Human modification of the environment, including large-scale habitat conversion and soaring greenhouse gas emissions, pose major threats to global biological diversity.

Maintaining species’ ability to persist in changing environments ultimately means preserving genetic variation underlying ecologically important traits. Work in our lab is at the interface of ecology and evolution, investigating the genomics of adaptation, life history variation, population dynamics and speciation.

Projects feature organisms spanning a wide taxonomic breadth, including wildlife and fish species of varying conservation status, and are geared towards addressing issues of immediate local, regional and global concern.

Lab people (from left to right): Michael Russello, Danielle Schmidt, Anna Jacquemart, Olivia Boven, Carrie Jessop

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