Taylor Cubbage grew up near Houston, Texas, and spent her youth fishing and exploring the marshes of Galveston Bay. She attended Texas A&M University’s Galveston campus, where her appreciation for marine life turned into a deeper understanding of how anthropogenic actions are impacting our aquatic ecosystems. Her undergraduate research focused on how environmental changes, including hypoxic conditions and pharmaceutical exposure, affect the physiology of estuarine forage fishes such as Atlantic Silverside Menidia menidia and Sheepshead Minnow Cyprinodon variegatus. After graduating with double B.S. degrees in Marine Biology and Fisheries, Taylor spent a field season as a fisheries technician in Yellowstone National Park acoustically tagging and tracking invasive Lake Trout in Yellowstone Lake to discover new spawning grounds to target for reproductive suppression. Shortly after, the opportunity arose to join the FFEL and begin her master’s assessing the jumping and leaping abilities of Northern Pike, with the goal of determining the feasibility of barriers to prevent invasive pike movement in Southcentral Alaska. This combination of her experiment-based fish physiology research and interest in invasive species management will facilitate the transition towards becoming a fisheries biologist in the future. When she is not chasing fish for research or recreational angling purposes, Taylor enjoys backcountry camping, wood-working, and creating artwork inspired by the natural world.
Contact information:
PO BOX 757020
Fairbanks, AK 99775
213 Irving I Bldg
University of Alaska Fairbanks
fax: 907.474.7264
email: [email protected]
PO BOX 757020
Fairbanks, AK 99775
213 Irving I Bldg
University of Alaska Fairbanks
fax: 907.474.7264
email: [email protected]