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Edward D. Houde

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
P.O.Box 38 Solomons, Maryland 20688-0038
(410) 326-7224
ehoude@umces.edu

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

• University of Massachusetts. Zoology B.A. 1963
• Cornell University. Fisheries Science. M.S. 1965
• Cornell University. Fisheries Science. Ph.D. 1968

APPOINTMENTS:

• Vice President for Education, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 2012-
• Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, 1980 present.
• Program Director, Biological Oceanography, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1983-1985.
• Professor, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, 1977 - 1980.
• Associate Professor, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, 1974 - 1977.
• Assistant Professor, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, 1971 - 1974.
• Research Scientist, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami, Miami, Florida, 1970 - 1971.
• Fishery Research Biologist, U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Miami, Florida, 1968 - 1970.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

• Houde, E. D. and R. C. Schekter. 1980. Feeding by marine fish larvae: developmental and functional responses. Env. Biol. Fish. 5(4):315 334.
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  Houde, E. D. and J. D. Alpern Lovdal. 1985. Patterns of variability in ichthyoplankton occurrence and abundance in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci. 20:79 103.
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  Houde, E. D., S. Almatar, J. C. Leak and C. E. Dowd. 1986. Ichthyoplankton abundance and diversity in the western Arabian Gulf. Kuwait Bull. Mar. Sci. 8:107 393. UMCEES Contrib.
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  Houde, E. D. 1987. Fish early life dynamics and recruitment variability. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 2:17 29.
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  Houde, E. D. 1989. Comparative growth, mortality and energetics of marine fish larvae: temperature and implied latitudinal effects. Fish. Bull., U. S. 87:471 495.
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  Monteleone, D. M. and E. D. Houde. 1990. Influence of maternal size on survival and growth of striped bass, Morone saxatilis, eggs and larvae. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 140:1 11.
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  Cowan, J. H., Jr. and E. D. Houde. 1992. Size-dependent predation on marine fish larvae by ctenophores, scyphomedusae and planktivorous fish. Fish. Oceanogr. 1:113-126.
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  Houde, E. D. and C. E. Zastrow. 1993. Ecosystem- and taxon-specific dynamics and energetics properties of larval fish assemblages. Bull. Mar. Sci. 53:290-335.
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  Houde, E. D. and E. S. Rutherford. 1993. Recent trends in estuarine fisheries: predictions of fish production and yield. Estuaries 16:161-176.
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  Houde, E. D. 1994. Differences between marine and freshwater fish larvae: implications for recruitment. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 51:91-97.
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  Secor, D. H., E. D. Houde and D. M. Monteleone. 1995. A mark-release experiment on larval striped bass Morone saxatilis in a Chesapeake Bay tributary. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 52:87-101.
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  Secor, D. H. and E. D. Houde. 1995. Temperature effects on the timing of striped bass egg production, larval viability, and recruitment potential in the Patuxent River (Chesapeake Bay). Estuaries 18:527-544.
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  Cowan, J. H., Jr., E. D. Houde and K. A. Rose. 1996. Size-dependent vulnerability of marine fish larvae to predation: an individual-based numerical experiment. ICES J. mar. Sci. 53:23-37.
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  Rutherford, E. S., E. D. Houde and R. M. Nyman. 1997. Relationship of larval-stage growth and mortality to recruitment of striped bass, Morone saxatilis, in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries 20:174-198.
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  Houde, E. D. 1997. Patterns and trends in larval-stage growth and mortality of teleost fish. J. Fish Biol. 51(Suppl. A):52-83.
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  Houde, E. D. 1997. Patterns and consequences of selective processes in teleost early life histories. pp. 173-196. In: Chambers, R. C. and E. A. Trippel (eds.). Early Life History and Recruitment of Fish Populations. Chapman and Hall, London.
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  Wang, S.-B., J. H. Cowan, Jr., K. A. Rose and E. D. Houde. 1997. Individual-based modelling of recruitment variability and biomass production of bay anchovy in mid-Chesapeake Bay. J. Fish Biol. 51(Suppl. A):101-120.
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  Rilling, G. C. and E. D. Houde. 1999. Regional and temporal variability in growth and mortality of bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli) larvae in the Chesapeake Bay. Fish. Bull.,U.S. 97:555-569.
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  Rose, K. A., J. H. Cowan, Jr., M. E. Clark, E. D. Houde and S.-B. Wang. 1999. An individual-based model of bay anchovy population dynamics in the mesohaline region of Chesapeake Bay. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 185:113-132.
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  Keister, J. E., E. D. Houde and D. L. Breitburg. 2000. Effects of bottom-layer hypoxia on abundances and depth distributions of organisms in Patuxent River, Chesapeake Bay. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 205:43-59.
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  Houde, E. D. (committee chair) and S. J. Roberts (study director). 2001. Marine Protected Areas: Tools for Sustaining Ocean Ecosystems. National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
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  Houde, E. D. 2002. Chapter 3. Mortality. In: Fuiman, L. A. and R. G. Werner (eds.), Fishery science: The unique contribution of early life stages. Blackwell Scientific Publishing, Oxford.
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  North, E. W. and E. D. Houde. 2003. Linking ETM physics, zooplankton prey, and fish early-life histories to striped bass Morone saxatilis and white perch M. americana recruitment. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 260:219-236.
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  Jung, S. and E. D. Houde. 2003. Spatial and temporal variabilities of pelagic fish community structure and distribution in Chesapeake Bay, USA. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 58:335-351.
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  Houde, E. D. and S. J. Roberts. 2004. Marine protected areas: an old tool for new circumstances. American Fisheries Society Symposium 42:23-35.
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  Jung, S. and E. D. Houde. 2004. Production of bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli in Chesapeake Bay: application of size-based theory. Marine Ecology Progress Series 281:217-232.
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  Pikitch, E. K., C. Santora, E. A. Babcock, A. Bakun, R. Bonfil, D. O. Covover, P. Dayton, P. Doukakis, D. Fluharty, B. Heneman, E. D. Houde, J. Link, P. A. Livingston, M. Mangel, M. K. McAllister, J. Pope and K. J. Sainsbury. 2004. Ecosystem-based fishery management. Science 305:346-347.
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  Houde, E. D., J. Bichy and S. Jung. 2005. Effects of Hurricane Isabel on fish populations and communities in Chesapeake Bay, pp. 193-199, In: Sellner, K.G. (ed), Hurricane Isabel in perspective. Chesapeake Research Consortium, CRC Publication 05-160. Edgewater, MD.
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  North, E. W. and E. D. Houde. 2006. Retention mechanisms of white perch (Morone americana) and striped bass (Morone saxatilis) early-life stages in an estuarine turbidity maximum: an integrative fixed-station and mapping approach. Fish. Oceanogr. 15:429-450.
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  CBFEAP. 2006. Fisheries ecosystem planning for Chesapeake Bay. (by Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Ecosystem Advisory Panel; E. D. Houde and M. McBride, panel co-chairs and editors). American Fisheries Society, Trends in Fisheries Science and Management 3, Bethesda, MD. (E. Houde is primary author of Ch. 1, “A Fisheries Ecosystem Plan for the Chesapeake Bay”; E. Houde is co-author of Ch. 3, Element 3, “Habitat, habitat requirements, and habitat management”; E. Houde is co-author of Ch. 3, Element 6, “Indicators of ecosystem health and biological reference points”).
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  Houde, E. D. 2008. Emerging from Hjort’s shadow. J. Northw. Atl. Fish . Sci. 41:53-70.
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  Houde, E. D. 2009. Recruitment variability. pp. 91-171. In: Jakobsen, T., M. J. Fogarty, B. A. Megrey and E. Moksness. Fish reproductive biology. Implications for assessment and management. Wiley-Blackwell.
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  Martino, E. J. and E. D. Houde. 2010. Recruitment of striped bass in Chesapeake Bay: spatial and temporal environmental variability and availability of zooplankton prey. Marine Ecology Progress Series 409:213-228.
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  Campfield, P. A. and E. D. Houde 2011. Ichthyoplankton community structure and trophodynamics in an estuarine transition zone. Fishery Bulletin, U.S. 109:1-19.
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  Houde, E. D. 2011. Managing the Chesapeake’s fisheries: a work in progress. Chesapeake Perspectives. Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, MD. 121 pp.
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  Annis, E. R., E. D. Houde, L. W. Harding, Jr., M. Wilberg and M. Mallonee. 2011. Linking primary production to menhaden growth in Chesapeake Bay. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 437:253–267.
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  Martino, E. J. and E. D. Houde. 2012. Density-dependent regulation of year-class strength in age-0 juvenile striped bass (Morone saxatilis). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69:430-446.
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  Pikitch, E. K. and 12 co-authors (inclulding E. D. Houde). 2012. Little fish, big impact: managing a crucial link in ocean food webs. Lenfest Ocean Program. Washington, D.C. 108 pp.
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  Pikitch, E. K. and 19 co-authors (including E. D. Houde). 2012. The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems. Fish and Fisheries, 5 Sept 2012, DOI: 10.1111/faf.12004
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  Lozano, C., E. D. Houde, R. L. Wingate and D. H. Secor. 2012. Age, growth, and hatch dates of ingressing larvae and surviving juveniles of Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, in Chesapeake Bay, USA. Journal of Fish Biology 81:1665-1685.
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  Lozano, C. and E. D. Houde. 2013. Factors contributing to variability in larval ingress of Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 118, 1-10.
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  Shideler, A. C. and E. D. Houde. In press. Spatio-temporal variability in larval-stage feeding and nutritional sources as factors influencing striped bass (Morone saxatilis) recruitment success. Estuaries and Coasts.
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  Houde, E. D., A. Kenny and S. Zhou. in press. Chapter 14. High impact regions: coasts and estuaries. In: Fogarty, M. J. and J. J. McCarthy (eds.). Marine ecosystem-based management. The Sea, Volume 16. Harvard University Press.

AWARDS AND SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:

• Beverton Award for lifetime achievement in fisheries science, Fisheries Society of the British Isles, 1997
• Sette Award for lifetime achievement in marine fisheries science, Am. Fish. Soc., 1997
• Ahlstrom Award for lifetime achievement in biology of early life stages of fishes, Am. Fish. Soc., 2011.
• Fellow, Am. Assoc. Advancement Science (AAAS), 2001.
• Member, Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council, 1998-2000.
• Member, Scientific and Statistical Committee, Mid-Atlantic Regional Fisheries Management Council, 1982-
• Co-Chair, Fisheries Ecosystem Planning Team, NOAA Ches. Bay Office and Ches. Bay Program, 2002-2006.
• Committee Chair, Marine Protected Areas, National Research Council, 1998-2001.
• Maryland Dept. Natural Resources Fisheries Task Force, 2007 – 2009.
• Associate Editor, Estuaries and Coasts, 2008 - 2011.
• Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Mgt. Planning Team, 2008 – 2011.
• U.S. Co-Delegate to ICES (Int. Council Explor. Sea), 2006 - 2013
• Steering Committee, CAMEO, NOAA and NSF, 2008 – 2011.
• Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force, 2009 – 2012.
• Science and Engineering Board, Louisiana Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, 2010-2012.
• Independent Science Board, Delta Stewardship Council, State of California, 2010- 2013.

Contact Dr. Houde:

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
P.O.Box 38 Solomons, Maryland, 20688
Phone: 410-326-7224 Fax: 410-326-7210

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