Professor and Director of CMAST
Tel. (919) 515-7840
E-mail: eggleston@ncsu.edu
Eggleston's Home Page
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Curriculum Vitae

B.S. 1980 Old Dominion University (Major: Biology)

M.A. 1988 The College of William and Mary, School of Marine Science (Major: Marine Ecology, Minor: Resource Management)

PhD 1991 The College of William and Mary, School of Marine Science (Major: Fisheries Ecology, Minor: Statistics)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Experimental marine benthic ecology, detecting ecological impacts, fisheries and behavioral ecology, population dynamics and modelling, estuarine and coastal habitat restoration, marine conservation biology, marine science education.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
(by Dr. Eggleston and his graduate students)

Eggleston, D.B., C. P. Dahlgren and E.G. Johnson. (2004). Fish density, diversity and size-structure within multiple back-reef habitats of Key West National Wildlife Refuge, USA. Bulletin of Marine Science 75(2): in press.

Reyns, N. B. and D. B. Eggleston. (2004). Environmentally-controlled, density-dependent secondary dispersal in a local estuarine crab population. Oecologia 140: 280-288.

Kellison, G. T. and D. B. Eggleston. (2004). Coupling ecology and economy: Modeling optimal release scenarios for summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) stock enhancement. U.S. Fishery Bulletin 102: 78-93.

Etherington, L. and D. Eggleston. (2003). Spatial dynamics of large-scale, multi-stage crab dispersal: determinants and consequences for recruitment. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 60: 873-887.

Bell, G. W., D. B. Eggleston and T. G. Wolcott. (2003). Behavioral responses of free-ranging blue crabs to episodic hypoxia. I. Movement. Marine Ecology Progress Series 259:215-225.

Eggleston, D. B., E. G. Johnson, G. T. Kellison and D. A. Nadeau. (2003). Intense removal of non-saturating funtional responses by recreational divers on spiny lobster prey. Marine Ecology Progress Series 257: 197-207.

Dahlgren, C. P. and D. B. Eggleston. (2000). Ecological processes underlying ontogenetic habitat shifts in a coral reef fish. Ecology 81(8):2227-2240.

Ratchford, S. G. and D. B. Eggleston. (2000). Temporal shift in the release of a chemical attractant contributes to a diel shift in sociality. Animal Behaviour 59:793-799.

Eggleston, D. B., W. E. Elis, L. L. Etherington, C. P. Dahlgren, M. H. Posey. (1999). Organism response to habitat patchiness and diversity: habitat colonization by estuarine macrofauna. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 236:107-132.

Eggleston, D., D. Armstrong, W. Elis, W. Patton. (1998). Estuarine fronts as conduits for larval transport: hydrodynamics and spatial distribution of megalopae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 164:73-82.

Eggleston, D. & D. Armstrong. (1995). Pre- and post-settlement determinants of estuarine Dungeness crab recruitment. Ecological Monographs 65:191-254.