After more than three decades with the agency, Jim still enjoys
studying birds in their natural habitats as much as ever.
Starting as a volunteer at FWRI's Marine Mammal Pathobiology
Laboratory, Matt eventually turned his focus from manatees to
microorganisms that form harmful algal blooms.
Manuel is currently working on several habitat projects, including
research on seagrass restoration that is focusing on developing
restoration tools for repairing seagrass beds that have been
damanged by vessel groundings and propeller scars.
Karen is an internationally respected scientist who has dedicated
part of her career to the study of dinoflagellates and harmful
algae. The scientific name of Florida's red tide organism,
Karenia brevis, is named in her honor.
Kim works at FWRI's Eustis field laboratory, where she is working
to establish standardized protocols for sampling freshwater fishes
in inland waters of the state.
Eric works out of the Gainesville Fisheries Office, where he is
involved in several freshwater fisheries projects including the
development of a protocol to monitor the current status and future
trends of sport fisheries and associated fish communities in
Florida streams.
Wes is currently working on a black bass genetics project, as well
as studies to determine if stocking hatchery-produced bass can
increase the number of fish in a population and improve the
angler's catch.
Jim works on several projects that look at the spatial distribution
and structure of estuarine habitats as they relate to the
distribution and abundance of fish species.
Joan is FWRI's Curator of Collections. She oversees a vast
reference collection of preserved biological specimens and
associated ecological databases.
Shannon is currently working on a project to describe spatial
distributions of fish communities and species across estuarine
landscapes.
Luiz oversees FWRI's Marine Fisheries Research section, a $15
million program centered in St. Petersburg and distributed in seven
field labs around the state.
Angela is currently working on the Goliath grouper cooperative
research project, which is investigating abundance and distribution
of goliath grouper within the offshore waters of the central
eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Bob developed and runs the Marine Fisheries-Independent Monitoring
progrom, which assesses the status of fish populations from
numerous estuarine systems throughout Florida.
Gregg is currently involved with research on the endangered
smalltooth sawfish.
Learn more about Sarah and her current research on bay scallops.
Ron is the program coordinator for snook in the state of Florida.
Learn more about Sarah and her current research on spotted seatrout
and redfish.
Based out of FWRI's Stock Enhancement Research Facility (SERF) in
Port Manatee, Chris is the director of the stock enhancement
program and SERF.
Ann's role at FWRI is to ensure that FWRI's research activities
work together with and support management goals.
Gil McRae is the current Director of the FWC Fish and Wildlife
Research Institute.
Andy manages the Marine Mammal Pathobiology Laboratory (MMPL) and
coordinates staff at the MMPL in responding to live and dead marine
mammal strandings and necropsy. He also serves as Florida's manatee
rescue coordinator.
Small and vulnerable populations of mice and bats fascinate Jeff
Gore, working from his home base in the FWC's Northwest Regional
Office in Panama City.
Retired after more than 30 years as a wildlife biologist, Paul is
still pursuing his passion as a volunteer in the Gainesville
research lab.
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