Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Data Management
Activities
Director of TUBRI: Oversee a staff of curatorial assistants and project personnel; manage a portfolio of extramural grants; engage with researchers and biodiversity collections communities in varying capacities. Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University: conduct research in fish biology, teach undergraduate courses and train graduate students. Curator of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection: oversee care of the collection and promote its use in research; engage with curators of other ichthyological research collections.
Skills
Stream fish community ecology; fish taxonomy and systematics; molecular evolution of fishes; biodiversity informatics; biodiversity collections.
Comment(s)
I am actively working to find opportunities for networking and collaboration of basic and applied fish biologists, to integrate the massive repositories of observational and specimen-vouchered fish occurrence records, and to create a unified platform for using this information in research.