Joseph W. Smith
NOAA Beaufort Lab Oral Histories
Interviews with retired staff of NOAA Beaufort Lab, documenting their academic background, career path, research focus, and reflections on their work in the lab.
- Joseph W. Smith: Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA..
- He received his Bachelor’s Degree in biology at Saint Joseph University in Philadelphia in 1975.
- He received his Master’s Degree in Marine Science from Willian & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, in 1980.
- Joe worked for the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department at Fort Johnson in Charleston, SC, from 1979 to 1983. He held a biologist position with the Recreational Finfish Section, the Commercial Statistics Office, and the MARMAP Program.
- In spring 1983 he was hired by the Menhaden Program at NOAA’s Beaufort (NC) Laboratory. There, he supervised menhaden port samplers on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, managed menhaden fishery-dependent data bases, and was the federal liaison to the menhaden industry.
- He retired from the Beaufort Laboratory in 2015.
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