Dave Gillett

Graduate Research Fellow, NOAA Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia

Email: gillett@vims.edu
Phone: (804) 684-7740, (804) 684-7373

Education:

M.S., Marine Biology, University of Charleston
B.S., 1997, Marine Science with honors, Eckerd College

Research Interests:

My primary research interests are in food web energetics of the macrobenthic invertebrate communities in estuaries and coastal oceans as related to anthropogenic alteration of up upland and the aquatic ecosystem. I am also interested in the trophic links between macrobenthos and benthivoric nekton, as well as the general ecology of polychaete and oligochaete worms.

Publications:

Gillett, D.J., A.F. Holland, and D.M. Sanger.  2005.  Secondary production of a dominant oligochaete (Monopylephorus rubroniveus) in the tidal creeks of South Carolina and its relation to ecosystem characteristics.  Limnology and Oceanography 50:  566-577.

Gillett, D.J.  2003.  The ecology of tidal creek oligochaetes:  changes in abundance and secondary production of the numerically dominant species Monopylephorus rubroniveus (Levinsen, 1884).  A Master’s Thesis.  University of Charleston.  108 pp

Gillett, D.J., A.F. Holland, and D.M. Sanger. In preparation.  Spatial and temporal patterns of macrobenthos in two South Carolina (USA) tidal creeks with emphasis on oligochaetes.

Gillett, D. J., A. F. Holland, and T. E. Lee. In preparation.  Gut residence time of soft and hard-bodied prey in benthic-feeding salt marsh fish.