David Wells

Texas A&M University at Galveston is excited to announce our very own Associate Professor Dr. David Wells ’02 of the Department of Marine Biology has been named a 2020 Chancellor Enhancing Development and Generating Excellence in Scholarship (EDGES) Fellow.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, goes the old adage. But even more important is the experience level of the fisher — the better the fisher, the better the chance the shark on the other end of the line will live to swim another day.

If tuna truly was the chicken of the sea, Dr. David Wells would have no need to have done extensive research on the subject.

Dr. David Wells, associate professor in the Department of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston, is heading south to study Pacific Bluefin Tuna in the waters around New Zealand, in support of a joint U.S./New Zealand Fulbright Fellowship.

Shark populations can fluctuate widely, and largely depend upon a number of factors including fishing pressure. A Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher hopes his project can help provide additional information on how fishing activities impact sharks in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two Texas A&M University at Galveston researchers have been awarded grants to conduct work on marine science and marine biology projects.

Dr. David Wells is an assistant professor and head of the Shark Biology and Fisheries Science Lab at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

In one of the most ambitious projects of its kind, a Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher hopes to tag as many as 50 sharks in the Gulf of Mexico to learn more about their feeding habits and behavior.

Dr. Jay Rooker, Dr. David Wells and Dr. Ron Eytan of Texas A&M Galveston Marine Biology are co-investigators on a research consortium led by Dr. Tracey Sutton from Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.