Luiz A. Rocha
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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 |
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]
Bildung
[edit]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.
Career
[edit]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]
Taxon named in his honor
[edit]- The Parrotfish Sparisoma rocha Pinheiro, Gasparini & I. Sazima, 2010 and
- The Sweeper fish Rocha's sweeper Pempheris rochai J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 were named in Rocha's honor for his contributions to ichthyology.
Honors and awards
[edit]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]
Taxon described by him
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Profile: Luiz A. Rocha". 2016.
- ^ "Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty". www.eeb.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ "CAS Research Professors | SFSU Department of Biology". biology.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
- ^ Kells, Valerie A.; Rocha, Luiz A.; Allen, Larry G. (2016-01-22). A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to California. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421418322.
- ^ "Luiz A. Rocha - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ Rocha, Luiz A.; Robertson, D. Ross; Roman, Joe; Bowen, Brian W. (2005-03-22). "Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 272 (1563): 573–579. doi:10.1098/2004.3005. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 1564072. PMID 15817431.
- ^ Gaither, Michelle R.; Bernal, Moisés A.; Coleman, Richard R.; Bowen, Brian W.; Jones, Shelley A.; Simison, W. Brian; Rocha, Luiz A. (2015-04-01). "Genomic signatures of geographic isolation and natural selection in coral reef fishes". Molecular Ecology. 24 (7): 1543–1557. doi:10.1111/mec.13129. ISSN 1365-294X. PMID 25753379.
- ^ Rocha, Luiz A.; Pinheiro, Hudson T.; Shepherd, Bart; Papastamatiou, Yannis P.; Luiz, Osmar J.; Pyle, Richard L.; Bongaerts, Pim (2018-07-20). "Mesophotic coral ecosystems are threatened and ecologically distinct from shallow water reefs". Science. 361 (6399): 281–284. Bibcode:2018Sci...361..281R. doi:10.1126/science.aaq1614. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30026226.
- ^ Rocha, Luiz A. (2018-03-20). "Opinion | Bigger Is Not Better for Ocean Conservation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- ^ Texas), Luiz Rocha (University of (2015-08-03). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Halichoeres socialis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- ^ "Stewart Award | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists". asih.org. Retrieved 2020-11-24.