Positions:

1997-present	Assistant Professor III, Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
1994-1997	Assistant Research Biologist IV, Deputy Director, SCEI and CMI, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
1992-94	Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University
1993-94	Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University
1984-1991	Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
1981-1983	Research Technician, California Institute of Technology

Distinctions:

1989	Outstanding Student Paper Award, Western Society of Naturalists
1988	EPRI Fellowship, Sport Fishing Institute
1987	Joseph Drown Fellowship, University of Southern California, Oceanographic Associates

Research Interests:  Population and community ecology of marine reef fishes.  Application of behavioral and ecological research to marine fisheries and conservation problems.

Selected Publications:

• Carr MH, and PT Raimondi.  1999.  Marine protected areas as a precautionary approach to management.  CALCOFI reports.
• Reed, D.C., P.T. Raimondi and M.H. Carr. Role of dispersal potential in determining spatial variability in the abundance of benthic reef organisms. Ecology. Submitted.
• Reed, D.C., P.T. Raimondi and M.H. Carr.  Role of dispersal potential in determining spatial variability in the abundance of benthic reef organisms.  Ecology.  Submitted.
• Anderson, T.W. and M.H. Carr. 1998. BINCKE: A highly efficient net for collecting reef-associated fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 51:111-115.
• Allison, G., J. Lubchenco, and M.H. Carr. 1998. Marine reserves are necessary but not sufficient for marine conservation. Ecological Applications 8(1):Supplement S79-S92.
• Hixon, M.A., M.H. Carr, and J.P. Beets. Artificial reefs: importance of comparisons with natural reefs. In: W. Seaman, ed., Future Artificial Reefs in the U.S. Coastal Ocean: Can Science Resolve the Biological Enhancement Question? Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Washington D.C. Special Report XX.
• Hixon, M.A. and M.H. Carr. 1997. Synergistic predation causes density-dependent mortality in marine fish. Science 277:946-949.
• Carr, M.H. and M.A. Hixon. 1997. Artificial reefs: the importance of comparisons with natural reefs. Fisheries 22:28-33.
• Caley, M.J. M.H. Carr, M.A. Hixon, T.P. Hughes, G.P. Jones, and B.A. Menge. 1996. Recruitment and the population dynamics of open marine populations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:477-500.
• Carr, M.H. and M.A. Hixon. 1995. Predation effects on early survivorship of coral reef fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 124:31-42.
• Carr, M.H. 1994. Effects of macroalgal dynamics on recruitment of a temperate reef fish. Ecology 75:1320-1333.
• Carr, M.H. 1994. Predicting the recruitment of temperate reef fishes in response to changes in macrophyte density caused by disturbance. Pp. 255-269 in: Theory and Application of Fish Feeding Ecology, D.J. Stouder, K.L. Fresh and R.J. Feller, eds. The Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science Number 18, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC.
• Carr, M.H. and D.C. Reed. 1993. Conceptual issues relevant to marine harvest refuges: examples from temperate reef fishes. Canadian Journal of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries 50:2019-2028.
• Love, M.S., M.H. Carr, and L.J. Haldorson. 1991. The ecology of substrate-associated juveniles of the genus Sebastes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 30:225-243.
• Carr, M.H. 1991. Patterns, mechanisms and consequences of recruitment of a temperate marine reef fish. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 190p. NOAA Sea Grant publication, University of Southern California Sea Grant Program.
• Carr, M.H. 1991. Habitat selection and recruitment of an assemblage of temperate zone reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 146:113-137.
• Carr, M.H. 1989. Effects of macroalgal assemblages on the recruitment of temperate zone reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 126:59-76.
• Holbrook, S.J., M.H. Carr, R.J. Schmitt, and J.A. Coyer. 1989. The effect of giant kelp on local abundance of reef fishes: the importance of ontogenetic resource requirements. Bulletin of Marine Science 41:104-114.