Spencer Ingley

Education and Training

2015- 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Duke University North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

2015 Brigham Young University; Ph.D. in Biology

2010 University of Florida; B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Summa cum Laude

Academic Positions

Fall 2023- present Associate Professor and Biology Program Lead, Faculty of Sciences, Brigham Young University–Hawaii

Fall 2017 - Spring 2023 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Brigham Young University– Hawaii

2017 Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Teaching and Mentoring

Courses Taught

Brigham Young University, Provo

Spring 2014 International Studies Program, Tropical Biology Field Course (Costa Rica), Kennedy Center for International Studies
Winter 2014 Invited Lecturer, BIO100 Introductory Biology, Department of Biology
2012 - 2013 International Biology Internship Coordinator and Student Advisor (Panama), Kennedy Center for International Studies
Winter 2011 and 2012 Teaching Assistant and Lecturer, BIO420 Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Spring 2017 Evolutionary Mechanisms and Evolutionary Mechanisms Lab (Instructor rating: 4.24/5; Course rating: 4.29/5)
Summer 2017 Animal Behavior and Animal Behavior Lab (Instructor rating: 4.41/5; Course rating: 4.15/5)

Brigham Young University–Hawaii

Introductory Biology II - Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Animal Behavior and Invasion Biology, Introduction to Research, Biostatistics, Scientific Writing, Animal Behavior and Animal Behavior Lab, Current Topics in Biology and Natural Resource Management and Natural Resource Management Lab.

Formal Pedagogical Training

Winter 2019 BYU–Hawaii Center for Learning and Teaching Colloquium on Teaching
Summer 2017 Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching, National Academies of Science, UNC Chapel Hill
Fall 2016 College Science Teaching Seminar, UNC Chapel Hill
Winter 2014 Practicum in Teaching Biology, BYU
Fall 2013 Advanced Topics in Science Education

Selected List of Mentored Students

*Denotes students who presented at a conference; ^†Denotes student co-authors; ^§Denotes students who applied for grants to support their research.

2011- 2013 Chelsey Hancock PharmD Student, U. of Utah
Fall 2013 Meaghan Weldele BYU
2012 - 2014 Jeremy Rehm NSF Fellow, Brown Univ.
2012 - 2014 David Money Vet. Medicine Fellow, UT Knoxville
2010 - 2013 Michael McEntire Project Analyst, Amdocs
2013 Patricia Dante Vega UNACHI, Panama
2013 Macario Gonzalez UNACHI, Panama
2014 - 2015 Christopher Anthony Western Univ. of Health Sciences
2012 - 2014 Anna Gruszkiewicz PhD Student, SE Louisiana Univ.
2013 Elijah Eyerly Undergraduate, Flagler College
2014-2016 Henry Camarillo PhD Student, Virginia Tech
2013-2016 Kandace Hugentobler BYU, MS program
2014-2016 Matthew Rambo BYU, EEL Lab manager
2015-2017 Sofia De La Serna Buzon PhD Student, UNC
2017-2018 Katelyn Grandy BYU–Hawaii
2017-2020 Sharon Yeap BYU–Hawaii
2017-2019 Ivy Doringuez BYU–Hawaii
2017-2018 Gentrie Magg BYU–Hawaii
2017-2018 Phil Herrera BYU–Hawaii
2018-2021 Tanner Smith BYU–Hawaii
2019 Mahonri Urian BYU–Hawaii
2019-2021 Gabe Meyer BYU–Hawaii
2019-2021 Eston Dunn BYU–Hawaii
2019-2021 Ting Yu BYU–Hawaii
2020- 2022 Kyoung Yang BYU–Hawaii
2021- 2023 Andrea George BYU–Hawaii
2021-2023 Rocky Seeley BYU–Hawaii
2020-2023 Beka Greenall PhD Student, BYU
2023-Present Mélanie Nella Herenui Ercoli BYU–Hawaii
2023-2024 Tyler Stephens BYU–Hawaii
2023-2024 Reagan Owens BYU–Hawaii
2023-Present Michael Bui BYU–Hawaii
2023-2024 Gabe Thorup BYU–Hawaii
2024-Present Thummim Dollete BYU–Hawaii
2024-Present Caitlin Alder BYU–Hawaii
2024 Ellie Garrett BYU–Hawaii

Publications

All are peer-reviewed; *denotes undergraduate co-author

Rebeka F. Greenall, Logan Kalaiwaipono Ellis, Grace Krueger, S.J. Ingley, Elizabeth G. Bailey. (2024) Exploring Indigenous Viewpoints in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom-An Environmental Case Study Incorporating Hawaiian Traditional Ecological Knowledge. CourseSource 11. https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2024.9
Ingley, S.J. and Austin Pack. (2023) Leveraging AI tools to develop the writer rather than the writing. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2023.05.007.
Broder, E.D., Gallagher, J., Wikle, A., Venable, C., Zonana, D., Ingley, S.J., *Smith, T., Tinghitella, R. (2022) Behavioral responses of a parasitoid fly to rapidly evolving host signals. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e9193.
*Smith, T.C., E. Dale Broder, Robin M. Tinghitella, and S.J. Ingley. (2021) Using inter-institutional collaboration to generate publishable findings through course-based undergraduate research experiences. American Biology Teacher, September Issue 83.7.
Comeault, A.A., J. Wang, S. Tittes, K. Isbell, S.J. Ingley, A.H. Hurlbert, and D.R. Matute. (2020) Genetic diversity and thermal performance in invasive and native population of African fig flies. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37 (7): 1893-1906.
Belk, M.C., Ingley, S.J., and J.B. Johnson. (2020) Life history divergence in livebearing fishes in response to predation: Is there a microevolution to macroevolution barrier? Diversity, 12 (179) 1-14).
Ingley, S. J. (2019) Ecomorphological convergence across the Atlantic. Evolution, 73: 1055-1056.
Ingley, S.J. (2019) Personality and Evolution. In: Choe, J.C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, (2^nd Ed). Vol. 2, pp. 67-73.
C.N. Keiser, S.J. Ingley, B. Toscano, I. Scharf, and J.N. Pruitt. (2018) Habitat complexity dampens selection on prey personality. Ethology, 124: 25-32.
(Featured on ScienceDaily, EureAlert!, and ScienceNewsline, In article “Habitat counts when predators lurk”) (Top 20 most accessed articles in Ethology for 2019)
Ingley, S. J. (2017) On the temporal evolution of reproductive isolation. Evolution, 71: 497–498.
Ingley, S. J. & Rosenthal, G. G. (2017) Mechanisms of assortative mating and ecological speciation. Evolution, 71: 185–186.
L. Chouinard-Thuly, S. Gierszewski, G.G. Rosenthal, S. Reader, G. Rieucau, K.L. Woo, R. Gerlai, C. Tedore, S.J. Ingley, J. Stowers, J.G. Frommen, N.F. Troje, F.L.Dolins & Klaudia Witte. (2017) Technical and conceptual considerations for using animated stimuli in studies of animal behavior. Current Zoology 63 (1): 5-19.
(Invited Review for special column on “Virtual Reality in Animal Behavior”)
(Featured as cover article for the journal, February 2017)
*Money, D.A., Ingley, S.J., and Johnson, J.B (2017). Divergent predation environments between two sister species of livebearing fishes predicts boldness, activity, and exploration behavior. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation. 65 (1)
Ingley, S.J., J.N. Pruitt, Inon Scharf & Jessica Purcell (2016). Social context, but not individual personality, alters immigrant viability in a spider with mixed social structure. Animal Behaviour 120:153-161.
(Featured on ScienceDaily, In article “Loner spiders prevail as pioneers”)
(Featured on AAAS EurekAlert!, In article “Loner spiders prevail as pioneers”)
(Featured in UPI News article “Solo spiders live longer than groupies”, by Brooks Hays)
(Featured post on reddit, Animal Science Section, The New Reddit Journal of Science)
Goulet, C.T., S.J. Ingley (co-first author), Inon Scharf and Jonathan N. Pruitt. (2016) Thermal effects on survival and reproductive performance vary according to personality type. Behavioral Ecology 27 (6): 1635-1641.
(Featured in The Washington Post article “How these spiders handle climate change will depend on their personalities”, by Chelsea Harvey)
(Featured in the IFL Science article “Spiders’ Personalities Help Colonies Survive as Climate Changes, by Ben Taub)
(Featured in the Natural History Magazine article “Some Like it Hot”)
(Featured on AAAS EurekAlert!, Science Newsline, and Science Daily In article “Temperature helps drive the emergence of different personalities in spiders”)
(Featured post on reddit, Animal Science Section, The New Reddit Journal of Science)
(Featured in The Science Explorer article “Personality Mixing Helps Spider Colonies Survive Harsh Conditions”, by Erica Tennenhouse)
(Featured in ClimateWire article “Loner tendencies won’t help spiders survive temperature swings”, by Niina Heikkinen)
(Featured in ZME Science article “Spider personalities are influenced by temperature”, by Tyler MacDonald)
(Featured in UPI News article “Temperature drives divergent personalities among tangle web spiders”, by Brooks Hays)
(Featured in Russian news outlet Polit article “A variety of characters allows spiders to survive dramatic temperature jumps”)
(Featured in Spanish news site Quo article “Raising temperature sooths aggressive spiders”, by Yon Recio Municio)
Ingley, S.J., and J.B. Johnson. (2016) Selection is stronger in early-versus-late stages of divergence in a Neotropical livebearing fish. Biology Letters 12 (3).
Ingley, S.J. and J.B. Johnson. (2016) Divergent natural selection promotes immigrant inviability at early and late stages of divergence. Evolution 70: 600-616.
(Featured as cover article for the journal, March 2016)
Ingley, S.J., *Camarillo, H., *Willis, H., and J.B. Johnson. (2016) Repeated evolution of local adaptation in swimming performance: Population level trade-offs between burst and endurance swimming in Brachyrhaphis freshwater fish. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 119 (4) 1011-1026.
Mugleston, J., Naegle, M., Song, H., Bybee, S.M., Ingley, S.J., Suvurov, A., and M.F. Whiting. (2016) Reinventing the leaf: Multiple origins of leaf-like wings in katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30(4) 335-352.
Ingley, S.J., M. Rahmani Asl, C. Wu, R. Cui, M. Gadelhak, W. Li, J. Zhang, J. Simpson, C. Hash, T. Butkowski, T. Veen, J.B. Johnson, W. Yan, and G.G. Rosenthal. (2015) anyFish 2: an open-source software platform to generate and share animated fish models to study behaviour. SoftwareX 3-4: 13-21.
Ingley, S.J., Reina, R., Bermingham, E., and J.B. Johnson. (2015) Phylogenetic analyses provide insights into the historical biogeography and evolution of Brachyrhaphis fishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89: 104-114.
Ingley, S.J. (2015) Sympatric Population of Sister Species of Brachyrhaphis. Journal of Fish Biology, 86 (3): 1163-1170.
Ingley S.J., Johnson JB, 2014. Animal personality as a driver of reproductive isolation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29:369-371.
(Selected for Faculty of 1000, May 2014)
(Symposium inspired by paper featured in Science article by Elizabeth Pennisi, May 6, 2016)
Ingley, S.J., J. Rehm*, and J.B. Johnson. (2014) Size doesn't matter, sex does: a test for boldness in sister species of Brachyrhaphis fishes. Ecology and Evolution 4(22): 4361-4369.
Ingley, S.J., Billman, E.J., *Hancock, C., and J.B. Johnson. (2014) Repeated geographic divergence in behavior: a case study employing phenotypic trajectory analysis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 1577-1587.
Ingley, S.J. (2014) An elevational range expansion in a Neotropical livebearing fish from Panama: Implications for adaptive evolution. The Southwestern Naturalist 59(3): 396-399.
Zúñiga-Vega, J.J., S.J. Ingley, P.J. Unmack, and J.B. Johnson. (2014) Do freshwater ecoregions and continental shelf width predict patterns of historical gene flow in the freshwater fish Poecilia butleri? Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 112 (3), 339-416.
Ingley, S.J., Billman, E.J., Belk, M.C., and Johnson, J.B. (2014) Morphological Divergence Driven by Predation Environment within and between species of Brachyrhaphis Fishes. PLoS ONE 9(2): e90274.
Thor Veen, S.J. Ingley, Rongfeng Cui, Jon Simpson, Mohammad Rahmani Asl, Ji Zhang, Trisha Butkowski, Wen Li, Chelsea Hash, Jerald B. Johnson, Wei Yan, Gil Rosenthal. (2013) anyFish: an open-source software to generate animated fish models for behavioural studies. Evolutionary Ecology Research 15 (3): 361-375.
Ingley, S.J., Bybee, S.M., Tennessen, K.J., Whiting, M.F., Branham, M.A. (2012) Life on the Fly: Phylogenetics and Evolution of Helicopter Damselflies (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae). Zoologica Scripta, 41, 637-650.
(Featured on BBC Nature, http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19048038)
Harvey B. Lillywhite, Alejandro Solórzano, Coleman M. Sheehy III, S. J. Ingley, and Mahmood Sasa. (2010) New Perspectives on the Ecology and Natural History of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake, Pelamis platurus, in Costa Rica: Does Precipitation Influence Distribution? IRCF Reptiles and Amphibians. 17 (2): 69-72.

Manuscripts in Review/Preparation

*Magg, G., *Doringuez, I., and S.J. Ingley. Competition drives life-history divergence in an invasive freshwater fish. (In revision.)
*Alexandra G. Duffy, Spencer J. Ingley, *Trevor Williams, Jerald B. Johnson. Asymmetric mate choice behavior in sympatric vs. allopatric populations of Brachyrhaphis (Poeciliidae) sister species. (In review, Evolutionary Ecology)
Lillywhite, H.B., C.M. Sheehy III, and S.J. Ingley. Insular Cottonmouths, Colonial Nesting Birds, and Fish Carrion: A Unique Bird-Snake Mutualism with Report of Historic Disruption. (In prep. for Science)
Ingley, S.J. and K.S. Pfennig. Variable novelty seeking behavior and implications for a recent niche expansion. (In prep.)
Ingley, S.J. and Billman, E.J. Morphological convergence in sympatric populations of two sister species of livebearing fishes. (In prep.)

Research Grant and Fellowship Support

Total funding: $309,451

2022 Western North American Naturalist Editor Grant, $2500.
2015-2017 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award, Research Using Biological Collections, National Science Foundation, $138,000.
2016 Postdoctoral Travel Award, UNC Chapel Hill Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, $500.
2012-2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award, National Science Foundation, $134,000
2014 American Museum of Natural History Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund: ‘Magic-traits’ across the speciation continuum: Using ‘anyFish’ to test for predator driven speciation in Brachyrhaphis fishes. $2000.
2014 American Society of Naturalists Student Research Award: ‘Magic-traits’ across the speciation continuum: Using ‘anyFish’ to test for predator driven speciation in Brachyrhaphis fishes. $2000.
2014 The Explorers Club Exploration Fund: Taking anyFish to the streams: Using revolutionary animal behavior software to test for reinforcement and ‘magic traits’ in Panamanian Brachyrhaphis fishes. $1000.
2013-2014 Brigham Young University Graduate Research Fellowship Award: Helping Solve the Mystery of Mysteries: Speciation in Central American Fishes. $15,000.
2014 Brigham Young University Office of Research and Creative Activities Grant: Predators Shape Personality in Brachyrhaphis fishes. $1500.
2011-2012 National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, Young Explorers Grant: The Temporal Evolution of Reproductive Barriers in Brachyrhaphis Fishes: Does Evolution Repeat Itself? $4710.
2010 The Explorers Club Youth Activity Fund: The Role of Freshwater in Sea Snake Evolution and Radiation: A Global and Regional Focus on Pelamis platurus. $1000
2009 The Explorers Club Youth Activity Fund: Climate Change and Sea Snake Distribution in the Tropical Pacific. $1500
2009 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Travel Grant, $500
2008-2009 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Florida G.A.T.O.R. Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. $2500
2008 Florida Entomological Society Mini-grant, $250
2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant, $500
2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Travel Grant, $500
2007-2008 The Explorers Club Youth Activity Fund: Eating on the Fly: Phylogeny and Evolution of the Helicopter Damselflies. $1491

Awards and Honors

2021 BYU–Hawaii Professorship Award (internal research funding, awarded to one faculty annually)
2019 AirBnB/Ocean Conservancy Antarctic Sabbatical Participant (selected from 142,000 applicants worldwide)
2015-2017 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology
2012-2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2014 Finalist, Hamilton Prize Competition for Best Student Talk, Evolution Meeting, Raleigh, NC
2014 Research Presentation Award, Brigham Young University Graduate Studies
2013 Neotropical Ichthyology Association Best Student Oral Presentation, ASIH Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM
2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, University of Florida, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2010 College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honors Scholar, Summa cum laude Distinction
2008 Entomological Society of America Student and Young Professional Award
2004-2010 Florida Academic Scholars Award, State of Florida Bright Futures, Full-University Tuition

Scientific Presentations

Invited talks and seminars

2019 Ingley, S.J. Marine Debris in Hawaii and Insights from the Antarctic Sabbatical. Antarctic Sabbatical Symposium, Punta Arenas, Chile.
2017 Ingley, S.J. What can spiders teach us about the value of social diversity? Invited Public Lecture for “Darwin Day 2017”, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC.
2017 Ingley, S.J. Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: Lessons from spiders and fishes on the origins and value of diversity. Department Seminar, Department of Natural Sciences, Brigham Young University, Hawaii.
2017 Ingley, S.J. Natural selection and the origin of variation within and between species. Department Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University.
2016 Ingley, S.J. Natural selection and the evolution of behavioral variation within and between species. Department Seminar, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University.
2016 Ingley, S.J. Individual Behavioral Differences and the Origin of Species. Part of the 2016 symposium at the annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, entitled “The Role of Animal Personality in Speciation,” organized by S.J. Ingley. Asilomar, CA.
2015 Ingley, S.J. Repeated trait evolution driven by divergent natural selection at early and late stages of speciation. Department of Biology, Brigham Young University.
2015 Ingley, S.J. Repeated trait evolution driven by divergent natural selection at early and late stages of speciation. ‘Lunch Bunch’ Seminar, UNC Chapel Hill.
2010 Ingley, S.J. The Impact of Noise Pollution on Biological Systems. BYU Department of Mechanical Engineering and Physics, Acoustics Research Group

Professional Conference Presentations

*denotes student co-author

2023

*Rocky Seeley, *J Elizabeth Ungos , *Mitchell Christensen, *Zoe Lyman , S.J. Ingley. Can we overcome the challenges of lasting habitat restoration? Integrating restoration projects into university curricula and activities may provide a solution. Poster Presentation, Hawaii Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.
2022 S.J. Ingley, *Mitchell Christensen, *Andrea George, *Kyoung Jang, *Rocky Seeley, *Bobby Senar, *J Elizabeth Ungos, *Sophie White. Inspiration and Involvement: Using Undergraduate Curricula as a Means to Effectively Plan, Execute, and Monitor Restoration Efforts. Oral Presentation, Hawaii Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.
2022 *Rebeka Greenall, S.J. Ingley, and Elizabeth G. Bailey. Including TEK in an Intro Biology Class in Hawaii. Oral Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research, University of Minnesota.
2022 *Rocky Seeley, *J. Elizabeth Ungos, and S.J. Ingley. Fish Treading Water: Endurance Swimming Abilities Reveal Insights to Evolutionary Fitness. Poster Presentation, Annual Meeting for the Animal Behavior Society, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2021 Ingley, S.J. C.R.E.A.T.E.-ing Scientific Literacty in a Remotely-Taught Animal Behavior Lab. Oral presentation, Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.
2021 *Duffy, A., S.J. Ingley, *T. Williams, *L. Chamberlain, and J.B. Johnson. Asymmetric Mate Choice in Sympatric vs. Allopatric Sister Species (Poeciliidae: Brachyrhaphis). Oral presentation, Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.
2020 Ingley, S.J. Connecting Islands Within an Island: Efforts to Build and Sustain Partnerships in Conservation at an Undergraduate University. Oral presentation, Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.
2020 J. Eston Dunn III* and Ingley, S.J. The Crossroads of Malama ʻAina and Capitalism: A Survey of Ecotourism Practices and Preference in Hawaiʻi. Oral presentation, Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.
2020 Tanner C. Smith*, E. Dale Broder, Robin M. Tinghitella, and S.J. Ingley. Data that matters: Using inter-institutional collaboration to generate publishable findings from course-based undergraduates research experiences. Poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
2020 E. Dale Broder, Tanner C. Smith*, Robin M. Tinghitella, and S.J. Ingley. Inter-institutional collaboration generates publishable findings from a CURE. Oral presentation. Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society.
2019 Ingley, S.J., Ivy Doringuez*, and Gentrie Maag*. Life History Evolution of Contrived Communities of Invasive Fishes in Hawaii. Oral presentation, International Society for Biogeography Special Meeting – Humboldt 250. Quito, Ecuador.
2018 Ingley, S.J. and Dena Sedar. Ecology, Evolution, and Eradication of Invasive Fish from Hawaii’s Anchialine Pools. Oral presentation, Society for Conservation Biology, 2018 Oceania Congress, Wellington, New Zealand.
2016 Ingley, S.J. Life-history evolution at different stages of evolutionary divergence. Oral presentation, Annual Meeting for the Evolutionary Demography Society. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
2016 Ingley, S.J., J.N. Pruitt, J. Purcell. Social context, not individual personality, alters immigrant inviability in social spiders. Oral presentation, Evolution 2016, Austin, TX.
2015 Ingley, S.J. Ecological selection against immigrants promotes asymmetrical sexual isolation in Brachyrhaphis fishes. Oral presentation, Annual meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK.
2014 Ingley, S.J., C. Wu, M. Rahmani Asl, M. Gadelhak, R. Cui, J. Simpson, J.B. Johnson, W. Yan, and G.G. Rosenthal. anyFish for anybody: a free, open-source software platform for generating animated fish models to study behavior. Poster presentation, 6^th Conference of Poeciliid Biologists, Exeter, UK.
2014 Ingley, S.J. Does personality drive speciation? Oral presentation, Annual meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
2014 Ingley, S.J. (June 2014) Multi-trait divergence driven by predation environment causes immigrant inviability in Brachyrhaphis fishes. Evolution 2014 Raleigh, NC.
(Finalist for Hamilton Prize Competition)
2014 Ingley, S.J. Does personality drive speciation? Evolution 2014 Raleigh, NC
2014 Ingley, S.J., C. Wu, M. Rahmani Asl, M. Gadelhak, R. Cui, J. Simpson, J.B. Johnson, W. Yan, and G.G. Rosenthal. anyFish: a free, open-source software platform for generating animated fish models to study behavior. Poster presentation, Evolution 2014 Raleigh, NC.
2014 *Money, D., S.J. Ingley, and J.B. Johnson. Personality across ontogeny in sister-species of Brachyrhaphis fishes from divergent environments: sex, predation and life-history trade-offs. Oral presentation, Evolution 2014 Raleigh, NC.
2014 *Rehm, J., S.J. Ingley, and J.B. Johnson. Size, Personality, and Evolution: Examining Predictions in two Live-bearing Fishes. Oral presentation, 2014 Utah Conference for Undergraduate Research, Brigham Young University.
2014 *Money, D., S.J. Ingley, and J.B. Johnson. Do risky environments breed risky behavior? Poster presentation, 2014 Utah Conference for Undergraduate Research, Brigham Young University.
2013 Ingley, S.J. Predator Driven Divergence Along the Speciation Continuum in Brachyrhaphis Fishes: Insights from Behavior, Genes, and Morphology. ASIH 2013 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(Winner of the Neotropical Ichthyology Association Best Oral Presentation)
2013 *Rehm, J., S.J. Ingley, and J.B. Johnson. Can brief exposure to a predator induce persistent personality shifts in livebearing fishes from different predation environments? Oral presentation, Evolution 2013, Snowbird, Utah.
2012 Ingley, S.J., Eric Billman, Mark Belk, J.B. Johnson. Morphological divergence driven by predation before and after speciation in Brachyrhaphis fishes. Oral presentation, First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Canada.
2012 *Hancock, C., S.J. Ingley, and J.B. Johnson. Parallel Evolution of Activity and Exploration Levels in Fish from Divergent Predation Environments. Oral presentation, National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Weber State University.
2011 Ingley, S.J. The Temporal Evolution of Reproductive Barriers in Brachyrhaphis Fishes: Does Evolution Repeat Itself? Brigham Young University EcoLunch Seminar.
2010 Ingley, S.J. Pit Vipers and Nesting Bird Rookeries: Mutualism on Seahorse Key, FL. Oral Presentation. Brigham Young University EcoLunch Seminar.
2010 Ingley, S.J., H.B. Lillywhite. Birds and Snakes: Geospatial Evidence for Trophic Ties to the Sea in the Florida Cottonmouth. Oral Presentation, 33rd Annual Herpetology Conference.
2010 Ingley, S.J., Bybee, S.M., Branham, M.A., Whiting, M.F. Life on the Fly: Ecology and Evolution of the Endangered Helicopter Damselflies (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae). Oral Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
2009 Ingley, S.J., Bybee, S.M., Fogarty, F. A., Branham, M.A. Genes and Flight: Evolution of the Pseudostigmatid Wing (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae). Oral presentation, Meeting of Beckman Scholars.
2009 Ingley, S.J., Bybee, S.M., Fogarty, F. A., Branham, M.A. Life on the Fly: Ecology and Evolution of the Helicopter Damselflies (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae). Oral Presentation, Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program Research Symposium.
2009 Ingley, S.J., Bybee, S.M., Fogarty, F. A., Branham, M.A. Wings, Oviposition and Spider-Feeding: Evolution and Ecology of the Endangered Helicopter Damselflies (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae). Oral presentation, 6^th Annual Southeastern Ecology and Evolution Conference
2008 Ingley, S.J., Bybee, S.M., Fogarty, F. A., Branham, M.A. Wings, Oviposition and Evolution: Phylogenies of the Helicopter Damselflies (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae). Oral presentation (student competition) annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America.
2008 Fogarty, F. A., Bybee, S.M., Ingley, S.J., Branham, M.A. Phylogenetic relationships of Central and South American flatwing damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae): An examination of monophyly in a convoluted group. Poster presentation, ESA

Volunteer Work and Academic Service

Referee Activities

Associate Editor, Western North American Naturalist
Reviewer for: Trends in Ecology and Evolution; Biology Letters; Evolution; The American Naturalist; Behavioral Ecology; Ecology; Heredity; Journal of Heredity; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, BMC Evolutionary Biology; BMC Ecology; Evolutionary Ecology Research; Current Zoology; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; SWAN; Ecology of Freshwater Fish; Environmental Biology of Fishes; Western North American Naturalist; American Biology Teacher

University Service

Biology Faculty Search Committee (2023)
Elected Member, Faculty Advisory Council (2020-2023)
Chair, Natural Science Scholarship Committee (2019-present)
Member, Sustainability Curriculum Development Committee (2020)
Member, Organizing Committee for the Undergraduate Research Conference (2019)
Faculty Advisor, Environmental Stewardship Club (2019-2022)

Workshops Organized and Taught

2015 anyFish Workshop, Virtual Reality Symposium, Behaviour2015 Conference, Cairns, Australia
2014 anyFish Workshop, 6^th Conference of Poeciliid Biologists, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
2014 anyFish Workshop, Animal Behavior Society Meetings, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
2014 anyFish Workshop, Evolution Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina

Outreach

2018-present Student Volunteer Recruitment, Aina in Schools, Kokua Hawaii Foundation, Laie, HI
2016 Volunteer presenter at GAINS Conference (Girls Advancing in STEM), UNC Chapel Hill, NC
2014, 2015 Volunteer presenter for ‘Career Night’, Boy Scouts of America, Provo, UT
2013 Mentor for High School Honors Project, Elijah Eyerly, Oak Hall School, Gainesville, FL
2012 Health Fair Presenter on the effects of pollution on wildlife for Grupo Mi Paraiso at Colegio Mi Señora de Los Angeles, David, Panama
2008 Volunteer Biology Tutor for high school students, Gainesville, FL
2008 Volunteer Research Associate at the International Odonata Research Institute, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL
2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute High School Mentor, HHMI G.A.T.O.R. Undergraduate Research Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007-2008 Audubon Society, Construction of blue bird and kestrel nest boxes, Gainesville, FL
2000-2004 Interact Service Club, Clean up and maintenance of Gum Root Swamp Park, Newman’s Lake, Gainesville, FL

Relevant Research/Employment Experience

2011-2015 Graduate Research Assistant, NSF EAGER funded ‘anyFish’ Project, supervised by Dr. Jerry Johnson, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, and Drs. Gil Rosenthal and Wei Yan at Texas A&M University
2010-2015 Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Jerry Johnson, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University
2009-present GIS/Research Collaborator, Dr. Harvey B. Lillywhite, Department of Zoology, University of Florida (2009- present)
2008-2010 Arthropod Identification Technician, Giuliano Laboratory, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
2008-2010 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technician, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida
2008-2010 Research Fellow, Branham laboratory of Insect Systematics and Behavior, Department of Entomology and Nematology University of Florida (2008-2010)
2007 Marine Mammal Photographer/Caretaker- Sea Life Park Hawai’i, Oahu, Hawai’I (2007)
2004-2005 Field Assistant, Dr. Harvey B. Lillywhite, Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Florida (2004-2005)
2003 Herpetology Field Work/ Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Ometepe Biological Field Station, Nicaragua (2003)

Field Expeditions

2019 Torres del Paine National Park, Chile; Union Glacier, Antarctica; Sanz Glacier, Antarctica; South Pole, Antarctica
2019 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
2017, 2018 Hawaii Island
2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 Panama, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Chiriquí; Bocas del Toro; Anton; Veraguas)
2009, 2012, 2014, 2015 Costa Rica (Guanacaste; Osa Peninsula; Palo Verde Biological Field Station)
2003, 2008, 2016 Southeastern US
2009 Ecuador (Tena; Limoncocha; Rio Bigal; Otavalo; Guayacana)
2003 Nicaragua (Estación Biológica de Ometepe)

Society Affiliations

Society for the Study of Evolution
Society for Conservation Biology
American Society of Naturalists
Animal Behavior Society
The Explorers Club

Extracurricular Interests

Hawaiian outrigger canoe racing (regatta and long-distance), mountain biking, sailing snorkeling, diving, fishing, surfing, camping, hiking, kayaking, woodworking, rock-climbing, travel, skiing, snowshoeing, nature photography.

CV Last Update June 2024