Matthew Ware Email & Phone Number

I'm a coastal ecologist and an Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology with Florida Gulf Coast University, primarily working on sea turtle conservation and management in the southeastern United States. Through my work, I hope to find better ways for us to balance the human use and continued function of coastal ecosystems. In pursuit of this coastal conservation, I often use geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and environmental modelling in collaboration with stakeholders, citizen science groups, and students to explore abundance, behavioral, and distribution patterns in marine organisms and their environmental or anthropogenic drivers. I received my PhD in Biological Oceanography from Florida State University in 2019 and my M.Sc. in Marine Biology and Marine Environmental Science from Nova Southeastern University in 2015.