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Master of Science in Mariculture
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Faculty List for the Mariculture ProgramFaculty Affiliated With Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Dr. David A. McKee
As Coordinator of the Mariculture Program, Dr. Mc Kee serves as at least a member on most all mariculture graduate student committees. He has been involved in numerous mariculture-related activities at the local, state, national and international levels since beginning employment at Corpus Christi State University in 1985. Dr. McKee serves on the South Texas Regional Agriculture Council as the A&M-Corpus Christi representative. Beginning in 1992, Dr. McKee became active in the Student Activities and Aquaculture Education Committees of the U.S. and International Chapters of World Aquaculture Society (WAS). Dr. McKee teaches courses in Marine Ecology, Ichthyology, Marine Mammals, and Environmental Biology as well as in Mariculture. Dr. Mc Kee also serves as the faculty sponsor of the A&M-Corpus Christi Fisheries and Aquaculture Society. He is currently the author of a book soon to be published entitled "The Fishes of Texas Laguna Madre". Dr. Joe M. Fox
Dr. Fox has been involved in aquaculture for many years in private, public and academic sectors. Dr. Fox’s major interests lie in crustacean nutrition, aquatic disease, aquaculture economics and in the planning and development of aquaculture production facilities. He has spent considerable time on projects in a variety of international locales in Central America, Southeast Asia, South America and the Caribbean. His major areas of interest are marine penaeid shrimp, aquatic nutrition and disease research and private sector economic development. Dr. Fox is a member of the Mariculture, Biology, Environmental Science, and Coastal and Marine System Science programs at A&M-Corpus Christi. He teaches Aquatic Animal Nutrition and Chemistry of Natural Waters in the Fall Semester. During the Spring Semester, he teaches Diseases and Parasites of Aquatic Organisms and Aquaculture Economics. Dr. Roy L. Lehman
Professor of Biology (Marine Ecology) and a Research Associate for the Center for Coastal Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. His specialties include Phycology (seaweeds and freshwater algae), molecular systematics of plants, wetland and coastal vegetation, roadside flowers and cacti. He teaches classes in Marine Botany, Phycology, Limnology, Non-Flowering Plants, Plant Taxonomy, Field and Sampling Techniques and Coral Reef Ecology. Dr. Joanna B. Mott
Dr. John W. ("Wes") Tunnell, Jr.
Director of the Center for Coastal Studies and Professor of Biology at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Dr. Tunnell is a marine biologist who has conducted research in areas as diverse as fossilized vertebrates from the seabed, colonial nesting seabirds, molluscan ecology, and coastal community ecology for the past 25 years. He has produced numerous technical reports and published papers on coral reef organisms, ecology, and environmental problems. He published a chapter as co-author in the 1974 book on the biota of the Flower Garden reefs. In addition to qualitative reef survey methods, he has utilized various non-destructive, quantitative sampling techniques in his reef research, ranging from quadrats and line transects to the newer photographic techniques. Faculty Affiliated With Other InstitutionsDr. Tzachi SamochaIncluded in the faculty of the A&M-Corpus Christi Mariculture Program is Dr. Tzachi Samocha, Associate Professor and Research Scientist at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES), Corpus Christi, Texas. Responsibilities include: Planning and conducting shrimp culture experiments in raceways and ponds to develop new concepts in intensive nursery and grow-out techniques. Planning and carrying out technology transfer to commercial mariculture farms and industry related businesses. Summarizing research and scholarly academic results for publication and preparation of grant proposals for extramural funding of the research and graduate training programs. Dr. Samocha has taught graduate level courses and supervises graduate students. He is Project Leader of the TAES Shrimp Mariculture Research facility in Flour Bluff, TX which continues to utilize TAMU-CC graduate and undergraduate students for research and production objectives. He teaches Mariculture Techniques each Fall semester and is responsible for the supervision of graduate students and their research on a year-round basis. Dr. Tzachi Samocha receives Researcher of the Year at the Texas Aquaculture Association 2001 meeting in South Padre Island, Texas! Addison L. LawrenceProfessor and Project Leader, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station; Professor, Texas A&M University. Dr. Addison Lawrence has been an Adjunct Professor and member of Graduate Faculty at A&M-Corpus Christi since 1981 in both mariculture and marine science. His area of specialization is the physiology and nutrition of marine shellfish. His other areas of interest include nutritional, physiological, and biochemical research on the maturation, reproduction and larval development, juvenile and sub-adult shrimp. Dr. Lawrence has also developed technology for commercial shrimp farming. He conducted his first research on shellfish in 1957 and shrimp in 1963. Currently, Dr. Lawrence is involved in sea urchin research as well. He has currently authored 186 papers and 276 abstracts published in peer-review journals, books, and proceedings. He has supervized over 70 graduate students for advanced degrees, and has been awarded over 70 contracts and grants totaling more than $10 million. Additionally, he is responsible for the supervision of graduate students and their research on a year-round basis. Since completion (1994) of the TAMU Shrimp Mariculture Project (TAMUSMP) Laboratory in Port Aransas, TX, Dr. Lawrence, as Director, employs selected students as graduate research assistants. Dr. Ron RosatiAssociate Professor Texas A&M University Kingsville. Department of Agronomy and Resources Sciences. Area of specialization-Agricultural mechanization. Advanced studies in Range and Natural Resources; topic: Recirculating Aquaculture Systems, Soil Reclamation and Conservation, Introduction to Agricultural Systems, Welding, Agricultural Power and Machinery, and Agricultural Building Requirements. . Dr. Russ MigetAssociate professor. Dr. Russ Miget (TAMU-Marine Advisory Service) has been an adjunct faculty member since 1984 and has involved TAMU-CC mariculture students in his net pen research conducted in the Gulf of Mexico off Freeport, TX. Two mariculture students were employed in this research until 1995. Dr. Miget also assisted Drs. McKee and Tom Linton in the development and instruction of a TTVN Marine Fisheries class. Dr. Russ Miget, Mr. Mike Haby (TAMU-MAS) Dr. Frank Castille and Mr. Bill Bray (TAMUSMP) are regular guest lecturers in several of the TAMU-CC mariculture classes. Dr. Robert Vega
Chief of Marine Hatcheries for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Director of the Gulf Coast Conservancy Association/Central Power and Light (GCCA/CPL)-Marine Development Center in Flour Bluff, TX. Dr. Vega is also involved in student research conducted at the hatchery, has taught Chemistry of Natural Waters and will soon be teaching Mariculture Techniques, and has served on several graduate committees. Dr. Joan Holt
Professor, Department of Marine Science and Associate Director for Mariculture, at the University of Texas-Marine Science Institute. Dr. Holt's research focuses on biological and physical factors that limit or alter larval fish growth and development, which is important for understanding changes in natural populations and for increasing production in aquaculture systems. Her current research areas include larval fish transport, settlement to estuarine nursery grounds, nutrition and feeding dynamics of fish larvae, reproduction and larval development of coral reef fish and shrimp, and the influence of salinity on aspects of survival in spotted seatrout. In addition, she has had numerous publications and teaches a Larval Fish Ecology course at UT-MSI. Other sources of contact information related to the Mariculture Program are the: |
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