Anthony Inder Mazeroll
Anthony Inder Mazeroll, PhD
I grew up in the Southern California desert (Imperial, CA); the son of a school teacher and a housewife. My parents taught me early on the value of an education and the importance of different cultures. Both my parents were first-generation Americans. My fraternal grandparents were French-Canadian and my mother’s father was from India and her mother from Mexico. Thus I was surrounded by 4 different cultures: French, East-Indian, Mexican, and American. From a young age, I wanted to study the ocean; more specifically fish. Most children go through a phase of being intrigued by the ocean. I just never grew out of it. I primarily study fish ecology of fishes in the Red Sea (Egypt, Israel, and, Jordan) but am currently studying population genetics of fishes from the Peruvian Amazon.
My wife and I have twin daughters and 4 wonderful grandchildren.
- PhD, Northern Arizona University
- MS, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
- BA, University of California, Santa Barbara
- AS, Imperial Valley College
- Animal Behavior
- Core: Enduring Questions
- Ecology
- Environmental Science
- General Biology
- Marine Biology
- Modes of Inquiry
- Learning Cluster
- Human Impacts
- Solar Energy
- Sustainable Development of the Peruvian Amazon
- Behavioral Ecology of Fishes
- Impacts of Human Activities on the Environment
- Population Genetics of Amazonian Fishes
- Mazeroll, Anthony and Nakajima et al. (2017), “The density and biomass of mesozooplankton and ichthyoplankton in the Negro and the Amazon Rivers during the rainy season: the ecological importance of the confluence boundary.” PeerJ 5:e3308; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3308
- “Daily migrations of a coral reef fish in the Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba): initiation and orientation,” Copeia, 1998
- “Does mass spawning enhance fertilization in coral reef fish? A case study of the brown surgeonfish,” Ecology Progress Series, 1998
- “Structure and organization of local migrations in the brown surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigrofuscus),” Ethology, 1995
- Animal Biology Laboratory Manual, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1992
- “Density- and size-dependent spacing of ant nests: evidence for intraspecific competition,” Oecologia, 1988
- 2001-present, Professor at SUA
- 2000-2001, Academic Coordinator, University of CA, Irvine
- 1992-2000, Assistant/Associate Professor of Biology, West Texas A&M University
- 1991-1992, Assistant Professor of Biology, Eastern New Mexico University
- Fulbright Research Fellowship to Jordan, 1999
- West Texas A&M President's Research Excellence Award,1999
- West Texas A&M President's Teaching Excellence Award, 1998
- Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 1994