Faculty & Staff Profiles

Dr. Nicholas Funicelli

Adjunct Professor
nf189@nova.edu

Education
Area(s) of Research

I currently hold an adjunct appointment at the University of Florida, where I am a Principle Investigator on a four year $400,000 research project entitled: Development of YY male technology to control non-native fishes in South Florida.  My team and I believe this approach to controlling invasive organisms has the potential to actually eliminate various existing fish invasions.

As a retired federal marine biologist, my research has been directed to fisheries management and what would be labeled applied research. 

My past projects answer questions about how fishing pressures effect temporal, spatial and size distribution of fish populations.  This has allowed me to understand the dynamics of how and when Marine Protected Areas can be used to manage resources.

I have also researched marine fisheries and ecology, particularly how biotic and a biotic factors affecting fish distributions, abundances, sizes and growth rates.

Statement of Teaching Philosophy

I believe professors have an obligation to not only share knowledge but also to mentor students, which ideally will result in the student achieving a marketable skill as well as becoming a professional peer.

Publications

Grober-Dunsmore, R, TK Frazer, JP Beets, WJ Lindberg, P Zwick and NA Funicelli. 2008. Influence of landscape structure on reef fish assemblages. Landscape Ecology 23:37-53.

Grober-Dunsmore, R, TK Frazer, J Beets, N Funicelli and PD Zwick. 2004. The Significance of Adjacent Habitats on Reef Fish Assemblage Structure: Are Relationships Detectable and Quantifiable at a Landscape-Scale? Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 55: 713-734.

Johnson, DR, NA Funicelli and JA Bohnsack. 1999. Effectiveness of existing estuarine no-take fish sanctuary within the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 19: 436-453.

Johnson, DR and NA Funicelli. 1991. Spawning of red drum in Mosquito Lagoon, east-central Florida. Estuaries 14: 74-79.

Funicelli, NA, DA Meineke, HE Bryant, MR Dewey, GM Ludwig and SL Mengel. 1989. Movement of striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, tagged in Everglades National Park, Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science 44: 171-178.

Funicelli, NA. 1984. Assessing and managing of reduced inflow to two Texas estuaries. In: Kennedy, VS (Ed). The Estuary as a Filter. Page 435-436. Academic Press, Orlando, Florida.

Mrozek, E and NA Funicelli. 1982. Effect of zinc and lead on germination of Spartina alterniflora Loisel seeds at various salinities. Environmental and Experiment Botany. 22: 23-32.