Graduate Students

Graduate Students
Rajit Patankar, M.S. 2004, “The effects of exotic northern pike (Esox lucius) on threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations in Southcentral Alaska”

Anjali Karve, M.S. 2004, “An investigation of ecological isolation and female life-history traits in a species pair of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in Mud Lake, Alaska”

Christoff Furin, M.S. 2006, “The role of assortative mating between a newly derived resident freshwater population of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) and its putative anadromous ancestor”

Ofer Gelmond, M.S. 2007, “Rapid evolution in threespine stickleback in recently formed, seismically uplifted lakes, Middleton Island, Alaska”

Richard Bernhardt, Ph.D. 2008, “The effects of perchlorate exposure on a model vertebrate species: the threespine stickleback”

Stormy Haught, M.S. 2009, “Threespine stickleback extirpation and evolution in the face of northern pike invasion”

James Willacker, M.S. 2009, “Geometric morphometrics of threespine stickleback in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska”

Emily Lescak, M.S. 2010, "Selection for threespine stickleback armor phenotypes in Wallace Lake, Alaska"

Heidi Weigner, Ph.D. exp. 2012, "Freshwater fish biogeography and phylogeography in the Bering Glacier region, Alaska"

Leah Kenney, M.S. 2011, "Biogeography and ecotoxicology of freshwater fishes in the Aleutian Archipelago, Alaska"

Christoff Furin, Ph.D. exp. 2012, "Perchlorate toxicity in fish: trophic transfers, critical developmental windows, and histological biomarkers"

Dona Eidam, M.S. exp. 2012, "Ecology of invasive Alaska blackfish in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska"

Kyle Shedd, M.S. exp. 2013,"Evolution of a species pair of kokanee in Katmai National Park, Alaska"

James Willacker, Ph.D. exp. 2015, "The isotopic ecology of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) trophic morphotypes from the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska"

Emily Lescak, Ph.D. exp. 2015, “Evolutionary genomics of rapid adaptation in threespine stickleback in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska"