James K. Dooley
Professor
Biology
Adelphi University
United States of America
Biography
James K. Dooley completed Ph.D., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) (1974) M.A., University of South Florida (1969) Bachelor of Science, Biology, University of Miami (Florida) (1964).2016. Efforts headed by Gorka Sancho, College of Charleston and strongly supported by 145 world scientists, including Professor Dooley, resulted in the establishment of the first Marine National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean, off our NE coast designated by by President Obama on 15 October This area of permanent protection includes some 5,000 square miles of unique ocean bottom including three canyons and four underwater mountains (seamounts). Underwater canyons larger than Grand Canyon (as deep but twice as wide) are included. These areas provides critical habitat for many species of: fishes, turtles, sperm, fin and sei whales, and endangered deep sea corals. 2014. Golden Ibis Alumnus Award, University of Miami, (Miami FL). 2014. 40 year service award, Adelphi University.
Research Interest
Evolution, ecology, systematics of fishes; fisheries/environmental science; endangered fish; tilefish morphological and molecular(DNA)phylogeny.
Publications
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Dooley, J.K., K. Kelleperuma, and *L. Jimenez, (2009). Cladistic analyses of the tilefishes (Percoidea: Malacanthidae and Branchiostegidae) using the mitochondrial 16S and cyt.b genes. In Amer. Soc. Ichthyol. & Herpetol.. Portland, OR.
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Dooley, J.K., A. Freeman and Andrea Ward (2016). Experimental techniques for concepts & methods in biology II Laboratory Methods. Ronkomo, NY: Linus Publ..
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James K. Dooley, Jonna Coombs & Eugenia Villa-Cuesta (2016). Experimental Techniques for Concepts and Methods in Biology: Laboratory Methods I. Ronkonkoma, NY: Linus Publications.
