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Larry Crowder is the Science Director at the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS). He is also a Professor of Biology at Hopkins Marine Station and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, both part of Stanford University. Previously, he was the Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology at Duke University.
Dr. Crowder's research centers on predation and food web interactions, mechanisms underlying recruitment variation in fishes, population and food web modeling in conservation biology, and interdisciplinary approaches to marine conservation. He has studied food web processes in both freshwater and marine ecosystems, and has used observational, experimental, and modeling approaches to understand these interactions in an effort to improve management. He was Principal Investigator for a number of large interdisciplinary research projects including the South Atlantic Bight Recruitment Experiment (SABRE), OBIS SEAMAP (Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Animal Populations), and Project GLOBAL (Global Bycatch Assessment of Long-Lived Species). He has also directed and participated in a number of research, analysis, and synthesis groups at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and for the National Research Council’s Ocean Studies Board.
His recent research has focused on marine conservation, including research on bycatch, spatial ecological analysis, nutrients and low oxygen, sustainable seafood, ecosystem-based management, marine spatial planning, and governance. He is a AAAS Fellow and was awarded Duke University’s Scholar/Teacher of the year award in 2008-2009.
Publications
Crowder, L.B. and S.S. Heppell. The decline and rise of a sea turtle: How Kemp's ridleys are recovering in the Gulf of Mexico. Solutions (2011) (2:67-73).
Smith, M.D., C.A. Roheim, L.B. Crowder, B.S. Halpern, M. Turnipseed, J.L. Anderson, F. Asche, L. Bourillon, A.G. Guttormsen, A. Khan, L.A. Liguori, A. McNevin, M.I. O'Connor, D. Squires, P. Tyedmers, C. Brownstein, K. Carden, D.H. Klinger, R. Sagarin, and K.A. Selkoe. Sustainability and global seafood. Science (2010) (327: 784-786).
Bolten, A.B., L.B. Crowder, M.G. Dodd, S.L. MacPherson, J.A. Musick, B.A. Schroeder, B.E. Witherington, K.J. Long, and M.L. Snover. Quantifying multiple threats to endangered species: An example from loggerhead sea turtles. Frontiers of Ecology and Environment (2010) (9:295-301) (dol: 10.1890/090126).
Wallace, B.P., R.L. Lewison, S.L. McDonald, R.K. McDonald, C.Y. Kot, S. Kelez, R.K. Bjorkland, E.M. Finkbeiner, S.Helmbrecht, and L.B. Crowder. Global patterns of marine turtle bycatch. Conservation Letters (2010) (3:131-142).
Turnipseed, M., L.B. Crowder, R.D. Sagarin, and S.E. Roady. Legal bedrock for rebuilding America's ocean ecosystems. Science (2009) (324: 183-184).
Sagarin, R.D., and L.B. Crowder., Breaking through the crisis in marine conservation and management: Insights from the philosophies of Ed Ricketts., Conservation Biol (2009) (23:24-30.).
Avissar, N., K.M. Hart, L. B. Crowder, J. Gannon and J.C. Marsh., At loggerheads: Gear damage in the blue crab fishery attributed to loggerhead sea turtles., North American Journal of Fisheries Management (2009).
Moore, J.E., B.P. Wallace, R.L. Lewison, R. Žydelis, T.M. Cox and L.B. Crowder., A review of marine mammal, sea turtle and seabird bycatch in USA fisheries and the role of policy in shaping management., Marine Policy (2009).
Turnipseed, M., L.B. Crowder, R.D. Sagarin, and S.E. Roady., Legal bedrock for rebuilding America’s ocean ecosystems, Science (2009)
Crowder, L.B. and E.A. Norse., Essential ecological insights for marine ecosystem-based management., Marine Policy, vol. 32 (2008), pp. 772-778.
Crowder, L.B., E.L Hazen, N. Avissar, R, Bjorkland, K. Latanich, M.B. Ogburn., The impacts of fisheries on marine ecosystems and the transition to ecosystem-based management., . Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, vol. 39 (2008), pp. 259-278.
