R. Christopher Chambers

Collaborator
(Ecology of fish early life stages)


Education and Professional Experience

Ph.D., Duke University, Department of Zoology (minor: mathematics)

1996 - present Research Fishery Biologist, Group Leader, NOAA Fisheries
1992 - 96 Research Scientist, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, Canada
1984 - 92 Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate, Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada

Phone: 732 872-3075
Fax: 732 872-3088
Email: chris.chambers@noaa.gov

Postal address:

NOAA-Fisheries
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
74 Magruder Road
Highlands, NJ
07732
USA



Representative Publications

Chambers, R. C., and W. C. Leggett. 1987. Size and age at metamorphosis in marine fishes: an analysis of laboratory-reared winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) with a review of variation in other species. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 44:1936-1947.
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Chambers, R. C., and W. C. Leggett. 1989. Event analysis applied to timing in marine fish ontogeny. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 46:1633-1641.
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Chambers, R. C., and W. C. Leggett. 1992. Variation in age and size at metamorphosis in flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes): an analysis at the individual, population, and species levels. J. Sea Research 29:7-24.
Chambers, R. C. 1993. Phenotypic variability in fish populations and its representation in individual-based models. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 122:404-414.
Chambers, R. C., and T. J. Miller. 1995. Evaluating fish growth by means of otolith increment analysis: special properties of individual-level longitudinal data. pp. 155-175, In, Recent developments in fish otolith research. D. H. Secor, J. M. Dean, and S. E. Campana, editors. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC 764 p.
Chambers, R. C., K. A. Rose, and J. A. Tyler. 1995. Recruitment and recruitment processes of young-of-the-year winter flounder, Pleuronectes americanus, at different latitudes: implications of an individual-based simulation model. Neth. J. Sea Res. 34:19-43.
Chambers, R. C., and K. G. Waiwood. 1996. Maternal and seasonal differences in egg sizes and spawning characteristics of captive Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53:1986-2003.
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Chambers, R. C. 1997. Environmental influences on egg and propagule sizes in marine fishes. pp. 63-102, In, Early Life History and Recruitment in Fish Populations. R. C. Chambers & E. A. Trippel, ed. Chapman & Hall, New York, 596 p.
Chambers, R. C., D. A. Witting, and S. J. Lewis. 2001. Detecting critical periods in larval flatfish populations. Journal of Sea Research 45:231-242
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Bosley, K. L., D. A. Witting, R. C. Chambers, and S. C. Wainright. 2002. Estimating turnover rates of carbon and nitrogen in juvenile winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus with stable-isotopes. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 236:233-240
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Witting, D. A., R. C. Chambers, K. L. Bosley, and S. C. Wainright. 2004. Experimental evaluation of ontogenetic diet transitions in summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, using stable isotopes as diet tracers. Cnd J Fish Aquat Sc. 61(11):2069-2084
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Daniels, R.A., K.E. Limburg, R.E. Schmidt, D.L. Strayer, & R.C. Chambers. 2005. Changes in fish assemblages in the tidal Hudson River, New York. American Fisheries Society Symposium 45: 471-503.
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Friedland, KD, Ama-Abasi, D, Manning, M, Clarke, L, Kligys, G, Chambers, RC, 2005. Automated egg counting and sizing from scanned images: Rapid sample processing and large data volumes for fecundity estimates. J of Sea Res 54(4):307-316
Wirgin, I.I., & R.C. Chambers. 2006. Atlantic tomcod Microgadus tomcod: A model of responses of Hudson River fish to toxicants. American Fisheries Society Symposium 51: 
Roy, NK, Courtenay, SC, Chambers, RC, Wirgin, II, 2006. Characterization of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor and a comparison of its expression in atlantic tomcod from resistant and sensitive populations. Env Toxicol and Chem 25(2):560-571
Green, B.S. & R.C. Chambers. 2007. Maternal effects vary between source populations in the Atlantic tomcod Microgadus tomcod. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 344:185-195.
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