Hello and welcome to the Collins Aquatic Ecology Lab at Texas Tech.  We are a team of aquatic ecologists who study streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands.

Our work focuses on an array of topics including food webs, fish conservation, ecosystem health, and recreational fisheries. To uncover the underlying ecological mechanisms that shape natures structure and function, and to identify effective management approaches, my colleagues and I use an integrative approach that combines population-, community- and ecosystem-level measurements, manipulative & field experiments, and modeling tools.