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:225-578-9400 Fax:225-578-6513 E-mail: jhcowan@lsu.edu	James H. Cowan Jr. Professor

Education:

Ph. D. Louisiana State University, Marine Sciences
M. Sc. Louisiana State University, Experimental Statistics;
M. Sc. Old Dominion University, Biological Oceanography
B. Sc. Old Dominion University, Biology

Grants:

• Principal Investigator (with R. Shaw). Stable isotopes as tracers of patterns in habitat utilization by juvenile red snapper. MARFIN, 2002-2003, $76,926.
  
  
• Principal Investigator (with M. Graham, USA). Assessing the potential of nuisance jellyfish predation on the eggs and larvae of red drum and red snapper in the northern Gulf of Mexico. National Sea Grant Program, Aquatic Nuisance Species Program, 2001-2004, $294,706.
  
  
• Co-Principal Investigator (with R. Shaw, LSU and R. Gauldie, University of Hawaii). Platform Recruited Reef Fish, Phase I: Do Platforms Provide Habitat That Increases the Survival of Juvenile Reef Fishes? MMS-LSU Coastal Marine Institute, 2002-2005, $230,743.
  
  
• Principal Investigator (with C. Wilson, S. Bentley). Fisheries habitat of juvenile red snapper in the northern Gulf of Mexico. National Sea Grant Office, 2002-2004, $369,097.
  
  
• Principal Investigator (with R. Shaw, LSU). Short-term movement, home range and behavior of red snapper around petroleum platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico as determined by high resolution acoustic telemetry. LSU-MMS Coastal Marine Institute, 2003-2005, $206,748.

Recent Publications:

1. Rutherford, E.S., K.A. Rose, and J.H. Cowan, Jr. 2003. Evaluation of the Shepherd and Cushing (1980) model of density-dependent survival: a case study using striped bass, Morone saxatilis, larvae in the Potomac River, Maryland, USA. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 60: 1275-1284.
   
   
2. Patterson, W.F., III and J.H. Cowan. 2003. Site fidelity and dispersion of red snapper associated with artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 36: 181-194.
   
   
3. Rose, K.A. and J.H. Cowan, Jr. 2003. Data, Models, and Decisions in US Marine Fisheries Management: Lessons for Ecologists. Rev. Ecol. Evolu. System 34: 127-151.
   
   
4. Breitburg, D.L., A. Adamack, S.E. Kolesar, M.B., Decker, K.A. Rose, J.A. Purcell, J.E. Keister, and J.H. Cowan, Jr. 2003. The influence of low dissolved oxygen in the Patuxent River, a seasonally hypoxic estuary. Estuaries 26 (2A): 280-297.
   
   
5. Fuiman, L.A. and J.H. Cowan, Jr. 2003. Repeatability and covariation of survival skills in fish larvae. Ecology 84: 53-67.