Research

Click on the links below for more details about ongoing projects

Evolution of limb design across divergent locomotor modes

Waterfall climbing fishes of Hawai'i

Muscle function across behaviors, habitats, and phylogeny

Aquatic locomotion in turtles

Evolution of bone shape and mechanical properties

Vertebrate paleontology

SICB symposia sponsored by the lab

• SICB symposium 2014 (click for symposium website)

"Terrestrial Locomotion: Where Do We Stand, Where Are We Going?", co-sponsored by our lab (with Tim Higham, UC Riverside) held January 2014 in Austin, TX - click here for ICB journal link

• SICB symposium 2013 (click for symposium website)

"Vertebrate Land Invasions: Past Present and Future", co-sponsored by our lab (with Alice Gibb, Northern Arizona; Miriam Ashley-Ross, Wake Forest; and Tonia Hsieh, Temple) held January 2013 in San Francisco - click here for ICB journal link

• SICB symposium 2008 (click for symposium website)

"Going With the Flow: Ecomorphological Adaptations to Aquatic Flow Regimes", sponsored by Gabe Rivera & Rick Blob (Clemson) held January 2008 in San Antonio, TX - click here for ICB journal link