My research here has broadly focused on two facets, anthropogenic alterations of aquatic environments (e.g., dam removal) and interactions between aquatic organisms and climate change.  In a recent role as a post-doctoral researcher in the Wisconsin Cooperative Fishery Research Unit at UWSP, I worked on several projects that seek to understand the interactions between the climate and percid populations in the upper Midwestern United States.  I am currently evaluating factors (e.g., lake growing degree days, spring temperature variation) that contribute to the success of the stocking of walleye within the context of a changing climate, with the aim of providing recommendations to ensure that future stocking events have the highest probability of success.  At The Ohio State University, I worked as part of a larger project that was related to the ecosystem scale change in the riverscape after a dam removal on a mid size urban river.  I sought to understand the changes in contaminant flux and interactions with the fish communities in the local river reaches.