Voices from the Science Centers

  • Collection DOI:
    10.VSC/1234567890
    Principal Investigator:
    Patricia Pinto da Silva, Joshua Wrigley
  • Voices from the Science Centers is an oral history initiative dedicated to documenting the institutional knowledge of fisheries scientists and administrators in the labs of NOAA’s Fisheries Science Centers.

Interviewee Sort descending Collection Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Anne Richards Voices from the Science Centers

Dr. Anne Richards was born the youngest of five children in Morristown, NJ on June 26, 1952 to parents from Ohio. She moved around a lot growing up and fell in love with New England when she lived here for a short time. Anne intentionally came back to New England to attend Colby College and studied marine Science and became interested in animal behavior. She attended the University of Rhode Island focusing on behavioral and ecological communities of fish in the Zoology department.

Joshua Wrigley Falmouth, MA NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Anthony Calabrese Voices from the Science Centers

Anthony Calabrese was born in Providence, RI on February 25, 1937. Growing up, he was interested in fishing and the ocean. Dr. Calabrese earned his masters at Auburn University in Alabama, and later earned his PhD in Zoology/Ecology from the University of Connecticut. He began his career at the Milford Laboratory in 1963. His early research focused on the effects of pollution on shellfish and he brought his expertise to EPA committees he served on. He published over 70 reports and publications and founded the Flatfish Biology Conference in 1986.

Fred Calabretta Mystic, CT NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Barry Berejikian Voices from the Science Centers

Barry Berejikianwas born in 1967 in Panorama City, California, and spent his childhood summers going north on camping and fishing trips, particularly for trout and salmon. As a behavior ecologist, he leads the Behavioral Ecology Team and the Hatchery Reform Science Program at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Manchester, Washington. He received his B.S. in Environmental and Systematic Biology from California Polytechnic State University in 1990 and his M.S. in 1992 and his PhD. in 1995 in Fisheries from the University of Washington.

Maggie Allen Manchester, WA NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Beth Phelan-Hill Voices from the Science Centers

Beth Phelan Hill, Ph.D. has been a research fishery biologist at the J.J. Howard Marine Sciences Lab at Sandy Hook since 1984. She earned her PhD from Rutgers University. At the time of this interview, she was the Chief of Fisheries Ecology.

Interview contains discussions of:Changes in focus for lab, ecology, ecosystem management, ocean acidification and climate change.

In this interview, Beth Phelan Hill discusses her work with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center including funding challenges and the evolution of data management.

Bonnie McCay Highlands, NJ NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Betty Young Voices from the Science Centers

Interview with Hazel Nishimura, Darryl Tagami, Betty Young, Marian Yong by Edward Glazier. All four interviewees are current or retired employees of the Honolulu Lab which became the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center.

Edward Glazier Aina Haina, HI NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Bradford Brown Voices from the Science Centers

Bradford Brown was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell, his Master's from Auburn and his PhD from Oklahoma State University. He began working for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries at the Woods Hole lab in 1962. He worked in Woods Hole, Massachusetts from 1962 – 1965 and 1970- 1984. In between he served as Assistant Leader of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Oklahoma Cooperative Fisheries Units and as Assistant Professor of Zoology at Oklahoma State University.

Suzana Mic Miami, FL NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Chris Chambers Voices from the Science Centers

Interview includes discussions of: experimental design, Chris Chambers‟s work in Newfoundland, life cycles of mosquitoes, flounder, cod, capelin, nuclear power plants, individual based models, and contaminants.

Chris Chambers describes his experience with experimenting with different species throughout his career, and how this led to becoming involved with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center.

Bonnie McCay Highlands, NJ NOAA-NMFS
Christofer Boggs Voices from the Science Centers

Chris Boggs is a Supervisory Fisheries Research Biologist and the Director of the Fisheries Research and Monitoring Division at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center [PIFSC] in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his B.S. in Biology at the University of Hawaii Manoa. He received his Master's in Oceanography and Limnology as well as his PhD. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He began working at the Honolulu Laboratory in 1985 before it became the PIFSC.  He has spent the early part of his career studying tuna.

Edward Glazier Honolulu, HI NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Clyde MacKenzie Voices from the Science Centers

Clyde MacKenzie completed his undergraduate studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1955 and his master's degree in 1958. He began working for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in 1958, spending 14 years at the Milford Laboratory. While there, his research focus was on predation control in the development of oyster hatcheries. He has spent his entire career working with shellfish and their habitats.

Bonnie McCay Highlands, NJ NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Darryl Tagami Voices from the Science Centers

Interview with Hazel Nishimura, Darryl Tagami, Betty Young, Marian Yong by Edward Glazier. All four interviewees are current or retired employees of the Honolulu Lab which became the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center.

Edward Glazier Aina Haina, HI NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center