01/97-06/00 - Assistant Professor,Aquaculture/Fisheries Center, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Taught Fisheries Techniques (undergraduate), Fisheries Management (undergraduate)  and Ecology of Fishes (graduate) courses, serve as academic advisor, and supervise graduate student theses research.

09/93-12/96 - Research Associate, Aquaculture/Fisheries Center, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Teach Fisheries Techniques course including use of active and passive collecting gear, aging of fish, stomach analyses, electrofishing, data analyses, and fish identification. Conduct research on applied and natural fisheries including age and growth of crappie, PCB contamination in sport and commercial fish, meta-analysis of sportfish recruitment using cove rotenone and meteorological data, aggression in channel catfish, zooplankton abundances in reciprocal-cross hybrid striped bass fry culture ponds, and use of condition as a measure of survival in larval fish populations.

01/92-08/95 - Research Associate, Ocean Production Enhancement Network, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University. Collaborated with colleagues from four universities and two government labs during a multidisciplinary study of recruitment of Atlantic cod, conducted laboratory studies of feeding and survival of cod larvae, participated in numerous research cruises in North Atlantic, used a data-assimilative, real-time hydrodynamic model to guide biological sampling effort during a process-oriented study of a larval cohort, analysed and interpreted lipid class composition of cod larvae.

09/90-12/91 - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Marine Ecosystem Modelling Group, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University. Adapted sectional approach of aerosol particle interactions to marine phytoplankton aggregation model, incorporated trophic dynamics into aggregation model, prepared grant proposals, programmed in Fortran, worked in UNIX, MACINTOSH , VMS and DOS environments.