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EDUCATION:

1990 Post-Doctorate, South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
1990 Ph.D., Ichthyology & Fisheries Sciences, Rhodes University, Grahamstown,
South Africa
1984 M.A., Marine Biology, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State
University, Moss Landing, California, U.S.A.
1980 B.A., Zoology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, U.S.A.
1978 A.A., General, Hartnell Community College, Salinas, California, U.S.A.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Research:

Program manager/Adjunct faculty, Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Editor/Creator, “Featured Elasmobranch”, an ongoing series of articles featuring a different elasmobranch each month on the Pacific Shark Research Center web page. The series was started in February 2004 and has been running continuously. At the present time I have authors lined up through April 2007. The series aim is to inform and educate the public, and provide something new for them to come back on a regular basis.

Organizer, Stable Isotope Working Group (Spring 2005). Organized bi-weekly group meetings at MLML to review and discuss papers related to techniques involving the use of stable isotope analysis for ecological studies. Several invited speakers gave presentations on their research to the group. The goal is to develop projects using this technique as applied to ecological studies.

Research affiliate, Shark Research Center, South African Museum. Developed and coordinated a network of survey sites along the South African and Namibian coasts to collect and record cartilaginous fishes. I worked closely with the commercial and recreational fishing industry to develop this program. This project lead to the collection of several undescribed species, numerous range extensions, and new records of cartilaginous fishes to the southern African fauna.

Scientist, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 2002 Eastern Bering Sea Continental Slope Survey. My primary project was to investigate the reproductive biology of Bering Sea skates. I examined over 1,300 specimens, comprising at least nine species during this 25 day cruise. In addition, I saved tissue samples from all species collected for genetic studies.

Senior ichthyologist, R/V Africana, Sea Fisheries Research Institute research ship. I participated on a series of research cruises (1987-1990) to investigate coastal and deepsea fish fauna as part of the Benguela Ecosystem Program in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Chief responsibilities included the identification, collection, preservation, and photographic record of all fishes.

Senior scientist, R/V Benguela, Sea Fisheries Research Institute research ship. I participated on a series of research cruises (1988-89) to investigate coastal and deepsea fish fauna in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Chief responsibilities were to coordinate and oversee scientific activities on these cruises including the identification, collection, preservation, and photographic record of all fishes.

Research fellowship, National Taiwan Fisheries College, Kee-Lung, Taiwan. I conducted an intense fishery survey of the cartilaginous fish fauna around Taiwanese waters. Results from the study lead to the identification of at least 30 species previously unknown from this region and four undescribed species that are awaiting formal description.

Teaching:

Fall 2006, Graduate seminar, Large Marine Ecosystems of the World: an integrated
approach to understanding marine ecosystems with Drs. Lara Ferry-Graham and Erika McPhee-Shaw.

Fall 2005 Advanced Topics in Marine Ecology: Systematics of marine organisms with
Dr. Lara Ferry-Graham.

Fall 2004, Graduate seminar, Biology of Chondrichthyan Fishes with Drs. Gregor
Cailliet and Lara Ferry-Graham

Fall 2001, Guest lecturer, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Chondrichthyan biology
seminar class.

Professor, National Taiwan Fisheries College, Kee-Lung, Taiwan. Taught English
conversation to Chinese students.

Professor, Hartnell Community College. Taught marine ecology and oceanography.

Teacher, North Monterey County Unified School District. Taught primary and secondary school.

Instructor, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Taught semi-annual course on "Sharks and Rays of
Monterey Bay".

Consulting:

Consultant and on-air personality for several television documentary programs on
aquaculture and elasmobranchs produced for national and international
production companies.

Consultant, surveyed the feasibility and potential of developing abalone aquaculture
facilities in China.

Consultant, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, San Mateo County. Conducted a floral and faunal
survey of the Reserve, and an experimental abalone seeding project to enhance
the red abalone population of the Reserve.

Consultant, abalone enhancement project, California Department of Fish and Game.

Develop techniques to seed abalone veliger larvae and juvenile abalone, and to
monitor their dispersal, survivorship, and growth.

Business:

President, Ocean Resources Consulting Associates

Vice President, US Abalone

Realtor, Coldwell Banker – American Home Realty

GRANTS:

North Pacific Research Board (Project #621)
North Pacific Research Board (Project #510)
California Sea Grant (Project #R/F – 199)
Professional Development Grant 2005
IUCN Shark Specialist Group travel grants (2003, 2004)
Post-Doctoral fellowship, South African Museum (1990)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) bursary (1986-1990)
South African National Committee for Oceanographic Research grant (1988-1990)
National Science Council-CSIR fellowship grant (1988)
National Science Foundation grant recipient (1985)
Packard Foundation grant recipient (1984)
California Academy of Sciences research grant (1983)

GRANT REVIEWER :

Northeast Consortium
New Hampshire Sea Grant

SYMPOSIA :

Organizer, Skate Symposium, American Elasmobranch Society meeting (2006)
Organizer, Sixth National Oceanographic Symposium, Stellenbosch, South Africa,
Elasmobranch Symposium (1987)
Invited speaker, American Fishery Society, Elasmobranch Research in the North Pacific
(2005)
Invited speaker, IUCN SSG, Deepsea Chondrichthyans, Dunedin, New Zealand (2003)

SELECTED CONFERENCE, MEDIA, AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:

American Elasmobranch Society (1989, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
American Fisheries Society (2005)
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (1984)
California Aquaculture Association Annual Conference
California Fish and Game Commission
California State Joint Legislative Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture
CSU Humboldt
CSU Monterey Bay
Discovery Channel
Elkhorn Slough Foundation
Gilbert Ichthyological Society (2003, 2004)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature Shark Specialist Group
KCBS Radio
Keeping Our Beaches Clean, invited panel speaker for public forum
KSCO Radio - Guest on "Saturday Morning Agriculture" program
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
National Fisheries College, Kee-lung, Taiwan
North Pacific Research Board (2006)
Second Cowshark Conference (2006)
Second Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (1985)
Seventh Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (2005)
Sixth Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (2001)
Sixth National Oceanographic Symposium, South Africa (1987)
SkyNews Network
SABC radio and television
Western Groundfish Conference (2004)
Western Groundfish Conference (2006)
Western Society of Naturalist

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