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Frank Paladino
Jack Schrey Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
Frank Paladino
Jack Schrey Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
Frank Paladino has over 124 reviewed scientific research publications in top international journals with 8 publications in NATURE plus numerous publications in journals such as Proceedings of the Royal Society, PLOS One, Journal of Experimental Biology, Physiological Zoology, American Zoologist, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Revue Canadienne de Biologie, Biological Conservation, & Chelonian Biology & Conservation.
He has received over $5,500,000 in external grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, The Pew Foundation, Goldring Family Foundation, the Moore Foundation, the Gund Family Foundation & The Center for Field Research. Frank was elected as the President of the ISTS, elected as a Fellow of the AAAS, elected as a Fellow of the American Physiological Society, is a ISTS Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, and has been the topic of two TV specials by National Geographic, also TV shows on the Discovery Channel and Scholastic Press Internet Network.
He served as Biology Department Head for 22 years and guided the expansion of the department from 12-16 faculty and helped design a new 21 million dollar science building.
In 2003 he organized and incorporated the Leatherback Trust a 501 3C international non-profit together with colleague James R. Spotila of Drexel University. In 2018 he was selected to to serve as the Director of a new Center for Academic Excellence in Marine Conservation and Biology at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He now also serves as President of the Leatherback Trust that has raised millions of dollars for the conservation of leatherback turtles and is now the owner and operator of the Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Laboratory, in Playa Grande, Costa Rica, affiliated with PFW, Purdue, Drexel, Kalamazoo College, National University of Costa Rica, St. Thomas University, Stanford University, University of Western Connecticut, University of Western Kentucky and Monash University in Australia.
He was appointed by the Purdue University Trustees to the Jack W. Schrey Distinguished Chair Professorship and serves as the Director of the Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Laboratory in Costa Rica. He has been awarded the highest honors from the government of Costa Rica for his work and creation of the Parque Marino Las Baulas and is a member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialists Group. For his work with marine turtles the International Sea Turtle Society awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
He has received over $5,500,000 in external grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, The Pew Foundation, Goldring Family Foundation, the Moore Foundation, the Gund Family Foundation & The Center for Field Research. Frank was elected as the President of the ISTS, elected as a Fellow of the AAAS, elected as a Fellow of the American Physiological Society, is a ISTS Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, and has been the topic of two TV specials by National Geographic, also TV shows on the Discovery Channel and Scholastic Press Internet Network.
He served as Biology Department Head for 22 years and guided the expansion of the department from 12-16 faculty and helped design a new 21 million dollar science building.
In 2003 he organized and incorporated the Leatherback Trust a 501 3C international non-profit together with colleague James R. Spotila of Drexel University. In 2018 he was selected to to serve as the Director of a new Center for Academic Excellence in Marine Conservation and Biology at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He now also serves as President of the Leatherback Trust that has raised millions of dollars for the conservation of leatherback turtles and is now the owner and operator of the Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Laboratory, in Playa Grande, Costa Rica, affiliated with PFW, Purdue, Drexel, Kalamazoo College, National University of Costa Rica, St. Thomas University, Stanford University, University of Western Connecticut, University of Western Kentucky and Monash University in Australia.
He was appointed by the Purdue University Trustees to the Jack W. Schrey Distinguished Chair Professorship and serves as the Director of the Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Laboratory in Costa Rica. He has been awarded the highest honors from the government of Costa Rica for his work and creation of the Parque Marino Las Baulas and is a member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialists Group. For his work with marine turtles the International Sea Turtle Society awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.