Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Steve received a BS in Biology from Juniata College in Pennsylvania. He studied phytoplankton in the Chesapeake Bay and fish in coastal Maine and Wyoming before becoming a wetland biologist in coastal North Carolina for three years. Having joined the Coop unit in 2009, he is finishing an MS in Fisheries from Louisiana State University studying the effects of oyster harvest on oyster reef communities. Currently a research associate, he is also studying larval and juvenile fish movement through water control structures in coastal levees.