Members

Current students

Mel Moreno, MS student Mel coordinates the water quality sensor network as part of the Lone Cabbage Reef Restoration project as well as our database and data visualization efforts. Mel completed her BS in Wildlife Ecology from UF in December 2017. Mel's thesis work will focus on synthesizing data from a variety of water quality, river, and climate monitoring stations to help examine long-term trends in the Big Bend.

Tyler Coleman, PhD student Tyler is leading our efforts assessing oyster population responses as part of the Lone Cabbage Reef Restoration project

Josh Vine, PhD student Josh will be leading efforts to assess juvenile Gulf Sturgeon survival and movement patterns in the Choctawhatchee River.

Stephen Parker, PhD student Stephen will be leading our data science efforts related to Gulf Sturgeon including a variety of assessment and PVA modeling efforts

Jamie Casteel, MS student Jamie will be helping us to better understand the relationships among live oyster counts, shell biomass, and oyster reef resilience in the Big Bend of Florida.

Matthew Richardson, PhD student Matthew will be co-advised with Dr. Julien Martin from USGS and will be helping to use various decision science tools to guide restoration actions in the Big Bend of Florida with agency cooperators

Post-doc

Jennifer Moore, PhD, Jennifer leads analytical efforts for the Lone Cabbage Reef oyster project and is increasingly involved in developing innovative methods to inform monitoring efforts for oysters and Gulf Sturgeon.

Project leader

Bill Pine, Professor. I am a Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation with a joint appointment with the Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences program. I received my BS in Fisheries Science from Auburn, my MS in Fisheries from UF, and a PhD in Zoology from NC State. After a post-doc at Mote Marine Lab working with Carl Walters from UBC and Ken Leber from Mote, I joined the faculty at UF in 2005. You can find out a little more about me from two recent interviews. How WEC Works and Field Stories

Joining the lab

I only accept students when funding is available to support the student. I do not have TA or fellowship support to offer students who are not supported on research grants. When these positions are available they will be extensively advertised on a variety of web sites (including this one) such as the Texas A&M job board. To be competitive for these positions students will need to be highly motivated with strong quantitative skills and interest, writing ability, and a commitment to "seeing projects through" as demonstrated by publication(s) in peer-reviewed literature.

In general students in our group have a strong interest in resource management and ecology and are interested in using quantitative techniques to help inform the research questions being explored. We sometimes have openings for part-time positions which could include anything from field or lab assistants to recent graduates or seasoned professionals with expertise in data analyses and analytical tools include R, Matlab, Python, database design and implementation (mySQL) and various data visualization approaches. If you have a variety of technical skills you think would be of use to our projects contact Bill Pine (billpine@ufl.edu).