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Fisheries and Wildlife Research in the NCSU Department of Biology

Fisheries and wildlife (FW) research in the Department of Biology spans the spectrum from fundamental studies on evolutionary strategies for habitat exploitation and predator-prey interactions to research with direct applications in the assessment and management of species and ecosystems.  Most of our FW faculty research programs focus on fish, but birds and mammals are also represented.  Some of these research programs have a laboratory component, but most emphasize field research at sites throughout North Carolina as well as in Costa Rica, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, and elsewhere. 

Dr. Derek Aday (home page)
 Research interests are in the areas of aquatic ecology, fisheries biology, toxicology, and conservation, especially fundamental ecological questions that have application to the management and conservation of game and non-game fish species, and to understanding contaminant processes in aquatic foodwebs that influence human health.		 Dr. Tom Kwak (home page)
 Research interests include fish ecology and management, stream and watershed ecology, restoration ecology, and the impacts of habitat and environmental alterations on fish populations, with a goal of incorporating this work into fisheries conservation and management decisions.
Dr. Jeff Buckel (home page)
 Research interests include the ecology of marine, estuarine, and anadromous fishes, especially effects of abiotic and biotic factors responsible for recruitment variation; effects of predator-prey interactions at the population level; and improving estimates of population parameters used to assess fishery resources.
Dr. John Miller (e-mail)
 Research interests include estuarine ecology, ecophysiology, and the recruitment and ecology of fishes.
Dr. Jaime Collazo (home page)
 Research interests include avian population dynamics, species-habitat relationships, predator-prey relationships in wading birds,  foraging ecology of migratory shorebirds, breeding productivity in forest birds, and endangered species research and conservation.  		Dr. Ken Pollock (home page)
 Research interests include applied statistical methods for fisheries and wildlife, especially estimation of demographic parameters for animal populations, sampling theory, population dynamics models, and fisheries tagging models.
Dr. Harry Daniels (home page)
 Research interests include aquaculture pond water quality, larviculture of freshwater and marine finfish, feeding strategies, and sexually dimorphic growth.  Extension specialist for the warmwater aquaculture industries of eastern North Carolina.		 Dr. Roger Powell (home page)
 Research interests include behavioral ecology and evolutionary ecology, with a focus on the effects of limiting resources on ecology, behavior, population biology, and morphology of animals, especially mammals.
Dr. James Gilliam (home page)
 Research interests include aquatic ecology and predator prey interactions, especially habitat selection by foragers under predation threat; modeling (optimization; behavior; population dynamics; animal dispersal); and population fragmentation and movement among local populations.		 Dr. Jim Rice (home page)
 Research interests include predator-prey interactions and food web dynamics in aquatic systems, direct and indirect fish responses to hypoxia, and bioenergetics modeling of stress and predation.
 
Dr. Joe Hightower (home page)
 Research interests include population dynamics, habitat use, stock assessment, and management of anadromous fishes, with a focus on estimating population parameters using methods such as tagging and hydroacoustics. 		Dr. Ted Simons (home page)
 Research interests include avian ecology, wildlife biology, natural resource inventory and monitoring, and development of multidisciplinary approaches to the conservation of protected areas and species.
Dr. Jeff Hinshaw (e-mail)
 Research interests include the biology and cultivation of coldwater and coolwater fishes, the environmental impacts of fish culture, the health maintenance of salmonids, and alternative and sustainable fish production systems.  Extension specialist for coldwater and coolwater aquaculture and fisheries.  Based in Fletcher, NC.		  Dr. Craig Sullivan (home page)
 Research interests include fish reproductive genetics, physiology and endocrinology with an emphasis on regulation of gametogenesis and application of research findings to aquaculture, selective breeding, fisheries management, biomedicine, and toxicology.

In the field with a flathead catfish.