Email markc@vims.edu Office Fisheries Science Laboratory 127 Phone (804) 684-7324

Mark E. Chittenden, Jr. Professor of Marine Science B.S., Hobart College M.S., Ph.D., Rutgers University

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

My broad research interests are in the functional ecology and dynamics of fish populations and communities in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. These interests are expressed in the following specific research areas: composition, movements, and spatial/temporal distribution of fishes and fish communities; mechanisms of community formation and population regulation; life histories and population dynamics including recruitment, reproductive biology, age and growth, and mortality estimation; role of zoogeography in setting population dynamics; stock identification; yield-modeling and simulations of the effects of harvesting fishes.

• Life histories and population dynamics of Chesapeake Bay fishes.
  
• Functional ecology of Gulf of Mexico demersal fish communities.

Lowerre-Barbieri, S.K., M.E. Chittenden, Jr., and L. R. Barbieri. 1995. Age and growth of weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, in the Chesapeake Bay region with a discussion of historical changes in maximum size. Fish. Bull., U.S. 93:643-656.

Barbieri, L. R., M. E. Chittenden, Jr., and S.K. Lowerre-Barbieri. 1994. Maturity, spawning, and ovarian cycle of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, in the Chesapeake Bay and adjacent coastal waters. Fish. Bull., U.S. 92:671-685.

Lowerre-Barbieri, S.K., M.E. Chittenden, Jr., and C.M. Jones. 1994. A comparison of a validated otolith method to age weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, with the scale method. Fish. Bull., U.S. 92:555-568.

John Foster, M.S.

Tom Ihde, M.S.

Elizabeth Watkins, M.S.