Area of Interest:

Climate variability and fish populations, hypoxia and food web interactions in estuaries, sampling and analytical approaches for fisheries-independent and hydroacoustic survey data.

Education:

B.S., University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1995
M.S., NC State University, 1999
Ph.D., NC State University, 2004

Professional Background:

Chris' research interests are in the roles of and interplay between human impacts and climate variability on the dynamics of estuary-dependent fish populations and marine communities within coastal and estuarine ecosystems.  The primary goal of his lab is to conduct research that has immediate application in fisheries management and coastal habitat conservation. His current research is in four areas:

1. The influence of biophysical processes and trophic transfer in mid-trophic levels of estuarine food webs
2. The contributions from and consequence of meteorological and climatic forcing on the recruitment dynamics of estuary-dependent fishes
3. Population dynamics and life-history studies of southern flounder
4. The applications of fisheries sonar in distribution-abundance and behavioral studies of aquatic organisms

Research & Activities:

Visit the Marine Fisheries and Trophic Ecology Lab website at: http://www.unc.edu/~jctaylo4/