The Convergence Lab Members

  • Dr. Ford standing on a boat and wearing a hard hat. She is holding a chimaera/ratfish.

    Dr. Kassandra Ford (PI)

    Dr. Ford is a recent hire in the FWCB department at UMN and the curator of Fishes and Mollusks at the Bell Museum of Natural History. Her research has focused on the evolution of craniofacial shape in two groups of tropical electric fishes.

    PC: Sarah Karnas

  • Faith holding a jar of fish while standing in the middle of the fish/ichthyology collection

    Faith Kelly

    Faith is the current Ichthyology Curatorial Assistant working with the lab. Her work examines the connection between the public and the scientific community, especially in regards to non-game fishes.

    PC: Sarah Karnas

  • RC Hoover giving two thumbs up while wearing a UMN sweatshirt

    RC Hoover

    RC is a PhD student examining head, skull, and tooth shape in a group of elongate fishes from the Pacific Northwest. His work uses CT scans, geometric morphometrics, and diet to explore the evolution of morphology.

Fish Identification Collective

Aidan Tonidandel

Brady Broking

Brian Whelan

Cristian Hernandez

Ethan Haefner

Jacob Wilson

Jonathan Wilson-Thieroff

Owen Stephenson

Undergraduate Researchers

Sarah Adelson

Brian Whelan