Dennis Hedgecock
University of Southern California
Bio
Dennis Hedgecock received a B.S. in Biology from St. Mary's College, California, in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Genetics, from the University of California, Davis, in 1974. He is currently the Paxson H. Offield Professor in Fisheries Ecology at the University of Southern California, where he is Head of the Marine Environmental Biology Section of the Department of Biological Sciences. The inaugural recipient of the Ken Chew Endowed Professorship in Aquaculture at the University of Washington, Hedgecock has published over 110 scholarly articles on the population, quantitative, evolutionary, and conservation genetics of marine fish and shellfish, primarily Pacific oysters, white seabass, and Pacific salmon. Hedgecock was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986, and is currently a member of several other scientific societies, including the American Genetics Association, the Genetics Society of America, the National Shellfisheries Association, and the Society for the Study of Evolution. He serves on the editorial boards of Aquaculture and the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.