MSU Road Trip features our research!

Our group ...

We are a collection of ecologists of all stripes - behavioral, evolutionary, aquatic, and more - who study the lives of fishes. We focus on species of conservation concern (invasive and threatened). Through research we seek to discover how fishes use physical, chemical, and biological information to navigate to, evaluate, and select habitats and mates, across all life phases. Through outreach and engagement we strive to translate our findings into implementable conservation practices by participating in agency-led planning and working to design and test novel approaches based on manipulating animal behavior. We seek students and collaborators who embrace the land-grant institutional philosophy of discovery guided by science and active engagement with decision-makers and the public to maximize the utility of our findings.

Lab news ...

(24 April 2017) Undergradate researcher Katie Kierczynski is selected as the Outstanding Senior in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Congrats Katie!
(5 February 2017) Former Ph.D. student Trevor Meckley has a major paper on lamprey migration accepted at CJFAS. www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0412#.WQI4fFUrJaQ
(15 Sept 2016) Former post-doc Tom Luhring published a paper in Animal Behaviour describing how migrating lampreys balance risk and opportunity when selecting spawning watersheds.  dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.08.007
(31 Aug 2016) Greg B. publishes his first paper as the lead author. Congrats Greg! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02755947.2016.1198286
(24 Aug 2016) Greg B.  is officially graduated with his M.S. degree. Congrats Greg!
(25 Aug 2016) Michael W. gives an invited seminar at the AFS annual meeting, special symposium on the use of deterrents to manage native and invasive fishes.
(21 June 2016) The BBC is filming today at our selective fish passage site where we are attempting to develop means to selectively guide invasive fishes away from a fishway while allowing native fishes to pass.
(18 May 2016)  Michael and John H. meet with newly appointed commissioners to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to discuss our lamprey control research initiatives.
(12 Feb 2016) We're excited to be partnering with the Stockbridge High School InvenTeam to use a new underwater video system they developed with a prestigious MIT-Lemelson award to investigate larval sea lamprey feeding behavior in rivers. See more here (link). 
(8 Feb 2016) A new article in the New York Times highlights our work to find a novel means to control sea lamprey via behavioral manipulation (link).