The projects in our lab revolve around the following themes:

• Climate change vulnerability & adaptation in streams
• Freshwater community ecology & food webs
• Conservation of nongame species
• Biogeography of fishes
• Stream restoration

CURRENT PROJECTS

Characteristics of climate refugia for stream fish communities across the northern Great Plains

Climate-change vulnerability of Rocky Mountain tailed frogs (Ascaphus montanus)

Zoogeography of Wyoming Fishes

Central US Stream Temperature Model (CENTRUST)

Ice Age biogeography and contemporary climate vulnerability

PAST PROJECTS

Impacts of nuisance algae on stream food webs

Investigating illegal fish introductions in norwest Montana

Influence of beavers & process-based restoration on stream fishes

Fish community change in the Powder River of Wyoming and Montana