Emeritus
Joseph J. Torres
Emeritus, Professor
Biological Oceanography
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1980
Email: jjtorres@usf.edu
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* Please Note: These professors are retired and are no longer accepting new students.
Research Interests:
My lab studies the physiology and ecology of pelagic species. We are interested in
a wide variety of taxa, including the crustaceans, gelatinous organisms, and fishes,
and have focused on sizes from 2 mm on up to several cm. Our main concerns lie in
how open-ocean species acquire and use energy and how they have adapted to the temperatures
and oxygen levels that typify their habitat. Field work takes place aboard research
vessels and our sampling includes multiple opening and closing nets and blue water
SCUBA diving. Many of our physiological measurements are done on board ship; shipboard
measurements are complemented by a suite of bioChemical analyses that are done in
our home lab. Most recently, we have been a part of the Southern Ocean Global Ocean
Ecosystems Dynamics program (SO-GLOBEC) that is examining the overwintering strategies
of the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, on the western Antarctic Peninsula continental
shelf.
Publications since Retirement
Metabolism of an Antarctic solitary coral, Flabellum impensum
Mitochondrial energetics of benthic and pelagic Antarctic teleosts
Assemblages of micronektonic fishes and invertebrates in a gradient of regional warming
along the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Genetic differentiation in the ice-dependent fish Pleuragramma antarctica along the
Antarctic Peninsula
Metabolism of gymnosomatous pteropods in waters of the western Antarctic Peninsula
shelf during austral fall
Distribution of gymnosomatous pteropods in western Antarctic Peninsula shelf waters:
influences of Southern Ocean water masses
Age, growth, and reproduction of the littlehead porgy, Calamus proridens, from the
eastern Gulf of Mexico