Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications

Scientific publications are the culmination of much hard work, from collecting valuable data, conducting data analyses, and the peer-review process. While scientific publications are a scientist's "currency," more importantly, they are a valuable instrument to affect policy and ultimately enact change.

Bold text denotes a Project Dorsal team member

• Uphoff Jr, J. H., Moorhead, S.G., Park, A., Hoover, C., Ponte, M., & Horne, J. (2025). Influence of feeding on zooplankton on Striped Bass postlarval mortality, growth, and year-class success in the Choptank River, Maryland, during the 1980s and 2023–2024. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 17(6), vtaf047

• Hammerschlag, N., Gutowsky, L. F., Rider, M. J., Roemer, R.P., & Gallagher, A. J. (2022). Urban sharks: Residency patterns of marine top predators in relation to a coastal metropolis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 691, 1-17.

• Gutowsky, L. F. G., Rider, M. J., Roemer, R. P., Gallagher, A. J., Heithaus, M. R., Cooke, S. J., & Hammerschlag, N. (2021). Large sharks exhibit varying behavioral responses to major hurricanes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 256, 107373.

• Moorhead, S.G., Merly, L.M., Gallagher, A.J., & Hammerschlag, N. (2020). Variation of body condition and plasma energy substrates with life stage, sex, and season in wild-sampled nurse sharks Ginglymostoma cirratum. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–14.

• Glynn, P. W., Coffman, B., Primov, K. D., Moorhead, S.G., Vanderwoude, J., Barrales, R. N., ... & Roemer, R. P. (2018). Benthic ctenophores (Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) in South Florida: predator–prey interactions. Invertebrate biology, 137(2), 133-150.

• Glynn P.W., Coffman B., Fuller M.P.C., Moorhead S.G., Williams M.K., Primov K.D., Fortson T.N., Barrales R.N., Glynn P.J. (2017). Benthic ctenophores (Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) in south Florida: environmental conditions, habitats, abundances, and behaviors. Invertebrate Biology, 136(4), 379–393.

• Roemer, R. P., Gallagher, A. J., & Hammerschlag, N. (2016). Shallow water tidal flat use and associated specialized foraging behavior of the great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran). Marine and freshwater behaviour and physiology, 49(4), 235-249.