Kanno Fish Lab

Lab Alumni

Samuel Lewis (PhD 2025; MS 2022)

• Dissertation: Institutional constraints and ecological limits: An interdisciplinary approach to native fish conservation in Colorado's South Platte River basin.
• Thesis: An experimental test of intra- and inter-specific competition between invasive western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) and native plains topminnow (Fundulus sciadicus).
• Current position: Environmental Scientist, Instream Flow Program, Californiat Department of Fish and Wildlife

Alex Brown (BS 2025)

• UG project: Length at age of mottled sculpin in a regulated high-elevation Colorado river.
• Current position: PhD student, Texas Christian University

Noël Clark (MS 2025)

• Thesis: Whole genome sequencing to characterize cutthroat trout populations across the Continental Divide.
• Current position: PhD student, University of Montana

Taylor Stack (MS 2024)

• Thesis: Riverscape features and isolation-by-distance shape spatial genetic structure of brook trout in a Colorado headwater stream network.
• Current position: PhD student, University of Montana

Mickey Means-Brous (MS 2024)

• Thesis: Beaver, fire, fish: Geomorphic influences on salmonid recolonization in a Colorado post-fire environment.
• Current position: Fluvial Geomorphologist, Wolf Water Resources

Nitsa Platis (MS 2023)

• Thesis: Seasonal trophic niche dynamics of mottled sculpin and juvenile brown trout in a regulated Rocky Mountain river.
• Current position:

Xinyi “Lucy” Lu (Post-doc 2023)

• Project: Brook trout population responses to climate variation across the Southeast USA.
• Current position: Assistant Professor, Utah State University

George Valentine (MS 2023)

• Thesis: Spatial asynchrony and cross-scale climate interactions in populations of a coldwater stream fish.
• Current position: Aquatic Ecologist, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station

Audrey Harris (MS 2021)

• Thesis: Genetic analysis reveals bidirectional fish movement across the Continental Divide via an interbasin water transfer.
• Current position: Fisheries Research Geneticist, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

Kevin Fitzgerald (BS 2020)

• UG project: Daily otolith increment analysis of white-spotted charr and masu salmon in northern Japan.
• Current position: Fish Biologist, US Forest Service Tongass National Forest

Seoghyun Kim (PhD 2019)

• Dissertation: Intraspecific variation in reproductive ecology and success of a keystone stream fish, bluehead chub.
• Current position: Assistant Professor, Kangwon National University, South Korea

Kasey Pregler (PhD 2019)

• Dissertation: Using population ecology to advance stream community assembly.
• Current position: Assistant Unit Leader, New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (New Mexico State University)

Daniel Hanks (Post-doc 2017)

• Project: Population analysis of self-sustaining trout in North Carolina streams: current dynamics and future monitoring strategies
• Current position: Aquatic Ecologist, Weyerhaeuser Company

Seth Mycko (MS 2017)

• Thesis: Abundance modeling and movement of smallmouth bass in a regulated section of the Broad River, SC.
• Current position: District Fisheries Biologist, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission