GCRL Interim Director, Jeffrey M. Lotz, Ph. D.
Jeff Lotz is the Interin Director of The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. He also serves as a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Coastal Sciences and as Director of the Thad Cochran Aquaculture Center.
His primary research areas are ecology and epidemiology of parasites and diseases of marine organisms, marine aquaculture, and marine stock enhancement. Active research programs include laboratory, field, and theoretical epidemiological studies of pathogens of marine shrimp, crabs, and finfish, development of water-recycle systems for reproduction and aquaculture of penaeid shrimp (primarily Litopenaeus vannamei) and finfish (spotted seatrout Cynosion nebulosis).