DR. JOE'S HOME PAGE

Welcome to Dr. Joseph J. Luczkovich's Home Page

at East Carolina University

Department of Biology
Institute for Coastal Science and Policy
Contact info: Flanagan Building 383 (office) and 382 (lab)
252-328-9402 (office), 252-328-9405 (Lab Number), 252-328-9409 (fax)
luczkovichj@ecu.edu
http://personal.ecu.edu/luczkovichj

Above photos (l to r): Dr. Joe Luczkovich in the Dominican Republic, at the University of Belize's Institute of Marine Studies, Calabash Caye, Belize; with a striped bass on Ocracoke Island, NC and with Nick the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" Pirate and director Randy Olson after the film "Flock of Dodos" premiered at ECU. Dr. Joe studies fishes in the estuaries, mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs. Dr. Joe is an Associate Scientist at the Integrated Institute for Coastal Science and Policy and an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He is a marine ecologist specializing in the ecology of coastal fishes and fisheries, seagrass fishes and sound production by fishes. He is also Past - President of the Tidewater Chapter of the American Fisheries Society .

About me - phone numbers, fax numbers, office locations, curriculum vitae etc.
Publications - in Adobe Acrobat files
Dr. Joe's Schedule - updated every once and a while, when I feel like it...
Send an email to Dr. Joe - Dr. Joe's email is luczkovichj@ecu.edu or luczkovichj@gmail.com

Courses taught by Dr. Joe:

BIOL 1060 - Environmental Biology
BIOL 3660 - Marine Biology
BIOL 4500 - Marine Field Ecology in Belize
BIOL 5550 - Ichthyology
BIOL 7010 - Estuarine Ecology
COAS 2150 - Boating Skills and Seamanship
NCST 2000 - Introduction to North Carolina Studies

Dr. Joe's Research Projects:

The links at this site concern Dr. Joe's research on the ecology of marine fishes and their habitats.

Fish Acoustics:
The Sciaenid Acoustics Research Team at ECU consists of Dr. Joe Luczkovich, Physics professor Mark Sprague, Biology Professor Hal J. Daniel, and graduate students. This web page describes how sounds produced by fishes are being used to study the behavior and ecology of fishes in NC
- Dr. Joe's Fish Sound Archive - a list of species recorded with pictures, sound clips, and spectrograms
- NPR Report - Listen to an Interview with Dr. Joe Luczkovich and Dr. Mark Sprague (ECU Physics Department) on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" (in MP3 format).
- Earth and Sky - Listen to a report on about our research on "Earth and Sky" radio program (MP3 Format)

Dr. Joe's fish sounds podcast - a podcast by Dr. Joe explaining the fish sounds you can hear in NC and elsewhere (MP3 format, 9.9 mb, ~ 10 min).

Fish in Food Web Visualizations: This page shows some of the food webs that I have been analyzing using 3-dimensional MAGE visualization software, along with Jeff Johnson (ECU - IISCP/Sociology), Dave Richardson (Duke University - Biochemistry) and Steve Borgatti (Boston College - Organizational Studies). The food webs were analyzed using published data from aquatic (seagrass, rocky intertidal, and estuarine) and terrestrial (rainforest, desert, and the food web of Norway) ecosystems, and can be viewed here using your browser.

Presentation: "Dynamic Visualization of Estuarine Food Webs" at the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society meeting 28 Mar 2004

"Studies of Socio-Natural Co-Evolution from Different Parts of the World" sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and the Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Academgorodok, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia, 2-5 Sep 2002.
- My Presentation.
- Photos of the workshop .
Seagrass Food Web Data for the paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology : Luczkovich, J. J., S. P. Borgatti, J. C. Johnson, and M . G. Everett (in press). "Defining and measuring trophic role similarity in food webs using regular equivalence". J. Theor. Biol.
Seagrass Food Web Data for the paper in Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science : Network Analysis of the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge Seagrass Ecosystem . Data are available here via FTP for our network analysis of this ecosystem, ASCII text files arranged in SCOR data format (from a paper by Dan Baird, Bob Christian, and myself published in the journal Estuarine Coast and Shelf Science).
Pinfish nutrition and ecology : The pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides , is one of the most important fishes in the seagrass ecosystems of the Southeastern USA. At this website, one may find summaries of the research done by Dr. Joe and his students on what pinfish eat and how they obtain energy from seagrass.

Graduate Students working in Dr. Joe's Lab

Rebecca Deehr - Coastal Resources Management Doctoral Program (Food web networks for multispecies management in Belize and NC)
Greg Meyer - Coastal Resources Management Doctoral Program (Impacts of land use change on estuarine organisms)
Mark Keusenkothen - Coastal Resources Management Doctoral Program (Fish bioacoustics, mid-frequency sonar impacts on fishes)
Kevin Hart - M.S. Biology candidate (Fish abudnace and diets in Core Sound, NC)
Cecilia Krahforst - M.S. Biology candidate (Fish acoustics and hypoxia in NC estuaries)

Former Graduate students

Deirdre Barry – M.S. Biology candidate, Using visual censuses to estimate biomass of marine fishes for an Ecopath model of coral reef, seagrass, and mangrove habitats surrounding Calabash Caye, Belize. (Defended July 2006)
Gary S. Burr. M.S. Biology. Cellulose metabolisms by the intestinal microbiota of the pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides. (Defended 1999)
David D. Chagaris - M.S. Biology candidate. Diet analysis of selected fishes in a Belizian Coral Reef Ecosystem for development of a food web model. (Defended May 2006)
David R. Gloeckner. M. S. Biology. Tri-Level trophic Interactions in a North Carolina Seagrass Bed. (Defended 2003)
R. Christopher Pullinger. M. S. Biology. Acoustic characterization of soniferous fishes in the family Sciaenidae of North Carolina Estuaries. (Defended 2000)
Jason Rueter. M. S. Biology. A Multivariate Approach to Establish Habitat Classifications in a Coral Reef Ecosystem Using Landsat 7 Imagery at Turneffe Atoll, Belize, Central America. (Defended 2004)
Christine Voss. M.S. Biology Effects of various thicknesses of thin-layer dredged material applied to a Juncus roemerianus-dominated brackish marsh.. (Defended July 2005)
Garcy P. Ward. M.S. Biology. The effects of selective predation on fish community structure in seagrass meadows in Apalachee Bay, Florida. (Defended 1998)

Dr. Joe's ECU Outreach Network Participation:

Hurricane Floyd Impacts on Water Quality and Fisheries: This is a web page prepared for the ECU Outreach Network (ECU-ON) that helps explain the impacts of Hurricane Floyd and the aftermath of flooding on Pamlico River and Pamlico Sound and its ecosystem and fisheries.

National Science Foundation Biocomplexity Incubation Workshop

Networking the "Invisible Colleges": Application of Network Theory to Biocomplexity. A workshop to be held at Duke University Marine Laboratory 21- 24 March 2001.
Read a review of the workshop in the 30 August 2001 issue of Science : "Networking Tips for Social Scientists and Ecologists", S. M. McMahon, K. H. Miller, and J. Drake. PDF File .