I'm interested in systematics and population biology, and in particular the application of molecular and other genetic markers to problems in these areas. Although my work with Irv Kornfield at the University of Maine has principally concerned the fish species flocks of two great lakes (the cichlids of Lake Malawi, East Africa and the killifishes of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru), I'm interested in a wide variety of organisms, evolutionary questions, and other more or less biological things. These include (but are in no way limited to) comparative studies aimed at validating (or invalidating) popular generalizations about the nature of mtDNA sequence evolution, exploration of individual, population and species interrelationships using microsatellite markers, systematics/ecology/behavior/ biogeography/anything else of Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies), dogs (see below), old Volvo automobiles...the list is effectively endless.
Here's a picture of me,
helping my amigo Dan DenDanto
(skipper of the RV Indigo)
biopsy finback whales in the
Gulf of Maine.
Cichlids of Lake Malawi
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