Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, Florida

36 Credits. Major: Marine Biology and Fisheries

Department of Biology, San Diego, California

30 Credits. Major: Ecology; Minor: Physiology of marine larval fishes

Institute für Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany

27 hours per week over 4 Semesters (~40 Cr.). Major: Biological Marine Science; Minor: Zoology

Biologisches Institut an der Morgenstelle, Tübingen, Germany

23 hours per week over 5 Semesters (~50 Cr.). Major: Biology; Minor: Chemistry

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149

Conducting collaborative research on development of technologies for spawning and culture of larval and juvenile Cobia, Drums and Croakers (incl. Spotted Seatrout), and Mutton Snapper.

Teaching parts of Aquaculture Management, including class lectures on live food production (micro-algae, rotifers, Artemia), enrichment techniques, water quality, seafood market of aquaculture species and seafood quality control. Set up of laboratory demonstrations on plankton, fish larvae and larval fish experiments with spotted seatrout to be conducted by students. The emphasis of my teaching is placed on the visualization of zooplankton and fish larvae via digital still or video cameras attached to dissecting and compound microscopes. Beginning Fiscal Year 2003 Consultant in $197,000 State of Florida grant on "Intensive and Extensive Larval Rearing of Cobia in Tanks, Mesocosms and Ponds", P.I. Dr. Daniel D. Benetti. Other consulting work includes marine fish hatchery design, selection of suitable species, transport of fingerlings, and offshore cage culture site assessment

Serve as an independent, competent third-party specialist/consultant for the seafood industry Reports and digital images are made available to clients on my web sites: http://www.sciencefish.com and http://www.mediafish.com. Clients Include:

- Aquafarms International, internal quality control (QC) and design and analysis of microbiology tests regarding status and changes in shelf life and nutritional composition/quality of seafood. Tests carried out by Silliker laboratories.

- Hellman Worldwide Perishable Logistics, HACCP plan development and training of personnel in HACCP compliance and seafood Quality Control.

- Pescanova, Inc, inspection reports (QC) of arriving containers of frozen seafood.

- Sysco Corporation, Inc., part of Sysco Food's independent seafood quality assurance specialists group.

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149

- 09/97-05/01 Member of the Fisheries Ecosystem Modeling and Assessment Research Group (FEMAR)

- 9/96 - 9/98 Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), serving as scientific research diver, aquaculture systems manager, and experimental biologist, Center for Marine Environmental Analyses (CMEA)

- 9/92 - 1/96 GRA. Among other duties, captured, transported, and spawned of coral reef fishes for larval fish experiments; set up larval fish experiments and assisted in the research on the physiology and growth of early life history stage coral reef fishes; sorted and identified ichthyo- and zooplankton samples from the Florida Current.

- Spring 2000 Aquaculture Management, MAF 511

- Fall 1999 Biometrics in Marine Science, MBF 508

- Fall 94, 95, Spring 1998 Aquaculture (3x), MBF 513

1720 S. Shores Drive, San Diego, CA 92109

Conducted applied research and successfully developed technologies for large-scale production of white seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, and California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, juveniles as part of the Ocean Resources Enhancement and Hatchery Program (OREHP), a California Fish & Game funded program at Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute (HSWRI) in collaboration with San Diego State University. Supervised 5 - 8 staff members at all levels of the culture process, including live food production (micro-algae, rotifers, Artemia), larval fish rearing, juvenile grow-out, spawning and broodstock maintenance, water quality monitoring, water sterilization and hygiene at all levels of the culture process. Major achievement was the enhancement in the efficiency of the culture staff by the division of duties and development of automated aquaculture systems.

1) Broodstock Management

a) Conducted research leading to the successful development of environmentally induced, year-around spawning technology

b) Designed and managed of low-cost recirculating aquaculture systems used as independently operating, environmentally controlled broodstock tanks

c) Conducted research and succeeded in maximizing production of eggs production and enhancement of egg quality

d) Developed viable bio-security protocols for the treatments of broodstock fish, fish eggs, larvae and juveniles

e) Use of Anesthetics

2) Live Food Production

a) Micro-algae: Successfully conducted applied research in maximizing production of micro-algae via design of batch, semi-continuous and continuous culture systems and development of culture media and culture regimes. Species included Chaetoceros sp., Dunaliella sp., Isochrysis galbana, Nannochloropsis oculata and Tetraselmis suecica

b) Rotifer, Brachionus plicatilis, culture: Successfully conducted applied research aimed maximizing the production of rotifers and their nutritional quality via enrichment for white seabass and California halibut larvae. Developed viable technologies for batch and semi-continuous rotifer culture systems, rotifer culture production management, rotifer enrichment methodologies, semi-automated harvest, and automated delivery to larval fish tanks

c) Artemia: Conducted research on all aspects of Artemia used in finfish culture. These included

developing technologies for mass decapsulation and storage of Artemia cysts, sterilization of cysts, design of an efficient nauplii harvester, meta-nauplii, juvenile and adult Artemia production

d) Copepods and Wild Zooplankton: Conducted research on the developing methodologies for the culture and management copepod cultures. Species included Acartia sp., Euterpina sp., Pseudodiaptomus sp, Tigriopus sp., and Tisbe sp. Developed plankton collectors and used wild zooplankton as additional low-cost live feeds for larval fish cultures

3) Larval Fish Culture

Conducted research and succeeded in developing technologies for

a) Egg and early larval fish incubation

b) Larval fish production technology able to utilize up to four million larvae from eight separate spawns in eight, two-ton culture tanks

c) Determining optimal stocking and feeding densities

d) Optimal range of temperature salinity and other daily monitored water quality parameters

e) Secondary larval rearing

f) Automated live food delivery

h) Degassing and sterilization of incoming water

i) Conditioning and weaning of larvae to non-live feeds including frozen, moist and dry feeds

j) Grading and transfer of larvae

k) Larval feeding and optimization of growth feed conversion efficiency and survival of larvae

l) Understanding the distinct phases in the ontogeny of larvae

m) Treatments of pathology in white seabass and California halibut larvae

4) Culture of Juveniles

Conducted research and developed methodologies on white seabass juveniles aimed at

a) Determining food consumption, optimizing growth, feed conversion efficiency and survival using different feeds, daily rations and feeding frequencies

b) Daily monitoring of water quality tank hygiene and fish pathology

c) Grading and transfer of juveniles

5) Stock Enhancement

Conducted research and developed methodologies on juvenile white seabass for

a) Tagging and evaluation of post-tagging survival

b) Use of anesthetics

c) Transfer, acclimation and management of fish during transport

d) Acclimation and release of fish into bays in Southern California

6) Special Projects

a) Development of assessed techniques for larval fitness in larval fish cohorts

b) Developed and formulated fatty acid, phospho-lipid, and vitamin contents of feeds for larval and juvenile marine white seabass in joint projects with several U.S. feed manufacturers

c) Conducted research on pathology of white seabass larvae and juveniles by isolating strains of Aeromonas sp., Pseudomonas sp., and Vibrio sp. in a joint project w/ Dr. Ron Hedrick, Univ. of California at Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine

Southwest Fisheries Science Center

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92038

Conducted laboratory research on white seabass larvae to determine:

a) The effect of phytoplankton species feed to rotifers and added to larval fish tanks on larval fish growth and survival

b) The effect of Artemia strains and larval fish growth and survival

c) The effect of temperature larval fish growth and survival

d) The effect of temperature on yolk absorption efficiency

e) The effect of temperature on time at first of feeding

f) The time at 50% gas bladder inflation in larvae

g) The effect of salinity on survival of eggs

h) The daily feeding rate

i) Gross growth conversion efficiency

j) Conducted laboratory research to determine growth rates of white seabass juveniles

k) Maintained and produced micro-algae, rotifers, and Artemia-nauplii

l) Presented results of larval fish research at the annual meetings of the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CALCOFI) in 1983 and 1984

- 1982 to present Aquaculture experience with these fish species (species w/ tropical distributions in bold): Northern anchovy, striped bass, rock beauty, cobia, red drum, Nassau grouper, blue-striped grunt, white grunt, California halibut, rock hind, red hind, greater amberjack, yellowtail jack, mahi-mahi, Atlantic menhaden, scaled sardine, European seabass, giant seabass, white seabass, gilt-head seabream, spotted seatrout, lane snapper, mutton snapper, yellowtail snapper, Beluga sturgeon, Siberian Sturgeon, blue-head wrasse, and yellow-head wrasse

- 5/21/02 - 5/26/02 Participant at the "First World Congress on Sustainable Fisheries" held at Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami, Florida

- 1988-2002 Six-time attendance of the annual meetings of the World Aquaculture Society

- 10/5/01 - 10/9/01 Participant at the National Fisheries Institute's annual meeting held at the West Coast Seafood Show, Los Angeles, California

- 07/98 Invited lecturer in two-week workshop on "Advanced Techniques in Marine Finfish Aquaculture", held at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida

- 5/86 Two-week course on Fish diseases taken at Scripps Aquarium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California

- Computer Operating Systems: Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and Linux

- Programming: FORTRAN, UNIX scripts, SPSS, and html

- Software: IDL, SPSS, SAS, Matlab, Systat, MS Excel, MS Word, Corel WordPerfect, Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Illustrator

- FieldWork: Advanced Research Diver and Boat Operator

- Languages besides English: a) Fluent or native: German (FAO level C) and Turkish (C),

b) Working Knowledge: Spanish (B), French (B), and Portuguese (B)

- 2001 HACCP Certification. Seafood Inspection, National Marine Fisheries Service - USDC

- 1999 Laboratory Safety Training Certification - University of Miami

- 1995 Nitrox Diver Certification - Diving Safety Office - University of Miami

- 1995 Boating and Seamanship Certification - U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

- 1992 - 1999 CPR and First Aid Certifications. Diving Safety Office - University of Miami

- 1984 Laboratory Safety Training Certification - State of California

- 1984 Safe Driver Certification - State of California

Best student paper in Fisheries Biology awarded by the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists at the Southern California Academy of Sciences meeting, May 1992, Los Angeles, CA

- World Aquaculture Society (WAS since 1987)

- American Fisheries Society (AFS since 1992)

- International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN since 1995)

Orhun MR, Benetti DD (in Press) Overview of the Aquaculture Status and Potential of Corvinas, Drums, and Croakers (family Sciaenidae). Global Aquaculture Alliance Advocate

Benetti DD, Learn JF, Stevens O, Rotman F, Banner-Stevens G, Zimmermann S, Feeley MW, Matzie W, Orhun MR, O'Hanlon B, Eldridge L 2001 Marine fish culture in Latin American and Caribbean countries: Global Aquaculture Alliance Advocate Vol. 4 (4): 71-74

Orhun, MR. Benetti, DD 2001 Rotifer management in marine fish culture. Global Aquaculture Alliance Advocate Vol. 4 (3): 49-50.

Haktenir, AT, Beken MD, and Orhun MR 1997. Design and Application of a 16 Port Feeder Control Unit. In "Mediterranean Fisheries Congress", B Hossu (ed.), pg.: 119-122. Proceeding of the Med. Fish. Con. 9-11, April 1997, Istanbul, Turkey.

Orhun MR 1993. Growth and Energetics of Larval White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis (Sciaenidae), Ann. Conf. Amer. Fish. Soc., in Austin, Texas, 1993 (Abstract)

Orhun MR 1992. Early Life History of White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, presented at the Annual meeting of the Southern Calif. Acad. of Sciences, May 1- 2, 1992 (Abstract)

Orhun MR, Johnson SR, Kent DB, and RF Ford 1991 Practical Approach to High Density Rotifer Production, In "Rotifer and Micro algae Culture Systems", Fulks and Main (eds.), pg.: 73-78. Proceedings of an U.S. - Asia Workshop. Honolulu, HI, 1991. The Oceanic Institute

Orhun MR 1984 Growth of White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, presented at the Annual meeting of the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigative Reports, 1984 (Abstract)

- Manuscripts in preparation from dissertation research:

1) Growth of fish larvae and the……….. hypothesis

2) An analytical model of predation on cohorts of marine fish larvae

3) An individual-based model of predation on two cohorts of coral reef fish larvae

- Currently in the process of developing two aquaculture classes for the undergraduate and graduate student levels (lectures and laboratory sessions)

- Emphasis of current aquaculture research is focused on the early life history stages of tropical marine fishes from the egg through the early juvenile stage. I am specifically interested in the comparative analysis of distinctive characteristics in the pro-larval, flexion, post-flexion larval and early juvenile stages. Part of this research on physiological and morphological characteristics of early life history stages is intended for the selection of new candidate species for aquaculture by cross-species (within the same or related genera) comparative analysis

- 08/2002-Present Coordinator for the under water clean up efforts of the sea grass beds off the Village of Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida

- 1996 Conservation of elasmobranch (shark and skates) resources; compiling of global data base on shark population dynamics and other issues to be presented to the Commission on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES). Research as member of the Shark Specialist Group (SSG) of IUCN led by president of SSG Dr. Samuel Gruber

- 1993-1999 Computer committee representative of the marine science student organization (MSGSO) at the University of Miami, RSMAS

- Summers 1994, 96, 97, 98 and 99 Supervision of summer interns at the high school, undergraduate and graduate student levels

- Summers 1995 96, 97, 98 and 99 Teaching inner city high school students in fisheries biology, oceanography and aquaculture. These included class lectures as well as field demonstrations in beach seining, identification of fish species and making of fish print T-shirts