Luke M Bower, PI
Email: [email protected] I did my BS at Erskine College in South Carolina. After graduating I was an intern for the Bureau of Land Management and then a resident natural for the University of Georgia in Costa Rica. I earned my MS at Southeastern Louisiana University studying stream fish ecomorphology and then went on to do a PhD at Texas A&M University studying function ecology and convergent evolution of freshwater fish. My research focuses on using ecological and evolutionary theory to inform freshwater fish conservation and management. |
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Joe Mruzek, Postdoc
Email: [email protected]
Joe got his B.S. in environmental science from John Carroll University (in Cleveland, Ohio) in 2017, and completed his Ph.D. in quantitative biology at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2022. His dissertation focused on how macroprocesses, like dispersal limitation and habitat filtering shaped communities of stream algae, insects, and fish across the United States. At Clemson he will study the effect of instream flow on fish and insect communities across South Carolina. The goal of this research is to identify impacts of flow alteration and to provide scientific grounding for future statewide conservation efforts.
Email: [email protected]
Joe got his B.S. in environmental science from John Carroll University (in Cleveland, Ohio) in 2017, and completed his Ph.D. in quantitative biology at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2022. His dissertation focused on how macroprocesses, like dispersal limitation and habitat filtering shaped communities of stream algae, insects, and fish across the United States. At Clemson he will study the effect of instream flow on fish and insect communities across South Carolina. The goal of this research is to identify impacts of flow alteration and to provide scientific grounding for future statewide conservation efforts.
Jacob Daley, PhD student
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Jacob completed my B.S. in aquatic biology at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in 2020. In that time, Jacob was able to study abroad for a year in Victoria, Australia. He earned his M.S. degree at the University of Georgia in 2022 with my research focusing on the management implications of Alabama Bass populations on Largemouth Bass size and abundance. His PhD interests at Clemson lie with invasion ecology and functional ecology, specifically regarding Alabama Bass and the endemic Bartram's Bass.
Email: [email protected]
Jacob completed my B.S. in aquatic biology at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in 2020. In that time, Jacob was able to study abroad for a year in Victoria, Australia. He earned his M.S. degree at the University of Georgia in 2022 with my research focusing on the management implications of Alabama Bass populations on Largemouth Bass size and abundance. His PhD interests at Clemson lie with invasion ecology and functional ecology, specifically regarding Alabama Bass and the endemic Bartram's Bass.
Jacob Hill, MS student
Email: [email protected] Jacob got his B.S. in Biological Sciences from NC State University in 2021. After graduation, he worked with non-game fish and freshwater mussels as an aquatic wildlife diversity technician for the NC Wildlife Resources Commission. Jacob is now pursuing a masters project in the Bower lab that aims to identify patterns in striped bass movement in response to temperature and flow in the Edisto River. |
Madison Niles, MS student.
I graduated from Austin Peay State University in 2023 with a B.S. in biology where I studied shape variation in Upper Tennessee River Fantail Darters and worked as an assistant in the David Snyder Museum of Zoology. My Masters interest in the Bower lab involve the community assemblage and ecology of larval fish and the impact of dams, specifically pertaining to American Shad in the Broad River |