People

Joshuah Perkin, PhD
Principal Investigator

Ecology and Conservation Biology Department
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program
Texas A&M University
Room 222, WFES Building
2258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77845
Email: jperkin at tamu.edu; Office: 979-458-1814
GoogleScholar: HERE

Zach Steffensmeier
Ph.D. Candidate

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program

Dissertation: Spatial ecology of imperiled Great Plains fishes

Hayden Roberts
Ph.D. Student

Dissertation: Spatial ecology of periodic life history strategist fishes

Lindsey Elkins
M.S. Student

Thesis: Environmental and spatial regulators of fish community structure and population size in semi-arid riverscapes

Noah Santee
M.S. Student

Thesis: Stream fish metacommunity structures across an aridity gradient

Rebecca Mangold
Research Associate

Johnathan Ellard
Undergraduate Research Scholar & TAMU LAUNCH Undergraduate Research Ambassador

Lucas Stevens
Undergraduate Research Scholar

Jake Wolff
Undergraduate Research Scholar

Wesley Arend
Undergraduate Research Scholar

Hannah Evans
Undergraduate Research Technician

Meghan Booknis
Undergraduate Research Technician

Graduate and Post-Graduate Alumni

Erin Nguyen
Ph.D. Student

Dissertation: Flow as a conservation tool for Great Plains Cyprinids

Current position:

Hayden Roberts
M.S. Student

Thesis: Movement ecology of Alligator Gar across multiple scales and ecotones

Current position: Doctoral Student in Riverscape Ecology Lab

Matt Acre, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Project: Conservation and ecology of fishes in the Chihuhuan Desert region of Texas

Current position: Research Scientist United States Geological Survey

Maximiliaan Claus
Visiting International Research Scholar

Project: Management perspectives on Alligator Gar

Current position: Fish Biologist with Bureau Waardenburg BV, Netherlands

Florian Kappen
Visiting International Research Scholar

Project: Movement ecology of Alligator Gar

Current position: Aquatic Ecologists with Watershap De Dommel, Nehterlands

Stephanie George
M.S. Student

Thesis: Conservation Biogeography of Headwater Catfish (Ictalurus lupus) in the United States.

Current position: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Juju Wellemeyer
M.S. Student (TN Tech University)

Thesis: Assembling Fish Community Indicators of Riverscape Threats: How Do Metric Screening Methods Measure Up?

Current position: Extension Agent with Kansas State University Research and Extension

Eric Malone
M.S. Student (TN Tech University)

Thesis: Restoring Ecosystem Services by Prioritizing Reintroduction of Native Fishes to Lower Abrams Creek, Great Smoky Mountains
National Park.

Current position: New York Department of Environmental Protection

Amy Gebhard
M.S. Student (TN Tech University)

Thesis: Environmental Regulators of Banded Sculpin (Cottus carolinae) Demography along a Stream Size Gradient.

Current position: Fisheries Resource Biologist with South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks