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Dr. Timothy H Bonner

  • Professor - Endowed Professorship - Biology
Portrait of Dr. Timothy H Bonner

Biography and education

I earned a PhD in Fisheries Science from Texas Tech University in 2000. My dissertation and subsequent publications addressed water quantity issues within prairie streams of central USA.

Research Interests

  • Bonner, Timothy H (Co-Principal), Oborny, Ed (Co-Principal), Doyle, Robert (Co-Principal). San Marcos and Comal Rivers Habitat Conservation Plan—Biological Monitoring, Edwards Aquifer Authority, $2000000. (Submitted: 2018, Funded: 2019 - 2023). Grant.
  • Bonner, Timothy H. Aquatic biota of Delaware River (Culberson County, Texas), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, $92000. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Bonner, Timothy H (Co-Principal). Mercury levels in fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico and the risk to human health, Texas State University Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: January 1, 2016 - May 31, 2017). Grant.
  • Bonner, Timothy H (Co-Principal), Oborny, Ed (Co-Principal), Doyle, Robert (Co-Principal). San Marcos and Comal Rivers Habitat Conservation Plan—Biological Monitoring, Edwards Aquifer Authority, $2080000. (Funded: 2014 - 2018). Grant.
  • Schwalb, A, Forstner, M, Bonner, Timothy H. Texas Department of Transportation, $180000. (Funded: 2014 - 2015). Grant.
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  • Irwin, K. B., Aspbury, A., Bonner, T. H., & Gabor, C. (2024). Habitat structural complexity predicts cognitive performance and behaviour in western mosquitofish. Biology Letters, 20(7), 20230394.
  • Lopez, S. G., Aspbury, A., Fritts, S. R., Tidwell, T. L. R., & Bonner, T. H. (2023). Long-term patterns in inland fish kills associated with cold-shock and winter stress: a regional case study from Texas. Journal of Fish Biology, 103(3), 472–480. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15435
  • Kolonin, A., Bokony, V., Bonner, T. H., Jaime Zuniga-Vega, J., Aspbury, A., Guzman, A., … Gabor, C. (2022). Coping With Urban Habitats Via Glucocorticoid Regulation: Physiology, Behavior, and Life History in Stream Fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62(1), 90–103. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac002
  • Sotola, V. A., Sullivan, K. T., Littrell, B. M., Martin, N. H., Stich, D. S., & Bonner, T. H. (2020). Short-term responses of freshwater mussels to floods in a southwestern USA river estimated using mark-recapture sampling. FRESHWATER BIOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13642
  • Craig, C. A., & Bonner, T. H. (2020). Spring flow lost: a historical and contemporary perspective of an urban fish community. URBAN ECOSYSTEMS. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-01047-6
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Fisheries Worker of 2017 in Fisheries Research, Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society, Texas State University. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society, Texas State University. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society, Texas State University. 2002
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    TxState BassCats--Tournament Fishing club

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    TxState Aquatic Biology Society

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    Port Mansfield Chamber of Commerce Fishing Tournament

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