Email
jperry@vims.edu
Office
DCOP 106
Phone
(804) 684-7388

James E. Perry, III

Research Associate Professor of Marine Science
B.S., Murray State University
Ph.D., College of William & Mary

Research Interests
Current Projects
Selected Publications
Current Students
Past Students
Courses Taught / Teaching
Faculty/Student Awards
Professional Memberships
Collaborative / Interdisciplinary Efforts

Research Interests

Dr. Perry's primary research interests involve monitoring stress and long-term changes in vascular plant communities of tidal and non-tidal wetlands, and the relationship of those changes to changes in environmental parameters within watersheds. He is also involved in two international projects designed to examine the role of environmental conservation and sustainable development in several developing countries. The goals of the latter projects are to provide recommendations and guidelines for the establishment of environmental and development regulations and policies to the nations involved. The results of each are to be presented at pre-planned international symposia to be held in the sponsoringnations.

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Current Projects

Establishing methods for determining status of watersheds and the success of created and restored habitats;
Ecological assessment of the status of existing natural resource impacts from off-road vehicles use of Cape Hatteras National Seashore;
Vegetation community dynamics in a reclaimed mined watershed;
Vegetation dynamics and/or ecosystem stress (including role of invasive plant species on native habitat) in tidal wetlands;
Life history, distribution and abundance, and threats to rare and/or endangered vascular plants.

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Selected Publications

Perry, J.E. , T. Barnard, J. Bradshaw, C. Friedrichs, K. Havens, P. Mason, W. Priest, and G. Silberhorn. 2001. Created tidal wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Coastal Research SI 27: 170-192.

Friedrichs, C.T. and J.E. Perry . (2001). Tidal salt marsh morphodynamics. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 27: 7-38.

Gottgens, J.F., J.E. Perry , R.H. Fortney, J.E. Meyers, Michael Benedict, and B.E. Rood. (2001). The Parana-Paraguay Hidrovia: protecting the Pantanal with lessons from the past. BioScience 51(4):559-570.

Spencer, D., J.E. Perry and G. Silberhorn. 2001. Clear-cut bottomland hardwood forests as reference sites for monitoring of created and restored wetlands. Environmental Management 27(4): 301-312.

Perry, J.E. and C.H. Hershner. 1999. Temporal changes in the vegetation pattern in a tidal freshwater marsh. Wetlands 19(1):90-99.

Perry, J.E. , D.M.E. Ware and A. M. Mueller. 1998. Aeschynomene indica L. (Fabaceae) in Virginia. CASTANEA 63(2):191-194.

Perry, J.E. and R. A. Atkinson. 1997. Plant diversity along a salinity gradient: York and Pamunkey Rivers, Virginia. CASTANEA 62(2):112-118.

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Current Students

Davies, Sarah (M.S.)
DeBerry, Douglas (Ph.D.)
Landry, Cynthia (M.S.)
Roggero, Molly (M.S.)
Wu-Stanhope, Jennifer (M.S.)

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Past Students

Campana, Michael, M.S. (1999). Thesis title: The effect of common reed ( Phragmites australis ) invasion on nutrient flux, sedimentation, and plant species diversity in a tidal freshwater marsh.
Goldberg Jason, M.S. (2000). Thesis title: Comparing remote sensing to traditional approaches of monitoring wetland vegetation in a tidal mitigation bank.
Laird, Rosemary, M.S. (2001). Thesis title: Spatial and temporal variation in plant communities of three tidal salt marshes along the York River, Virginia.
McKenney-Mueller, Amanda, M.S. (1998). Thesis title: Small mammal habitat use of two natural and two created wetlands in southeastern Virginia.
Meyer Jill E., M.S. (2000). Thesis title: Accuracy of bottomland hardwood boundary delineations based on multispectral video images.
Mountz, Elizabeth, M.S. (2002). Thesis title: Use of remote sensing to identify essential habitat for Aeschynomene virginica (L.) BSP, a threatened freshwater wetland plant.
Slocum, Kevin, Ph.D. (2002). Thesis title: Coastal zone landscape classification using remote sensing and model development.
Spencer, David, M.S. (1999). Thesis title: Early secondary succession in the bottomland hardwood forests of southeastern Virginia.

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Courses Taught/Teaching

MS 580/Enst 440-02 Asian Environmental Issues
MS 527 Coastal Botany
MS 579 Wetlands Ecology (w/ C. Hershner)

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Faculty/Student Awards

NOAA/NERRS Graduate Research Fellowship (Davies, 2003-2005)
Knauss Fellowship (Mountz, 2001; Goldberg and Meyer, 2000)
Virginia Space Grant Scholarship (Mountz, 2000)
Society of Wetland Scientist Scholarship (Meyer, 1999)

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Professional Memberships

American Institute of Biological Sciences
Appalachian Botanical Society
Ecological Society of America
Estuarine Research Association
Society of Wetland Scientists

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Collaborative/Interdisciplinary Efforts

Establishment of a wetland research program in the Palaeocoastal Reserve, Tianjin, China (w/NOAA, Tianjin Univ.).
Ecological processes in restored habitat for the Chinese alligator, Chongming Island, China (Wildlife Conservation Service).