We have programs in China, Great Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain. Real Player , Windows Media , . To download any of this software, click here . Clark biologist Susan Foster has dedicated her research to understanding the threespine stickleback fish, particularly when it comes to these fishes courting behavior. In this interview, she discusses her fieldwork in Alaska and Canada, bringing the ocean back to Clark, and how Clark students have helped her along the way.
Sticklebacks are single species of fish with a diversity of forms.
The ocean form is an ancient fossil form that hasn t changed 12 million years ecologically. Post glacially, that form has given rise to large number of populations in the Pacific Northwest. I study these derived and novel populations in fresh water in British Columbia, Canada and in Alaska. I go up to Alaska or Canada in the summers and often I take Clark undergraduates with me. Some years I send undergrads with graduate students to make the collections.