Stephen Spotte
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A marine scientist born in West Virginia, Stephen Spotte, PhD, is author or coauthor of more than eighty scientific. His popular articles about the sea have appeared in National Wildlife Science Digest, Animal Kingdom, and On the Sound. He has published eighteen books, including three volumes of vis mere fiction, a memoir and a work of cultural theory. He lives in Longboat Key, EL. vis mindre
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- West Virginia, USA
Longboat Key, Florida, USA - Erhverv
- marine biologist
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- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Aquarium of Niagara Falls
New York Aquarium, Coney Island
Mystic Aquarium
Sea Research Foundation
Marine Sciences and Technology Center (vis alle 10)
Coral Reef Ecology Program
Mote Marine Laboratory
Wildlife Society
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Dr. Stephen Spotte was raised in West Virginia, and after traveling the world's high seas, he now makes his home in Longboat Key, FL. He is the author or coauthor of more than 80 scientific papers on marine biology, ocean chemistry and engineering, and aquaculture, which became the cornerstone of modern aquarium keeping. His popular articles about the sea have appeared in National Wildlife, On the Sound, Animal Kingdom, and Science Digest.
Dr. Spotte has been a field biologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (Vicksburg, MS); curator and later director of the Aquarium of Niagara Falls (NY); curator of the New York Aquarium and Osborn Laboratories of Marine Science (Brooklyn, NY); director of Mystic Aquarium (Mystic, CT); executive director of Sea Research Foundation and research scientist at the Marine Sciences and Technology Center, University of Connecticut (Groton, CT); principal investigator, Coral Reef Ecology Program (Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I.), and adjunct scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, FL). His research has encompassed much of the coastal U.S., Canadian Arctic, Bering Sea, West Indies, Indo-West Pacific, Central America, and the Amazon basin of Ecuador and Brazil.
Dr. Spotte has published eighteen books, including three volumes of fiction, a memoir, and a work of cultural theory. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist of The Wildlife Society and also holds a U.S. Merchant Marine officer's license.
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