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Benfield |
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Associate
Professor
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Coastal Fisheries Institute
2173 Energy, Coast
& Environment Building
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA - 70803
Tel: 225-578-6372
Fax: 225-578-6513
E-mail: mbenfie@lsu.edu
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| Education |
- Ph. D. Texas A&M University, Wildlife
and Fisheries, 1991
- M. S. University of Natal, Biological
Sciences, 1985
- B. S. University of Toronto, 1980
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| Research
Interests |
- Shrimp life history and ecology, zooplankton
ecology, larval transport and dynamics
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Grants |
- Relationships between zooplankton and
fishes at Gulf of Mexico Petroleum Platforms.
Funding Agency: Minerals Management Service
through the LSU Coastal Marine Institute
- Collaborative Research: Shelf-basin exchange
of plankton and biogenic material between
the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Funding Agency:
National Science Foundation, Office of Polar
Programs.
- Zooplankton Aggregation Near Sills. Funding
Agency: Office of Naval Research.
- Collaborative Research: Interactive software
systems for expert-assisted image analysis
and classification of aquatic particles.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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- 2003. Benfield, M.C., A. Lavery, P.H.
Wiebe, C.H. Greene, T.K. Stanton, and N.
Copley. Distributions of physonect siphonulae
in the Gulf of Maine and their potential
as important sources of acoustic scattering.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences, 60(7):759-772.
- 2003 Benfield, M.C., C.J. Schwehm, R.G.
Fredericks, G. Squyres, S.F. Keenan, and
M.V. Trevorrow. ZOOVIS: A high-resolution
digital still camera system for measurement
of fine-scale zooplankton distributions.
In, P. Strutton, and L. Seuront (eds.) Scales
in Aquatic Ecology: Measurement, Analysis
and Simulation. CRC Press. In Press.
- 2003 Keenan, S.F., M.C. Benfield and R.F.
Shaw. Zooplanktivory by blue runner Caranx
crysos: an energetic subsidy to Gulf of
Mexico fish populations at petroleum platforms.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
Symposium Series. In Press.
- 2003 Wiebe, P.H. and M.C. Benfield. From
the Hensen net towards 4-D biological oceanography.
Progress in Oceanography, 56: 7-136
- 2003 Fry, B., D. Baltz, M. Benfield, J.
Fleeger, A. Gace, H.A. Haas, and Z. Quinones.
Chemical indicators of movement and residency
for brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus)
in coastal Louisiana marshscapes. Estuaries
26: 82-97.
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"...strategies
we develop for managing our coastal resources in a sustainable
manner can provide a model for the intelligent stewardship
of similar resources throughout the world."
Dean
Ed Laws
LSU's
School of the Coast & Environment |
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