AboutI am an assistant professor at Florida International University, broadly interested in the behaviour and physiology of fishes. While I use a variety of tools, I particularly like novel electronic tags that can more directly tell us what an animal is doing in the wild. While we are getting increasingly good at being able to tell where animals are going, we know a lot less about what animals are doing or why they are doing it. In other words, why is the animal making the movements/migrations that we see? The majority of my research has been with sharks but I also work with other fishes and reptiles. Being able to answer these questions is a critical step in conservation: if we know what factors drive patterns of movement then we can quickly and accurately predict what sort of areas animals will use (e.g. within Marine Protected Areas).

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

	Movements and foraging of predators associated with mesophotic coral reefs and their potential for linking ecological habitats | article Papastamatiou YP, Meyer CG, Kosaki RK, Wallsgrove NJ, Popp BN (2015) Mar Ecol Prog Ser 521:155-170
	New Records of Commercially Valuable Black Corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at Mesophotic Depths | article Wagner D, Papastamatiou YP, Kosaki RK, Gleason KA, McFall GB, Boland RC, Pyle RL, Toonen RJ (2011) Pac Sci 65:249-255
	Mesophotic coral ecosystems are threatened and ecologically distinct from shallow water reefs | article Rocha LA, Pinheiro HT, Shepherd B, Papastamatiou YP, Luiz OJ, Pyle RL, Bongaerts P (2018) Science

  Rebreather
  Fishing
  Acoustic Telemetry
  Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV)