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
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 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
Publications
Managing editor of
Behaviour for the Americas and the
Pacific:
Brian D. Wisenden
