RESEARCH
Our research uses integrative approaches to address the physical basis of behavior in an evolutionary comparative context, investigating the ways in which organisms interact with their environment and drive the evolutionary selection of morphology and function. By combining the research expertise we have in ecology, evolutionary biology, comparative anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, hydrodynamics, and biologically-inspired robotics, we are able to approach broad-impact evolutionary questions from an experimental perspective and directly test the relationship between an organism and its environment, ultimately leading to the development of new technologies useful in ecological and organismal monitoring.
Some of the research areas we are interested in include:
