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Mr. Larry Martin is a marine biologist and senior dive master with LGL Ecological Research Associates, Inc. Mr. Martin has considerable experience in the Gulf of Mexico dating back to the late 1970s. He was a major principal in the environmental assessments of oil fields and production platforms throughout the Gulf of Mexico, having worked on issues that include determining the effects of drilling effluents and produced water on biofouling communities; evaluating the use of production platforms as artificial reefs and their role in enhancing the community structure and viability of reef, pelagic, and demersal fishes and macrocrustacean populations; the ecological characterization of the Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope; population studies of Texas Gulf shrimp stocks. He is also senior field coordinator for the multi-year Endicott development fish monitoring program as well as being a major contributor to the Endicott Development Fish Monitoring Program Synthesis. Most recently he has been involved with assessing effects of the Texas Gulf shrimp industry on the population viability of endangered marine turtles and commercially important red snapper populations, including co-development of a GPS tracking system for monitoring shrimp vessel fishing effort. Mr. Martin has authored 58 scientific reports and publications.
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