Develop and disseminate knowledge about aquatic animals and their habitats, including aquaculture; interactions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; and fates and effects of pollutants; and appropriate management practices for the protection and use of aquatic ecosystems.

Faculty

• Paul Brown
  
• Aquatic animal nutrition, physiology, biochemistry
• Andrew DeWoody
  
• Population genetics, molecular ecology and evolution
• Reuben Goforth
  
• Aquatic ecology, fish and insect species and communities in streams, species persistence, community ecology
• Tomas Höök
  
• Fish ecology and ecological modeling focusing on recruitment processes, foodweb interactions, bio-physical coupling, eutrophication effects and fish life history trait variation
• ​Jason Hoverman
  
• Herpetology, disease ecology, effect of multiple stressors on community dynamics
• Krista Nichols
  
• Genetic basis of the phenotypic diversity observed within and among populations of fishes
• Maria Sepulveda
  
• Ecotoxicology, development and application of molecular biomarkers of exposure and effects to environmental contaminants in vertebrate and invertebrate animal models
• Rod Williams
  
• Ecology and conservation of amphibians and reptiles, education and outreach, genetics
• Mark Christie
  
• ​Fish ecology, genetics, evolution, and pedigree analysis