Harriet M. Perry

Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564

PO Box 7000
Ocean Springs, MS 39566-7000

Phone: (228) 872-4218

Fax: (228) 872-4204

harriet.perry@usm.edu

 

Position

• Director - Center for Fisheries Research and Development
• Assistant Professor - Department of Coastal Sciences, Fisheries Biology

Education

• M.S. Degree - The University of Southern Mississippi, 1971. Zoology.
• B.S. Degree - Florida State University, 1965. Biology.

Research Interests

• Invasive species
• Fishery development
• Culture of brachyuran crabs
• Population dynamics of estuarine and marine invertebrates
• Recruitment of brachyuran crabs and penaeid shrimp

Selected Publications

• Johnson, D.R., H.M. Perry and R. Darden. 2005. Wind forced blue crab larval dispersion and recruitment. (In revision).
• Johnson, D.R., H. M. Perry, and W. Graham. 2005. Using nowcast model currents to explore transport of non-indigenous jellyfish into the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series. (In press).
• Shervette, V.R., H.M. Perry, C. Rakocinski, and P.M. Biesiot. 2004. Factors influencing shelter occupation of stone crab Menippe adina juveniles in Mississippi Sound. Journal of Crustacean Biology 24(4):652-665.
• Perry, H. as chairman of Gulf Regional Derelict Trap Taskforce. 2003. Guidelines for developing derelict trap removal programs in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (distributed for public comment).
• Graham, W., D. Martin, D. Felder, V. Asper, and H. Perry. 2003. Ecological and economic implications of a tropical jellyfish invader in the Gulf of Mexico. Biological Invasions 5:53-69.
• Jacobs, J.R., P.M. Biesiot, H.M. Perry, and C. Trigg. 2003. Biochemical composition of embryonic blue crabs Callinectes sapidus from the Gulf of Mexico. Bull. Mar. Sci. 72(2):311-324.
• Perry, H.M., D.R. Johnson, K. M. Larsen, C.B. Trigg, and F. Vukovich. 2003. Blue crab larval dispersion and retention in the Mississippi Bight: testing the hypothesis. Bull. Mar. Sci. 72(2):331-346.
• Rakocinski, C.F., H.M. Perry, M.A. Abney, and K.M. Larsen. 2003. Soft-sediment recruitment dynamics of early blue crab stages in Mississippi Sound. Bull. Mar. Sci. 72(2):393-408.
• Perry, H.M., D.R. Johnson, K. M. Larsen, C.B. Trigg, and F. Vukovich. 2002. Blue crab larval dispersion and retention in the Mississippi Bight: testing the hypothesis. Bull. Mar. Sci. (in press).
• Rakocinski, C.F., H.M. Perry, M.A. Abney, and K.M. Larsen. 2002. Soft-sediment recruitment dynamics of early blue crab stages in Mississippi Sound. Bull. Mar. Sci. (in press).
• Perry, H.M., K. Larsen, J. Warren and C. Trigg. 2001. Seasonal colonization of artificial low profile reefs in Mississippi coastal waters: invertebrates. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Gulf and Carribean Fisheries Institute, pp. 498-511.
• Perry, H.M., C. Trigg, K. Larsen, J. Freeman, M. Erickson, and R. Henry. 2001. Effects of calcium concentration in seawater on exoskeletal calcification in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. Aquaculture 198:197-208.
• Johnson, D.R., H.M. Perry, and W.D. Burke. 2001. Developing jellyfish strategy hypotheses using circulation models. Hydrobiologia 451:213-221.
• Perry, H.M. and D.R. Johnson. 1999. Physical oceanography and integration of biological data. Proceedings: Seventeenth Annual Meeting Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, OCS Study MMS 99-0042.
• Biesiot, P.M, S. Y. Wang, H.M. Perry, and C. Trigg. 1999. Organic reserves in the midgut gland and fat body of the giant deep-sea isopod Bathynomus giganteus. J. Crust. Biol. 19(3):450-458.
• Johnson, D.R. and H.M. Perry. 1999. Blue crab larval dispersion and retention in the Mississippi Bight. Bull. Mar. Sci. 65(1):129-149.
• Shervette, V., H.M. Perry, P. Biesiot, K. Larsen and J. Warren. 1999. Build it, but will they come? Preliminary findings of refuge limitation bottlenecking in juvenile Menippe adina in the Mississippi Sound. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Gulf and Carribean Fisheries Institute, pp. 531-540.
• Perry, H., J. Warren, C. Trigg, and T. VanDevender. 1998. The blue crab fishery in Mississippi. J. Shellfish. Res. 17(2):425-433.
• Perry, H.M., D. Johnson, C. Trigg, C. Eleuterius, and J. Warren. 1998. Application of remote sensing to settlement of Callinectes sapidus megalopae in the Mississippi Bight. J. Shellfish Res. 17(5):1439-1442.