Biology and Marine Biology

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Frederick S. Scharf

Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology

University of North Carolina Wilmington

601 South College Rd., Wilmington, NC 28403-5915

Tel. (910) 962-7796; Fax. (910) 962-4066

email: [email protected]

Education

2001 Ph.D., Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dissertation: The influence of behavior on size-structured predator-prey interactions:

prey susceptibility, predator selection, and population-level consequences for

estuarine fishes

1997 M.Sc., Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Thesis: Predator size-prey size relationships and predator dynamics of marine fish on

the Northeast U. S. Continental Shelf

1994 B.Sc., Biology major/Marine Sciences minor, State University of New York at

Stony Brook.

Research areas

Recruitment processes in marine and estuarine fishes, mortality estimation, early life history,

sampling and experimental design, population assessment, behavioral ecology of fishes, fish

associations with structured habitats, predator-prey interactions, fish physiology and growth

dynamics, fish reproduction

Professional appointments

Aug 2012 – present Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of

North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Aug 2008 – Jul 2012 Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology,

University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Jan 2003 – Jul 2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology,

University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Sep 2001 – Dec 2002 National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, National Marine

Fisheries Service, Sandy Hook, New Jersey

Aug 1998 – Aug 2001 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Natural Resources

Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jul 1997 - Aug 1998 Fisheries Biologist, Coastal Fisheries Division, Texas Parks and Wildlife

Department

Aug 1994 - Jul 1997 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Forestry and Wildlife

Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst