Research

Marine Recreational Fishing Project

Marine Spatial Analysis Project: OBIS SEAMAP

The National Oceanic Partnership Program (NOPP) awards a $1.8 million grant to Duke to establish a marine spatial data set on seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals. Click here to see more.

Click here to see the project webpage. And check out the other investigators on this project, Andy Read and Pat Halpin.

OBIS-SEAMAP teams up with another CoML initiative, Tagging of Pacific Pelagics.

Click here to see additional press coverage.

Pelagic Longline Project

The Pew Charitable Trusts awards $1.2 million grant to Duke to study longline fisheries industry.

Click here to see the Annual Report for Year 1.

Loggerhead Turtle Project

A three year effort, funded by the EPA, to study and model loggerhead sea turtles. Click here to see a story on the project in the Raleigh News and Observer.

Neuse River and Pamlico Sound

This project collected years worth of environmental variables for the Neuse River estuary. Click to see a full description of the project, or to see some results.

Current research projects include:

Digital archival of marine mammal/bird/turtle data for OBIS, Sloan Foundation/National Science Foundation/Office of Naval Research, National Ocean Partnership Program, Andrew J. Read, Patrick R. Halpin, and Larry B. Crowder (PIs).

Marine fisheries of the United States: A comparison of the catch of recreational and commercial sectors of the fishery, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Felicia Coleman and Larry B. Crowder (PIs).

Hypoxia, fish, and fisheries in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, NOAA NOS Coastal Ocean Program, J. Kevin Craig, Larry B. Crowder, and Andrew J. Read (PIs).

Evaluating multiple stressors in loggerhead sea turtles: Developing a two-sex spatially explicit model, Larry B. Crowder (PI).

Cetacean behavioral ecology and predictive modelling, Andrew J. Read, Patrick R. Halpin, Larry B. Crowder, and David Hyrenbach (PIs).

Quantifying seabird bycatch: A global perspective, Rebecca Lewison and Larry Crowder (PIs).

Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Oral Histories, and Historical Information: Reef Fisheries in Milolii, Hawaii, Janna M. Shackeroff and Larry Crowder (PIs), Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grant, Marine Conservation Biology Institute.

Ecology of juvenile and sub-adult green sea turtles in mangrove tidal creeks of the Big Cape Sable complex, Everglades National Park, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Carole C. McIvor, Kristen M. Hart and Larry B. Crowder (PIs) , $251,171.