Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Biological Sciences,  
  Stanford University 

M.S., Biological Sciences,  
Illinois State University 

B.S., Biological Sciences,  
Illinois State University 

Charles (Chuck) Jacoby comes to the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences after working as a Senior Research Scientist, Business Development Manager, and Acting Officer-in-Charge for Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). In this and previous positions at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, the University of Queensland, and the University of Auckland, he studied a variety of saltwater ecosystems in the United States, the Caribbean, Australia, and New Zealand. In particular, he has led and participated in multidisciplinary teams drawn from universities, private research foundations, government and industry. These teams combined high-quality environmental science with timely delivery of useful products to clients that included private industry and all levels of government.

Chuck's training combines science and business management. He received a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Illinois State University, with his Master's research focusing on crab behavior. His Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University was awarded for a study of the ontogeny of behavior in the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister. Recently, he completed an MBA at the University of Western Australia.

At the University of Florida, Chuck has extension, research and teaching responsibilities. He will develop, coordinate and conduct a new, statewide extension program focusing on coastal and estuarine ecology. Key elements of this program include management of human impacts on water quality and habitat. Chuck will also develop a research program that complements these extension efforts, supervise graduate students, and participate in courses dealing with marine biology, marine ecology, and natural resource management.

Chuck's recent professional interests include deriving performance measures from environmental values, developing robust monitoring programs, and determining the effects of reduced taxonomic resolution on multivariate analyses. Publications on benthic microalgae, meiofauna, infauna, decapod crustaceans, fish, and monitoring reflect his diverse interests.  
 
E-mail: cajacoby@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-9617 ext. 272
Curriculum Vitae includes all publications

Hauxwell, J., C. Jacoby, T. Frazer, J. Stevely. 2001. Nutrients and Florida's coastal waters, The links between people, increased nutrients and changes to coastal aquatic systems.. Florida Sea Grant Publ. SGEB 55. PDF

Jacoby, C. 2000. Jervis Bay Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program. RipRap 17:16-19. PDF

Kennedy, A.D. and C.A. Jacoby. 1999. Biological indicators for monitoring marine environmental health: meiofauna-a neglected benthic component? Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 54: 47-68. PDF

Kendrick, G.A., S. Langtry, J. Fitzpatrick, R. Griffiths and C.A. Jacoby. 1998. Benthic microalgae and nutrient dynamics in wave-disturbed environments in Marmion Lagoon, Western Australia, compared with less disturbed mesocosms. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 228: 83-105. PDF

Jacoby, C., C. Manning, S. Fritz and L. Rose. 1997. Three recent initiatives for monitoring of Australian coasts by the community. Ocean and Coastal Management 36: 205-226. PDF

Langtry, S.K. and C.A. Jacoby. 1996. Fish and decapod crustaceans inhabiting drifting algae in Jervis Bay, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Ecology 21: 264 -271.

Vanderklift, M.A., T.J. Ward and C.A. Jacoby. 1996. Effect of reducing taxonomic resolution on ordinations to detect pollution-induced gradients in macrobenthic infaunal assemblages. Marine Ecology Progress Series 136: 137-145. PDF

Chuck headed up the Jervis Bay study, which included mapping of saltmarsh, mangroves and seagrasses; studies of fish off sandy beaches; and video surveys of macrobenthos.