CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Our lab focuses on the systematics and evolution of bony fishes.  This includes the discovery and formal description of new biodiversity, exploring the phylogenetic relationships between groups of fishes, and understanding how genotype, phenotype and ecology work in concert to produce the amazing diversity we observe in the aquatic world around us.  New and emerging projects in our lab will look to take advantage of the UW Fish Collection's world-class archive of otoliths, eggs, and larvae of fishes of the North Pacific to address relevant questions in systematics, conservation, and fisheries management.

Below is a short list of current projects in our lab.

BIOGEOGRAPHY, TAXONOMY, PHYLOGENY AND LARVAL IDENTIFICATION OF NORTH PACIFIC GROUNDFISHES

Systematics of gobioid fishes

Evolution, biodiversity and conservation of deep-reef fish communities

systematics of indo-pacific dwarfgobies

Ecology and conservation of reef fish communities in the Central Pacific

eCOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF CRYPTOBENTHIC REEF FISHES

iucn RED List assessments for various coral reef fish groups