Office: Hagen Building 407 O
Biosciences Department, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1104 7th Ave S, Moorhead, MN, 56563
Email: wisenden@mnstate.edu, wisenden@gmail.com
Personal office land line: 218-477-5001
Department Office: 218-477-2572 (Melissa)
Teaching
Spring 2022
Principles of Animal Behavior
Evolutionary Biology
Research in Biology
Summer 2022
Field course in Animal Behavior at the University of Minnesota Itasca Biological Field Station
Quantitative Methods in Behavioral Ecology
Fall 2021
Organismal Biology
Advanced Gross Anatomy
Research in Biology
Service
Editor in Chief, Behaviour
I study the ways fish use behavior to solve ecological problems (behavioral ecology). The main focus of my research is anti-predator competence over ecological and evolutionary time scales. One line of research questions is how chemical cues mediate anti-predator behavior in aquatic habitats. A second set of questions is reproductive behavior of fishes, especially in the evolution of brood defense. I do lab research during the academic year using MSUM's fabulous aquatic research facility and field work in the summer at sites in Itasca State Park in my other life teaching for the University of Minnesota. This work (MSUM and UMN) is done almost entirely with undergraduate collaborators. I am currently collaborating with Craig Stockwell and Cody Anderson (NDSU) on evolutionary attenuation of alarm behavior in isolated populations of desert fishes, and Michael Wagner on aspects of alarm cue release in predator-prey interactions.
Publications
- see the results and download pdfs of previous research link
- google scholar profile link