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Dr. Sal Genovese Growing up near Sheepshead Bay, in Brooklyn, New York, provided me with an escape to the ocean on the fishing boats that lined the harbor. I later headed to Swarthmore College as a biology major entertaining thoughts of medical school, but a coral reef ecology field class I attended in the USVI during the summer of sophomore year changed everything. I returned to St John later that winter to assist Don Levitan with research examining population dynamics of the black sea urchin, Diadema antillarum. During my 6 months on St. John, I met Dr. Jon Witman, who would later become my Ph.D. advisor at Northeastern University. My dissertation research was based in the Gulf of Maine, where I studied onshore/offshore differences in suspension feeding community dynamics. At the same time, I became close friends with fellow aquanauts, Jim Leichter and Greg Shellenbarger. After completing my Ph.D., and then a post-doctoral research position
at Brown University, I returned to Northeastern University in 1997 to
direct the East/West Marine Biology Program. This year-long program provides
upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students from throughout
the U.S. and the world, the opportunity to study marine biology in three
distinct locations: Friday Harbor Laboratory in the Pacific Northwest,
Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in Jamaica, and at Northeastern University's
Marine Science Center in Massachusetts.
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