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Kelsey Noelle Lucas

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Postdoctoral Researcher
Behavior, Education, and Communication
Conservation + Restoration

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Kelsey is fascinated by how the amazing behaviors of marine and aquatic animals arise from the inner workings of their bodies and the physical laws that govern them. By understanding animal behavior holistically, she strives to better understand how nature works around us and how we can better care for, connect to, and learn from it.  As a PhD student at Harvard, she used high-speed video analysis, computer vision, and fluid dynamics techniques to study how fishes physically interact with water in order to swim, and she interpreted these biomechanical data through the lens of an ecologist in order to understand how these interactions shape a fish's life history.  Now, as a member of the Alofs Lab, she uses her interdisciplinary background to inform her studies of fish ecology, seeking to understand interactions between climate, lake habitats, and the fishes therein.

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  • Costello JH, Colin SP, Dabiri JO, Gemmell BJ, Lucas KN, and Sutherland KR. (In press) Jellyfish as models for vehicle design. Annu Rev Mar Sci
  • Dabiri JO, Colin SP, Gemmell BJ, Lucas KN, Leftwich MC, and Costello JH. (Submitted) Jellyfish and fish solve the challenges of turning similarly to achieve high maneuverability. (Preprint: 2019 bioRxiv 706762) 
  • Lucas KN, Lauder GV, and Tytell ED. (2020) Airfoil-like mechanics generate thrust on the anterior body of swimming fishes. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 117(19): 10585–10592
  • Jaspers C, Costello JH, Sutherland K, Gemmell B, Lucas KN, Tackett J, Dodge K, and Colin SP. (2018) Resilience in moving water: Effects of turbulence on the predatory impact of the lobate ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. Limnol Oceanogr. 63: 445–458
  • Lucas KN, Dabiri JO, and Lauder GV. (2017) A pressure-based force and torque prediction technique for the study of fish-like swimming. PLoS ONE. 12(12): e0189225
  • Rosic MLN, Thornycroft PJM, Feilich KL, Lucas KN, and Lauder GV. (2017) Performance variation due to stiffness in a tuna-inspired flexible foil model. Bioinspir Biomimetics. 12: 016011
  • Lucas KN, Thornycroft PJM, Gemmell BJ, Colin SP, Costello JH, and Lauder GV. (2015) Effects of non-uniform stiffness on swimming performance of a passively-flexing, fish-like foil model. Bioinspir Biomimetics. 10: 056019
  • Lucas KN, Johnson N, Beaulieu WT, Cathcart E, Tirrell G, Colin SP, Gemmell BJ, Dabiri JO, and Costello JH. (2014) Bending rules for animal propulsion. Nat Commun. 5:3293
  • Lucas K, Colin SP, Costello JH, Katija K, and Klos E. (2013) Fluid interactions that enable stealth predation by the upstream foraging hydromedusae Craspedacusta sowerbyi. Biol Bull. 225: 60-70 

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