Dr. Kerstetter conducted satellite tagging of pelagic fishes from recreational gear and descriptive research of commercial fishing gear in the southeastern United States for his graduate research.  Since joining NSU in 2007, he has continued other biological investigations of billfish and swordfish, tunas, elasmobranchs, and commercial fishing gear technology, including ageing and biogeochemical trophic analyses and participated in development and continuing execution (five years as Weighmaster) of an annual scholarship-generating fishing tournament for the Oceanographic Center. 

 

He has created and taught graduate-level marine fisheries science courses for NSU, as well as additional graduate courses in natural resource policy and management, marine avian ecology, and invasive species research.  At the undergraduate level, he teaches the undergraduate ichthyology (with laboratory sections) and elasmobranch biology courses for marine biology majors, including occasional special topics courses in fisheries and wildlife research techniques.  Dr. Kerstetter is a major advisor to a number of thesis-track graduate students in the Master of Science program in marine science and undergraduate students in the NSU Honors Program.