| 07/00-present – Associate Professor, Aquaculture/Fisheries Center, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. 1200 North University Drive, Mail Slot 4912, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71601. Teach Ecology of Fishes (graduate), Ichthyology (undergraduate), Fisheries Management (graduate), Research Methods and Scientific Writing (graduate, co-taught), and various Graduate Seminar courses. Conduct research on interactions between wild and stocked fish, fish community structure in floodplain wetlands, heritability of larval characteristics of white bass and hybrid striped bass, reproductive life history of bigmouth sleeper, hybrid striped bass fingerling production in tanks and ponds, culture of alligator gar and yellowcheek darter, relation between developmental stress and asymmetry, and interactions between fish and avian predators. Responsible for the ichthyology teaching collection, serve as academic advisor, and supervise graduate student thesis research. Reviewed manuscripts for Limnology and Oceanography, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Marine Ecology Progress Series, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Aquaculture, and North American Journal of Aquaculture. Review proposals for National Science Foundation, Hudson River Foundation, and USDA – SBIR.
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. |
