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Research interests: biomechanics, health, animal physiology

Thesis topic: A study of the effect of attached measuring devices on the swimming ability of fish.

Thesis topic: the feeding physiology of invasive lionfish

Clay is studying how invasive lionfish budget their energy to catch, digest, and assimilate prey at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in The Bahamas. Digestion is sometimes underappreciated as part of a fish’s energetics, and is highly relevant in a species like lionfish, which can eat prey almost half their size and distend their stomach 30 times! Understanding how it uses energy to digest prey may shed light on how much and how often this invasive species eats in the wild, of which little is known. It can also be studied at different temperatures to understand how this process might affect the lionfish invasion as the climate changes

Co-supervised by Dr. Karen Smokorowski, DFO

Thesis: Fish interactions with a “fish friendly” turbine on the Severn River, Ontario

Thesis: Do fish handling gloves have an impact on migration capacity and behaviour of the white sucker (Catostomus commersonii)?

Thesis Topic: Investigating the use of integrated louver – light guidance devices for behavioural guidance of at risk migratory and invasive species.

Co-supervised by Dr. Andy Danylchuk

Thesis Topic: Evaluating catch-and-release practices for species at risk