NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 5, 2010

Supervisor for ODNR’s Inland Fisheries Research Unit

COLUMBUS, OH - Richard Zweifel, Ph.D. has been named biology supervisor for the Inland Fisheries Research Unit of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife.  The Inland Fisheries Research Unit is located in Hebron, Ohio and conducts statewide fisheries management and research in inland lakes and reservoirs, rivers and streams, and the Ohio River.

Dr. Zweifel joined the Division of Wildlife in 2004 as a fisheries biologist at the Inland Fisheries Research Unit.  He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. from South Dakota State University.  He previously worked as a biometrician for the Missouri Department of Conservation and data analyst for the United States Geological Survey.

Zweifel is originally from St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives in Carroll, Ohio with his wife and three children.

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