Mailing and Contact Information: 2173 Energy, Coast & Environment Building Coastal Fisheries Institute Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel: 225-578-6512 Fax: 225-578-6513 E-mail: dbaltz@lsu.edu	Donald M. Baltz Professor

Education:

• Ph.D. University of California, Davis, Ecology, 1980
• M.A. San Jose State University & Moss Landing Marine Lab, 1975
• B.A. San Jose State University, 1969

Fish ecology, life history, and habitat selection, marine vertebrates, acoustics

Grants:

• 2006-2007. Habitat Use and population structure patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Mississippi Sound and adjacent waters. D.M. Baltz.
  
  
• 2006-2007. Patterns of Habitat Use by Early Life History Stages of Fishes in Plancia Lagoon, Belize: Nursery Habitat Requirements of Dry-season Juveniles. D.M. Baltz .
  
  
• 2006-2007. Photographic Comparison of Bottlenose Dolphin Occurrences in the Coastal Waters of Louisiana and Mississippi. D.M. Baltz and Richard Condrey.


• 2006-2009. Can Pulsed River Diversions Shift Ecological Baselines in Louisiana Estuarine Ecosystem. James H. Cowan, Richard Shaw, D.M. Baltz, Kenneth A. Rose. $632,930 funded by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
  
  
• 2002-2007 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Cumulative coastal stressors: northern Gulf of Mexico (P.I. R.E. Turner, Co-PI D.M. Baltz and others)
  
  
• 2002-2007 Southern University – Center for Coastal Zone Assessment and Remote Sensing (PI N.D. Walker, Co-PIs O.K. Huh, D. Baltz, and E. Reyes).
  


• 2002-2003 Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Inc. – Habitat use and population structure patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) in the western Mississippi Sound and adjacent waters (PI D.M Baltz, Co-PIs C. Miller and M. Solangi).
  
• 2001-2003 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Hypoxia, nekton and habitat in the N-GOMEX 2001: modeling and retrospective analyses.
  
• 2000-2000 Louisiana Sea Grant – Three new technologies for assessing the saltmarsh edge as essential fish habitat (PI B. Fry, Co-PIs M. Benfield and D. Baltz).
  

Recent Publications:

1. Baltz, D.M. and A. Yanez-Arancibia. in press. Ecosystem-based management of coastal fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico: environmental and anthropogenic impacts and essential habitat protection. Chapter 18, Volume V of The Gulf of Mexico: Ecosystem-Based Management. J.W. Day and A. Yanez-Arancibia. eds. in J.W. Tunnel, D.L. Felder, and S.A. Earle. Eds. The Gulf of Mexico, Its Origins, Waters, Biota and Human Impacts. Texas A&M Press.
   
   
2. Visser, J. M., and D. M. Baltz. Accepted. Chapter V.3 Biology of Salt Marshes. In: E. Wolinski, D. Cahoon, and G.M.E. Perillo (eds.) Coastal Wetlands: an Ecosystem Integrated Approach. Elsevier, The Netherlands.
   
   
3. Granados-Dieseldorff, P. and D. M. Baltz. in press. Habitat Use by Nekton along a Stream-Order Gradient in a Louisiana Estuary. Estuaries and Coasts.
   
   
4. Switzer, T.S., E.J. Chesney, and D.M. Baltz. 2006. Exploring temporal and spatial variability in nekton community structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico: unraveling the potential influence of hypoxia. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 57:699-716. .
   
   
5. Stickney, R.R., B. Costa-Pierce, D.M. Baltz, M. Drawbridge, C. Grimes, S. Phillips, and D.L. Swann. 2006. Toward sustainable open ocean aquaculture in the United States. Fisheries 31:607-610.
   
6. Stead, M.A., D.M. Baltz, E.J. Chesney, M.A. Tarr, A.S. Kolok, and B.D. Marx. 2005. Swimming performance of juvenile Florida pompano exposed to ethylene glycol and methanol: synergistic effects. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:1438-1447.
   
7. Baltz, D.M., E.J. Chesney, M.A. Tarr, A.S. Kolok, and M.J. Bradley. 2005. Toxicity and sublethal effects of methanol swimming performance of juvenile Florida pompano. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:730-740.
   
8. Switzer, T.S., D.M. Baltz, R.L. Allen, and T.A. Munroe. 2004. Habitat selection by two sympatric tonguefishes (Symphurus: Cynoglossidae) in coastal Louisiana, USA: unraveling seasonal, spatial, and size-specific patterns in resource utilization. Journal of Sea Research 51:229-242.
   
9. Baltz, D.M. and R.F. Jones. 2003. Temporal and spatial patterns of microhabitat use by fishes and decapod crustaceans in a Louisiana estuary. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132:662-678.
   
10. Fry, B., D. Baltz, M. Benfield, J. Fleeger, A. Gace, H.L. Haas, and Z. Quinones. 2003. Chemical indicators of movement and residency for brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) in coastal Louisiana marshscapes. Estuaries 26:82-97
    
11. Baltz, D.M., R.G. Thomas, and E.J. Chesney. 2003. Spotted seatrout habitat affinities in Louisiana. Chapter 10. pp. 147-175. in S. A. Bortone. Ed. Biology of the Spotted Seatrout. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
    
12. Hymel, M.K., D.M. Baltz, E.J. Chesney, M.A. Tarr, and A.S. Kolok. 2002. Swimming performance of juvenile Florida pompano exposed to ethylene glycol. Transactions of American Fisheries Society 131:1152-1163.
    

Courses Taught:

OCS 1005- Introduction to Oceanography.
OCS 4012- Biology of Marine Vertebrates.
OCS 4500- Fisheries Acoustics.
OCS 7001- Nursery Function of Estuarine Habitats.
OCS 7001- Sustainable Fisheries.
LUMCON- Marine Vertebrate Zoology.
LUMCON- Marine Fish Ecology.