Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Quantitative Fisheries Center

Education:

M.Sc. 2022. Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
B.S. 2019. Biology, Central Michigan University

Background:

I received my BSc in biology from Central Michigan University where I worked in an animal behavior and physiology lab studying the costs and consequences of social dominance in a cichlid fish native to the African Great Lakes. While this work was interesting and exciting, I decided to shift my focus to more applied management-related work closer to home in the Laurentian Great Lakes. To this end, I received my MSc in fisheries and wildlife from MSU, where I studied the spatial and thermal ecology of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). I am now a fish biologist with the US Geological Survey - Great Lakes Science Center, stationed at Hammond Bay Biological Station, where I study fish movement ecology, behavior, and population structure, often using acoustic telemetry tracking technology, and investigate improvements to the application of fish tracking technology in the Great Lakes. I am also a PhD student in the Quantitative Fisheries Center, working with Travis Brenden to study the movement ecology of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in Lake Huron.

Publications:

Funnell, T.R., T.O. Brenden, R. Kraus, T. MacDougall, J. Markham, C. Murray, J. Robinson, and C.S. Vandergoot. In press. Seasonal spatial ecology of Lake Trout in Lake Erie. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. DOI: 10.1002/tafs.10430

Funnell, T.R., R.J. Fialkowski, P.D. Dijkstra. 2022. Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish. Ethology. 128: 15-25. DOI: 10.1111/eth.13232

Border, S.E., T.J. Piefke, T.R. Funnell, R.J. Fialkowski, J. Sawecki, P.D. Dijkstra. 2021. Social instability influences rank-specific patterns of oxidative stress in a cichlid fish. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(19). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.237172

Border, S.E., T.J. Piefke, R.J. Fialkowski, M.R. Tryc, T.R. Funnell, G.M. DeOliveira, P.D. Dijkstra. 2019. Color change and pigmentation in a color polymorphic cichlid fish. Hydrobiologia. 832: 175-191. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-018-3755-0