Luiz A. Rocha
Luiz A. Rocha | |
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Federal University of Paraiba | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ichthyology Marine conservation Evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | California Academy of Sciences |
| Thesis | Ecology, the Amazon barrier, and speciation in western Atlantic Halichoeres (Labridae). (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian Bowen |
Luiz Alves Rocha is the Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences.[1] He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California Santa Cruz[2] and San Francisco State University.[3]
Education
Rocha has obtained a PhD in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the
Career
Rocha has authored one book[4] and more than 150 scientific articles.[5] He is best known for his work in speciation in coral reef fishes[6] using advanced genomic methodologies to understand fish evolution,[7] and more recently has been actively exploring the diversity of deep (mesophotic) coral reefs throughout the tropics.[8]
He has also published an opinion piece in the New York Times about the problems associated with the creation of large marine protected areas in the open ocean,[9] and has evaluated the conservation status of hundreds of species for the IUCN Red List, including the endangered Social Wrasse.[10]
Taxon named in his honor
- The Parrotfish Sparisoma rocha Pinheiro, Gasparini & I. Sazima, 2010 and
- The Sweeper fish Rocha's sweeper Pempheris rochai J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015 were named in Rocha's honor for his contributions to ichthyology.
Honors and awards
In 2019 he won the inaugural Margaret M. Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence in Ichthyology or Herpetology for his scientific contributions and scholarly impacts on the field of ichthyology.[11]
Taxon described by him
References
- ^ "Profile: Luiz A. Rocha". 2016.
- ^ "Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty". www.eeb.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ "CAS Research Professors | SFSU Department of Biology". biology.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
- ISBN 9781421418322.
- ^ "Luiz A. Rocha - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- PMID 15817431.
- PMID 25753379.
- PMID 30026226.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- ^ Texas), Luiz Rocha (University of (2015-08-03). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Halichoeres socialis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- ^ "Stewart Award | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists". asih.org. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
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