The effect of environmental modification of predator sensory abilities remains largely unknown, despite the importance of predators to ecosystem function. I conducted a series of experiments to investigate effects of hydrodynamics on the chemosensory search behavior and foraging success of two species of marine gastropods, knobbed whelks (Ph.D.Committee Chair: Weissburg, Marc; Committee Member: Blanton, Jackson; Committee Member: Dusenbery, David; Committee Member: Hay, Mark; Committee Member: Webster, Donal
