| Interdisciplinary oceanography
Research
Interests
Dr. Schroeder has been
involved in interdisciplinary oceanographic investigations for over 40
years and has conducted research along the coast, on the continental
margins and in the deep water of the northern Gulf of Mexico for the
past 36 years. In addition, he has participated in international
research endeavors in the Bahamas, Caribbean, Gulf of Papua, Azov Sea,
Australia and South Africa. He has authored and coauthored over 125
scientific publications. Currently his research activities include: 1)
coupled biological-geological-physical studies of deep-water corals in
the Gulf of Mexico; 2) an integrated study of physical and biological
processes along the west coast of Australia; 3) validation of
distributed marine-environment forecast systems; 4) Late Quaternary sea
level and paleoceanography investigations of hardbottom sites in the
northern Gulf of Mexico; and 5) model validation of the coupled
katabatic wind, coastal ocean and ice systems in Antarctica.
Selected
Publications
Schroeder, W. W. 2007. Seafloor
characteristics and distribution patterns of Lophelia
pertusa and other sessile megafauna at two upper-slope
sites in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. OCS Study
MMS 2007-035, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals
Management Service, New Orleans. http://www.gomr.mms.gov/PI/PDFImages/ESPIS/4/4256.pdf
Woo, M., C. Pattiaratchi and W.
Schroeder. Accepted for publication. Summer surface circulation
along the Gascoyne continental shelf, Western Australia. Continental
Shelf Research.
Schroeder, W., S. Brooke, J. Olson, B. Phaneuf, J. McDonough III
and P. Etnoyer. Occurrence of deep-water Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata in the Gulf of Mexico. In Press. In: Freiwald, A.
and Roberts, J. (eds), Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer Verlag,
Germany, (January 2005).
Bartek, L., B. Cabote, T. Young and W. Schroeder. 2004.
Sequence stratigraphy of a continental margin subject to low-energy and
low-sediment-supply environmental boundary conditions: Late
Pleistocene-Holocene deposition offshore Alabama, U.S.A. Pp. 83-107,
In: Anderson and Fillon, Eds. Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution
of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin, SEPM Special Publication No. 79.
Hubard, C., K. Maze-Foley, K. Mullin, and W. Schroeder. 2004.
Seasonal abundance and site fidelity of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops
truncatus) in Mississippi Sound. Aquatic Mammals 30:299-310.
Morey, S., W. Schroeder, J. O’Brien and J. Zaval-Hidalgo. 2003. The annual cycle of river influence in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
basin. Geophysical Research Letters 30(16):1867[OCE 5-1 to 5-4].
Beasley, S., M. Dardeau and W. Schroeder. 2003. Reproductive
biology of the Gorgonian Leptogorgia hebes (Verrill). Pp. 3-18, IN:
S. F. Norton, Ed. Diving for Science 2003. Proc. Amer. Acad. Underwater
Sciences, March 2003, Greenville, NC.
Lewis, J. and W. Schroeder. 2003. Mud plume feeding, a unique
foraging behavior of the bottlenose dolphin in the Florida Keys.
Gulf of Mexico Science 21:92-97.
Schroeder, W. 2002. Observations of Lophelia pertusa and the
surficial geology at a deep-water site in the northeastern Gulf of
Mexico. Hydrobiologia 471:29-33.
Selected
Current Research Grants
Principal Investigator. “The
Occurrence and Ecology of Deep-Water Corals and Associated Communities
in the Gulf of Mexico.” 2003-04 USDC-NOAA-OE.
Principal Investigator. “Deepwater Corals in the Gulf of Mexico.” 2003-04 USDI-MMS.
Co-Principal Investigator. “Development of a Three-Dimensional
Hydrodynamic Model for Mobile Bay.” 2003-04 USDC-NOAA-NMFS.
Subcontract with the University of South Alabama.
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