Florida Program Director &
Senior Research Scientist
Core Program
Ocean Health
Research Program
Genetic Ecology & eDNA Monitoring
Education
B.A. Biology, University of Hawaii, Hilo
Ph.D. Zoology, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Eble, Jeff, PhD – Senior Research Scientist and Director of HSWRI’s Florida Program. Eble leads the Institute’s Florida research, including development of the Indian River Lagoon Restorative Aquaculture Station (IRLRAS), a multi-partner facility currently supporting production of native shellfish and seagrass for habitat restoration and fisheries replenishment. His research focuses on using genomic approaches to assess marine biodiversity and guide resource management. Eble has served as PI on multiple state and federal grants, including recent support for IRLRAS infrastructure and for biodiversity monitoring in the Indian River Lagoon. He serves on the Executive Board of the Florida Ocean Alliance, holds affiliate faculty status at the Florida Institute of Technology, and has authored over 25 peer-reviewed publications.
Publications
Kumar, G., Farrell, E., Reaume, A., Eble, J., Gaither, M. (2021). One size does not fit all: Tuning eDNA protocols for high and low turbidity water sampling. Environmental DNA. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/edn3.235‡
Eble, J.A., J. DiBattista, T. Daly-Engel, M. Gaither (2020). Invited Review: Marine eDNA approaches, applications, and challenges. Advances in Marine Biology 86:141-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2020.01.001†
Kumar, G., J.A. Eble, M.R. Gaither (2020). Invited Technical Review: A practical guide to sample preservation and pre-PCR processing of aquatic environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources 20:29-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13107†
Crandall, E., M.R. Gaither, C. Bird, et al. (2019). The molecular biogeography of the Indo-Pacific: Testing hypotheses with multispecies patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12905
Eble, J.A., J. Pecore (2019). “Invasive aliens”: A collaborative citizen science activity using DNA barcoding to investigate concepts in ecology and molecular biology. American Biology Teacher 81(3): 69-174. DOI: 10.1525/abt.2019.81.3.169
Crandall, E., R. Toonen, K. Selkoe et al. (2019). A coalescent sampler successfully detects biologically meaningful population structure overlooked by F-statistics. Evolutionary Applications. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eva.12712
Coleman, R., J.A. Eble, J.D. DiBattista, L.A. Rocha, J.E. Randall, M.L. Berumen, B.W. Bowen (2016). Regal phylogeography: range-wide survey of the marine angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus reveals evolutionary partitions between the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100:243-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.005