Email
jperry@vims.edu
Office
DCOP Facility 106
Phone
(804) 684-7388

James E. Perry, III

Research Associate Professor of Marine Science
B.S., Murray State University
Ph.D., College of William & Mary

Research Interests
Current Projects
Selected Publications
Current Students
Past Students
Courses Taught / Teaching
Faculty/Student Awards
Professional Memberships
Collaborative / Interdisciplinary Efforts

Research Interests

Dr. Perry is the director of the Coastal Ecosystem and Remote Sensing Program. His primary research interests involve monitoring stress and long-term changes in vascular plant communities of tidal and non-tidal wetlands, and the relationship of those changes to changes in environmental parameters within watersheds. He is also involved in two international projects designed to examine the role of environmental conservation and sustainable development in several developing countries. The goals of the latter projects are to provide recommendations and guidelines for the establishment of environmental and development regulations and policies to the nations involved. The results of each are to be presented at pre-planned international symposia to be held in the sponsoring nations.

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Current Projects

Establishing methods for determining status of watersheds and the success of created and restored habitats;
determination of the status of existing natural resource impacts from recreational use of Cape Hatteras National Seashore: literature review and ecological assessment;
vegetation community dynamics in a reclaimed mined watershed;
use of remote sensed data in determining vegetation dynamics and/or ecosystem stress (including role of invasive plant species on native habitat); and
life history, distribution and abundance, and threats to rare and/or endangered vascular plants.

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Selected Publications

Perry, J.E., T. Barnard, J. Bradshaw, C. Friedrichs, K. Havens, P. Mason, W. Priest, and G. Silberhorn. 2001. Created tidal wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Coastal Research SI 27: 170-192.

Friedrichs, C.T. and J.E. Perry. (2001). Tidal salt marsh morphodynamics. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 27: 7-38.

Gottgens, J.F., J.E. Perry, R.H. Fortney, J.E. Meyers, Michael Benedict, and B.E. Rood. (2001). The Parana-Paraguay Hidrovia: protecting the Pantanal with lessons from the past. BioScience 51(4):559-570.

Spencer, D., J.E. Perry and G. Silberhorn. 2001. Clear-cut bottomland hardwood forests as reference sites for monitoring of created and restored wetlands. Environmental Management 27(4): 301-312.

Perry, J.E. and C.H. Hershner. 1999. Temporal changes in the vegetation pattern in a tidal freshwater marsh. Wetlands 19(1):90-99.

Perry, J.E., D.M.E. Ware and A. M. Mueller. 1998. Aeschynomene indica L. (Fabaceae) in Virginia. CASTANEA 63(2):191-194.

Perry, J.E. and R. A. Atkinson. 1997. Plant diversity along a salinity gradient: York and Pamunkey Rivers, Virginia. CASTANEA 62(2):112-118.

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Current Students

Laird, Rosemary MS (2001)
Mitchell, Molly (MS 2002)
Mountz, Elizabeth (MS 2001)
Slocum, Kevin (Ph.D. 2002)
Kevin Slocum, Ph.D. (>02)
Wu, Jennifer, MS (>02)

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Past Students

Campana, Michael, MS (>99). Thesis title: The effect of common reed (Phragmites australis) invasion on nutrient flux, sedimentation, and plant species diversity in a tidal freshwater marsh.
Goldberg Jason, MS (>00). Thesis title: Comparing remote sensing to traditional approaches of monitoring wetland vegetation in a tidal mitigation bank.
McKenney-Mueller, Amanda, MS (>98). Thesis title: Small mammal habitat use of two natural and two created wetlands in southeastern Virginia.
Meyer Jill E., MS (>00). Thesis title: Accuracy of bottomland hardwood boundary delineations based on multispectral video images.
Spencer, David, MS (>99). Thesis title: Early secondary succession in the bottomland hardwood forests of southeastern Virginia.

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Courses Taught/Teaching

MS 527 Coastal Botany
MS 542 Principles of Environmental and Natural Resource Policy (team)
MS 579 Wetlands Ecology (w/ C. Hershner)

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Faculty/Student Awards

Knauss Fellowship (Mountz - 2001, Goldberg and Meyer - 2000)
Virginia Space Grant Scholarship (Mountz, 2000)
Society of Wetland Scientist Scholarship (Meyer 1999)

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Professional Memberships

American Institute of Biological Sciences
Appalachian Botanical Society
Ecological Society of America
Estuarine Research Association
Society of Wetland Scientists

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Collaborative/Interdisciplinary Efforts

Establishment of a wetland research program in the Palaeocoastal Reserve, Tianjin, China (w/NOAA, Tianjin Univ.);
Perennial Stream Identification Protocol (w/Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Dept., George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University);