Bemis, Willy E.
Professor and John M. Kingsbury Director of Shoals Marine Laboratory
In my role as Kingsbury Director of Shoals Marine Laboratory, I work to provide the best possible undergraduate courses and research internships at our facility on Appledore Island, Maine. With a 40-year track record of educational excellence, SML is working to increase both the breadth and depth of it curriculum to provide today’s students with topical and relevant experiences in marine science, sustainability, and conservation. During our 13-week operating season each summer, we offer more than 20 courses for college credit ranging from A Marine Approach to Introductory Biology to Field Marine Science, Diversity of Fishes, Ecology of Animal Behavior, Biological Illustration, Lobster Biology, and Forensics for Marine Biologists. More than 200 undergraduates participate annually in our courses and internships. We also offer adult and family education programs. For additional information and current course offerings, please visit: http://www.sml.cornell.edu/.
research
research and scholarship focus
I study the anatomy, development and evolutionary relationships of fossil and living fishes such as sharks, lungfishes, coelacanths, bowfins, sturgeons and paddlefishes.
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research areas
- adult and extension education | collaborative research area (CALS)
- aquatic science | collaborative research area (CALS)
- biodiversity | collaborative research area (CALS)
- conservation biology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- earth science | collaborative research area (CALS)
- ecology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- ecosystem biology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- environmental sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- evolution | collaborative research area (CALS)
- new life sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- science education | collaborative research area (CALS)
- zoology | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- The Creek Farm Project: Shoals Marine Laboratory brings its programs and teaching approach to the mainland | 2007 Impact statement
- The future of Shoals Marine Laboratory | 2006 Impact statement
- Shoals Marine Laboratory | 2005 Impact statement
affiliations
head of
- Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) | research center
faculty appointment in
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) | Cornell department
- Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) | research center
administrative appointment
- Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) | research center
other Cornell affiliations
- Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) | research center
teaching
teaching focus
I contribute to several courses at Shoals Marine Laboratory, including: Field Marine Science, Marine Vertebrates, and especially A Marine Approach to Introductory Biology and Sharks! The Biology and Conservation of Sharks and their Allies.
teaches
- BIOSM 1250 - Biology Seminar (M 01:25:PM-03:25:PM) | fall 2009 class
service
outreach focus
Appledore Island, Maine, is the home of Shoals Marine Laboratory. Each summer, we host hundreds of guests who visit the island and our facilities there. As Director, I am involved in many island tours to explain the natural and human history of Appledore and the Isles of Shoals.
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Keywords: embryology, evolution, evolutionary biology and systematics of vertebrates, fish, molecular evolution, morphology, paleontology, systematics, vertebrate, with a focus on fishes.