My lab is a busy place. Undergraduates, Masters and Ph.D. students work alongside me and each other on a variety of projects. Here is a list of my past and present graduate students. Contact me if you are interested in working in my lab. As you can see, my past students have been very successful and I am very proud of their achievements!
Past Students: Send me your updates for some free publicity! :-)
Mikayla Struble
email: mks375@nau.edu
Mikayla is a current doctoral student in my lab. She co-owns a skeletal preparation business called Osteo Preparations.
Danny Kimball
Danny has graduated with his Masters and now works for AZ Game and Fish.
Laura Tennant
email: lat235@nau.edu
Laura completed her Masters and is working for USGS.
Full disclosure: Kissing the fish was entirely her idea.
Pilar Wolters
email: pnw4@nau.edu
Pilar completed her Masters in 2017 and is working for AZ Game and Fish with endangered native fishes of the Lower Colorado River (LCR).
Watch Pilar's thesis defense presentation.
Full disclosure: Kissing the fish was entirely her idea.
Mike Minicozzi
email: mrm539@nau.edu
Mike got his Ph.D. in 2017 and is now an Assistant Professor at the Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Watch Mike's thesis defense presentation.
Amber Jones
email: aj324@nau.edu
Amber worked on the biomechanics of feeding in Poeciliids. She graduated in Summer, 2016 with her Masters.
Ian MacDonald
Ian graduated with his Masters in Fall, 2015. He came to us from the Florida Institute of Technology. His general research interests are in the functional morphology of fish larvae and how morphological and behavioral adaptations equip them for life in the plankton.
email: iam26@nau.edu
Clinton Moran
Clinton graduated with his Ph.D. in Summer 2015. Clinton got his M.S. at Moss Landing Marine Labs while studying the feeding kinematics of Pacific Ocean herbivorous fishes. At NAU he studied the morphological variation and phenotypic plasticity in fishes native to Arizona. Many of these fishes are on the endangered species list due to anthropogenic encroachment. As a result, the understanding of ecological pressures humans place on these fish is important now more than ever. Clinton is currently doing a post-doc at Fairfield University with Dr. Shannon Gerry.
Update: Clinton is now an assistant professor at The Citidel.
email: cjm387@nau.edu
Mark Cagle
Mark completed his Masters in 2014. He examined how estrogen exposure affects feeding performance in male Betta splendens. Mark received his B.S. in Biology from NAU with an emphasis in physiology.
email: mdc97@nau.edu
Matt O'Neill
Matt is interested in trophic ecology, functional morphology, and native fish restoration. He received his doctorate in 2013, and is now the director of the Bubbling Ponds Native Fish Hatchery.
email: matt.oneill@nau.edu
Josh Copus
Josh completed his M.S. in 2011 and is interested in biogeography, mating systems and trophic partitioning in butterfly fishes. After graduation, he enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Josh and Cassie also got married along the way :-)
It was with great sadness that I learned of Josh's passing during a deep diving expedition in 2019. He will be missed by all of his friends from the Gibb Lab.
There is a Facebook memorial page and a GoFundMe site in honor of Josh, Cassie, and family.
Cassie Ka'apu-Lyons
Cassie completed her M.S. in 2011, and is interested in native species management, functional morphology and the development of feeding behavior in native fishes. She is now working as a technician in a stable isotopes lab in Honolulu, Hawaii.
email: cal76@nau.edu
Morgan Burnette
Morgan has completed his Master's thesis in 2010 on the development and evolution of behavior, using teleost fish as a model system. He is now in the Ph.D. program at Wake Forest University with Dr. Miriam Ashley-Ross.
email: mfb24@nau.edu
Cinnamon Pace
Cinnamon completed her Ph.D. in 2009. She is interested in functional morphology, environmental transitions, and vertebrate evolution.
email: cinnamon.pace@nau.edu
Teresa Hunt
Teresa got her M.S. in 2008 and is interested in native fish restoration, field collection methods, physiological responses to stress. She is now living in Alaska and working for U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
email: huntteresa@hotmail.com
Anthony Arena
Anthony got his M.S. in 2008 and is interested in native fish restoration, trophic ecology, and functional morphology. He is currently teaching school in Boulder, CO.
Krissy Carberry
Krissy graduated with a Biology Education degree in 2005.
Brook Swanson
Brook completed his Ph.D. in 2004 and is an Associate Professor at Gonzaga University. Brook's lab page is here.
email: swansonb@gonzaga.edu
Heather Wesp
Heather completed her M.S. in 2001 and is on the faculty at Montcalm Community College.
email: hwesp@montcalm.edu
alice.gibb@nau.edu
Office: Biology 227
Office Phone: (928) 523-1524
Lab: Biology 219
