Robert Hueter

Robert Edward Hueter is an American marine biologist and Director of the Center for Shark Research at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida.[1][2] His research primarily consists of studying sharks and he has authored over 150 papers related to marine biology.[3]

Robert Hueter
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Florida
University of Miami
Scientific career
FieldsMarine biology
InstitutionsMote Marine Laboratory
ThesisThe 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

He 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 2003-2012, 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 2017-2020 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

In 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

References
  1. "Meet the Team". Mote Marine Laboratory. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. "Robert E. Hueter". Marine Careers. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. Cox, Billy; Floum, Jessica. "Every week is shark week: Truth behind a TV sensation". USA Today Network. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  4. "Dr. Robert E. Hueter". gulfbase. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  5. 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. PMID 21559508. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  6. Rutger, Hayley. "Cuba research to make splash on Discovery Channel's Shark Week". Mote Marine Laboratory. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  7. "Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  8. "Dr. Robert Hueter". Shark-Con. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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