EVAN JOHN ANDERSON
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: (228) 872-4250
Fax: (228) 872-4204
Email: evan.anderson@usm.edu
Position:
Current Research:
- Project Supervisor - Fisheries Assessment and Monitoring (1996-2001, 2003-present)
- Project Supervisor - Mississippi Coastal Assessment (2008-present)
- Project Associate - Blue Crab Fishery Study (2005-present)
- Project Associate - Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) (2007-present)
Previous Research:
- Project Supervisor - Expanded Monitoring Study (2006)
- Project Supervisor - Back Bay Biloxi Storm Water Study (2005-2006)
- Project Supervisor - Estuarine Nutrient Study (2003-2005)
- Project Supervisor - Winter Blue Crab Fishery Study (2005-2006)
- Supervised field sampling for wetland research projects in Louisiana and California for the University of New Orleans as a research assosciate. Primarily used Sedimentation-Erosion Tables to measure marsh vertical accretion and subsidence in coastal wetlands (2001)
- Supervised hatchery production of mysids, silversides, amphipods and other organisms for bioassay testing of oil platform samples and other samples from Louisiana (2002)
Education:
- M.S. Student - Univ of Southern Mississippi, Dept of Coastal Sciences, present
- B.S. Degree - Louisiana State University, 1995. Wildlife & Fisheries
Research Interests:
- early life history of three Menticirrhus (kingfish) species in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- taxonomy and early life history of marine fishes
- use of remote sensing and GIS applications to determine patterns of larval fish migration
- use of estuarine habitats by post-larval and juvenile fishes
