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Rodney A. Rountree |
Marine Biologist |
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers, the
State University of New Jersey, 1992 M.S., Marine Biology, College of
Charleston, Charleston Higher Education Consortium, Charleston, South
Carolina, 1987 B.S. (with Honors), Marine Biology,
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1983 |
EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW
Dr. Rountree has over 30 years of experience as a professional marine ecologist. He has managed multidisciplinary estuarine and fisheries programs for the National Marine Fisheries Service and University of Massachusetts. He is a recognized international leader in the development of passive acoustic technology applications to fisheries and marine exploration. Dr. Rountree has published over 60 papers and reports with over 1900 citations. His work has been chronicled in the New York Times, NPR, Discover Magazine, and on-line. Dr. Rountree has maintained a popular web site at http://www.fishecology.org since 1998 which provides important raw data, analyses and research descriptions and targets academics and resource management professionals, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. An effort is also made to present some information in laymen format.
Senior Ecologist, Founder, The Fish Listener. Dr. Rountree founded
a small consulting firm to conduct research on marine and freshwater soundscape
ecology. November 2016-present
Visiting
Professor, Department of Biology, University of
Victoria, BC, Canada. Research affiliate
working in the laboratory of Francis Juanes on various passive acoustic
projects, including study of deep-sea fish sounds from the Neptune, Venus and
other underwater observatories. Jan 2016
to present.
Research Associate and Program Manager for the Mount Hope Bay Estuarine
Laboratory and the Fisheries Observation Program at the School for Marine
Science and Technology, UMass Dartmouth.
November 2002 – 2005.
Acting Chief, Food Chain Dynamics Investigation,
Woods Hole Laboratory, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, NMFS, Woods
Hole, Massachusetts. Dr. Rountree conducted a major overhaul of the FCDI data
archives, and was responsible for supervising research activities of 9 staff in
extensive annual monitoring and hypothesis driven research projects. November
1995-November 1997.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
Rountree, R.A., G.R. Gilmore, C. Goudey, T. Hawkins, J. Luczkovich,
and D. Mann. 2006. Listening to
Fish: Applications of Passive Acoustics
to Fisheries Science. Fisheries 31(9):433-446.
Rountree, R.A., and K.W. Able. 2007. Spatial and temporal habitat use patterns for salt marsh nekton: implications for functions. Aquatic Ecology 41:25-45.
Rountree, R.A., Francis Juanes, Clifford A. Goudey and Kenneth E. Ekstrom. 2012. Is biological sound production important in the deep sea? Pp. 181-183. In: The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life.
Rountree, Rodney A., and Francis Juanes. 2018. Potential for use of passive acoustic monitoring of piranhas in the Pacaya–Samiria National Reserve in Peru. Freshwater Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13185
Rountree, R.A., F. Juanes, and M. Bolgan. 2018. Air movement sound production by alewife, white sucker, and four salmonid fishes suggests the phenomenon is widespread among freshwater fishes. PLoS ONE 13(9): e0204247. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204247.
Rountree R.A., Bolgan M. & Juanes F. 2018. How Can We Understand Freshwater Soundscapes Without Fish Sound Descriptions? Fisheries https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10190