My research revolves around aquatic organisms and the environment they inhabit. I have experience in a wide array of topics ranging from reservoir ecology and sport fish management to the evolutionary ecology of aquatic organisms.

Currently, I am interested in the ecological and evolutionary effects of environmental variation on populations. Specifically, I strive to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes in complex environments drive adaptation and speciation in crayfish. I look to combine concepts and methods from various biological disciplines such as ecology, evolution, morphology, and physiology. My projects include a variety of field-based studies and experimental approaches in the laboratory.

I can be contacted via email: reid.morehouse@okstate.edu

I am currently a Ph.D. student at Oklahoma State University and work with Dr. Michi Tobler, <http://sulfide-life.info>. Within the Tobler lab, we focus on two key questions: (1) How and why do organisms diversify phenotypically and (2) how and why do reproductive barriers evolve between populations, and under what circumstances can we observe speciation? We address these questions by focusing on species that inhabit a variety of habitats and by quantifying diverging phenotypic traits along environmental gradients. We are elucidating the causes of phenotypic variation, i.e., whether differences among individuals and populations are caused by phenotypic plasticity or genetic differentiation, as well as in its functional significance and how variation in traits translates to variation in fitness under different environmental conditions. Finally, we are trying to understand the proximate mechanisms of ecological speciation: how does adaptive trait divergence translate into reproductive isolation and a split into distinct species.