Teaching: 

Fall 2009:

Organismal Biology
Aquatic Biology

Spring 2010:

Principles of Animal Behavior

Research Design in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tropical Field Biology (field course in Costa Rica)

Animal Behavior (summer field course, Itasca Biological Field Station, University of Minnesota)
 

Research in evolutionary 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)

Publications - see previous research results from this lab

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 Tony Stumbo, 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

video of female-female intrasexual competition in the Rio Cabuyo, Costa Rica, Jan 2008

Service

Editor-in-Chief of Behaviour for the Americas and the Pacific:

Behaviour: An international journal of behavioural biology

Fitness