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Boze Hancock © Bryan DeAngelis

Boze Hancock, PhD
NOAA National Partnership Coordinator

Brief biography
Boze Hancock is the TNC-NOAA National Partnership Coordinator, based at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus.  Boze has over 20 years of experience in marine research, working on the ecology, fisheries, restoration and management of coastal marine resources.  For many years he worked in the tropical and temperate Indian and Southern Oceans of Western Australia, researching the fisheries ecology of marine invertebrates, primarily molluscs, and advising the fishing industry and fisheries managers.  In 2004 Boze moved to Rhode Island and took up a position as coordinator of the North Cape Shellfish Restoration Program, a multi species program to restore bay scallop and eastern oyster populations, and to enhance quahog populations in Narragansett Bay and the coastal salt ponds in Rhode Island.  He joined TNC in 2007 as coordinator of TNC’s partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Community-Based Restoration Program.  In this position Boze provides technical support to the numerous project managers and teams that contribute to this partnership, acts as the contact person between NOAA and the field teams, and ensures that results and developments in the field are available to the relevant project managers.

Education
2004 PhD, University of Western Australia, Fisheries biology
1993 Post Graduate Diploma, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Marine Biology
1984 BSc. University of Western Australia, Zoology.

Select publications
Hancock, B., DeAngelis, B., Turek, J. and Lazar, N. (2007).  North Cape Shellfish Restoration Program 2006 annual report.  RIDEM, NOAA, USFW.  pp 64.  Posting to NOAA, RC Website.

Hancock, B. and Caputi, N. (2006). The Roe’s abalone fishery near Perth Western Australia. Journal of Shellfish Research, 25 (1), p. 167-178.

Hancock, B., Costa, D., Ryan, K., Turek, J. and Lazar, N. (2006).  North Cape Shellfish Restoration Program 2005 annual report.  RIDEM, NOAA, USFW.  pp 72.  NOAA, RC Website.

Hancock, B., Holly, J., Turek, J., and Lazar, N. (2005).  North Cape shellfish restoration program 2004 annual report.  RIDEM, NOAA, USFW internal report.  pp 43.

Hancock, B. (A. T.) (2004). The biology and fishery of Roe’s abalone Haliotis roei Gray in south-western Australia, with emphasis on the Perth fishery. Ph.D. thesis, School of Animal biology, The University of Western Australia.

Yoneda M., Shibata Y., Tanaka A., Uehiro T., Morita M., Uchida M., Kobayashi T., Kobayashi C., Suzuki R., Miyamoto K., Hancock B., Dibden C., Edmonds J. (2004).   AMS 14C measurement and preparative techniques at NIES – TERRA. Nuclear  Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with  Materials and Atoms.  Volumes 223-224, pp 116-123. Proceedings of the ninth  international conference on accelerator mass spectrometry.

Hancock, B. (2000). Genetic subdivision of Roe’s abalone, Haliotis roei Grey (Mollusca: Gastropoda), in south-western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 51, 679-687.