Education

Ph.D. 2005  U of Delaware College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment 

Dissertation title: Ecophysiological impacts of hypoxia on nursery quality for juvenile estuary-dependent fishes: A comparison of laboratory and field growth rates (PDF)  

Timothy E. Targett - Graduate Advisor (web page)

B.S.   1999  Salisbury University

B.S.   1999 U of Maryland - Eastern Shore  

Research Interests 

• Use of non-destructive sampling techniques for estimating populations of West Coast groundfishes and invertebrates 
• Early life history biology and habitat ecology of Northeast Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) along the central California coast
• The physiological ecology of juvenile estuary-dependent fishes, and in particular, the effects of hypoxia, or low dissolved oxygen (DO), on feeding and growth rates of these fishes in the laboratory and in the wild

Current Projects

• Assessment and monitoring of rockfish (Sebastes spp.) and white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) populations in the Southern California Bight using a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV)
• Habitat use and essential fish habitat (EFH) of newly-settled juvenile rockfishes in low- and high-relief benthic habitats in Monterey Bay (with Dr. Susan Sogard, NOAA SWFSC)
  
• The effects of upwelling on growth and otolith microchemistry of pelagic juvenile shortbelly rockfish (S. jordani) in coastal California waters (with Dr. Brian Wells, NOAA SWFSC) 

Past Projects

• Benthic boundary layer processes and sediment biogeochemistry in permeable sediments at the Kilo Nalu Nearshore Reef Observatory

Publications (Published or In press)

(PDFs are available for all articles below.  Please contact me for a copy)

Grecay P.A and Stierhoff K.L. (2002) A device for precisely controlling dissolved oxygen levels in laboratory experiments. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 280: 53-62

Stierhoff K.L., Targett T.E., and Grecay P.A. (2003) Hypoxia tolerance of the mummichog: the role of access to the water surface. Journal of Fish Biology. 63: 580-592

Glazer B.T., Marsh A.G.,  Stierhoff K.L., and Luther G.W. (2004) The dynamic response of optical oxygen sensors and voltammetric electrodes to temporal changes in dissolved oxygen concentrations. Analytica Chimica Acta 518:93-100

Stierhoff K.L., Targett T.E., and Miller, K. (2006) Ecophysiological impacts of hypoxia on juvenile summer and winter flounder: experimental and modeling assessment of estuarine nursery quality. Marine Ecology Progress Series 325: 255-266

Sansone, F.J., Pawlak G. Stanton, T.K., Glazer B.T., McManus M.A., DeCarlo E.H., Bandet M., Sevadjian J., Stierhoff K., Colgrove C., Hebert A.B. and Chen I. (2008) Kilo Nalu: Physical/biogeochemical dynamics above and within permeable sediments.  Oceangraphy 21(4): 173-178

Stierhoff K.L., Targett T.E., and Power J.A. (2009) Hypoxia induced growth limitation of juvenile fishes in an estuarine nursery: assessment of small-scale temporal dynamics using RNA:DNA.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(7): 1033-1047

Stierhoff K.L., Tyler, R.M., and Targett, T.E. (2009) Hypoxia tolerance of juvenile weakfish (Cynoscion regalis): laboratory assessment of growth and behavioral avoidance responses. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 81(Supplement 1): S173-S179