My name is Bruce Stallsmith. I have a recent PhD in Environmental Biology
from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and I currently teach General
Biology there. My interest is freshwater and estuarine fishes. My dissertation
was on the effects of short-term acid spikes on Lepomis sunfish reproduction
in 2 ponds south of Boston (in short, we found deleterious effects of
sudden pH drops on daily sunfish recruitment). I am currently working on
comparing the Nantucket populations of 4 species of fish to their mainland
populations to assay for differentiation at the molecular DNA level;
Nantucket has been an island for about 6000 years.
Like Mike I am also a member of the American Killifish Association (3 of the
fishes I work with from Nantucket are killies; good ol' temperate killies).
None of my recent work or activities have been explicitly conservation
oriented, but it is a background theme in my interests. I want to keep abreast
of news and events on the aquatic conservation front, and hopefully contribute.
--Bruce Stallsmith
Biology Dept., UMass/Boston
stallsmith at umbsky.cc.umb.edu