Ryan Hodgson

Ryan is currently working as the lab manager and is helping with all lab and field projects.  Previously he was a fourth-year student in the PNB program. He joined the lab in the summer of 2022 as a 3QQ3 student and continued to a 4QQ3 last year.  He worked with Aneesh Bose on a moon reproductive synchrony project.. Ryan is passionate about nature and loves spending time outdoors. He has been working all summer on the Round Goby population monitoring study and the Baby Goby Project. The monitoring project is a longitudinal study that has been going for over 20 years and involves field sampling and dissections of round gobies. One of the goal of the study is to better understand if this invasive species has reached an equilibrium or impacted the health of the ecosystem after its successful invasion.