People
W. Huntting Howell
Ph.D. University of Rhode Island 1980
- Professor of Zoology
- Director, Coastal Marine Laboratory
Research Areas
Open ocean aquaculture, flounder stock enhancement, steelhead trout aquaculture, fisheries acoustics
Research Emphasis
My research is in the area of fisheries science and aquaculture. Current studies of my graduate students and myself include an evaluation of flounder stock enhancement, the culture of steelhead trout, the fine-scale distribution of cod in their spawning habitat, fisheries acoustics, winter flounder ecology and steelhead trout physiology.
Current Studies
- Assessing the Feasibility of Winter Flounder Stock Enhancement (Funded by NOAA/NMFS Sea Grant)
- Synoptic acoustic and trawl surveys to characterize biomass and distribution of the spring spawning aggregations of Atlantic cod in Ipswich Bay (Funded by Northeast Consortium; PhD Research of Chris Gurshin)
- Evaluating the ontogenetic behavioral benefits of acclimation cage conditioning for flatfish stock enhancement. (Funded by NOAA/NMFS; PhD Research of Michelle Walsh)
- Production methods and systems for steelhead trout in New England; (PhD Research of Michael Chambers)
- Offshore Production of Cod, Haddock and Halibut (Funded by NOAA; PhD Research of Michael Chambers)
- Research tools to measure net deformation and distribution of fish in commercial scale aquaculture facilities (Funded by SINTEF (Trondheim, Norway)
- Submerged culture of steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) for open ocean aquaculture in the northeastern United States (Funded by NOAA/NMFS Saltonstall-Kennedy)
Courses Taught
Vertebrate Morphology; Ichthyology; Fisheries Biology