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Funded at $66,338 for 2/1/2010 – 1/31/2012

North Carolina Sea Grant: Effects of habitat alteration and biotic interactions on survival of juvenile

estuarine fish

Buckel, J.A., Hightower, J.E., Letcher, B.H., and Scharf, F.S.

Funded at $120,000 for 2/1/2010 – 1/31/2012

North Carolina Sea Grant: Laboratory validation of field-based estimates of red drum foraging rates

Scharf, F.S. (sole PI)

Funded at $1,725 for 8/1/09 – 7/31/10

North Carolina Sea Grant: Impact of predation by red drum on juvenile blue crabs: estimation of

predator densities, juvenile blue crab loss rates, and fractional loss due to predation

Scharf, F.S. (sole PI)

$54,488 for 8/1/09 – 7/31/11 – declined

North Carolina Sea Grant: Updating size and age at maturity schedules for southern flounder

through examination of reproductive tissue and otolith microchemistry

Scharf, F.S. and Taylor, J.C.

$94,441 for 8/1/09 – 7/31/11 – funded at $47,221

North Carolina Sea Grant: Does density-dependent mortality in a juvenile estuarine fish limit

recruitment?

Buckel, J.A., Scharf, F.S. (co-PI), Hightower, J.E., and Pollock, K.H.

Funded at $116,849 for 2/1/2008 – 1/31/2010

NOAA Cooperative Research Program: Batch fecundity and spawning frequency as a function of

size, age, and season for black sea bass and red porgy in the US South Atlantic

Scharf, F.S. (co-lead PI w/Baker), Baker, M.S., Wyanski, D., Burgess, T., and Shertzer, K.

Funded at $222,716 for 8/1/07 – 7/31/09

North Carolina Sea Grant: Predation by red drum on juvenile blue crabs: estimation of daily ration

and seasonal and ontogenetic variation in the contribution of blue crab to the diet

Scharf, F.S. (sole PI)

Funded at $46,041 for 8/1/07 – 7/31/09