About

From fishing for stripers and catfish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, camping and hiking with friends and family in the Northern Coast Ranges, to watching my Dad grow just about everything in his garden, I developed a deep appreciation and curiosity for the natural world as a kid. I have studied everything from cichlid fish behavior, to intertidal snail diversity and distribution, high mountain stream insects in the Colorado Rockies, water quality conditions and fish surveys throughout the California Delta, to fish and their gut microbiota and macroparasites. The unifying theme of my research is trying to understand how organisms, populations, and communities respond to anthropogenic stressors and the every-changing physical environment. My hope is that my research will help us better manage and mitigate impacts to our natural resources and the wildlife within them.