CURRICULUM VITAE - FREDRICK JOEL FODRIE
PLACE OF BIRTH:
DATE OF BIRTH:
Jacksonville, North Carolina
December 21, 1976
EDUCATION:
1995
1999
East Carteret High School- Graduated Valedictorian
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
B.A. Biology with Highest Honors and History
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
20001999-2000
1998
Graduate Student, Biological Oceanography (Dr. Lisa A. Levin), Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093
Marine Biology Technician, Benthic Ecology Laboratory (Dr. Charles H.
Peterson), Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-CH, Morehead City, NC 28557
Marine Biology Technician, Coastal Environmental and Microbiological
Laboratory (Dr. Hans W. Paerl), Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-CH,
Morehead City, NC 28557
HONORS AND AWARDS:
20032002
2001
20012001
1999
1998
1995-1999
UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant
California Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative Graduate Research Award
California Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative Graduate Research Award
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Declined
R.E. Coker Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Ecology
Phi Beta Kappa
James M. Johnston Scholar; University of North Carolina
MEMBERSHIPS:
20012001-
Ecological Society of America
Sigma Xi
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Fisheries ecology, restoration ecology, recruitment processes and mechanisms, habitat
utilization (and alteration), metapopulation dynamics, behavior, trophic interactions, physicalbiological interactions, trace element fingerprinting, population genetics, demographic modeling
RESEARCH SETTINGS:
The benthic environments of lagoonal estuaries, protected sounds, coastal bays, salt marshes,
tidal flats, the rocky intertidal, exposed coastlines, and continental shelfs.
PUBLICATIONS:
Peterson CH, FJ Fodrie, HC Summerson & SP Powers (2001) Site-specific and densitydependent extinction of prey by schooling rays: generation of a population sink in top-quality
habitat for bay scallops. Oecologia 129:349-356.
Herzka, SZ, DE Conklin, M Drawbridge, J Fodrie, JP Lazo, R Piedrahita (2003) Current research
efforts on California halibut focus on aquaculture practices and utilization of nursery habitat.
California Bight Bulletin
Craig, MT, FJ Fodrie and PA Hastings (2004) The nearshore fish assemblage of the Scripps
Coastal Reserve, San Diego, California. Coastal Management 32: 341-351.
Becker, BJ, FJ Fodrie, P McMillan and LA Levin (2005) Spatial and temporal variability in trace
elemental fingerprints of Mytilid mussel shells: A precursor to invertebrate larval tracking.
Limnology and Oceanography 50(1): 48-61.
Fodrie, FJ and G Mendoza (in revision) Availability, Suitability and contribution of potential
nursery habitats for the California halibut. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
PRESENTATIONS:
2005
2004
“Availability, Suitability and contribution of potential nursery habitats for the California
halibut” CAERS, Santa Barbara, CA.
“Trace element fingerprinting to infer larval trajectories: implications and benefits
of high- frequency field collections” (Oral) International Larval Biology
Meetings, Hong Kong, China.
2001
2000
“Assessing Larval Dispersal Using Trace Elemental Concentrations in Mytilid Larval
Shells” (Poster) ASLO, Victoria, BC, Canada.
“Metapopulation Dynamics in the Bay Scallop: Mechanisms Creating Population Sinks
Where Least Expected” (Oral) Benthic Ecology Meetings, Wilmington, NC.
COLLABORATORS:
BJ Becker, MT Craig, SA Herzka, HS Lenihan, LA Levin, P McMillian, G Mendoza, CH
Peterson, SP Powers, HC Summerson