Bio

Jeffery is a local to Carteret County and has worked on or around the water the majority of his life. Here at CMAST, he manages the day to day operations of the Applied Ecology Lab and assists graduate students and Doctoral candidates with their research as needed; whether it’s gathering data in the field, working up samples within the lab, or helping with data entry and analysis.

Publications

• Discard mortality rates of Red Snapper after barotrauma and hook trauma: Insights from using acoustic telemetry in the U.S. South Atlantic , North American Journal of Fisheries Management (2025)
• 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)
• Estimating discard mortality using meta-analysis and fishery-dependent sampling , Fisheries Research (2021)
• Factors Influencing Colonization and Survival of Juvenile Blue Crabs Callinectes sapidus in Southeastern U.S. Tidal Creeks , Diversity (2021)
• Survival and Habitat of Yellow‐Phase American Eels in North Carolina Tidal Creeks , Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (2019)
• Fragmentation of habitat affects communities and movement of nekton in salt marsh tidal creeks , Marine Ecology Progress Series (2017)

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