Dr. Steve Walsh

Dr. Steve Walsh is retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, where he was a research scientist for over 30 years. His interests are in the area of conservation biology, biodiversity, and ecology of aquatic organisms, primarily fishes and invertebrates. He has worked in freshwater and marine ecosystems including in the southeastern and central U.S., Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Islands, Neotropics, Southeast Asia, Western Pacific, and Africa. He has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from St. Louis University, a master’s degree in Zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and doctorate in Zoology (now Biology) from the University of Florida, where he currently has courtesy faculty appointments in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, and the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH). In addition to his current board service on the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute and Ichetucknee Alliance, he has served in numerous other professional capacities with the American Fisheries Society, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Association of Southeastern Biologists, and Southeastern Fishes Council. In his retirement, Steve enjoys traveling, tennis, swimming, kayaking, reading, photography, gardening, and curating butterflies at the incredible FLMNH Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity.