Christopher Philip Kenaley, Ph.D. Museum of Comparative Zoology ...

EDUCATION
Christopher Philip Kenaley, Ph.D.
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
(508) 277-6593 • http://fas.harvard.edu/~ckenaley • ckenaley@fas.harvard.edu
Ph.D., 2010, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
B.Sc., 1999, Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
POSITIONS
January 2012–Present: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department
of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
September 2010–December 2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Aquatic and
Fishery Sciences, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of
Washington, Seattle.
March 2010–March 2011: Rubenstein Fellow, Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian National
Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
November 2005–December 2011: Fish Identification Trainer, Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis
Division, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle.
September 2004–September 2010: Research Assistant, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences,
University of Washington.
September 2007–March 2008: Predoctoral Lecturer, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences,
University of Washington.
January–March 2005–2010: Teaching Assistant, Biology of Fishes, School of Aquatic and
Fishery Sciences, University of Washington.
December 2000–September 2004: Curatorial Assistant, Department of Ichthyology, Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
September 1999–December 2000: Managing Editor, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology and Breviora, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
September 1999–December 2000: Curatorial Assistant, Department of Herpetology, Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
PUBLICATIONS (*indicates undergraduate coauthor)
Kenaley CP, Devaney SC, *Fjeran TT. In review. The complex evolutionary history of seeing
red: molecular phylogeny, off-spectrum visual systems, and predictions of adaptive
phenotypes in deep-sea dragonfishes (Stomiiformes:Stomiidae). Evolution.
Stevenson DE, Kenaley CP. In review. Revision of the manefish genera Caristius and
Platyberyx (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Caristiidae), with descriptions of five new species.
Copeia.
Kenaley CP, 2012. Exploring feeding behavior in deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiidae):
jaw biomechanics and functional significance of a loosejaw. Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society 106:224–240.
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Pietsch TW, Kenaley CP. 2011. A new species of deep-sea ceratioid anglerfish, genus
Himantolophus (Lophiiformes: Himantolophidae), from southern waters of all three
oceans of the world. Copeia, 2011(4):490–496.
Stevenson DE, Kenaley CP. 2011. Revision of the manefish genus Paracaristius (Teleostei:
Percomorpha: Caristiidae), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species.
Copeia, 2011(3):385–399.
Kenaley CP. 2010. Comparative innervation of cephalic photophores of the loosejaw
dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Stomiidae): Evidence for parallel evolution of
long-wave bioluminescence. Journal of Morphology 271(4):41–437 [Cover].
Kenaley CP. 2009. Revision of Indo-Pacific species of the loosejaw dragonfish genus
Photostomias (Teleostei: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae). Copeia 2009(1):175–189.
Stevenson DE, Kenaley CP, Raring N. 2009. First records of rare mesopelagic fishes from the
Gulf of Alaska. Northwestern Naturalist 90(1):24–34.
Hartel KE, Kenaley CP, Galbraith JK, Sutton TT. 2008. Additional records of deep-sea fishes
from off greater New England. Northeastern Naturalist 15(3):317–334.
Kenaley CP. 2008. Diel vertical migration of the loosejaw dragonfishes (Stomiiformes:
Stomiidae: Malacosteinae): a new analysis for rare pelagic taxa. Journal of Fish Biology
73(4):888–901.
Kenaley CP, Gomon MF. 2008. Family Stomiidae. In: Gomon MF, Bray D, Kuiter RH, editors.
The Fishes of Australia's South Coast, Revised Edition. Sydney: New Holland Press.
Kenaley CP. 2007. Revision of the stoplight loosejaw genus Malacosteus (Teleostei: Stomiidae:
Malacosteinae), with description of a new species from the temperate southern
hemisphere and Indian Ocean. Copeia 2007(4):886–900.
Kenaley CP, Hamilton AN, Jr. 2006. Bathylaginae: deep-sea smelts In: Richards WJ, editor.
Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North
Atlantic Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p 141–154.
Kenaley CP, Orr JW. 2006. Rouleina attrita (Osmeriformes: Alepocephalidae): new records for
the eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea. Ichthyological Research 53(2):200–202.
Kenaley CP, Hartel KE. 2005. A revision of Atlantic species of Photostomias (Teleostei:
Stomiidae: Malacosteinae), with a description of a new species. Ichthyological Research
52(3):251–263.
BOOK PROPOSALS
Kenaley CP, Zaccone G (editors). Proposal in review. Bioluminescence in Fishes: The
Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology of Light Production in Lower Vertebrates.
The Johns Hopkins University Press.
ABSTRACTS
Kenaley CP, Lauder GV. 2013. BassBot: A Biorobotic Model of the Teleost Feeding System.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. San Francisco,
CA.
Kenaley CP. 2012. A Device for Dampening Drag: A novel hypothesis for the function of
enormous fangs in deep-sea fishes. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
(ASIH). Vancouver, BC.
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Kenaley CP. 2012. A Device for Dampening Drag: A novel hypothesis for the function of
enormous fangs in deep-sea fishes. Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology. Charleston, SC.
Kenaley CP. 2010. My, what loosejaws you have: the feeding mechanics of an enigmatic clade
of deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiidae). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists (ASIH). Providence, RI.
Kenaley CP. 2009. Confusing species trees with gene trees misleads ancestral state
reconstruction and inference of molecular evolution: A reanalysis of rhodopsin evolution
in the Actinopterygii. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH).
Portland, OR.
Kenaley CP. 2009. From red to blue and back again: The evolution of highly adaptive visual
systems in the lightfishes (Teleostei:Stomiiformes). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists (ASIH). Portland, OR.
Kenaley CP, Frable BW. 2008. Exploring lightfish (Teleostei: Stomiiformes) relationships: a
neuroanatomical approach. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH).
Montreal, P.Q.
Kenaley CP. 2008. Cast in a different light: comparative innervation and homology of
bioluminescent organs in the lightfishes (Teleostei: Stomiiformes). Joint Meeting of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH). Montreal, P.Q.
Kenaley CP. 2007. The red resolution: resolving photophore homology in the loosejaw
dragonfishes (Stomiiformes: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists
and Herpetologist (ASIH). St. Louis, Missouri.
Kenaley CP. 2007. The red resolution: a neuroanatomical and tree-based assessment of
photophore homology and evolution in the loosejaw dragonfishes. 19 th Meeting of the
Gilbert Ichthyological Society. Eatonville, Washington.
Kenaley CP, Sutton, TT. 2006. Breaking from the moveable feast: the evolution of prey choice
and foraging strategies in the loosejaw dragonfishes. 13 th Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Kenaley CP, Sutton TT. 2006. Breaking from the moveable feast: the evolution of prey choice
and foraging strategies in the loosejaw dragonfishes. 11th International Deep-Sea
Biology Symposium. Southampton, UK.
Kenaley CP. 2005. Stomiids without barbels III: materials toward a revision of the stop-light
loosejaw genus Malacosteus (Stomiidae: Malacosteinae). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists
and Herpetologists (ASIH). Tampa, Florida.
Kenaley CP. 2005. Where to go and what to eat: morphological consequences of foraging
strategies and prey choice in the loosejaw dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiidae:
Malacosteinae). 17 th Meeting of the Gilbert Ichthyological Society. Eatonville,
Washington.
Kenaley CP. 2005. Stomiids without barbels II: a revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the
loosejaw genus Photostomias Collett (Stomiidae: Malacosteinae), with comments on the
status of the subfamily. 7 th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC). Taipei, Taiwan.
Kenaley CP, Hartel KE. 2004. Stomiids without barbels: the Atlantic Photostomias species
(Stomiidae: Malacosteinae). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH).
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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GRANTS AND COMPETITIVE AWARDS
2011: National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, $123,000.
Project title: Exploring Form, Function, and Behavior in the Deep Sea: A Novel Approach
Using Experimental Biorobotics.
2010: Encyclopedia of Life Rubenstein Fellowship, $20,000. Project title: Lightfishes and
Anglerfishes on EOL: Synthesizing Biodiversity Information in Earth’s Largest
Ecosystem.
2010: Encyclopedia of Life Biodiversity Synthesis Workshop, $40,000. Workshop title: Deepsea
Fishes: Biodiversity and Evolution in Earth’s Largest and Least Studied Biome.
2007: DeepFin Student Exchange Program, DeepFin: Phylogeny of All Fishes, an NSF Research
Coordination Network, $4000. Project title: A Nervous Condition: Testing Current
Hypotheses of Basal Euteleost Relationships. Mentor: J. A. Lopez, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks.
2005: Ernst Mayr Travel Grant in Animal Systematics, Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Harvard University, $1000. Project title: A Systematic Revision of the Loosejaws
(Teleostei: Stomiidae: Malacosteinae): A Group of Stealthy Deep-sea Dragonfishes.
2005: Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research, American Museum of Natural History, New
York. $1700 Project title: A Systematic Revision of the Loosejaws (Teleostei: Stomiidae:
Malacosteinae): A Group of Stealthy Deep-sea Dragonfishes.
2005: National Science Foundation, East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S.Graduate
Students (EAPSI), Taiwan Fellowship. Declined
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005–2011: Fish Identification Trainer, Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division, Alaska
Fisheries Science Center, Seattle. Teaching involves training fisheries observers in the
identification of marine fishes of the eastern North Pacific.
January–March 2005–2010: Teaching Assistant, Biology of Fishes, School of Aquatic and
Fishery Sciences, University of Washington. Led approximately 20 upper-level
undergraduates in laboratory study of the biodiversity, systematics, and morphology of
fishes.
September 2007–March 2008: Predoctoral Lecturer, Biology of Fish, School of Aquatic and
Fishery Sciences, University of Washington. Led some 130 undergraduates in classroom
exploration of the biodiversity, ecology, systematics, physiology, and anatomy of fishes.
INVITED SEMINARS
October 2012: Fifty shades of dragonfishes: Scandalous adaptive evolution in the deep-sea.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University.
October 2012: Fifty shades of dragonfishes: Scandalous adaptive evolution in the deep-sea.
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
November 2011: Loose and long jaws: The functional morphology and comparative
biomechanics of feeding in deep-sea dragonfishes. Department of Oral Health Sciences,
University of Washington.
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May 2011: From sequence to phenotype: phylogenomics and the study of adaptation in the deepsea.
School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science, University of Washington.
November 2010: The Stomiiformes: a synopsis of the most successful clade of deep-sea fishes.
National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan.
AWARDS
2010: Dean’s Medal, awarded for excellence in scholarship and research, College of the
Environment, University of Washington.
2010: Faculty Merit Award, School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, University of Washington.
2010: M. F. Anderson Scholarship, School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, University of
Washington.
2006–2010: Dorothy T. Gilbert Memorial Scholarship, School of Aquatic and Fishery Science,
University of Washington.
1999: Arthur and Karina Nelson Scholarship, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell
University.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
September 2012–Present: Sectional Editor, Marine Biology Research
May 2010: Organizer/Co-leader (with T.W. Pietsch, UW), Biodiversity Synthesis Workshop,
“Deep-sea Fishes: Biodiversity and Evolution in Earth’s Largest and Least Studied Biome,”
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
2009–Present: Encyclopedia of Life species-page curator: Stomiiformes.
2009–Present: Web Content Management Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologist.
2007–2009: Committee on Graduate Student Participation. American Society of Ichthyologists
and Herpetologist.
2008–Present: External reviewer for Copeia, Ichthyological Research, Journal of Fish Biology,
Bioscience, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Zootaxa
PRESS
Mouth wide Open: The challenge of studying deep-sea creatures: An aquatic scientist describes
the challenges of studying creatures that live deep under the sea. Scientific American, August
2011.
Why deep-sea dragonfish have such extraordinary jaws. New Scientist, Januart 2012.
FIELD EXPERIENCE
Spring–Autumn 2011: Lead scientist, Cardno-Entrix, Gulf of Mexico mid-water plankton
sampling aboard the M/V Meg Skansi and NOAA Ship Pisces.
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June 2005: Collection of mesopelagic fishes and assessment of forage fish abundance in the
southern Bering Sea aboard the F/V Great Pacific.
April 2005: Collection of bathypelagic and benthic fishes of the Bear Seamount aboard the R/V
Delaware II.
June 2004: Collection of bathypelagic and benthic fishes of the Bear Seamount aboard the R/V
Delaware II.
October 2003: Contracting Scientist aboard R/V Albatross IV during NMFS Ground Fish Survey
in the Gulf of Maine.
May 2003–June 2004: Collection of freshwater fish in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and
Massachusetts for genetic sampling in collaboration with the University of Kansas Tissue
Archive.
October 2002: Contracting Scientist aboard R/V Albatross IV during NMFS Ground Fish Survey
in the Gulf of Maine.
July–August 2002: Collection of bathypelagic and benthic fishes of the Bear Seamount and
surrounding canyons of Southern New England aboard the R/V Delaware II.
March 2002: Collection of freshwater fishes native to New South Wales, Australia in
cooperation with the Australian Museum, Sydney.
September 2001: Collection of mesopelagic and off-shore fishes of the Mid-Atlantic Bight
aboard R/V Albatross IV.
May 2001: Deep-water collecting cruise to the canyons of the southern New England shelf break
aboard the F/V Mary K.
STUDENTS MENTORED
Zachary Baldwin (University of Washington, 2008), Ph. D. Student, American Museum of
Natural History, New York. Research topic: Diel vertical migration of the lightfishes
(Stomiiformes).
Thaddaeus Buser (University of Washington, 2010), M.S. Student, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks. Research topic: Systematic position and taxonomic status of the brown
catshark (Apristurus brunneus) in the Northeast Pacific.
Benjamin Frable (University of Washington, 2010). M.S. Student, Oregon State University.
Research topic: Homology assessment of cephalic photophore in the lightfishes
(Stomiiformes) and a placement of the enigmatic genus Diplophos.
Stacey Farina (University of New Hampshire, 2010), Ph. D. Student, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY. Research topic: Comparative neuroanatomy of the Lophiiformes.
Taylor Fjeran (University of Washington, 2011). M.S. Student, Oregon State University.
Research topic: The Scombroidiformes: a novel phylogenetic hypothesis within the
percomorph bush.
Joshua Kim (University of Washington, 2011). Ph. D. Student, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology: Rhodopsin evolution in the Neoteleostei.
Benjamin Burnett (University of Washington, 2012). Research topic: Percomorph phylogeny and
the systematic importance of anterior lateral-line neuroanatomy.
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Ichthyological Society of Japan
Society for Systematic Biology
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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