Landry Honored

        Galveston, Texas – Dr. André M. Landry, Jr., of Texas A&M University at Galveston was honored with a College Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award by Texas A&M University and The Association of Former Students at a ceremony in Galveston on August 24, 2007.

        Noted for his deep enthusiasm and appreciation for nature, coastal and marine ecosystems, Dr. Landry has inspired countless students.  "His field ichthyology and shore and estuarine courses are immersion courses with a tremendous field component.  He leads his merry band of students to reservoirs and rivers, and bayous and beachfronts from the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana to the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas.  During their ichthyology semester, Dr. Landry, will spend more time, both in the laboratory and the field, with his students than the most dedicated of professors. He will serve as den mother, drill sergeant, and shaman.  He is consistently the first one into the 'breech' of the murkiest waters and he typically outworks undergraduates, and graduates that are 40 years his junior.  He has a rarely matched zeal for both teaching and his subject matter, whether fishes or sea turtles," said graduate student William Dailey.      

        Landry is the director of the Sea Turtle and Fisheries Ecology Research Laboratory and a faculty member of the departments of Marine Biology (Galveston) and Wildlife & Fisheries Science (College Station).  He earned a bachelor of science in Zoology from Tulane University, a master of science and doctorate from Texas A&M University.  His research interest include the life history and population status of sea turtle stocks of the Gulf of Mexico and life history and ecology of demersal nekton, with emphasis on species taken in trawl fisheries.

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