- Life history of fishes
- Recruitment of estuarine fishes
- Blue crabs within Barnegat Bay: spawning biology, ecological assessment, and effects of urbanization
- Ecology of Urban Estuaries
- Evaluation of impacts on fish habitat and their restoration
- Habitat dynamics of juvenile and adult fishes
- Development of in-situ techniques
- Fisheries/population dynamics of economically important species
- Abundance, distribution, and habitat selection of juvenile horseshoe crabs
- Responses of marsh fishes to petroleum pollution
- Saltmarsh food webs