Fisheries/Aquaculture Faculty
Faculty | Research | Potential Primary Advisor* |
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Michael D. Arendt | Environmental influences on animal occurrence; population dynamics and demographic structure; collection of large data sets through remote and/or innovative technologies; time series analysis | NO |
Joseph C. Ballenger | Fish life history and population dynamics; fish biology/ecology; fisheries science/management | YES |
Larry L. Bowman | Conservation and adaptive management of commercial and recreation fisheries; population genetics and genomics; species delimitation and phylogenetics; evolutionary ecology and life history evolution; applications of molecular ecology for conservation; theory and mathematical modeling; STEM education and outreach | YES |
Craig L. Browdy | Sustainable aquaculture technology research and development | NR |
Jeffrey F. Brunson | Crustacean fisheries management, applied fisheries research, conservation ecology, population dynamics | NO |
Walter J. Bubley | Fisheries science, fisheries ecology, fish life history (age/growth/reproduction) | YES |
Loren D. Coen | Ecology of bivalve species, related habitats and their culture | NO |
Cynthia L. Cooksey | Estuarine and marine resource management, regulatory and policy; environmental monitoring and assessments | NO |
Tanya L. Darden | Fish population genetics | YES |
James Kilfoil | Elasmobranchs, fisheries research, population dynamics, spatial ecology, bycatch, predator-prey interactions, human-wildlife interactions, marine survey technologies and methodologies | YES |
Peter R. Kingsley-Smith | Shellfish restoration and management | YES |
Ruairi MacNamara | Fisheries management and ecology; population dynamics; culture-based stock enhancement | NO |
Eric W. Montie | Marine sensory and neurobiology, marine bioacoustics (sound production and hearing), fish biology, marine mammal biology, toxicology, noise pollution, climate change | YES |
Julie A. Neer | Fisheries science and management, elasmobranch ecology, life history of fishes, population dynamics | NO |
John S. Peters | Age and growth of fishes | NO |
Marcel J.M. Reichert | Fish ecology, fisheries science | YES |
Joshua Robinson | fluvial geomorphology; environmental hydraulics; restoration and management of aquatic ecosystems; nature-based solutions to water management | NO |
William A. Roumillat | Biology of fishes | NO |
Gorka Sancho | Behavioral ecology of fishes, fisheries conservation | YES |
Katherine Silliman | Population genetics, fisheries management, development/use of molecular tools | YES |
Tracey Smart | Life history ecology, reproductive ecology, biological oceanography, fisheries science | YES |
Julie Vecchio | Innovative techniques for quantifying, measuring, and assessing fish, fisheries stock assessment, reef fish life history dynamics, reef fish ecology, human impacts on fisheries | YES |
J. David Whitaker | Crustacean fisheries resource research | NO |
Dara H. Wilber | Shellfish and crustacean fisheries science | NO |
David M. Wyanski | Life history and taxonomy of marine fishes, fisheries biology | NO |
*NO=cannot serve as major advisor, but can serve on thesis committee