Deanna Pinkard
NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC
Research Fisheries Biologist (ZP-02)
EDUCATION:
Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL 32901
M.S., May 2002
34 Semester Hours
Major: Marine Biology
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
B.S., 1999
180 Quarter Hours
Major: Aquatic Biology
WORK EXPERIENCE:
NOAA/NMFSSouthwest Fisheries Science Center
8604 La Jolla Shores Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037 / Dates Employed: 08/2004-present
Research Fisheries Biologist
Work experience includes collecting rockfish and abalone stock assessment data using a remotely operated vehicle, processing survey track data, maintaining and updating a large database, analyzing and interpreting biological and oceanographic data, writing cruise reports, writing papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals, supervising data processing activities, and collaborating with scientists from other organizations.
Rosenstiel School of Marine &
Atmospheric Science
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 32901 / Dates Employed: 07/2002-08/2004
Research Associate I
Work experience included overseeing laboratory activities and personnel, reading otoliths, maintaining and updating a large database, analyzing and interpreting biological and oceanographic data, preparing figures and text for publication, and leading field operations including diving and light trapping.
150 West University Blvd
Melbourne, FL 32901 / Dates Employed: 08/2000-8/2002
Laboratory Instructor
Work experience includes preparing and teaching Introductory Biology laboratory classes, lecturing on topics in plant and animal biology, maintaining fresh and salt water tanks used to hold live fish and invertebrates, maintaining cultures of invertebrates for experimentation, and assisting students in experimental set ups and writing. In addition, I occasionally lectured to a class of 100 students on topics in Biology.
150 West University Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901 / Dates Employed: 08/2000-6/2002
Graduate Researcher
Thesis study involved an investigation of the biology of the yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus, and included the following frequent activities:
Field work: collecting adult fish from fishermen, length and weight measurements, conducting surveys to assess juvenile population dynamics, visual estimates of fish lengths, conducting visual surveys of fish densities, seining to catch newly recruited juvenile fish, plankton tows to collect larval fish.
Lab work: dissecting fish to remove gonads, measuring and assessing developmental stages of oocytes with an image analysis program (NIH Image), maintaining juvenile fish for extended periods in a closed seawater system.
Data management: data analysis including ANOVA, t-tests, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and correlation analyses using Systat and Microsoft Excel; presentation of data in graphical, tabular, and text forms.
Fisheries work: collection of samples from fishermen, and interviewing fishermen to gather information on the biology of the study species, and their views on current fishing regulations.
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
/ Dates Employed: 06/1999-01/2000
Research Technician
Main duties involved work with the commercially important sea cucumber, Parastichopus parvimensis, and included the following:
Field work: maintaining several subtidal experiments, leading extensive research diving operations, sediment sampling, leading a tag and recapture effort.
Lab work: maintaining sea cucumbers in a healthy state in a flow-through sea water system, completion of a lab growth study, completion of a lab tag retention study (floy tags and pit tags), culturing P. parvimensis for a growth and settlement preference study, performing monthly dissections to assess changes in reproductive status and resource partitioning, processing sediment samples by combustion and CHN analysis to measure chlorophyll and organic carbon content.
Data management: data entry and analysis, co-authoring a manuscript for publication, reporting to the principal investigator to relay research findings.
Fisheries Issues: Working with fishermen to collect deepwater species, sharing research findings with fishermen, interviewing fishermen.
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
/ Dates Employed: 03/1999-06/1999
Research Technician
Volunteer position in St. Croix, USVI. Main duties involved work with the bucktooth parrotfish, Sparisoma radians, and included the following:
Field work: counting transects, catching and processing spawns, reproductive behavioral observations, extensive boat use
Lab work: performing fish sperm counts, assessing female egg fertilization rates, dissections to remove liver and gonads.
University of Calfornia
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
/ Dates Employed: 06/1998-03/1999
Undergraduate Assistant
Undergraduate research fellow, assisting graduate students and faculty in the completion of projects. The main species studied were both sea cucumbers: Parastichopus parvimensis and Pacythyone rubra. Activities led to my post-graduate technician position described previously, and included the following:
Field work: research diving, small boat operations, intertidal sampling Data management: entering data, creating preliminary reports, performing extensive literature searches
Lab work: assessment of tagging procedures, assessment of reliability of lab growth measurements, preparation of materials for a fish food preference study, setting up tanks for sea cucumber rearing.
193 Clark’s Cove Road
Walpole, ME 04573 / Dates Employed: 06/1997-09/1997
Research Intern
Activities included the following:
Field work: research diving, participation in an 8-day R.O.V. research cruise aimed to assess the effects of trawling on the benthos, benthic grab sampling, trawl sampling.
Lab work: sorting benthic samples, identifying benthic organisms, completion of an independent Cumacean behavioral study.
4918 N. Harbor Drive #101
San Diego, CA 92106 / Dates Employed: 06/1996-09/1996
Research Intern
Entry-level intern position working for the City of San
Diego Ocean Monitoring Program, which acts to monitor activities of
the Point Loma wastewater treatment plant.
Lab work: processed benthic grab samples, microscopic
identification work, literature searches, organized a Procite database,
dissected fish for chemical analysis, performed toxicity analyses.
Field work: identified animals caught in trawls
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
/ Dates Employed: 02/1996-06/1996
Undergraduate Volunteer
Volunteer for a rock fish study conducted by Dr. Mark Carr at UCSB (currently at UCSC)
Activities included video tape analysis for rock fish identification and sizes, tagging fish, rig fishing, and data entry.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My current research interests include devising new methods to study fragile species and habitats with regards to evaluating and minimizing the effects of fishing pressure. My research focus has included a variety of fisheries issues, ranging from the seasonal reproductive characteristics of a commercially fished sea cucumber to the population status of heavily fished rockfish and abalone. In addition, I am interested in the effects the physical environment has on fisheries issues such as larval recruitment and juvenile growth.
HONORS AND AWARDS
International Women's Fishing Association Research Grant (2001)
PADI Project AWARE Foundation Research Grant (2001)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member of the Marine Technology Society
Member of the Western Society of Naturalists
PUBLICATIONS
J. Butler, M. Neuman, D. Pinkard, R. Kvitek and G. Cochrane. In press. The use of multibeam benthic habitat mapping techniques to refine population estimates of the endangered white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni). Fishery Bulletin.
D. Pinkard, D. Kocak, and J. Butler. 2005. Use of a video and laser system to quantify transect area for remotely operated vehicle (ROV) rockfish and abalone surveys. Proceedings of MTS/IEEE Oceans ’05.
S. Sponaugle, K. Grorud-Colvert and D. Pinkard. 2006. Temperature-mediated variation in early life history traits and recruitment success of the coral reef fish Thalassoma bifasciatum in the Florida Keys. Marine Ecology Progress Series, featured article. v. 308.
S. Sponaugle and D.R. Pinkard. 2004. Impact of variable pelagic environments on natural larval growth and recruitment of the reef fish Thalassoma bifasciatum. Journal of Fish Biology. V. 64.
S. Sponaugle and D.R. Pinkard. 2004. Lunar cyclic population replenishment of a coral reef fish: shifting patterns following oceanic events. Marine Ecology Progress Series. v. 267.
S. Sponaugle, T. Lee, V. Kourafalou, and D.R. Pinkard. 2005. Florida Current frontal eddies and the settlement of coral reef fishes. Limnology and Oceanography v. 50 (4).
D. R. Pinkard and J.M. Shenker. Seasonal variation in density, size, and habitat distribution of juvenile yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus) in relation to spawning patterns in the Florida Keys. American Zoologist, Dec. 2001.
D.R. Pinkard, G.L. Eckert, and D.C. Reed. Seasonal variation in density and body composition of the commercially important sea cucumber, Parastichopus parvimensis. Gulf of Mex. Sci., Dec. 2001.