Timothy Mulligan

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Professor


Education

  • B.S in Biological Sciences, 1977, University of Vermont
  • M.S. in Biological Sciences, 1981, University of Central Florida
  • Ph.D. in Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences, 1987, University of Maryland


Courses currently taught at HSU

  • FISH 435 Ecology of Marine Fishes
  • FISH 335 US and World Fisheries
  • FISH 375 Mariculture
  • FISH 540 Early Life History of Fishes


Current Research Interests

  • Fish-Habitat interactions (i.e. eelgrass and saltmarsh communities)
  • Ecology of estuarine and marine fishes
  • Early life history of fishes
  • Delineation of fish stocks
  • Mariculture


Recent HSU MS Theses

  • Cox, Karah.  2007.  Abundance and Distribution Patterns of Intertidal Fishes at Three Sites Within Redwood National and State Parks, 2004-2005.

  • Studebaker, Rebecca.  2006.  Use of Rocky Intertidal Areas by Juvenile Sebastes in Northern California.


Selected Publications

  • Studebaker, R.S. and T.J. Mulligan.  2008.  Temporal variation and feeding ecology of juvenile rockfish (Sebastes) in rocky intertidal tidepools of northern California, with emphasis on Sebastes melanops Girard.  J. Fish. Biol. 72: 1393-1405.

  • Gleason, E. and T.J. Mulligan.  2007.  Fish distribution in Humboldt Bay, California:  A GIS perspective by habitat type.  In: S.C. Schlosser and R. Rasmussen (editors), Current Perspectives on the Physical and Biological Processes of Humboldt Bay, California.  pp. 105-165, California Sea Grant.

  • Quinones, R. and T.J. Mulligan. 2005. Habitat utilization by juvenile salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the Smith River Estuary, California.  Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 134: 1147-1158.

  • Mulligan T. J. and H. L.Mulligan. (In Review). Fishes associated with drift macroalgae. I. Exposed surf zones of northern California. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci.

  • Hunt, S.L., T.J. Mulligan, and K. Komori. 1999. Oceanic feeding habits of chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, off northern California.  Fish. Bull.  97:717-721.

  • Gray A., T. J. Mulligan, and R. W. Hannah. (1996). Food habits, occurrence, and population structure of the bat ray, Myliobatis californica, in Humboldt Bay, California. Environ Biol Fish.

  • McGauley K., and T. J. Mulligan. 1995. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of mitochondrial rRNA genes from yellowtail rockfish. J Fish Biol. 47:744-747.

  • Mulligan T. J., R. W. Chapman and B. Brown. 1992. Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma, from the eastern Bering Sea and Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska. Can J Fish Aquat Sci. 49:319-326.

  • Mulligan T. J. and R. W. Chapman. 1989. Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Chesapeake Bay white perch, Morone americana. Copeia. 3:679-688.

Contact:  Timothy.Mulligan@humboldt.edu