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Richard Emlet, Mentor
Oregon Institue of Marine Biology

Tanya McKitrick, McNair Scholar

Associate Professor Richard Emlet joined the Biology Department at the University of Oregon and the faculty of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1985. After postdoctoral positions at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, the Zoology Dept. at UC Berkeley and at the Misaki Marine Station, University of Tokyo, he was also on the faculty at the University of Southern California from 1989 to 1992. Richard studies marine invertebrate larval biology and is interested in life history evolution, functional morphology of larvae, and the evolution of development. He has published 40 papers in peer reviewed journals and books and maintains an actively funded laboratory of graduate and undergraduate students. He teaches courses in Estuarine Biology and Invertebrate Zoology and contributes to graduate seminars on a regular basis.