STEPHEN BORTONE, Professor
B.S., Albright College
M.S., Florida State University
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

sbortone@d.umn.edu

315 LSci

Department of Biology

Ph. 218-726-6926

Minnesota Sea Grant

Ph. 218-726-8107

Stephen A. Bortone is Director of the Minnesota Sea Grant College Program located in Duluth where he has an appointment as Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Formerly he held positions as Director of the Marine Laboratory at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation in Sanibel, Florida, Director of Environmental Science at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, and Director of the Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Research while Professor of Biology at the University of West Florida. Dr. Bortone received a B.S. degree from Albright College in Reading, PA; a M.S. degree from Florida State University, Tallahassee; and the Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1973.

For the past 40 years, he has conducted research on the life history of aquatic organisms, especially fishes, and seagrasses, chiefly in the southeastern U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico. He has published over 150 scientific articles on the broadest aspects of the Aquatic Sciences. In addition he has edited three books on the aquatic sciences: Sea Grasses, Biology of the Spotted Sea Trout, and Estuarine Indicators - all with CRC Press.

Conducting his research and teaching activities, Dr. Bortone has traveled widely. He has served as Visiting Scientist at The Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) and conducted extensive field surveys with colleagues from La Laguna University in the Canary Islands. He was Mary Ball Washington Scholar at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has received numerous teaching and research awards, including the title "Fellow" from the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists and "Certified Senior Ecologist" by the Ecological Society of America.

Research Interests:

• Fishes
• Community ecology
• Artificial reefs
• Estuarine ecology
• Biostatistics

Teaches:

• Ecological Statistics

Recent Publications:

• Bortone, S.A. (in press). Coupling fisheries with ecology through artificial reef deployments in eastern North America. Proceedings of the Fourth World Fisheries Congress.
• Bortone, S.A. 2008. Insight into the status and trends of Tarpon in southwest Florida through historical data recorded on scales. Pages 69-77. In: J. Ault (ed.). Biology and Management of the World Tarpon and Bonefish Fisheries. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, Florida.
• Jordan, F., H.L. Jelks, S.A. Bortone, and R.M. Dorazio. 2007. Comparison of visual survey and seining methods for estimating abundance of endangered, benthic stream fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes.
• Bortone, S.A., G.J. Holt, and D. Engle. 2007. Perspectives on tarpon, based on the historical recreational fishery in the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 59: 31-36.
• Bortone, S.A. 2007. Establishing an environmental bioindicator network to evaluate the impact of extreme events. Environmental Bioindicators 2(2):57-59.
• Milbrandt, E.C., J.M. Greenawalt, J.M., P.D. Sokoloff and S.A. Bortone. 2006. Impact and response of southwest Florida mangroves to the 2004 hurricane season. Estuaries and Coasts 29(6A):979-984.
• Bortone, S.A. 2006. Recommendations on establishing a research strategy in the Gulf of Mexico to assess the effects of hurricanes on coastal ecosystems. Estuaries and Coasts 29(6A):1062-1066.
• Bortone, S.A., A. J. Martignette, and J. Spinelli. 2006. Spotted seatrout (family Sciaenidae) growth as an indicator of estuarine conditions in San Carlos Bay. Florida Scientist 69(Supplement 2): 127-139.
• Bortone, S.A. 2006. A perspective of artificial reef research: the past, present, and future. Bull. Mar. Sci. 78(1):1-8.

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