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Dr. James Leicter Jim grew up in New York, but also spent time in Vermont (where, in fact, he was first certified to dive in Lake Champlain), before attending college in California. His interest in marine biology and oceanography goes all the way back to early trips to the beaches of Long Island, and then developed through college courses at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, CA. Immediately after college he worked as a technician at Hopkins Marine Station and as a Research Intern at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. These two jobs provided excellent hands-on opportunities to see what marine research and field work are really like, and got Jim sufficiently hooked on the idea of attending graduate school that he applied and decided to attend Northeastern University. At Northeastern, he worked with Dr. Jon Witman, where he did a great deal of cold water diving in the Gulf of Maine. Jim also worked as a teaching assistant in the East/West Marine Biology Program in Friday Harbor, Washington, and Discover Bay, Jamaica. After completing the masters program at Northeastern he returned to Hopkins Marine Station to pursue his Ph.D. at Stanford. Since completing the Ph.D. program at Stanford in 1997, Jim has been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Getting into research in marine biology and oceanography has provided some incredible opportunities to do research in a wide range of environments. Jim has worked in the warm waters of the Florida Keys, Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, Discovery Bay Jamaica, Great Barrier Reef Australia, and French Polynesia. And he's also worked in the colder waters of New Zealand, Chile, Washington State, New England, and coastal California. In the past two years, Jim has taught Marine Invertebrate Zoology at Friday Harbor in the East/West Program, and Marine Ecology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station. The good fortune to pursue research and teaching opportunities in varied locations has provided a first-hand appreciation of the variety of habitats and life forms in the ocean. |
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