Past USF Graduate Students

Lisa Whitenack

-The biomechanics and evolution of shark teeth. Ph.D., December 2008.
-Current position: Geology Post Doc, University of South Florida

Daniel R. Huber

-Cranial biomechanics and feeding performance of elasmobranch fishes. Ph.D., August 2006.
-Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Tampa

Dayv Lowry

-The early ontogeny of feeding in two shark species: developmental aspects of morphology, behavior, and performance. Ph.D., December 2005.
-Current position: Fisheries & Wildlife Biologist 3 In-training, Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

Angela Collins

-An examination of the diet and movement patterns of the Atlantic cownose ray Rhinoptera bonasus within a southwest Florida estuary. MS, July 2005.
-Current Position: "Biologist/diver leading a new research project integrating life history, mating system, fishing effects and habitat use of hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus", Fish Biology Program, at the Florida Wildlife Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL

Alpa P. Wintzer

-Behavioral and morphological consequences of rearing Florida largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides floridanus. MS, July 2004.
-Current Position: Ph.D. program at University of California Davis with Dr. Peter Moyle

Mason Dean

-Kinematics and functional morphology of the feeding apparatus of the lesser electric ray, Narcine brasiliensis. MS, August 2003.
-Current Position: Ph.D. program at University of California Irvine with Dr. Adam Summers

 

Michael Matott

-An examination of modulation of feeding behaviour in the nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonaterre 1788). MS, April 2003.
-Current Position: Ph.D. program at University of South Florida, Multidisciplinary Biomedical Sciences

 

Heather T. Porter

-A comparison of feeding kinematics of three ram-feeding fishes: Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), redfin needlefish (Strongylura notata), and great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda). MS, May 2002.

Gaddy T. Bergmann

-Trophic ecomorphology of the nonindigenous Mayan cichlid 'Cichlasoma (Nandopsis)' urophthalmus (Gunther 1862) in southern Florida. MS, May 2002.
-Current Position: Research Microbiologist, Accelr8 Technology Corporation, Denver CO.

 

Desireé E. Sasko

-The prey capture behavior and kinematics of the cownose ray Rhinoptera bonasus. MS, December 2000.
-Current Position: Marine biology instructor at The Dillon School, Wellington, FL

 

Molly A. Edmonds

-Prey capture kinematics of the horn shark, Heterodontus francisci. MS, April 1999.

-Current Positions: currently works for a Christian conservation organization authoring a book on birds

 

Michael P. Robinson

-Patterns of growth and the effects of scale on the feeding kinematics of the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum . MS, March 1999.
-Current Position: Lecturer, Univeristy of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

 

J. Todd Streelman

-Nuclear DNA evolution in labroid fishes. Ph.D. December, 1998 (Co-chair with S. Karl)
-Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biology, Georgia Tech

 

Karen L. Overholtzer

-Feeding ecology and related social behaviors in mixed-species aggregations of juvenile parrotfishes in the Florida Keys. M.S. August, 1997.
-Current Position: Director of Science for the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea at Oregon State University

 

Cheryl D. Wilga

-Evolution of feeding mechanisms in elasmobranchs: a functional morphological approach. Ph.D. December, 1997.
Current Position: Associate Professor of Biology, University of Rhode Island

 

Roldan Munoz

-Social behavior and foraging ecology of Sparisoma aurofrenatum and S. chrysopterum (Pisces: Scaridae) in the Florida Keys. M.S. June 1996.
-Current Position: Research Fishery Biologist at NOAA National Ocean Service, Beaufort, North Carolina

 

Patricia Hernandez

-Ontogenetic scaling of oral jaw crushing performance in the sheephead, Archosargus probatocephalus (Teleostei, Sparidae): Trophic consequences of differential performance. M.S. July 1994.
-Current position: Associate Professor in Biology, George Washington University

 

Kari B. Clifton

-Ecomorphological relationships of five species of labrids (Labridae, Teleostei) in a coral reef community. M.S. August 1993.
-Current Position: Research Fellow, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

 

Bradley Eggold

-Ontogenetic dietary shift and morphological correlates in striped mullet, Mugil cephalus L.. M.S. Sept. 1990.
-Current Position: Southern Lake Michigan Fisheries Supervisor, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources