Select Pubs

  • Essington, T.E. 2003. Development and sensitivity analysis of bioenergetics models for skipjack tuna and albacore: a comparison on alternative life histories. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132: 759-770.
  • Essington, T.E. D.E. Schindler, R.J. Olson, J.F. Kitchell, C. Boggs, and R. Hilborn. 2002. Ecological consequences of alternative fisheries: Examples from yellowfin tuna (hunnus albacares) in the Pacific Ocean. Ecol. Appl. 12: 724-734.
  • Essington T.E., J.F. Kitchell and C.Walters. 2001 The VonBertalanffy growth function, bioenergetics, and the consumption rates of fish. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58: 2129-2138.

Prospective graduate students can learn more about availability and policies on my Prospective Graduate Students webpage.

My research focuses on food web interactions involving fish in marine, estuarine, and freshwater habitats. My present research includes analysis of tropical tunas, sharks, and fisheries in the central Pacific, analysis of cod and clupeid dynamics in the Baltic Sea, and identifying trophically mediated trade-offs between fisheries. I am developing research programs that aim to evaluate shifting food web structures in marine protected areas, and to explore historical shifts in food web structure in Puget Sound. My lab group is also interested in evaluating the ecological roles of cephalopods in pelagic and neritic food webs and the direct and indirect effects of commerical fisheries on them.

Because ecological phenomona are highly scale dependent and because large-scale experimentation is logistically impossible, tackling these questions requires the use of novel analytical tools. My approach is to combine empirical data collection with quantitative modeling and likelihood-based statistical analyses to choose among alternative hypotheses.