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Brad Erisman, PhD (received PhD in April 2008)


Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Aquatic Biology

Undergraduate University: University of California,  Santa Barbara

Postgraduate Degree/s: M.S. Biology

Postgraduate University:  California State University, Northridge

Email:  berisman@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Dr. Phil Hastings 

Research Interests

  • the evolution, life history, behavioral ecology, and conservation of marine fishes

  • the behavior and reproductive biology of serranid fishes (i.e. groupers, seabasses) from the Gulf of Californi

Current Research


Completed Research projects

mutton Hamlet - thumbUsing Reproductive Parameters to Manage Grouper Fisheries in Gulf of California

Thumb-Sea BassReef Fish Conservation in the Eastern Pacific

Discovering the Hidden Biodiversity in the Gulf of California with DeepSee 

Education
Ph.D.  Marine Biology, UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2008 
Thesis:  Reproductive Biology and Evolution of Groupers, Sea Basses, and Related Fish
M.S. Biology, California State Univesrity, Northridge
B.S. Aquatic Biology, UCSB

Publications

Erisman BE, Hastings PA (2008) Breakdown of the size-advantage: Evolutionary changes in mating behavior influence the loss of sex change in groupers. PNAS In review.

Erisman, B.E., and T. Konotchick. 2007. Observations of spawning in the leather bass, Dermatolepis dermatolepis, near Cocos Island, Costa Rica.  Ichthyol Research: In press

Erisman, B.E., M.L. Buckhorn, and P.A. Hastings. 2007. Spawning patterns in the leopard grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea, in comparison with other aggregating groupers. Marine Biology 151:1849 1861

Erisman, B.E., J. Rosales-Casian, and P.A. Hastings 2007. Evidence of gonochorism in a grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea, from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Environ Biol Fishes DOI:10.1007/s10641-007-9246-1.

Erisman, B.E., and L.G. Allen. 2006. Reproductive behavior of a temperate serranid fish, Paralabrax clathratus (Girard), from Santa Catalina Island, California, U.S.A.  J. Fish Biol. 68:157-184. 

Erisman, B.E., and L.G. Allen. 2005. Color Patterns and Associated Behaviors in the Kelp Bass, Paralabrax clathratus (Teleostei: Serranidae).  Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 104:45-62.

Adreani, M.S., B.E. Erisman, and R.R. Warner.  2004. Observations of courtship and spawning behavior in the California sheephead, Semicossyphus pulcher (Pisces: Labridae).  Environ. Biol. Fish. 71:13-19.