Justin A. Falls

• M.S. student
• B.S., Hampton University 2004
• Major Advisor: Rom Lipcius

Email
jfalls@vims.edu

Office
201 Stevenson House

Phone
(804) 684-7643

Blue Crab ecology with special interest in the importance of habitat to juvenile blue crab survival.  This research is being conducted in the context of a major ecological shift occurring in the Chesapeake Bay.

I am currently investigating the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) use of the benthic macro-algae Gracilaria as a habitat and refuge from predation.  This study includes mesocosm experiments, a field experiment, and a field survey of crabs in the benthic macroalgae habitat.