Meadows Endowed Professor,
Director of B.S. Aquatic Biology Program

Research Interests

Our interdisciplinary research program is committed to understanding, through experimentation, how historical processes, contemporary processes, and anthropogenic stressors influence population and community patterns. This understanding provides the necessary underpinnings to make predictions on how populations and communities will respond to additional anthropogenic stressors (e.g., instream flow modifications, climate change) and can be used in management and rehabilitation of our natural resources. We use aspects of taxonomy, species biology, evolution, ecology, behavior, and zoogeography to advance our understanding and work with a variety of organisms (aquatic parasites, aquatic insects, mussels), although our primary organisms of interest are freshwater fishes.

Ichthyology Fall 2022, with Sophia Salo, BS Aquatic Biology

Ichthyology Fall 2022, with Daisy Blake, BS Aquatic Biology & Eli Leal, BS Wildlife Biology

Ichthyology Fall 2021, with Steven Lopez, MS Aquatic Resources – Aquatic Biology, lab IA leading seining crew

Ichthyology Fall 2020, with Sabrina Thiels, MS Aquatic Resources – Aquatic Biology, lab IA leading seining crew

Ichthyology Fall 2022 with Brady Boykin, BS Wildlife Biology and Josh Tivin, MS Aquatic Resources – Aquatic Biology

Our lab strives to celebrate and foster inclusivity, creativity, and diversity