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Dr. Wetherbee received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii, where he studied biochemical and physiological buoyancy adaptations in sharks. This study integrated the disciplines of biochemistry and physiology to investigate aspects of the ecology of sharks, particularly those that inhabit deep water.While in Hawaii, He also became involved in studies of the movement patterns of fish through the use of telemetry and worked on tracking projects ranging from activity patterns of small reef fish in a conservation zone to long distance movements of large tiger sharks in coastal and pelagic waters. Prior to his work in Hawaii, he received his Masters degree at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science where he studied the digestive physiology of sharks. He spent 1998 and 1999 as a National Research Council post-doctoral associate at the National Marine Fisheries Service, Narragansett Laboratory in the Apex Predators Program, where he studied movement patterns of juvenile sandbar sharks in the Delaware Bay nursery by use of telemetry.Since 2000 he has been in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Rhode Island.

Contact Information:

Department of Biological Sciences
100 Flagg Road
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881-0816
Tel.: (401) 874-2335 
FAX: (401) 874-4256 [Main Office] 
E-mail: wetherbee@uri.edu