Our work also takes us to some pretty great places, mostly focusing on New World freshwater fishes. We currently have projects in Central America and Mexico, in Patagonia (southern Chile and Argentina), and in the North American Great Basin. Our lab is driven by basic research questions. However, several of our projects have specific conservation implications (e.g. protecting rare desert fishes in the U.S. and Mexico, delineating conservation regions in Patagonia, etc.). Not surprisingly, we are actively involved with government agencies and NGO’s whose goals are to preserve rare species and to protect critical habitats. Basic or applied, what binds our projects together is that they each promise to provide new understanding into the remarkable diversity of life on earth that we see today. I invite you to look around on our web page to learn more about what we are doing, and to explore opportunities to get involved with this exciting work.
Jerald B. Johnson
Associate Professor of Biology
Assistant Curator of Fishes