Projects
. Environmental genomics, genetics, bioinformatics, biogeography, and systematics across marine ecosystems: Relationships over life histories, time, and space. Tests of ecological, distributional, and adaptation hypotheses using genomics, genetics, and bioinformatics.
Projects: Metagenomic dynamics of fish and invertebrate communities across northeastern Pacific and Alaskan waters: Responses to ocean warming, acidification and hypoxia. Techniques: high-throughput sequencing, custom metabarcoding, environmental DNA, RADSeq, and Bioinformatics.
2. Molecular ecology, evolution, adaptedness, and population genetic/genomic connectivity patterns of marine and aquatic organisms. Projects: Co-evolution of VHS fish virus and fish host responses. Genetic stock structure of fishes. Interfacing and collaborations with the U.S. Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, federal, state, and provincial agencies, and research labs in the U.S., Canada, and Europe/Eurasia. New NOAA projects on hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities.
3. Temporal and spatial evolutionary dynamics and genetic/genomic responses of marine communities. Population and community changes over time and space. Collaborating across U.S. and Canadian federal and state/provincial fisheries and environmental agencies to institute DNA methods for sampling and assessing community composition, resilience, structure and genetic/genomic changes with climate, acidification, and habitat.
Online databases
Editorial assignments
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, editorial board; Biological Invasions, associate editor; Journal of Great Lakes Research, associate editor; Ecological Processes, associate editor
Reviewing experience
Aquatic Conservation, Biological Invasions, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Copeia, Diversity and Distributions, Ecology and Evolution, Ecological Processes, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Evolution, Evolutionary Applications, Fisheries, Freshwater Biology, Genes, Genetics, Heredity, Hydrobiologia, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Great Lakes Research, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Journal of Virological Methods, Marine Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, PLOS One, Prairie Naturalist, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Scientific Reports, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, U.S. Fishery Bulletin, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Professional societies
American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected fellow), American Fisheries Society, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Geophysical Society, Society for the Study of Evolution, International Association for Great Lakes Research
Expert networks and working groups
Professional social networks
