Joseph W.Love, Ph.D.

Currently, I'm a post-doctoral researcher at the Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (www.umes.edu/osp/marine/).  This is my curriculum vitae. I have posted a poster and two presentations (A) and (B) that I presented at conferences I attended.  My on-going research activities involve projects in the Chesapeake Bay and coastal bays of Maryland.  In the Chesapeake Bay, I will be exploring how distribution and health of Brevoortia tyrannus is related to its environment.  I also have several projects in the coastal bays.  I have analyzed a fairly large data set  to explore how season and dredging affect diversity and structure of fish assemblages.  I am also heading a project to investigate larval fish transport into the Chincoteague Bay, the largest of the Maryland coastal bays. My future plans will likely involve some aspects of ecosystem management.

My dissertation work was conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Christopher Taylor at Mississippi State University.  I focussed on the role of seasonal drought on affecting aquatic assemblages and population genetics of fishes.  This is me in the Ouachita Mountains getting ready to do some electroshocking in our most downstream site in the Alum Fork of the Saline river (summer, 2003).  In the picture you'll see a hunter on the bridge.  If you want to write me, just email me at alopias@hotmail.com

This is me and a gar and a canoe at the Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station, Southeastern Louisiana Unversity's Biological Field Station.  My Master's work detailed the life history of spotted gar from the Lake Pontchartrain Estuary.

Why I do what I do: Science wants to explain, it wants to generalize, and it wants to determine the causation of things, events, and processes. To that extent, at least, there is a unity of science (Causey, 1977). Biology, then, is the science that stands at the center of all science...And it is here, in the field where all principles of all the sciences are embodied, that science can truly become unified (G.G. Simpson, 1964)