Thomas M. Grothues

Thomas M. Grothues received the B.A. degree in aquatic science from the University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 1988, the M.S. degree in biology from California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in coastal oceanography from the University of New York Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA, in 1999. He is an Associate Research Professor at the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Tuckerton, NJ, USA, with interest in the abundance and distribution of fishes as affected by physical factors. He has a professional history examining the variation in fish recruitment (addition of young fish to a population) relative to both natural and man-made perturbations to their habitat, including marsh restoration efforts for power plant mitigation, storms, urbanization of water fronts, and seasonality. In the last 11 years, he worked extensively with adult stages on movement, migration, and habitat choices. In this, and through exposure to AUVs while serving as the Science Director for the Mid Atlantic National Undersea Research Center of the National Undersea Research Program, he developed an interest in furthering technologies to meet the challenges of studying these larger mobile fish in the ocean, including sablefish in deep Alaskan waters, sturgeon, winter and summer flounder, bluefish, striped bass, weakfish, and pelagic thresher sharks.