Bradley Wetherbee Lab

Dr. Bradley Wetherbee

Dr. Wetherbee is an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island. His research focuses on ecology of marine fish, how marine fish interact with their environment, and how this affects their movement and habitat use, with a specific focus on fisheries management and sustainability of marine resources.

His research is currently working with stingrays, tiger sharks, and mako sharks, but has worked on several shark species and other marine fish in the past. This research helps contribute better population management strategies, as it focuses on population-wide characteristics of movement amongst marine fish. Both coastal and oceanic species are used in Dr. Wetherbee's research, including locations in New England, Bermuda, The Bahamas, The Cayman Islands and Mexico.

Dr. Wetherbee also serves as the assistant director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and most of his projects are conducted through activities done through this position. Through GHRI, much of the data on these species required for this research is obtained.

This data is obtained mainly by tagging the fish and tracking their movements by satellite tracking, as well as utilizing state space models to plot continuous tracks of the fish and other online software to organize data collected from the field work conducted.

Students interested in Dr. Wetherbee's lab are encouraged to contact him at wetherbee@uri.edu.