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Christopher Philip Kenaley, Ph.D.
Lauder Lab
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

(617) 496-7199 ¦ cpkenaley(at)gmail.com ¦ http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ckenaley


EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2010, University of Washington, Seattle.
B.Sc., 1999, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

POSITIONS
January 2012—Present: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

September 2010—December 2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.

March 2010—March2011: Rubenstein Fellow, Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

November 2005—Present: 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. Submitted. Molecular phylogeny and evolution of off-spectrum visual systems in deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and 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, In press. Exploring feeding behavior in deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiidae): Jaw biomechanics and functional significance of a loosejaw. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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):418—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.

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.


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. 19th 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. 13th 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). 17th 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. 7th 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.

GRANTS
2011: National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology, $123,000. Project title: Comparative Biomechanics and Ecomorphology of Deep-sea Fishes: A Biorobotics Approach.

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: Deep-sea 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—Present: 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 PRESENTATIONS
December 2011: The functional morphology and comparative biomechanics of feeding in deep-sea dragonfishes. University of Washington Dental School, Department of Oral Biology.

November 2011: The Stomiiformes: a synopsis of the most successful clade of deep-sea fishes. National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan.

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. Awarded each of the last five years.

1999: Arthur and Karina Nelson Scholarship, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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 on three occasions, Copeia.

2008—Present: External reviewer on two occasions, Ichthyological Research.

FIELD EXPERIENCE
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. 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, Research topic: Comparative neuroanatomy of the Lophiiformes.

Taylor Fjeran, University of Washington, 2011. Research topic: The Scombroidiformes: a novel phylogenetic hypothesis within the percomorph bush.

Benjamin Burnett, University of Washington, 2012. Research topic: Percomorph phylogeny and the systematic importance of anterior lateral-line neuroanatomy.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Ichthyological Society of Japan

Society for Systematic Biology

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Willi Hennig Society