I am broadly interested in the behavior and ecology of freshwater fishes, with an emphasis on salmon, trout and char species. My recent work has focused on examining how space use and territoriality may act as a mechanism limiting the density of salmonid fish in streams. I have also been investigating the role of local adaptation in rainbow trout populations as means of describing intraspecific biodiversity of salmonid fish. My colleagues and I hope to use this latter study to develop a system of recognizing important units of conservation that are currently unaccounted for by the species level approach to biodiversity.

Below are research projects I am current working on: