Undergraduate Researchers: There are several opportunities to get involved in the ongoing research with me, graduate students, and postdocs in the lab. Undergraduates can participate either as volunteers or as a course for credit. Volunteers should expect to spend approximately eight hours per week working in the lab. We also hold weekly lab meetings where we discuss ongoing research, recent papers, or presentations by lab members.

MS/PhD Students: I am currently accepting graduate students for the upcoming fall semester. Graduate students develop independent research programs related to ongoing research in the lab. Student projects can involve theoretical ecology and evolution or empirical work. Most students doing empirical research choose to work in Trinidadian fish communities, but this is not required. PhD research is expected to be more independent than MS research, but in both cases I work closely with students to develop research questions and to help find funding for your research.

Before contacting me about doing research in the group, you should think about the following questions:

  1. How has your past research experiences prepared you for PhD research with my group?

  2. What questions/hypotheses do you hope to address for your graduate work? Will you approach this by developing theory, doing empirical work, or both?

  3. What are your long term career goals?

  4. How do you plan to fund your research? Have you applied or will you apply for fellowships? If so, which ones?

Post-doctoral fellows: Post-docs either come with their own funding or are funded for specific projects on one of my grants. When there is funding for a post-doc in the lab, advertisements will be placed on this website and on various online platforms (ECOLOG, EvoDir, etc).