October 2022: A second paper from Kaine Diehl's undergraduate capstone project entitled "On the surface or down below: Field observations reveal a high degree of surface activity in a burrowing crayfish, the Little Brown Mudbug (Lacunicambarus thomai)" has been published in PLoS ONE. This paper marks another exciting step in furthering our understanding of the behavioral ecology of burrowing crayfishes. 

August 2022:  Dr. Zack Graham has been officially hired as an Assistant Professor of Biology! 

July 2022: Dr. Zack Graham received a contract from UNC press to write a popular science book on North American Crayfish Biology, Diversity and Conservation! The book is expected to be on store shelves in Summer 2024.

July 2022: Dr. Zack Graham and Dr. Zac Loughman published a paper entitled "Life history and neonate behavior of the new river crayfish Cambarus chasmodactylus from the central portion of the species range" in the Journal of Crustacean Biology.

January 2022: Our paper entitled "Digging ability and digging performance in a hyporheic gravel-dwelling crayfish, the hairy crayfish Cambarus friaufi" was published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology. This is the first of many papers on the natural history and ecology of an interesting crayfish community within the Western Highland Rim of Tennessee. 

February 2022: We published a note entitled "Death from below: Sit-and-wait predatory behavior in a burrowing crayfish (Lacunicambarus thomai) in the journal Food Webs! This publication stemmed from the data that Kaine Diehl collected during his undergraduate capstone thesis. This paper documents tons of interesting behavioral observations of a burrowing crayfish predating on various prey items including spiders, slugs, millipedes!