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David Secor Ph.D.

Location:

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Research Topics:

Coastal and Estuarine Processes , Fisheries

Research Interests:

Population ecology of fishes; analytical techniques for determining fish life histories and demographics; fisheries and aquaculture.

Visit http://www.umces.edu/david-secor for more about their expertise, education, and contact information.

Students:

2008 - Madeline Wedge, LaSalle University

2007 - Lisa Guy, Salisbury University

2005 - Matthew Lusk, Longwood University

2003 - William Kaminski, Southampton College

2001 - Cherie Jenkins, Coastal Carolina University

1998 - Jill Smith, University of Maine

1997 - David Turner, Coastal Carolina University

1996 - Krista Karlsson, George Washington University

1995 - Kathleen M. McDaniel, Clemson University

1994 - Troy Gunderson, Boston University

Student Publications:

Woodland, R., D. Secor, and M. Wedge*. 2011. Trophic resource overlap between small elasmobranchs and sympatric teleosts in Mid-Atlantic Bight nearshore habitats . Estuaries and Coasts 34:391-404 .
Secor, D. H., T. E. Gunderson, and K. Karlsson*. 2000. Effects of salinity and temperature on growth performance on anadromous (Chesapeake Bay) and non-anadromous (Santee-Cooper) strains of striped bass Morone saxatilis . Copeia 2000:291-296 .

Student Presentations:

Lusk, M.*, and D. Secor. 2006. Effects of environmental conditions and prey availability on the growth, mortality, and recruitment of larval white perch, Monroe americana, in the Patuxent River estuary. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii .

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REU NEWS

Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
2019 REUs presented at the CERF Conference in Mobile, AL
Olivia Saliger won a student presentation awards for talk at the 2019 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Meeting. Her REU mentor was Judy O'Neil.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!
Jeanette Davis, Ph.D. (REU '06) published a children's book, Science is Everywhere.
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