Park President, SeaWorld San Diego
Major Research Areas
Aquaculture for Stock Enhancement and Food Production
Fisheries Ecology
Education
B.A., Biology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg M.S., Marine Ecology, San Diego State University, San Diego
Mark is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute (HSWRI) in San Diego, where he has been employed since 1989. Mark also serves as the Director of the Institute’s Sustainable Seafood Program, which is focused on developing techniques for growing marine finfish for ocean replenishment and farming.
Mr. Drawbridge graduated from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania in 1985 with a B.A. degree in biology and from San Diego State University in 1990 with an M.Sc. degree in Marine Ecology. In addition to his direct responsibilities at HSWRI, Mark is a current board member and past-president of the California Aquaculture Association; an associate faculty member at the University of San Diego; a member of the Western Regional Aquaculture Center’s technical research committee; and a member of California’s Aquaculture Development Committee.
Publications
Stuart, K., F. Rotman, and M. Drawbridge. 2015. Methods of Microbial Control in Marine Fish Larval Rearing: Clay-based Turbidity and Passive Larval Transfer. Aquaculture Research DOI: 10.1111/are.12696
Hawkyard, Matt, Stuart, Kevin, Langdon, Chris and Drawbridge, Mark. 2015. The enrichment of rotifers (Brachionus plicatilis) and Artemia franciscana with taurine-liposomes and their subsequent effects on the larval development of California yellowtail (Seriola lalandi). Aquaculture Nutrition. DOI: 10.1111/anu.12317.
Rotman, F., K. Stuart, and M. Drawbridge. 2016. Effects of taurine supplementation in live feeds on larval rearing performance of California yellowtail Seriola lalandi and white seabass Atractoscion nobilis. Aquaculture Research, 1–8, doi:10.1111/are.12964
Salze, G. P., Davis, D. A., Jirsa, D. O. and Drawbridge, M. A. (2017), Methionine Requirement for Juvenile White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, Using Nonlinear Models. J World Aquaculture Soc. doi:10.1111/jwas.12413
Wegner, N.C., Drawbridge, M.A. and Hyde, J.A. (2017), Reduced swimming and metabolic fitness of aquaculture-reared California Yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) in comparison to wild-caught conspecifics. Aquaculture 486 (2018): 51–56
Stuart, K., Johnson, R., Armbruster, L. and Drawbridge, M. (2018), Arachidonic acid in the diet of captive California yellowtail Seriola dorsalis and its effects on egg quality. North American Journal of Aquaculture. 80:97–106
Stuart, K., Losordo, M., Olin, P., and Drawbridge, M. (2018), Optimizing procedures for shipping marine fish eggs using white seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, as a model. Aquaculture 493(1): 229–232.