February, 2012: Gibb Lab Research on KNAU's Earthnotes and Inside NAU
Our ongoing research on the native fishes of the Colorado River watershed was featured on KNAU's Earthnotes program.
A more detailed summary of the work appears on the Inside NAU page.
This work has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Zoology.
More facts about native Sonora sucker and Roundtail chub.
October 2011: Jumping fish make the news!
General Research Interests
I am interested in the physiological and morphological basis of behaviors critical to individual fitness, especially prey capture and locomotion. Although I am broadly interested in functional morphology and comparative physiology, my research focuses on several specific aspects of these disciplines.
1. Developmental Physiology
The development of behaviors and their associated physiological systems.
2. Environmental Functional Morphology
The relationship between animal performance and survival in the wild.
3. Biomechanics
The physical constraints that intrinsic and extrinsic factors place on behaviors.
Collaborators at NAU
I work closely with a number of other researchers here at NAU including Dr. Kiisa Nishikawa, Dr. Jane Marks, Dr. Stan Lindstedt and Dr. Cathy Propper.
Collaborators elsewhere
I have been collaborating with several scientists at other institutions, including Dr. Miriam Ashley-Ross at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, Dr. Lara Ferry at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, AZ, Dr. Patricia Hernandez at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, Dr. John Long at Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, NY, and Dr. Ryan Earley at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL.
