Current/Recent Research Projects

Here is a list of the titles of some of the research projects on which my students and I are working or have recently worked. If you are interested in any of them, send me an email for more information.

• Threatened & endangered fish passage on the Alabama River.
• Effects of low-use locks on threatened and endangered species (This includes study of fishes below the dam as well as along the entire river).
• Using bioenergetics to address the effects of temperature and flow on fishes in the Harris Dam tailrace.
• Exploring the use of hard part microchemistry to evaluate fish movement among areas in the Harris Dam tailrace
• Blueback herring in Lewis Smith Lake, Alabama: How does this introduced prey species interact with resident prey and sport fishes?
• Quantifying temperature and metabolic patterns for non-game riverine fishes, with potential for assessing fish tolerances below dams.

Some Recently Completed Projects:

• Mollusk survey in the Coosa River below Logan Martin Dam.
• Evaluation of the freshwater mussel community in the Weiss Bypass Reach of the Coosa River, Alabama after initiation of a minimum flow.
• Evaluation of the freshwater and estuarine fishes in Alabama after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
• Assessing southern flounder populations in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
• Determination of species-specific dissolved oxygen and temperature requirements for non-game riverine fishes.
• Assessing enhancements to recreational fishing ponds using stable isotope analyses.
• The role of yellow perch in Lakes Martin and Yates, Alabama.
• Re-establishing long distance fish migration pathways: feasibility of passing fish through two Alabama River lock structures.
• The relationship between shoreline development and resident fish communities in Lake Martin, Alabama.
• Searching for additional populations of Tulotoma magnifica in tributaries of the Coosa River, Alabama.
• Largemouth bass in the Mobile River Delta: information needed for managing this unique resource.
• Evaluating changes in the Tulotoma magnifica populations in the Coosa River and its tributaries during 1992 through 2004.
• Evaluating movement patterns in estuarine fishes: application of microchemical techniques to fish otoliths.
• Mercury in the Mobile-tensaw Delta: using fish otoliths to explore bioaccumulation patterns.