Dr. Ronald B. Toll
- Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
- B.A. in Zoology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- A.A. in Biology, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, U.S.A
Dr. Ronald Toll is the current Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Excerpt from Dr. Toll's profile on FGCU.edu:
"Dr. Toll has published more that thirty peer reviewed papers and monograph contributions in the area of marine invertebrates. His work has taken him from coastal studies on the barrier islands of Georgia to his participation as Associate Director of Adjunct Sciences for the S.S. Central America Project, an expedition that led to the successful recovery of nearly $300 million of gold coins and bars from a depth of 8,000 feet. His current research projects include: biodiversity of coastal, marine benthic macro invertebrates; population dynamics of commercial bivalves; systematics and evolution of cephalopod mollusks (squid, octopods, cuttlefish); deep-sea benthic ecology; and animal/sediment interactions."
Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Toll has published the following:
Hochberg, F. G., M. Nixon and R. B. Toll. 1992. Order Octopoda Leach, 1818, Pp. 213–279 in M. J. Sweeney, C. F. E. Roper, K. M. Mangold, M. R. Clarke, and S. v. Boletzky, eds. “Larval” and juvenile cephalopods: a manual for their identification. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 513: 1–282.
Voss, G. L., and R. R. Toll. 1998. The systematics and nomenclatural status of the octopodinae described from the Western Atlantic Ocean. Pp. 457–474 in N. A. Voss, R. B. Toll, and M. Vecchione, eds. Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586(I–II).