Eric Elias

I have been interested in the outdoors since I was a kid and have been fortunate enough to have found a career that lets me help others get excited about our natural world.  At Gustavus I primarily teach two of the four "core" lab courses in the Biology Department.  I also teach an experiential January-term course Minnesota Aquatic Stewardship (Bio 131).  In this course, students learn about fish and aquatic insect biology, freshwater ecosystems, and ways they can become informed and involved environmental stewards through, among other things, fly tying and fly fishing.  I also serve as a faculty sponsor for January Career Exploration Internships.

My professional interests include the disruption of the reproductive endocrine systems of fishes by environmental estrogens, the natural history study of nongames freshwater fishes, and aquatic entomology.

I live in St. Peter with my wife, Betsy, and our three children: Will, Iris, and June. 

Publications:

Elias, Eric E., Eddie Kalombo, and Steven Don Mercurio.  2007.  Tamoxifen protects against 17a-ethynylestradiol-induced liver damage and the development of urogenital papillae in the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum).  Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 26(9):1879-1889.

Hatch, Jay T. and Eric E. Elias.  2002.  Ovarian cycling, clutch characteristics, and oocyte size of the river shiner Notropis blennius (Girard) in the Upper Mississippi River.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology  17(1):85-92.

Hatch, J. T. and E. E. Elias.  1997.  Anesthesia and stomach content removal experiments on small nongame fishes.  Minnesota Natural Heritage and Nongame Wildlife Research Technical Report:1-11.

Courses Taught