Jeffrey Buckel

Bio

Education

Ph.D., Coastal Oceanography, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY (1997)

Research Interests

Research is concentrated in areas that further our understanding of the population dynamics of fishery resources. Investigations focus on identifying and understanding processes which underlie recruitment variability in marine and estuarine fishes. Specifically, the influence of abiotic factors and biotic interactions on growth and mortality of juvenile fishes has been examined. Additionally, our laboratory conducts applied research that directly addresses assessment and management of local and regional fisheries.

Current Projects

Movement and mortality of spotted seatrout in North Carolina: a combined conventional tag and telemetry approach.
North Carolina Fishery Resource Grant and North Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Co-PIs Joe Hightower (NCSU), Ken Pollock (NCSU), Beth Burns (NCDMF), and Tim Ellis (NCSU).

Are fish productivity metrics related to anthropogenic alteration?
North Carolina Sea Grant. Co-PIs Joe Hightower (NCSU) and Ben Letcher (USGS).

Accounting for the effects of pressure trauma in estimating rates of discard mortality of black sea bass in the deepwater North Carolina reef fishery.
North Carolina Fishery Resource Grant. Co-PIs Paul Rudershausen (NCSU) and Tom Burgess (Commercial fisher).

Diet composition and ecosystem modeling of predatory fishes captured in North Carolina: a cooperative program with North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries.
North Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

Web Resources

• Ecology Graduate Group
• Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society

Publications

• Applying mark-resight, count, and telemetry data to estimate effective sampling area and fish density with stationary underwater cameras , CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES (2024)
• Artificial structure selection by economically important reef fishes at North Carolina artificial reefs , FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE (2024)
• Long-term dynamics of larval and early juvenile spot ( Leiostomus xanthurus) ) off the US East Coast: relating ocean origins, estuarine ingress, and changing environmental conditions , FISHERY BULLETIN (2024)
• Quantifying intra-annual changes in abundance and distribution to identify the magnitude and scale of potential mortality events , ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE (2024)
• Seasonality and relative abundance within an elasmobranch assemblage near a major biogeographic divide , PLOS ONE (2024)
• Spatiotemporal dynamics and habitat use of red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) on the southeastern United States Atlantic continental shelf , FISHERIES RESEARCH (2024)
• Temporal changes in lengths of Dolphinfish revealed by sampling at sportfishing tournaments in the southeastern United States , NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (2024)
• A method for long‐term retention of pop‐up satellite archival tags (PSATs) on small migratory fishes , Journal of Fish Biology (2023)
• Effectiveness of Venting and Recompression for Increasing Postrelease Survival of Barotraumatized Black Sea Bass across a Range of Depths , North American Journal of Fisheries Management (2023)
• Spatial extent and isolation of marine artificial structures mediate fish density , Frontiers in Marine Science (2023)