Dr. Jose I. Castro (Ph. D. Clemson University) is a well-respected scientist and author who worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization before becoming a fisheries biologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He wrote the most comprehensive book of sharks on the market, "The Sharks of North America,"  published by the Oxford University Press, with illustrations by the remarkable Florida artist, Diane Rome Peebles.