Charles R. Foster
- B.S. (Honors), Marine Biology, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, USA
- M.S. Marine Science, The University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, USA
Charles Foster is the marine education specialist and outreach coordinator for the J.L. Scott Marine Education Center, the education and outreach arm of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Before coming to GCRL, he completed his M.S. at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, Texas. His thesis was an analysis of three decades of population and migration trends in coastal birds. Charles is also a 2005 graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a B.S. in marine biology and chemistry minor. There, he completed an honors thesis in biological sciences on the feeding ecology of red drum in a North Carolina estuary. Charles has worked on projects involving oyster growth, blue crab ecology, red drum larval survival, human impacts on coastal birds, and marine aquaculture.