Kenneth Rose
 


Associate Professor,
Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences
Coastal Fisheries Institute

  218 Wetland Resources
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA - 70803

Tel:      225-578-6346
Fax:     225-578-6513
E-mail: karose@lsu.edu

Education
  • Ph.D. University of Washington 1985.
  • M.Sc. University of Washington 1981.
  • B.Sc. State University of New York at Albany 1979.
Research Interests
  • Mathematical and computer modeling of aquatic populations, communities, food webs, and ecosystems; use of models for both theoretical and applied analyses, such as ecological risk assessment and fisheries management.
Awards
Grants
  • Estimation of Potential Population Level Effects of Contaminants on Wildlife, US DOE, Environmental Management Science Program. Investigation of the estuarine biological, hydrological, predator-prey, and habitat factors influencing LouisianaÕs white shrimp (Penaeus setiferus) landings. Louisiana Sea Grant Program.
  • Predation Mortality of Fish Larvae: Peril of the Unfit or the Unfortunate?, Biological Oceanography, NSF.
  • Techniques for Validation of Regional and Global Scale Models Against Field Data, Terrestrial Ecology and Global Change Program, NSF/NASA.
  • Evaluation of endocrine-disrupting chemical effects: integration of physiology, behavior, and population dynamics of fishes. EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program.

Recent Publications


  1. Breitburg, D., K. Rose, and J. Cowan. 1999. Linking water quality to larval survival: predation mortality of fish larvae in an oxygen-stratified water column. Marine Ecology Progress Series 178: 39-54.

  2. Rose, K.A., and E.P. Smith. 1998. Model goodness-of-fit analysis using permutation tests. Ecological Modelling 106: 129-139.

  3. Van Winkle, W., K.A. Rose, B.D. Shuter, H.I. Jager, and B.D. Holcomb. 1997. Effects of climatic temperature change on growth, survival, and reproduction of rainbow trout: predictions from a simulation model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54: 2526-2542.

  4. Rose, K.A., J.A. Tyler, D. SinghDermot, and E. Rutherford. 1996. Multispecies modelling of fish populations. IN: Computers in Fisheries Research (B. Megrey and E. Moksness, eds.), Chapman and Hall, pp. 194-222.

  5. Rose, K.A. in press. Why are quantitative relationships between environmental quality and fish populations so elusive? Ecological Applications.




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LSU's School of the Coast & Environment

 

 
 
 

 

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