Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University, 2258
College Station, TX 77843-2258, USA.
email: rmb_2014@tamu.edu
EDUCATION
August 2015- Present. PhD., Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University.
Advisor: Dr. Kirk O. Winemiller
April 2012- MSc., Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
2001- PGDE. University of Botswana.
2000- BSc. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Botswana.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
November 2012- August 2015. Teaching Instructor (Biology). Botswana International University of Science & Technology.
April 2003- October 2012. Scientific officer (Fisheries Division). Department of Wildlife & National Parks, Maun, Botswana.
July 2001-December 2002. Secondary school biology teacher, Botswana.
Biology and ecology of fishes
PUBLICATIONS
Bokhutlo, T., Weyl, O. L. F., Mosepele, K., and Wilson, G. G. (Expected). Influence of the annual flood-pulse on catch per unit effort, condition and reproduction of Clarias gariepinus(Burchell 1882) in the upper Okavango Delta, Botswana. African Journal of Aquatic Science.
Bokhutlo, T and Mosepele, K. (2015). Gillnet selectivity for the North African catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Clariidae) from the Upper Okavango Delta, Botswana. Acta ichthyologica et piscatoria 45, 133-141.
Bokhutlo, T., Weyl, O. L. F., Mosepele, K., and Wilson, G. G. (2015). Age and growth of sharp-tooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell 1822) (Clariidae), in the Lower Okavango Delta, Botswana. Marine and Freshwater Research 66, 420-428.
Mosepele, K., Mosepele, B., Bokhutlo, T. and Amutenya, K. (2011). Spatial variability in fish species assemblage and community structure in four subtropical lagoons of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 36, 910-917.
Black, F. J., Bokhutlo, T., Samoxa, A., Maethamako, M., Modisaemang, O., Kemosedile, T., Cobb-Adams, C., Mosepele, K and Chimbari, M. (2011). The tropical African mercury anomaly: Lower than expected mercury concentrations in fish and human hair. Science of the Total Environment 409, 1967-1975.
Mosepele, K, Basimane, O., Mosepele, B., and Bokhutlo, T. (2005). Using population parameters to separate fish stocks in the Okavango Delta fishery, Botswana: A preliminary assessment. Botswana Notes and Records. 37, 292-305.