Dr. John Dindo
Senior Marine Scientist and Assistant Director Dauphin Island Sea Lab;
Assistant Professor Department of Marine Sciences
University of South Alabama
Ph.D., 1990, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Research Description:
My research interest centers around vertebrate ecology of the coastal environment. I have worked extensively on larger wading birds (herons and egrets) with respect to population dynamics and the interaction of large and small scale weather events on mortality. One of the areas I am looking at now is the fate of nutrients generated from the presence of the large numbers of birds on the vegetation they nest in.

Another research area that I have maintained an interest and research efforts in is fish population on hard bottom communities, and the comparison of these to artificial reef development. Artificial reef development is used as a tool of recruitment but more controversial is if these sites have active spawning on them by reef dwellers.

Representative Publications:
Schroder, W. W., M. R. Dardeau and J. J. Dindo. 1988. Geological and biological aspects of hard bottom environments on the L'MAFLA Shelf, northern Gulf of Mexico. Transactions Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 38:535-541.

Dindo, J. J. and K. R. Marion. 1988. Evolution of colonial nesting habitats, Cat Island, Little Dauphin Island and surrounding areas. In: Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Mobile Bay Estuary, T. Lowery (Ed.). 46 p.

Dindo, J. J. and K. R. Marion. 1989. The 1989 breeding season on the Alabama gulf coast. Alabama Birdlife 36(2):7-9.