Executive Director
The Lobster Conservancy
P.O. Box 235
Friendship, ME 04547
| 2005 | Senior Reseach Fellow | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole |
| 1999 | Marine Policy Fellow | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole |
| 1992 | Ph.D. | Boston University Marine Program |
| 1984 | MBL Course | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Small Computers in Biology and Medicine |
| 1983 | Baccalaureate | State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY Biological Sciences |
| 1976 | SCUBA Certification | Professional Association of Diving Instructors |
| Founder and Executive Director | The Lobster Conservancy, Friendship, ME, 1996 - present Founded a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving the American lobster and the traditional trap fishery it supports through scientific research and public education. |
| Division Leader | Maine Department of Marine Resources, West Boothbay Harbor, ME, 1998-1999 Chief lobster scientist and supervisor in charge of monitoring lobster, shrimp, sea urchin and herring stocks in Maine. |
| Field Faculty | The Graduate Program, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, VT, 1997 Mentoring of graduate students. |
| Instructor | Isle of Shoals Marine Laboratory of Cornell University and University of New Hampshire, Appledore, ME, summer 1996 Taught Oceanography of the Gulf of Maine |
| Assistant Professor | University of Southern Maine, Department of Geosciences, South Portland, ME, Fall, 1995 Taught Oceanography |
| Assistant Professor | Bates College, Department of Biology, Lewiston, ME, August 1992 - May 1995 Taught Animal Behavior, Population Ecology, Aquatic Animal Communication Systems, Research in Marine Biology, Experimental Marine Ecology, Marine Invertebrate Zoology, Behavioral Ecology, and Human Sexuality; Advised thesis and independent study student projects; Participated in evaluation and revision of the core curriculum in Biology. |
| Visiting Scientist | Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy, 1994 Cognitive learning in Octopus vulgaris |
| Chief Scientist | Sea Education Association Semester Program, Woods Hole, MA, Spring 1992 Taught Oceanography and advised undergraduate research projects at sea on the sailing schooner SSV Westward |
| Professor | Marine Biological Laboratory Elderhostel Program, Woods Hole, MA, 1989, 1990 Taught Marine Biology |
| Adjunct Faculty | Suffolk University Elderhostel Program, Friedman Field Station, Edmunds, ME, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993 Lectures and field trips in Marine Ecology |
| Editorial Assistant | Journal of Crustacean Biology, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, 1987-1991 Copy editing and primary literature review process |
| Guest Student | Environmental Systems Laboratory, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, 1990-1992 Conducted dissertation research |
| Teaching Fellow | Boston University Biology Department, Boston, MA, 1981-1990 Led laboratory and discussion sessions in Chemosensory Biology, Human Anatomy, Diversity of Marine Organisms, Sociobiology, Introductory Biology, and Neurobiology |
| Independent Study | State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 1983 Courtship and Mating Behavior in Anolis carolinensis |
| Teaching Assistant | State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 1982-1983 Assisted in laboratory sections of Biology of Organisms (Animals), Comparative Anatomy of Chordates |