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Brazilian-American Ichthyologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luiz Alves Rocha is the Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences.[1] He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California Santa Cruz[2] and San Francisco State University.[3]
Luiz A. Rocha | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Florida Federal University of Paraiba |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ichthyology Marine conservation Evolutionary biology |
Institutions | California Academy of Sciences |
Thesis | Ecology, the Amazon barrier, and speciation in western Atlantic Halichoeres (Labridae). (2003) |
Doctoral advisor | Brian Bowen |
Rocha has obtained a PhD in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Florida, and a BS in Biology and Masters in Zoology from the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil. He also conducted post-doctoral work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the University of Hawaii.
Rocha has authored one book[4] and more than 150 scientific articles.[5] He is best known for his work in speciation in coral reef fishes[6] using advanced genomic methodologies to understand fish evolution,[7] and more recently has been actively exploring the diversity of deep (mesophotic) coral reefs throughout the tropics.[8]
He has also published an opinion piece in the New York Times about the problems associated with the creation of large marine protected areas in the open ocean,[9] and has evaluated the conservation status of hundreds of species for the IUCN Red List, including the endangered Social Wrasse.[10]
In 2019 he won the inaugural Margaret M. Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence in Ichthyology or Herpetology for his scientific contributions and scholarly impacts on the field of ichthyology.[11]
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