Dr. Scott A. Bonar Lab
AZ Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (AZCFWRU)

Taylor received her Bachelor's degree in Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University where she developed a passion for Aquaculture and Fisheries during her undergraduate research opportunities there and through the National Science Foundation. The NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at Arizona State University exposed her to the unique field of Southwest desert fishes. After graduating, she accepted a position with Marsh and Associates Native Fish Lab designing, building, and deploying PIT antennas monitoring Razorback suckers. In 2023, she joined the Bonar lab on a project that combines her love of native fish and aquaculture through the development of rearing techniques for Sonora sucker.

Regan Doss first gained interest in the fisheries field during her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. As a research technician in the Fish Ecophysiology Lab, she helped develop metabolic consumption assays for the Orangethroat Darter (Etheostoma spectabile). She also spent a summer conducting nonnative crayfish surveys in New Mexico and Arizona, where she discovered her passion for desert fish. During her time at the university, she founded the Student Subunit of the American Fisheries Society and initiated a long-term river monitoring project on the Guadalupe River in Central Texas. In January 2024, she joined the Bonar Lab, where she is currently conducting a stock assessment on Desert suckers (Catostomus clarkii) and Sonora suckers (Catostomus insignis) in the Lower Salt and Verde Rivers. She is using mark-recapture methods alongside age, growth, and fecundity studies to evaluate the overall stock structure of the two native species. To complement this study, the movement of these species along the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers is being observed using submersible PIT Tag antenna systems.