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  Jay Rooker
  Professor and McDaniel Chair of Marine Fisheries
   
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Texas A&M University
200 Seawolf Parkway
Bld# 3029, Office 249
Galveston TX 77553 USA
(409) 740-4744 
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  Interests  
  Ecology of estuarine, coastal,  and pelagic fishes. Recruitment processes, particularly factors affecting post-settlement survival. Fish life history and migration studies. Analytical approaches to fish demography.
         
  Education  
  Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (1997)
M.S. University of Puerto Rico (1991)
B. A. Gustavus Adolphus College (1985)
 
 

 

 
     
  Courses Taught  

Fisheries Techniques (MARB 320)

 

Marine Ecology (MARB 425)

 
 

Current Concepts in Marine Biology and Ecology

 
 

Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes

 
         
  Recent Publications  
  Schloesser RW, Rooker JR, Louchuoarn P, Neilson JD, Secor DH (2009)  Interdecadal variation in seawater δ13C and δ18O recorded in fish otoliths.  Limnology and Oceanography 54: 1665–1668  
     
  Wells RDJ, Harper JO, Rooker JR, Landry AM, Dellapenna TM (2009)  Fish assemblage structure on a drowned barrier island in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Hydrobiologia 625:207–221  
     
  Rooker JR, Secor DH, DeMetrio G, Schloesser R, Block BA, Neilson JD (2008) Natal homing and connectivity in Atlantic bluefin tuna populations. Science 322: 742-744  
     
  Rooker JR, Secor DH, DeMetrio G, Kaufman, JA, Belmonte Rios A, Ticina A (2008) Evidence of trans-Atlantic mixing and natal homing of bluefin tuna. Marine Ecology Progress Series 368: 231-239  
     
  Glass LA, Rooker JR, Kraus RT, Holt GJ (2008). Distribution, condition, and growth of newly settled southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) in the Galveston Bay Estuary, Texas. Journal of Sea Research 59: 259-268  
     
  Affiliations  
  Marine Biology  
  Marine Biology Graduate Program  
  Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences  
         

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