Nick Caputi

Nicolavito "Nick" Caputi (born March 8, 1951 in Fremantle ) is an Australian marine biologist . His main interest is fisheries research .

Life

Caputi is the son of Gennaro and Maddalena Caputi, née Minutillo. In 1972 he earned a Bachelor of Science with first class honors from the University of Western Australia . In 1974 he became a statistician for the Western Australia Fisheries Authority and worked on fishing projects in commercial fish and shellfish as well as recreational fisheries in Western Australia. In 1976 he married Teresa Tatulli. From this marriage two daughters were born. From 1983 to 1989 he served as a school committee secretary and from 1994 to 1995 he was committee chairman at Christ The King School in Beaconsfield , Western Australia .

In 1988 he received a Churchill scholarship for a 10-week trip abroad to investigate the methods of stock assessment in the fishery, in particular he was interested in the stock replacement (recruitment) by the lobster offspring. In 1990 he visited marine research laboratories in Nanaimo ( British Columbia ), Marathon (Florida) , the University of Miami , Havana ( Cuba ), Woods Hole (Massachusetts) and Lowestoft ( England ). He also held talks on the ICES seminar for shellfish in Moncton ( Canada ) and the lobster seminar in Havana.

In 1989 he was with the thesis Aspects of stock-recruitment relationships for crustaceans to Ph.D. PhD from Murdoch University .

Since 1993 he has been a member of the Mathematics Advisory Committee at Edith Cowan University .

Caputi is a senior scientist in the Invertebrate Branch of the Western Australia Government's Fisheries Division , conducting research on lobster , sea ​​mussel , prawn , scallops , large Pacific swimming crab , deep-sea crab and abalone .

His research focus is on population assessments of marine invertebrates. He has published over 50 articles and book chapters. His studies include predictions of pre-recruitment catch frequency, environmental impact on recruitment, relationships between spawning and stock recruitment, effects of climate change on fisheries, and the maximum economic yield of western lobster fisheries.

Caputi was some first descriptions involved, Darrell John Kitchener on mammals published. These include Woolley fat tail bag Mouse ( Pseudantechinus woolleyae ), which Troughton-wood bat ( Vespadelus trough toni ) that Baverstock Forest Bat ( Vespadelus baverstocki ), the Finlayson Forest Bat ( Vespadelus finlaysoni ), the Western certificate pipistrelle ( Falsistrellus mackenziei ) Watts pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus wattsi ) and the Cape York pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus adamsi ).

literature

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 70.9 KB)

Web links

• Entry for Nicolavito Caputi to the Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts
• Profile at the Fisheries Department of the Government of Western Australia