Education

Teaching

• Advanced Ichthyology
• General Ecology Laboratory
• Biology of Fishes
• Biology of Organisms Laboratory
• General Biology

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Biology BS
• Marine Biology

Research

Research activities

• Examinations of the distribution and physiological effects of the recently introduced swimbladder parasite on eels
• Changes in the digestive system during the adult metamorphosis of eels
• Sex determination of eels
• Effects of contaminants on gametogenesis
• Development of artificial fertilization methods

Research

Research interests

• Biology of fishes with an emphasis on the biology of American eels
• Life history strategies
• Age and growth of fishes

Select publications

• J. Byer, M. Alaee, R. Brown, M. Lebeuf, S. Backus, M. Keir, G. Pacepavicius, J. Casselman. C. Belpaire, K. Oliveira, G. Verreault, and P. Hodson (2013).
  Spatial trends of dioxin-like compounds in Atlantic anguillid eels
  Chemosphere, 91(10), 1439-1446.
  
• W.J. Duffy, R.S. McBride, M. L. Hendricks and K. Oliveira (2012).
  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
  Otolith age validation and growth estimation from oxytetracycline-marked and recaptured American shad Alosa sapidissima, 141:6, 1664-1671.
  
• W.J. Duffy, R.S. McBride, S.X. Cadrin, and K. Oliveira (2011).
  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
  Is Cating's method of transverse groove counts to annuli applicable for all stocks of American shad?, 140(4), 1023-1034.
  

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