Teaching
Links to my class webpages are listed below:
- Statistical Concepts & Analysis
- Biometry
- Fisheries Science & Management
- Environmental Mathematics in the Lake Superior Watershed
In addition, follow this link to see my unofficial page for the Fisheries program at Northland College.
Research
My fisheries related research has had at least four fronts. My primary current project is the development of functions (i.e., programs) in R for performing common analytical methods in fisheries stock assessment. These routines are focused primarily on teaching concepts or performing repetitive analyses so that students can focus on the concepts. However, many of these routines will still be useful to the practicing biologist. In addition, I am particularly interested in working with undergraduate students on research or service projects of interest to them and of use to others. My doctoral research forcused on the development and further extension of the temporal signature technique. Finally, my master's research examined the trophic dynamics of ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) in the St. Louis River Harbor, Lake Superior. Specific further information for all of these research fronts can be found below.
- R Functions for Fisheries Stock Assessment
- Research Projects with Students (also see Senior Thesis lists here)
- Crayfish Trap Defense
- Inch Lake Baseline Fish Community Study
- Happles Lake Baseline Fish Community Study
- Beaver and Nymphia Lakes Trout Population Assessment (PDF 12.6mb)
- Ruffe Research
- Methods and Precision of Ruffe Ages from Scales, Spines, and Otoliths (with student)
- Ruffe Weight-Length Relationships with a Proposed Standard Weight Equation
- Freezing Effect on Ruffe Length-Weight Relationships
- Larval Ruffe Diet (with student)
- Overview of Ruffe (PDF 1.6mb)
- Ruffe Diet and Diel Movements (PDF 1.6mb)
- Predation on Ruffe (PDF 0.9mb)
- Ruffe Literature Review
- Temporal Signature Research
- Technique Introduction (PDF 154kb)
- Probabilistic Age Assignments (PDF 174kb)
- Hatchery Lake Trout Scale Characteristics (PDF 0.9mb)
- Ph.D. Defense Presentation
Personal
The links below provide an idea of my personal interests in my wife and dogs, blues music, and videography of nature.
- "Nature" Videos & Pictures
- Underwater Fish Pictures
- Bluegill Reproductive Behavior
- The Big Rock
- Herring Choking
- A Windy Day on Lake Superior
- White River Fishery Area Spring Ponds
- Family
- Jem
- Jordan
- Muskeg Property -- 2007, 2008
- All Picasa albums
- Blues