Biomechanics and Functional Morphology

My interest in biology has taken me from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to remote fishing camps in Baja, and my study organisms have come from both the plant and animal kingdoms.  My scientific interests include biomechanics and functional morphology, ecology, and physiology.

Currently, my study organisms of choice are elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays).  I am interested in two features of these animals; their cartilaginous “backbones” and the holes (spiracles) found in the heads of some species.

I recently finished my PhD in Dr. Adam Summers’ Biomechanics and functional morphology lab in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of California, Irvine.  I am now conducting my post doc research adventures in the biomechanics and evolutionary robotics lab of Dr. John Long at Vassar College’s Department of Biology.  Please peruse this site for more information on my research.

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