Modeling Fish Swimming
About this work
This site presents some of the results of work done by undergraduates together with Prof. Root on modeling fish locomtion. This work has been funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU), the NSF Cross-disciplinary Research at Undergraduate Institutions (NSF CRUI) and Lafayette's EXCEL scholar program.
Fish Fellows Program An overview of the Opportunities and expectations for Fish Fellows, the latest phase of this research. The Fish Fellows are undergraduate participants in the NSF funded cross-disciplinary research program know as Biomimetic Evolutionary Analysis. (PowerPoint presentation)
Home Page for the Biomimetic Evolutionary Analysis program, maintained at Vassar College.
Presentation made at the special symposium on Integrated Investigations into Fish Locomotion at the 7th International Conference on Vertebrate Morphology. This shows the results of the Summer 2003 REU group (QuickTime file, ~9 MB)
Article from Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry describing the work of the Summer 2000 REU group. (PDF file)
Overview An overview of the results of the first REU group in Summer 1995.

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RobRoot@Lafayette.edu