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Associate Professor
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Drexel University
United States of America
Richard Horwitz, PhD is the Fisheries Section Leader in the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. He currently occupies the Ruth Patrick Chair in Environmental Research. He has also been the leader of the Biometry Section within the Patrick Center. He has extensive experience studying freshwater and estuarine fishes in the Eastern United States, and has also conducted fish surveys in Peru and Nepal. In addition to projects mentioned under research focus, he has studied the effects of B.t.i., a biological control for black flies, on fishes, participated in watershed management planning in New York, and led the preparation of a master plan for ecological restoration of Fairmount Park.
Ecology of freshwater and estuarine fishes; watershed planning, management, and restoration; conservation of rare species; invasive species; phylogeography of freshwater fishes