A5038542529- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Water Quality and Resources Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
University of South Alabama
2016-2025
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
2016-2025
University of New Orleans
2022
Ecological Society of America
2018-2020
University of Connecticut
2008
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2000-2007
Duke University
2002
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
2002
Loyola University New Orleans
1991
Impacts of chronic overfishing are evident in population depletions worldwide, yet indirect ecosystem effects induced by predator removal from oceanic food webs remain unpredictable. As abundances all 11 great sharks that consume other elasmobranchs (rays, skates, and small sharks) fell over the past 35 years, 12 14 these prey species increased coastal northwest Atlantic ecosystems. Effects this community restructuring have cascaded downward cownose ray, whose enhanced predation on its bay...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 341:303-307 (2007) - doi:10.3354/meps341303 Ecosystem services related oyster restoration Loren D. Coen1,*, Robert Brumbaugh2,**, David Bushek3, Ray Grizzle4, Mark W. Luckenbach5, Martin H. Posey6, Sean P. Powers7, S. Gregory Tolley8 1South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Resources Research...
Valuation of ecosystem services can provide evidence the importance sustaining and enhancing those resources ecosystems that them. Long appreciated only as a commercial source oysters, oyster reefs are now acknowledged for other they provide, such water quality stabilizing shorelines. We develop framework to assess value these services. conservatively estimate economic reef services, excluding harvesting, is between $5500 $99,000 per hectare year recover their median restoration costs in...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 264:249-264 (2003) - doi:10.3354/meps264249 Estimated enhancement of fish production resulting from restoring oyster reef habitat: quantitative valuation Charles H. Peterson1,*, Jonathan Grabowski1, Sean P. Powers2 1Institute Sciences, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, 28557, USA...
Shorelines at the interface of marine, estuarine and terrestrial biomes are among most degraded threatened habitats in coastal zone because their sensitivity to sea level rise, storms increased human utilization. Previous efforts protect shorelines have largely involved constructing bulkheads seawalls which can detrimentally affect nearshore habitats. Recently, shifted towards "living shoreline" approaches that include biogenic breakwater reefs. Our study experimentally tested efficacy reefs...
Historic baselines are important in developing our understanding of ecosystems the face rapid global change. While a number studies have sought to determine changes extent exploited habitats over historic timescales, few quantified such prior late twentieth century baselines. Here, we present, knowledge, first ever large-scale quantitative assessment and biomass marine habitat-forming species 100-year time frame. We examined records wild native oyster abundance United States from historic,...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 389:159-170 (2009) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08164 Success of constructed oyster reefs in no-harvest sanctuaries: implications for restoration Sean P. Powers1,*, Charles H. Peterson2, Jonathan Grabowski3, Hunter S. Lenihan4 1Department Sciences, University South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab,...
Abstract Global temperatures are rising, and expected to produce a poleward shift in the distribution of many organisms. We quantified changes fish assemblages within seagrass meadows northern Gulf Mexico (GOM) between 1970s 2006–2007, observed consistent with this forecast. During 2006–2007 we sampled using same gears methods previously employed by R. J. Livingston coastal waters northwest Florida throughout 1970s. Comparisons datasets revealed numerous additions fauna during that were...
Restoration of degraded ecosystems is an important societal goal, yet inadequate monitoring and the absence clear performance metrics are common criticisms many habitat restoration projects. Funding limitations can prevent adequate monitoring, but we suggest that lack accepted to address diversity objectives also presents a serious challenge A working group with experience in designing oyster reef projects was used develop standardized metrics, units, criteria would allow for comparison...
Summary Quantification of ecosystem services is increasingly valuable for conservation and restoration decision‐making. Structured habitats serve as nursery grounds by enhancing juvenile fish mobile crustacean survival abundance. This service challenging to quantify due ontogenetic shifts in habitat use many species. We reviewed available literature on the increased abundance crustaceans a key – Crassostrea virginica reefs USA . modelled growth mortality enhanced species using three...
This project addresses the need for an expansion in monitoring of marine environments by providing a detailed description low cost, robust, user friendly sonde, built on Arduino Mega 2560 (Mega) and Uno (Uno) platforms. The sonde can be made without specialized tools or training easily modified to meet individual application requirements. platform allows internal logging multiple parameters which conductivity, temperature, GPS position are demonstrated. Two design configurations different...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 277:291-295 (2004) - doi:10.3354/meps277291 Habitat complexity mitigates trophic transfer on oyster reefs Jonathan H. Grabowski1,4,*, Sean P. Powers2,3 1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute Sciences, Morehead City, 28557, USA 2Department University South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688,...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 264:265-277 (2003) - doi:10.3354/meps264265 Estimating enhancement of fish production by offshore artificial reefs: uncertainty exhibited divergent scenarios Sean P. Powers1,*, Jonathan H. Grabowski2, Charles Peterson2, William J. Lindberg3 1Department Sciences, University South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 230:103-112 (2002) - doi:10.3354/meps230103 Estimating spatial extent of bottom-water hypoxia and habitat degradation in a shallow estuary Christopher P. Buzzelli1,*, Richard A. Luettich Jr.1, Sean Powers1, Charles H. Peterson1, Jesse E. McNinch2, James L. Pinckney3, Hans W. Paerl1 1University North Carolina...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 264:297-307 (2003) - doi:10.3354/meps264297 Conceptual progress towards predicting quantitative ecosystem benefits of ecological restorations Charles H. Peterson1,*, Romuald N. Lipcius2 1Institute Sciences, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, 28557, USA 2School The College William and...
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil release posed the challenges of two types spill: a familiar spill characterized by buoyant oil, fouling and killing organisms at sea surface eventually grounding on damaging sensitive shoreline habitats, novel deepwater involving many unknowns.The subsurface retention as finely dispersed droplets emulsions, wellhead injection dispersants, plumes natural gas undergoing rapid microbial degradation were unprecedented demanded development new model for well...
Abstract Along densely populated coasts, the armoring of shorelines is a prevalent cause natural habitat loss and degradation. This article explores values decision making waterfront homeowners identifies two interlinked potentially reversible drivers coastal We discovered that: (1) misperceptions regarding environmental impacts cost‐effectiveness different shoreline conditions was common may promote armoring; (2) many reported only altering their in response to damage caused by on...
Documenting and responding to species invasions requires innovative strategies that account for ecological societal complexities. We used the recent expansion of Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) throughout northern Gulf Mexico coastal waters evaluate role stakeholders in documenting a rapid marine invasion. coupled an online survey spearfishers citizen science monitoring programs with traditional fishery-independent data sources found observations documented 1–2 years earlier...
Abstract In 2011, an intensive, multiple-gear, fishery-independent survey was carried out in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to collect comprehensive age and length information on Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus. Based this synoptic survey, we produced a spatial map relative abundance that integrates both gear selectivity effects ontogenetically varying habitat usage. Our methodology generated at 10-km2 grid resolution is consistent with existing knowledge species: occurred relatively...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 302:233-243 (2005) - doi:10.3354/meps302233 Effects of eutrophication on bottom habitat and prey resources demersal fishes Sean P. Powers1,*, Charles H. Peterson2, Robert R. Christian3, Elizabeth Sullivan2, Monica J. Powers2, Melanie Bishop2, Christopher Buzzelli2 1Department Sciences, University South...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 389:171-180 (2009) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08224 Can habitat restoration be redundant? Response of mobile fishes and crustaceans oyster reef in marsh tidal creeks Nathan R. Geraldi1,2,3,*, Sean P. Powers1,2, Kenneth L. Heck2,1, Just Cebrian2,1 1Department Science, University South Alabama, LSCB 25,...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 339:109-122 (2007) - doi:10.3354/meps339109 Macroalgal growth on bivalve aquaculture netting enhances nursery habitat for mobile invertebrates and juvenile fishes Monica J. Powers1,2, Charles H. Peterson1,*, Henry C. Summerson1, Sean P. Powers1,2 1Institute of Sciences, University North Carolina at Chapel...
Abstract Recent efforts to restore oyster reefs have resulted in the creation of many with explicit objective benefiting local shellfish and finfish fisheries. We evaluated community responses fish (transient resident), crab, species that colonized or utilized a series restored high‐ low‐relief at three different locations within Mobile Bay, Alabama. Sites were chosen represent combinations sediment type, proximity established reefs, water quality, movement patterns. The results showed...