Resume

• 2009

  Dauphin Island

  AL

  Salt-Marsh Ecology; Restoration Ecology

  Post-Doctoral Associate

  Dauphin Island Sea Lab

• 2005

  Ryan

  Moody

  Dauphin Island Sea Lab

  University of South Alabama

  Mobile County Public School System

  Dauphin Island

  AL

  Project/Laboratory Manager

  Dauphin Island Sea Lab

• 2001

  Dauphin Island Sea Lab

  Mobile

  AL

  Mobile County Public School System

  University of South Alabama

  Mobile

  AL

  Adjunct Biology Instructor

  Dauphin Island Sea Lab

  Graduate Research Assistant

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Marine Ecology; Evolutionary Ecology; Restoration Ecology

  University of South Alabama

• 1997

  Marine Science

  Biology

  University of Alabama

• Ecology

  Science

  Field Work

  Wetlands

  Microscopy

  Statistics

  Environmental Science

  Scientific Writing

  Research

  Marine Biology

  Interannual Recruitment Dynamics for Resident and Transient Marsh Species: Evidence for a Lack of Impact by the Macondo Oil Spill

  The emulsification of oil at the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) well head relegated a large proportion of resultant hydrocarbon plumes to the deep sea

  facilitated the incorporation of oil droplets into microbial and planktonic food web

  and limited the severity of direct

  wetland oiling to coastal Louisiana. Nevertheless

  many transient fish and invertebrate species rely on offshore surface waters for egg and larval transport before settling in coastal habitats

  thereby potentially impacting the recruitment of transient species to coastal nursery habitats quite distant from the well site. We compared the utilization of salt-marsh habitats by transient and resident nekton before and after the DWH accident using data obtained from an oyster reef restoration project in coastal Alabama. Our sampling activities began in the summer preceding the DWH spill and continued almost two years following the accident. Overall

  we did not find significant differences in the recruitment of marsh-associated resident and transient nekton in coastal Alabama following the DWH accident. Our results

  therefore

  provide little evidence for severe acute or persistent oil-induced impacts on organisms that complete their life cycle within the estuary and those that spent portions of their life history in potentially contaminated offshore surface w

  Interannual Recruitment Dynamics for Resident and Transient Marsh Species: Evidence for a Lack of Impact by the Macondo Oil Spill

  Effects of shoreline erosion on salt-marsh floral zonation

  Carl Ferraro

  Sean Powers

  Ken Heck

  Just Cebrian

  Effects of shoreline erosion on salt-marsh floral zonation

  Carl Ferraro

  Sean Powers

  Ken Heck

  Just Cebrian

  Effects of shoreline erosion on salt-marsh floral zonation