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Christopher Rounds

PhD Student · Fisheries & Aquatic Biology · University of Minnesota

I am an aquatic ecologist in the Conservation Sciences Department at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, working in Gretchen Hansen's lab. My PhD research focuses on fishery bright spots. This involves understanding where fish populations outperform expectations and what factors drive that unexpected resilience.

Adittionally, I am a student worker at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources working on climate change policy and planning. This role is really diverse but ends up working a lot on Fisheries and Wildlife division climate projects and public scoping and engagement.

For my master's, I studied how environmental DNA (eDNA) can be used to detect aquatic invasive species, funded through the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center.

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Outside the lab, you'll find me cooking ambitious meals, ruining my knees on the soccer pitch, or exploring the outdoors. Video games also get a fair share of my evenings.