Gallery
Fieldwork in Lake Tanganyika, Zambia
Nkupi parents (Boulengerochromis microlepis) herding a flock of juveniles through our study area (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Pair of nkupi (Boulengerochromis microlepis) in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
View from Kalambo lodge, Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
At Chikonde village (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
At Chikonde village (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Children of Chikonde village (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Preparing shell extraction chambers in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Petter Lundberg)
Collecting shell-dwelling cichlids in extraction chambers in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Petter Lundberg)
Prepping gear on lake floor in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Jakob Gübel)
Note-taking on shell bed (photo credit: Petter Lundberg)
Nkupi female (Boulengerochromis microlepis) in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Variabilichromis moorii amidst a jellyfish bloom (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Waterfront in Mpulungu (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Children of Chikonde village (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Kasakalawe Village (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus multifasciatus territories on floor of Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Top-down view of Neolamprologus multifasciatus territories on floor of Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Sand ridges separating Neolamprologus multifasciatus groups (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus multifasciatus hiding in a shell (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus multifasciatus on a continuous shell bed (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Working in Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Holger Zimmermann)
SCUBA tank filling station at Lake Tanganyika
Synodontid catfish in Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Waterfront pub in Mpulungu, Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Stephan Koblmüller)
Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Holger Zimmermann)
Diving near Mpulungu, Zambia (photo credit: Lukas Koch)
Jordan Lab at Tanganyika Science Lodge
Nkupi male (Boulengerochromis microlepis) with his swarm of fry in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Collecting fin clips underwater in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Boyd Dunster)
View from Kalambo lodge, Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
At Chikonde village (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Divers at the Tanganyika Science Lodge (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Children of Chikonde village (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Holger Zimmermann)
Preparing shell extraction chambers in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Petter Lundberg)
Neolamprologus calliurus in a shell extraction chamber in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Petter Lundberg)
Jakob plus tablet and cameras on lake floor (photo credit: Boyd Dunster)
Waterfront in Mpulungu (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Diving off of Chikonde beach (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Variabilichromis moorii male by a rocky territory in Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Shell beds on floor of Lake Tanganyika (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus tetracanthus (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Discontinuous Neolamprologus multifasciatus groups (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus multifasciatus hiding in a shell (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus multifasciatus (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Working during a freshwater jellyfish bloom in Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Holger Zimmermann)
Continuous shell bed (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus caudopunctatus from Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus multifasciatus social group (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus pulcher in Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Equipment in our underwater “laboratory setup” on the lake floor of Lake Tanganyika, Zambia (photo credit: Lukas Koch)
Mastacembelus spiny eel (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Setting up cameras above Neolamprologus multifasciatus groups on the shell bed (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Diving in Mediterranean, Great Barrier Reef, and beyond
Meeting barracuda during field work in Corsica (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Meeting barracuda during field work in Corsica (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Cuttlefish during night dive in Corsica (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Scorpionfish in Corsica (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Descending in Rapallo, Italy (photo credit: Paul Nührenberg)
Bluespotted ribbontail ray in Great Barrier Reef (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Damselfish parents (Bicolor chromis) and offspring in Great Barrier Reef (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Anemone fish in Great Barrier Reef (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Underwater mirror trials in Corsica (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Mediterranean moray and damselfish near Rapallo, Italy (photo credit: Paul Nührenberg)
Damselfish (Blue green chromis) in coral in Great Barrier Reef (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Damselfish pair (Humbug dascyllus) in Great Barrier Reef (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Fish larva on coral in Great Barrier Reef (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Fire goby pair in Great Barrier Reef (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Fieldwork in British Columbia, Canada
Male plainfin midshipman fish in his intertidal nest (photo credit: Aneesh Bose). *Journal cover image of Evolutionary Ecology Vol 33 No 1
Plainfin midshipman fish (photo credit: Theresa Warriner)
Plainfin midshipman fish eggs on a tile in an intertidal zone in British Columbia (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Male plainfin midshipman fish in the wild within his nest. Eggs are adhered to the nest roof (the underside of a large intertidal rock). (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Holding a tile with plainfin midshipman eggs at an intertidal zone in British Columbia, Canada (photo credit: Shyamal Bose)
Ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) in British Columbia, Canada (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Larval plainfin midshipman still attached to the nest surface via their yolk sacs (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Plainfin midshipman “hiding” under a layer of sand (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Oysters in Dabob Bay, Washington State (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Red rock crab (Cancer productus)
Subtidal midshipman nest. Male caring for offspring at depth of ~20 feet (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Taking water measurements in an inlet in British Columbia, Canada (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Male plainfin midshipman in an artificial intertidal nest constructed using a concrete tile (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
A brood of juvenile plainfin midshipman fish, approximately 2 months old, still attached to the nest surface via their yolk sacs (almost fully absorbed by now).
Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada (photo credit: Nick Luymes)
Plainfin midshipman fish (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Overturning an intertidal rock to uncover a plainfin midshipman nest with eggs. Photo taken from the “fish’s perspective”.
In the lab
Neolamprologus multifasciatus female with her offspring in a shell (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
3D printing shells in the lab (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Neolamprologus multifasciatus in preference trials using 3D printed shells (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
A 3D-printed shell replica of a Neothauma tanganyicense shell (photo credit: Aneesh Bose)
Antarctic Expedition ANT-XXIX/7 (onboard RV Polarstern, 2013)
