Jeremy Claisse
Department of Zoology,
University of Hawai`i
2538 McCarthy Mall,
Edmondson 152
Honolulu, HI 96822
claisse@hawaii.edu

Research Interests:
Jeremy received his B.S. in Aquatic Biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara (Go Gauchos!). During his time there he participated in a broad variety of research programs. He spent a summer working on the microbiology and ecology of hydrothermal vent communities of Yellow Stone Lake during a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program through the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He studied leaf cutter ants and frugivorous bats in the jungles of Costa Rica while attending a tropical biology education abroad program in Monteverde. Working in Dr. Bob Warner's lab allowed him to spend a summer field season down in St. Croix studying parrotfish sex change and alternative mating strategies.

Since 2002, Jeremy has been a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and became a member of the Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit. As a research assistant he worked on a project studying the competitive interactions of an introduced snapper with native goatfish through diet analysis and active fish tracking using acoustic telemetry.

Jeremy's dissertation research focuses on understanding how the life history and species biology of Hawaii's #1 targeted species for the commercial marine aquarium trade (the yellow tang, Zebrasoma flavescens) affect it's fate within a marine protected area network set up along the west coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i. The project is currently focused on understanding and quantifying 4 main areas of yellow tang biology: (1) movement, (2) mortality, (3) age and growth, and (4) reproduction.