchical community distance sampling model estimate seasonal 40 observed...
Forage fishes are a critical food web link in marine ecosystems, aggregating hierarchical patch structure over multiple spatial and temporal scales. Surface-level forage fish aggregations (FFAs) represent concentrated source of prey available to surface- shallow-foraging predators. Existing survey analysis methods often imperfect for studying at scales appropriate foraging predators, making it difficult quantify predator-prey interactions. In many cases, general distributions species known;...
Identification of odors compounds introduced into changeable olfactory environments is the essence coding, which focuses perception on latest stimulus with greatest salience. Effects intensity and adapting time mixture component identification after one were each studied in 10 human subjects. Odors 1 5 mM vanillin (vanilla) phenethyl alcohol (rose) identified, varied by sniffing naturally once or twice, times, every 2 s. water-adapted single identified nearly perfectly (94%), self-adapted to...
This study explores the capacity for seabirds to exhibit behavioral plasticity in response predictability of resources. Using direct species-comparisons, I tested hypothesis that roseate terns ( Sterna dougallii ), dietary specialists, rely more heavily on foraging site-fidelity pursue persistent prey, whereas common S. hirundo prey generalists, depend local enhancement by exploiting mixed-species assemblages. analysed chick-provisioning observations and bearings commuting trajectories...
Marine birds in Alaska, USA, have been monitored systematically for more than 4 decades, and yet it remains unclear why some populations increased while others declined. We analyzed the population dynamics of 5 seabird species—Black-legged (Rissa tridactyla) Red-legged kittiwakes (R. brevirostris), Common (Uria aalge) Thick-billed murres (U. lomvia), Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata)—across decades Alaska. tested hypotheses that each species' carrying capacity varied continuously through...
Abstract Offshore wind energy development on the US Atlantic Continental Shelf has brought attention to need for marine spatial planning efforts reduce potential conflict between turbines and animals, including seabirds. We evaluated effects of mammals, fishes, habitat characteristics distribution relative abundance birds off coast Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. From May 2012 2014, we collected line transect data from 14 shipboard surveys, novel high-resolution digital videography aerial...
Little is known about coding of taste mixtures in complex dynamic stimulus environments. A protocol developed for odor stimuli was used to test whether rapid selective adaptation extracted sugar and salt component tastes from as it did odors. Seventeen human subjects identified components "salt + sugar" mixtures. In 4 sessions, 16 adapt–test pairs were presented atomized, 150-μL "taste puffs" the tongue tip simulate sniffs. Stimuli NaCl, sucrose, "NaCl sucrose," water. The 98% but suppressed...
Abstract In advance of large-scale development offshore wind energy facilities throughout the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), information on migratory ecology and routes federally threatened Coast Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus melodus) is needed to conduct risk assessments pursuant Endangered Species Act. We tagged adult (n = 150) with digitally coded VHF transmitters at 2 breeding areas within southern New England region coast from 2015 2017. tracked their departure...
Forage fishes are a critical food web link in marine ecosystems, aggregating hierarchical patch structure over multiple spatial and temporal scales. Surface-level forage fish aggregations (FFAs) represent concentrated source of available prey for surface- shallow-foraging predators. Existing survey analysis methods often imperfect studying at scales appropriate to foraging predators, making it difficult quantify predator-prey interactions. In many cases, general distributions species known;...