Picnic Day!

Last weekend was Picnic Day, one of UC Davis' biggest outreach days! The students of the Center for Population Biology put together an exhibit on the tree of life and evolution, complete with a phylogenetic tree handout with stamps for each type of taxon, filled in at stations around the tree. We had all kinds of …

Modelling tooth–prey interactions in sharks: the importance of dynamic testing

I'm really excited to say that the shark saw paper has been published in Royal Society Open Science! One of several papers to come out of the Friday Harbor Labs' 2014 Functional Morphology and Ecology of Fishes course, my coauthors Stacy Farina, Adam Summers, Jeff Brash, and I explored the importance of shark tooth morphology and repeated use on …

UC Davis!

I'm incredibly excited to say that I'll be heading to UC Davis in the fall to start a PhD program in Peter Wainwright's lab! I'll be studying evolution and functional morphology in fishes. So many thanks to friends & family who helped me get here--I couldn't have done this without you.