Field Work

Extended Field Work:

2015 – Bankhead Wildlife Management Area, North Alabama – Assisted fellow graduate student, Eric Bauer, in collection of native darters

2014 – Alabama and Georgia – Directed sampling efforts for specimens of the Broadstripe Shiner, Pteronotropis euryzonus, in the Chattahoochee River Basin. First field experience for mentored undergraduate, Erika Krahl.

2013 – Guinea, West Africa – Completed 4 weeks of field work across the country collecting minnows and suckers (Cypriniformes). A collaborative effort with members of the National Center for Fisheries Science in Boussoura (Conakry and surrounding areas), Cornell University, and Tulane University.

2012 – Western United States – Traveled across the western United States to survey minnows and suckers (Cypriniformes) of the region. Collection methods included seining and electro-shocking.

2008 – Mexico, North America – Traveled across the Sierra Occidental in Mexico collecting live-bearing fish (Poecilidae) for subsequent molecular research. Collecting methods included seining, dip-netting, and electro-shocking. A collaborative effort with researchers from the Universidad de Michoacan, Southeastern Louisiana University, and Tulane University.

2007 – Highlands, North Carolina, USA – Worked local streams surveying for nests of bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus) and their associates. Work involved walking transects and collecting with seines.