Hello!

My name is Sam Fisher, although you may have already assumed this from the website URL. I am currently doing a research internship at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). I have experience with invasive species, parasites, native/endemic species, and extinct and extant Elasmobranchs. Invasive species projects have included quantifying the life history changes invasive species undergo, assessing their distribution, and evaluating their impacts on native environments. I have also worked on discovering or rediscovering native and endemic species and assessing their distributions. Other projects include studying species delineation and demarcation, morphometrics, and trait analysis. However, my interests are shifting, and I now find myself more focused on macro evolutionary processes. I hope to further explore how these processes relate to character evolution, species diversification and survival, especially in regards to changing climates. I am also somewhat of a hobbyist photographer, so I try to take pictures whenever I get the chance!