Teaching:
Animal Behavior (MSUM)
Animal Behavior (summer field course, Itasca Biological Field Station, University of Minnesota)
Applied Biostatistics
Invertebrate Zoology
Tropical Field Biology in Costa Rica

Research methods 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 the role of chemical cues in mediating 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).

I currently enjoy the stimulating benefits of three collaborations with labs at other institutions.
1. Chemical Ecology of predator-prey interactions with Doug Chivers and lab, University of Saskatchewan
2. Reproductive behavioral ecology of pupfish and convict cichlids with Murray Itzkowitz and lab, Lehigh University
3. Parasite-host interactions with Cam Goater and Clayton James, University of Lethbridge

Spring 2008 - on sabbatical in Costa Rica, studying convict cichlids at Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve

Publications

Managing editor of Behaviour for the Americas and the Pacific: