Scott's Lab

Current Graduate Students

Ambre Chaudoin

Thesis Research: Assessing relationships between environmental variables and reproductive behavior in the endangered Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis)

Justin Mapula

Thesis Research: Food Bottlenecks to Larval Recruitment of Devils Hole pupfish

Joy Price

Thesis Research:

Matt Recsetar

Thesis Research: Thermal tolerance of Apache trout at various life stages

Current Staff

Norman Mercado-Silva, Post Doctoral position

Research: Desert fish habitats and standardized sampling methods for North American freshwater fishes

Olin Feuerbacher, Senior Research Specialist

Research:

Former Graduate Students

Andrew Shultz

Thesis Research: Biology of gila chub (Gila intermedia) and methods for their culture

Erica Sontz

Thesis Research: Methods for headwaters and roundtail chub culture (Gila nigra and Gila Robusta)

Tom Archdeacon

Thesis Research: Effects of Asian tapeworm (Bothriocephalus achelognathii) infection on growth and survival of Mohave tui chub (Siphateles bicolor mohavensis)

Jason Kline

Thesis Research: Effects of Asian tapeworm (Bothriocephalus achelognathii) infection on growth and survival of Yaqui chub (Gila purpurea) and Yaqui topminnow (Poeciliopsis occidentalis sonoriensis).

Cori Carveth

Thesis Research: A comparison of the upper thermal tolerance of native and nonnative fish species in Arizona

Alexander Didenko

Thesis Research: Development of standard weight (Ws) equations for roundtail chub, flannelmounth sucker, razorback sucker, and humpback chub

Jon Flinders

Thesis Research: Biology and foraging demands of northern pike (Esox lucius) in three Arizona reservoirs and their distribution and status in the southwestern United States

Laura Leslie

Thesis Research: Diet and consumption rates of native fish in the Verde River, Arizona

Chuck Schade

Thesis Research: Factors associated with distribution and abundance of nonnative fishes in streams of the American West

Sean Tackley

Thesis Research: Effects of Asian tapeworm (Bothriocephalus achelognathii) infection on growth and survival of Yaqui chub (Gila purpurea) and Yaqui topminnow (Poeciliopsis occidentalis sonoriensis).

Cristina Velez

Thesis Research: Predation by nonnative fishes on native fishes in the Verde River, Arizona

Dave Ward

Thesis Research: Effects of reduced water temperature on swinmming performance and predation vulnerability of age-0 flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnis)

Ann Widmer

Thesis Research: Upper temperature tolerance of loach minnow under acute, chronic and fluctuating thermal regimes

Former Staff

Alison Iles, Research Specialist position

Book development project: 'Standard Sampling Methods for North American Freshwater Fishes'

Yuliya Kuzmenko, Post Doctoral position

Research: Controlling introduced populations of Northern Pike (Esox lucius) in Parker Canyon Lake, Arizona

David Rogowski, Post Doctoral position

Research: Identification of vulnerable life history stages of northern crayfish (Orconectes virilis)