Volume Editors: Palma Ingles and Jennifer Sepez General Editors: Satish Kedia and Tim Wallace Palma Ingles has been an anthropologist with NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service since 2002 working for the Southeast Regional Office in St. Petersburg, Florida. She conducts community research and monitors research done by others for NMFS in the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and ... Read morethe Caribbean. She has conducted extensive research in the Gulf of Mexico since 2002. During the last year she has been working on research pertaining to the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on communities in the gulf. Before starting work for the Southeast, she did contract work in Alaska with the NMFS, Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Dr. Ingles also holds degrees in photography and was a photographer for ten years at the University of Florida. She received her masters and Ph.D. in cultural and applied anthropology in 2000 from the University of Florida where her dissertation work focused on indigenous tribes in the Amazon that live a subsistence lifestyle growing crops and fishing and working with tourism. Her leisure time is spent traveling, scuba diving, kayaking, and doing photography. (Palma.Ingles@noaa.gov) Show Less