Dr. David Secor is a fisheries ecologist and Regents Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. Dr. Secor graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in 1983, and at the University of South Carolina’s Baruch Institute, receiving a Ph.D in 1990. His research group investigates coastal fish migration and habitat use. Recent research includes habitat and population studies on white perch, striped bass, weakfish, bluefish, sturgeon, blue crab, American eel, menhaden, bluefin tuna, and small skates and rays. He advises the Chesapeake Bay Program and other state and federal agencies on stock assessment, climate impacts and ecosystem-based fisheries management