Robert Edward Hueter is an American marine biologist and Senior Scientist Emeritus at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida. Previously, he was Director of the Center for Shark Research at Mote.[1][2] He primarily studies sharks and has authored over 200 papers related to marine biology.[3]
Robert Hueter | |
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| Alma mater | University of Miami (BS, MS) University of Florida (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Marine biology |
| Institutions | Mote Marine Laboratory |
| Thesis | The organization of spatial vision in the juvenile lemon shark (Negaprion Brevirostris): retinotectal projection, retinal topography, and implications for the visual ecology of sharks (1988) |
Biography
editHe earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Miami in 1974, followed by a master's degree from the same university in Marine Biology in 1980. He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Florida in 1988.[1] Hueter initially joined Mote Marine Laboratory in 1988 as a postdoctoral scientist.[4] As of 2001, he occupies the Perry W. Gilbert Chair in Shark Research at Mote.
From 2003 to 2012, he helped lead research off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula that found the largest aggregation of whale sharks ever discovered.[5]
In 2015, he was part of an expedition to study sharks in Cuban waters alongside Cuban scientists that was featured on an episode of Discovery Channel's Shark Week[6] called "Tiburones: The Sharks of Cuba".
From 1997 to 2021, he served on the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.[7]
Dr. Hueter served as Chief Science Advisor from 2017 to 2020 for the nonprofit research and education organization OCEARCH and since 2020 has been employed by OCEARCH as the organization's Chief Scientist. His current work with OCEARCH is focused on multidisciplinary studies of the white shark in the Northwest Atlantic.
Honors and awards
editIn 2007, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Conservation from Sarasota County, Florida.[8] He received the Eugenie Clark Scientific Explorers Award from Mote Marine Laboratory in 2008. He was president of the American Elasmobranch Society in 1993 and served on the AES Board of Directors for more than a decade.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Meet the Team". Mote Marine Laboratory. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Robert E. Hueter". Marine Careers. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Cox, Billy; Floum, Jessica. "Every week is shark week: Truth behind a TV sensation". USA Today Network. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Robert E. Hueter". gulfbase. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Venegas, Rafael de la Parra; Hueter, Robert; Cano, Jaime González; Tyminski, John; Remolina, José Gregorio; Maslanka, Mike; Ormos, Andrea; Weigt, Lee; Carlson, Bruce; Dove, Alistair (29 April 2011). "An Unprecedented Aggregation of Whale Sharks, Rhincodon typus, in Mexican Coastal Waters of the Caribbean Sea". PLOS ONE. 6 (4): e18994. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018994. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3084747. PMID 21559508.
- ^ Rutger, Hayley. "Cuba research to make splash on Discovery Channel's Shark Week". Mote Marine Laboratory. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Robert Hueter". Shark-Con. Retrieved 22 April 2020.