Richard Stoffle
Associate Research Professor
Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
319 Anthropology Building
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721

Tel: (520) 621-2462
Fax: (520) 621-9608
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Web page: http://web.arizona.edu/~swst/faculty/rwstoffle.htm

Education
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1972
M.A., University of Kentucky, 1969
B.A., Univeristy of Colorado, 1965

  Research Interests
Rich Stoffle has worked in the Caribbean since 1965 when he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Barbados conducting surveys for the social welfare department. He consequently conducted research for both his MA thesis and his PhD dissertation in Barbados. Since then, he has continued to research fisheries, fishery sectors, and communities in the Caribbean as well as in the United States. He conducted on-going fisheries research in Lake Michigan for five years and served for on the Board of Technical Experts for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Rich's decade-long fisheries research in Antigua and the Dominican Republic resulted in eleven articles and book chapters. Rich's course on Ecological Anthropology draws heavily on the literature on fishing communities. He has conducted a series of seminars for two years on issues related to fishing communities, especially as they relate to marine protected areas (MPAs). In The Bahamas, Rich works alongside The College of the Bahamas' lecturer Jessica Minnis. Thus far, Rich and Jessica's team has focused on the people of the Exuma islands, exploring their cultural attachments to the sea.

Selected Publications
Stoffle, B.W. and R. Stoffle. At the sea’s edge: Elders and children in the littorals of Barbados and the Bahamas. Human Ecology 35(5): 547-558.

Stoffle, R. and J. Minnis. 2007. Marine protected areas and the traditional settlements of the Exumas, Bahamas. Coral Reefs 26(4): 1023-1032.

Mumby, P.J., C.P. Dahlgren, A.R. Harborne, C.V. Kappel, F. Micheli, D.R. Brumbaugh, K.E. Holmes, J.M. Mendes, K. Broad, J.N. Sanchirico, K. Buch, S. Box, R.W. Stoffle, and A.B. Gill. 2006. Fishing, trophic cascades, and the process of grazing on coral reefs. Science 311: 98-101.

Sanchirico, J.N., R. Stoffle, K. Broad, and L. Talaue-McManus. 2003. Modeling Marine Protected Areas. Letter. Science 301: 47-48.

Lutz, S., K. Broad, L Talaue-Mcmanus, J. Sanchirico, R. Stoffle. 2002. Human Dimensions of Marine Reserve Policy: Applications in Bimini. Bahamas Journal of Science 5(2): 50-57.

Stoffle, R. 2001. When Fish is Water: Food Security and Fish in a Coastal Community in the Dominican Republic. In: R. McGoodwin (ed.), Understanding the Cultures of Fishing Communities: A Key to Fisheries Management and Food Security. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 401: 219-245.

Stoffle, R.1993. The Human Dimensions of Global Change in Coastal Environments. High Plains Applied Anthropologist 13:1-11.

J. Luczkovich, T. Wagner, J. Michalek, and R. Stoffle. 1993. Discrimination of Coral Reefs, Seagrass Meadows, and Sand Bottom Types from Space: A Dominican Republic Case Study. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 59(3): 358-389.