I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Watershed Sciences and Managing Editor for the California WaterBlog.
Broadly, I am interested in landscape limnology and community ecology. I have worked on freshwater systems in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains and California’s Sierra Nevada, and have studied reservoir fisheries, heat accumulation and climate change impacts to USA mountain ranges, organismal eco-evo dynamics, and food web ecology. My research has supported me to work on a variety of organisms including macroinvertebrates, salamanders, and freshwater fishes. My early research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab sparked my interest in mountain freshwater systems initially, and I have since been increasingly focused on freshwater ecosystems more broadly as a potential model for testing deeper and fundamental ecological questions.
Email: caparisek@ucdavis.edu | GitHub: https://github.com/caparisek