Department
of
Biology
Institute
for Coastal Science and Policy Contact
info: Flanagan
Building 383
(office) and 382 (lab)
252-328-9402
(office),
252-328-9405
(Lab Number), 252-328-9409
(fax) luczkovichj@ecu.edu
http://personal.ecu.edu/luczkovichj
Dr. Joe studies fishes in the estuaries, mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs.
Dr. Joe is an Associate Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Science and
Policy and an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at East Carolina
University in Greenville, NC. He is a marine ecologist specializing in the
ecology of coastal fishes and fisheries, seagrass fishes and sound production by
fishes. He is also Past - President of the
Tidewater Chapter of the American Fisheries Society .
About me
- phone numbers, fax numbers, office locations, curriculum vitae etc.
(Top
row, l to
r): Dr.
Joe Luczkovich recovering a plankton net in the Caribbean near Punta Galeta,
Panama; with the 2009 Marine Ecology course returning from Toboga Island, Pacific
Ocean,
Panama; with a striped bass on Ocracoke Island, NC; and with Nick the
"Flying Spaghetti Monster" Pirate and director Randy Olson after the
film "Flock of Dodos" premiered at ECU.
(Bottom row, l to r): Recovering sonobuoys in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina;
recovering a Fish Acoustic Buoy and Underwater Logging System (FABULS); On the
black sands of the Big Island, Hawaii; and surveying reefs in Dominican
Republic.
The links at this site
concern Dr. Joe's research on the ecology of marine fishes and their
habitats.
Fish
Acoustics:
The Sciaenid Acoustics Research Team at ECU consists of Dr. Joe
Luczkovich, Physics professor Mark Sprague, Biology Professor Hal J.
Daniel, and graduate students. This web page describes how sounds
produced by fishes are being used to study the behavior and ecology of
fishes in NC
NPR
Report -
Listen to an Interview with Dr. Joe Luczkovich and Dr. Mark Sprague
(ECU Physics Department) on National Public Radio's "All Things
Considered" (in MP3 format).
Earth
and Sky
- Listen to a report on about our research on "Earth and Sky" radio
program (MP3 Format)
Dr. Joe's fish sounds podcast - a podcast by Dr. Joe explaining the fish sounds you can hear in NC and elsewhere (MP3 format, 9.9 mb, ~ 10 min).
Fish
in Food
Web Visualizations: This page shows some of the
food webs
that I have been analyzing using 3-dimensional MAGE visualization
software, along with Jeff Johnson (ECU - IISCP/Sociology), Dave
Richardson (Duke University - Biochemistry) and Steve
Borgatti
(Boston College - Organizational Studies). The food webs were analyzed
using published data from aquatic (seagrass, rocky intertidal, and
estuarine) and terrestrial (rainforest, desert, and the food web of
Norway) ecosystems, and can be viewed here using your browser.
"Studies of
Socio-Natural Co-Evolution from Different Parts of the
World" sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and the Institute for Water
and Environmental Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian
Branch, Academgorodok, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia, 2-5 Sep 2002.
Seagrass
Food
Web Data for the paper in Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science :
Network
Analysis of the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge Seagrass Ecosystem . Data are
available here via FTP for our network analysis of this ecosystem,
ASCII text files arranged in SCOR data format (Baird,
D., J. Luczkovich and R. R. Christian. 1998. Assessment of spatial and
temporal variability in ecosystem attributes of the St Marks National Wildlife
Refuge, Apalachee Bay,
Florida. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science
47: 329-349).
Pinfish
nutrition and ecology: The pinfish, Lagodon
rhomboides
, is one of the most important fishes in the seagrass ecosystems of the
Southeastern USA. At this website, one may find summaries of the
research done by Dr. Joe and his students on what pinfish eat and how
they obtain energy from seagrass.
Core Sound Food web A
model of the food web and fishery harvests of Core Sound, NC.
Dissertation project for R. A. Deehr. M.S. Thesis project K. J.
Hart. Funded by NC Sea Grant to J. J. Luczkovich, Jeffrey
C. Johnson, Lisa Clough, David Griffith, Brian Chevraunt (NCDMF). R.A.
Deehr was supported by a Graduate Stipend from NC Sea Grant and the Coastal
Resources Management Program
Graduate
Students
working in Dr. Joe's Lab
Rebecca
Deehr - Coastal Resources Management Doctoral Program (Food web
networks for multispecies management in Belize and NC)
Greg
Meyer - Coastal Resources Management Doctoral Program
(Impacts of
land use change on estuarine organisms)
Cecilia Krahforst - M.S. Biology candidate (Fish
acoustics
and hypoxia in NC estuaries)
Lyndell Bade - M.S. Biology candidate (Cownose ray impacts on seagrass
and mollucs)
Former Graduate students
Deirdre
Barry – M.S. Biology candidate, Using visual
censuses to estimate biomass of marine fishes for an Ecopath
model of coral reef, seagrass, and mangrove
habitats
surrounding Calabash Caye, Belize. (Defended July 2006)
Gary
S.
Burr. M.S. Biology. Cellulose
metabolisms by the intestinal
microbiota of the pinfish, Lagodon
rhomboides. (Defended 1999)
David
D. Chagaris - M.S. Biology candidate. Diet analysis of
selected
fishes in a Belizian Coral Reef Ecosystem for
development
of a food web model. (Defended May 2006)
David R. Gloeckner. M. S.
Biology. Tri-Level trophic Interactions in a North
Carolina
Seagrass Bed (Defended 2003)
Kevin
J. Hart - M.S. Biology. Comparison of abundance and diets of
selected fishes in trawling and non-trawling zones in Core Sound, NC,
USA (Defended June 2008).
R.
Christopher Pullinger. M. S.
Biology. Acoustic characterization of
soniferous fishes in the family Sciaenidae of North Carolina Estuaries
(Defended 2000)
Jason Rueter. M. S. Biology. A Multivariate
Approach to
Establish Habitat
Classifications in a Coral Reef Ecosystem Using Landsat 7 Imagery at
Turneffe
Atoll, Belize, Central America (Defended 2004)
Christine
Voss. M.S. Biology Effects of various
thicknesses of thin-layer dredged material applied to a Juncus
roemerianus-dominated brackish marsh (Defended July 2005)
Garcy
P. Ward. M.S. Biology. The effects of selective
predation
on fish
community structure in seagrass meadows in Apalachee Bay, Florida
(Defended 1998)
Dr. Joe's ECU Outreach Network
Participation:
Hurricane
Floyd Impacts on Water Quality and Fisheries: This is a web
page
prepared for the ECU Outreach Network (ECU-ON) that helps explain the
impacts of Hurricane Floyd and the aftermath of flooding on Pamlico
River and Pamlico Sound and its ecosystem and fisheries.
National
Science Foundation Biocomplexity Incubation Workshop
Networking
the "Invisible Colleges": Application of
Network
Theory to Biocomplexity. A workshop to be held at Duke University
Marine Laboratory 21- 24 March 2001.
Read a review of the
workshop in the 30 August 2001 issue of Science :
"Networking Tips for
Social Scientists and Ecologists", S. M. McMahon, K. H. Miller, and J.
Drake. PDF
File .
Lava
Flow Boat Trip - Big Island,
Hawaii, Feb 2007. Watch as Dr. Joe and Jill brave the waves, sulphuric
acid fumes, and video the lava flowing into the ocean from the Kilauea
volcano aboard the vessel "Lava Kat" with Captain Shane Turpin and lava
photographer Jose Martinez, near Kalapana, Hawaii (wmv 15 MB file).
