Dr. Matthew B. Ogburn is a Marine Ecologist and Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, where he leads the Fisheries Conservation Lab. He has been involved in MarineGEO since its inception and serves as principal investigator of the Upper Chesapeake Bay site and Oyster Working Group lead. His research focuses on understanding the biology and ecology of fisheries species and the ecosystems that support them, with particular interests in movement ecology and ecological restoration. Before coming to Smithsonian in 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow with NOAA’s Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center at Savannah State University and received his Ph.D. in Environment from the Duke University Marine Laboratory, M.S. in Marine Science from the University of Georgia, and B.S. in Biology from Duke University.