Office: Smith 257 Laboratory: Smith
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Email: jnelson@towson.edu
Phone: 410-704-3945 Fax: 410-704-2405
See below for more about my research program:
The main components of my research program involve using a fish's relative ability to swim to understand how suited it is to its environment and understanding how natural selection and acclimatization processes influence a fish's swimming ability. I also do some work on the biology of loricariid catfish that survive and grow on a diet which includes wood.
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| Towson University | Towson University |
| French Government | National Science Foundation |
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| European Union |
Here you see former graduate student Portia Gotwalt and current graduate student Kirk Gastrich seining up some dace from Gwynn's Falls.
My other main physiological ecology research was done primarily in collaboration with these two hard-drinking cats:
Guy Claireaux, in Barcelona, worried that he wasn't going to get enough to drink!
And graduate student Corey Handelsmann, doing important experiments on the proper geometry container to drink Guinness out of!
For more about or research program on European Sea bass, based primarily in Guy's lab in L'Houmeau France, please click on the following link:
Some of my earlier physiological ecology work was carried out with Atlantic cod in the laboratory of Bob Boutilier:
The picture to the right shows me out on the Scotian Shelf long-lining cod for use in research.
If you are interested in fish physiology, fish exercise physiology, physiological ecology, or Atlantic cod, please check out:
Panaque nigrolineatus: type species of a genus of wood eating Loricariid catfish
If you are interested in wood-eating fishes or loricariids, please check out:
Here I am out on the Chesapeake Bay, explaining ecosystem
dynamics to a group of students participating in Towson's NSF-funded
Summer Undergraduate Research in Biology (SURB):E-MAIL: Click jnelson@.towson.edu to send mail or comments.