Frank Paladino

Jack W. Schrey

Distinguished Professor

Science Building, Room 330

[email protected]

Sophie Mills

Graduate Research Assistant

Science Building, Room G53

Our Alumni

• THOMAS BACOF

  

  Thomas Backof who worked in Greece studying loggerhead sea turtles is now a marine biologist working for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on South Padre Island. His work with the endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle has been critical to the survival of this marine reptile.

• NATHAN ROBISON

  

  Nathan Robinson is a marine biologist and science communicator who has been at the center of some viral videos, including the removal of a plastic straw from a sea turtles nose, a plastic fork from another, and footage of the giant squid in US waters.

• LAUREN CRUZ

  

  A 2016 Purdue Fort Wayne biology alumni, Lauren Cruz is now working as a research biologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. She just published her first scientific paper in the Journal of Marine Biology on the impact of light on the behavior of emerging hatchling Olive Ridley sea turtles. She is now working along the east coast with nesting sea turtles and birds.

• AMBER RHODES

  

  Amber Rhodes is working for the United States National Park Service as a research biologist on the east coast. She also works with sea turtles along the Virginia and North Carolina coast.