Dr. Dean Grubbs is a fish ecologist with interests in the biology of  exploited and poorly studied estuarine and marine taxa. Dean is  currently Research Faculty III and the Associate Director of Research at  Florida State University’s Coastal and Marine Lab where he mentors  graduate and undergraduate students and maintains and active research  program on the ecology of deepwater and coastal fishes. He received  bachelor’s degrees in Marine Science and Biology from the University of  Miami and a doctoral degree in Fisheries Science from the College of  William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Dean was a  post-doctoral researcher and faculty member at the Hawaii Institute of  Marine Biology before moving to Florida State University in 2007. He is a  member of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group, the NOAA Office of Protected  Resources’ Smalltooth Sawfish Recovery Team, and NOAA’s SEDAR Advisory  Panel for Highly Migratory Species. Dean’s research has been featured in  many television documentaries.