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BIOGRAPHY
Roger T. Hanlon
I am a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. I played baseball and football at Florida State University and majored in Biology, then spent 2 years as a Lieutenant in the US Army (1970-1971). I then traveled around the world for a year and entered graduate school:
- M.S. degree, U Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences 1975
- PhD degree, U Miami, RSMAS 1978
- NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University 1981
I moved to the Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, where I advanced through the academic ranks to full Professor and Chief of the Division of Biology and Marine Resources.
Sabbatical year, 1991, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University and Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington
In 1995 I moved to the Marine Biological Laboratory as Director of the Marine Resources Center. In 2003, I resigned that position and I am now a Senior Scientist concentrating exclusively on research.
I became interested in cephalopods when I encountered an octopus on a coral reef in Panama in 1968. Its body patterning and changing coloration intrigued me, and I am still working to understand its brain and behavior.
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