Teaching:
Organismal Biology
Animal Behavior (MSUM)
Animal Behavior (summer field course, Itasca Biological Field Station, University of Minnesota)
Applied Biostatistics
Aquatic Biology

Invertebrate Zoology
Tropical Field Biology in Costa Rica

Research Design in EEB

Research in behavioral ecology of fishes:
I study the ways fish use behavior to solve ecological problems (behavioral ecology). One area of my research focuses on how chemical cues mediate antipredator behavior in aquatic habitats. A second area is reproductive behavior of fishes, especially in species that show alloparental care (care of unrelated young). For more details click on the publications link below. If you are interested in finding out more about doing research, email me or stop by my office (Hagen 407 R)

Current students: Tony Stumbo, Char Binstock, Adam Linke, Matt Cole, Jake Vossler, Jeff Henry, Jeff Miller, Sara Aleem, Andrea Pitz, Leah Casto, Phil Haugrud, Tom Dye, Susan Bury, Randy Sutrisno, Cory Sailer, Sonny Radenic.

I enjoy the stimulating benefits of collaborations with labs at other institutions.
1. Reproductive behavioral ecology of pupfish and convict cichlids with Murray Itzkowitz and lab, Lehigh University
2. Parasite-host interactions with Cam Goater and Clayton James, University of Lethbridge
3. Chemical ecology in fish with Peter Sorensen and Mario Traveline, University of Minnesota

4. Reproductive ecology of convict cichlids in Costa Rica with Jean-Guy Godin and Stacey Lee Jenkins, Carleton University
5. Chemical ecology of predator-prey interactions with Doug Chivers and lab, University of Saskatchewan

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Publications

Managing editor of Behaviour for the Americas and the Pacific:

Behaviour: An international journal of behavioural biology

Fitness