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.
Aquatic animal nutrition, physiology, biochemistry
Population genetics, molecular ecology and evolution
Aquatic ecology, fish and insect species and communities in streams, species persistence, community ecology
Fish ecology and ecological modeling focusing on recruitment processes, foodweb interactions, bio-physical coupling, eutrophication effects and fish life history trait variation
Herpetology, disease ecology, effect of multiple stressors on community dynamics
Genetic basis of the phenotypic diversity observed within and among populations of fishes
Ecotoxicology, development and application of molecular biomarkers of exposure and effects to environmental contaminants in vertebrate and invertebrate animal models
Ecology and conservation of amphibians and reptiles, education and outreach, genetics
Fish ecology, genetics, evolution, and pedigree analysis
Graduate Areas of Specialization - Fisheries Biology
- Aquaculture
- Aquatic Animal Nutrition
- Aquatic Animal Physiology
- Aquatic Toxicology
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