Dr. Sharon Herzka is an Associate Professor in the Marine Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies fish ecology, larval transport and recruitment, isotope ecology and Gulf oceanography. She earned her Ph.D. in marine science from The University of Texas at Austin. Herzka’s research has focused on drivers of larval fish community structure and dispersal, inferring nutrient sources using bulk and compound-specific stable isotope ratios as tracers. Her research has contributed to the understanding of the physical and biological processes that underlie larval fish abundance and distribution, their connectivity through physical transport processes, Gulf-wide nitrogen sources and the relationship between secondary production and oceanographic features such as mesoscale eddies, fronts, and convergent currents.
Project Title
- “Validation and monitoring of holoplanktonic Sargassum along the Texas Coastal Bend”
