DAVIDA.EBERT,PH.D.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
Post-Doctorate, South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Ph.D., Ichthyology & Fisheries Sciences, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa M.A., Marine Biology, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University,
Moss Landing, California, U.S.A.
B.A., Zoology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, U.S.A. A.A., General, Hartnell Community College, Salinas, California, U.S.A. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Current position since 2002: Program manager/Adjunct faculty, Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
1991-2001 Vice President, US Abalone, a California-based aquaculture business that I co-founded.
2001-2003 Realtor, Coldwell Banker – American Home Realty.
1985-2005 President, Ocean Resources Consulting Associates, a California-based environmental consulting business that I co-founded.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Graduate courses Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Topics in Marine Ecology: Advanced Ichthyology
Large Marine Ecosystems of the World: an integrated approach to understanding marine ecosystems
Advanced Topics in Marine Ecology: Systematics of marine organisms Biology of Chondrichthyan Fishes
Guest lecturer, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Other courses
Professor, National Taiwan Fisheries College, Kee-Lung, Taiwan. Taught English conversation to Chinese university students. The class was designed to help improve the students proficiency in English conversation as most were planning to attend graduate school in the United States
Professor, Hartnell Community College. Taught marine ecology and oceanography. Teacher, North Monterey County Unified School District
Instructor, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Taught semi-annual course on "Sharks and Rays of Monterey Bay"
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
Board of Directors, American Elasmobranch Society
Board Member, IUCN Shark Specialist Group Northeastern Pacific Board Member, Oceania Chondrichthyan Society
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee representative for Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Research faculty representative, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Represent the research faculty interests and concerns.
Museum committee chair, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Organize the MLML museum collection and develop guidelines for its use.
Organizer, Stable Isotope Working Group (Spring 2005). Organized bi-weekly group meetings at MLML to review and discuss papers related to techniques involving the use of stable isotope analysis for ecological studies. Several invited speakers gave presentations on their research to the group. The goal is to develop projects using this technique as applied to ecological studies.
Scientist, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 2002 Eastern Bering Sea Continental Slope Survey. My primary project was to investigate the reproductive biology of Bering Sea skates. I examined over 1,300 specimens, comprising at least nine species during this 25 day cruise. In addition, I saved tissue samples from all species collected for future genetic studies. To date, one publication has resulted with another currently in preparation. Baseline data gathered from this cruise was used to develop four Masters theses projects which are currently ongoing.
Research affiliate, Shark Research Center, South African Museum. Developed and coordinated a network of survey sites along the South African and Namibian coasts to collect and record cartilaginous fishes. I worked closely with the commercial and recreational fishing industry to develop this program. This project has lead to the collection of several undescribed species, numerous range extensions, and new records of cartilaginous fishes to the southern African fauna. Results from this program have been published in numerous peer review journals and a book culminating nearly 25 years of research is currently in preparation and will be published by the University of California Press.
Senior ichthyologist, R/V Africana, Sea Fisheries Research Institute research ship. I participated on a series of research cruises (1987-1990) to investigate coastal and deepsea fish fauna as part of the Benguela Ecosystem Program in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Chief responsibilities included the identification, collection, preservation, and photographic record of all fishes. To date, 12 publications have resulted from this project.
Senior scientist, R/V Benguela, Sea Fisheries Research Institute research ship. I participated on a series of research cruises to investigate coastal and deepsea fish fauna in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Chief responsibilities were to coordinate and oversee scientific activities on these cruises including the identification, collection, preservation, and photographic record of all fishes. Three publications have resulted from this project to date.
Research fellowship, National Taiwan Fisheries College, Kee-Lung, Taiwan. I conducted an intense fishery survey of the cartilaginous fish fauna around Taiwanese waters. Results from the study to date have lead to the descriptions of 5 new species with several additional new species currently being described. At least 30 or more species previously unknown from this region have been identified to date.
Consulting:
Consultant and on-air personality for several television documentary programs on aquaculture and elasmobranchs produced for national and international production companies.
Consultant, surveyed the feasibility and potential of developing abalone aquaculture facilities in China.
Consultant, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, San Mateo County. Conducted a floral and faunal survey of the Reserve, and an experimental abalone seeding project to enhance the red abalone population of the Reserve.
Consultant, abalone enhancement project, California Department of Fish and Game. Develop techniques to seed abalone veliger larvae and juvenile abalone, and to monitor their dispersal, survivorship, and growth.
GRANT REVIEWER:
National Research Foundation Northeast Consortium
North Pacific Research Board New Hampshire Sea Grant SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS:
Keynote speaker, Oceania Chondrichthyan Society (2008)
Organizer, Skate Symposium, American Elasmobranch Society meeting (2006) Participant, IUCN Shark Specialist Group, Western North Pacific/SE Asia Red List
Workshop (2007)
Participant, IUCN Shark Specialist Group, Global Batoid Red List Workshop (2004) Participant, IUCN Shark Specialist Group, North and Central American Red List
Workshop (2004)
Participant, IUCN Shark Specialist Group, Southern African Red List Workshop (2003) Invited speaker, IUCN Shark Specialist Group, Deepsea Chondrichthyans (2003) Invited speaker, Second Cowshark Conference, Seattle, WA (2006)
Invited speaker, American Fishery Society, Anchorage, AK (2005)
Organizer, Sixth National Oceanographic Symposium, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Elasmobranch Symposium (1987)
COMMITTEES AND PANELS (Past and present):
American Elasmobranch Society Board of Directors
American Elasmobranch Society Nominating committee and Student awards judge IACUC committee member representing MLML
Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Board of Directors
International Union Conservation of Nature Shark Specialist Group Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council
Business and Tourism Activity Panel, MBNMS – Board Chairman Sanctuary Currents Symposium science award poster judge
The Otter Project - Director
California Aquaculture Association (CAA) – Director CAA, Governmental Affairs committee member US Abalone, Director
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Past and present):
American Elasmobranch Society American Fisheries Society
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Business and Tourism Activity Panel, MBNMS
California Aquaculture Association Conservation Working Group, MBNMS Friends of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Gilbert Ichthyological Society
International Union for the Conservation of Nature Shark Specialist Group Northeastern Pacific Shark Specialist Group (IUCN)
Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Research Activity Panel, MBNMS
Shark Research Center, South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa The Otter Project
Western Society of Naturalist JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Acta Adriatica
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica African Journal of Marine Science Alaska Sea Grant
Australian Journal Marine and Freshwater Research Bay Nature
Bulletin of Marine Science
California Fish and Game Quarterly
California’s Living Marine Resources and Their Utilization
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Cambridge University Press
Caribbean Journal of Science Copeia
CSIRO Special Publications Cybium
Environmental Biology Fishes Fishery Bulletin
ICES Journal of Marine Biology
Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology – Species Diversity Journal of Fish Biology
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom Journal of Morphology
Journal Shellfish Biology
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society Marine Biology
Marine Ecology Progress Series Marine and Freshwater Research Marine Fisheries Review
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research Northwestern Naturalist
NOAA Technical Report NOAA 90 NOAA Technical Report NOAA 115 Oxford University Press
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Polar Biology
Scientia Marina
South African Journal Marine Science Southeastern Naturalist
University of California Press University Oklahoma Press Zoological Studies
