Presentations at AFS
September 12, 2024
Will you attend the American Fisheries Society’s Annual Meeting on September 15-19? There will be several presentations by PI-CASC-supported PIs and students and by National Climate Adaptation Science Center (NCASC) members and affiliates. We encourage you to join their session and learn more about all the great work they are doing. We have them listed below.
Monday, Sept. 16
Presenter: Mark Rogers
“An Ecosystem Model for Ecological Effects of Bigheaded Carp in a Productive Southeastern Reservoir”
Session: Ecosystem modeling approaches to threatened and endangered fish management
8:30 a.m. Room 324
Presenter: Nikola Rodriguez
Presentation: Effects of climate change and fishing pressure on ciguatera prevalence in Hawaiian reef fishes
Session: Estuarine and Coastal Fisheries
8:45 a.m., Room 308A
Presenter: Abigail Lynch
“Communicating Climate Change Impacts: Hands-on Learning to Enhance Policy and Public Buy-in”
Session: Communicating Climate Change Impacts: Hands-on Learning to Enhance Policy and Public Buy-in
1:30 p.m., Room 327
Presenter: Dana Infante
“Resilience of freshwater habitats from a landscape perspective: Context for effective restoration”
Session: Resilient by design: Measuring effectiveness of freshwater restoration
1:45 p.m., Room 306A
Presenter: Tim Grabowski
Presentation: Flow Ecology of Invasive Suckermouth Catfish in Urbanized Ridge-to-Reef Systems on O’ahu, Hawai’i
Session: Mauka to Makai (mountain to sea) connectivity in changing tropical systems
3:30 p.m.; Room: 307AB
Presenter: Leigh Engel
“Increasing Temperatures Enhances Swimming Performance of Invasive Species in Hawai’i”
Session: Mauka to Makai (mountain to sea) connectivity in changing tropical systems
3:45 p.m.; Room: 307AB
Presenter: Louis Chua
“Applying Ecosystem Accounting to Hawaiʻiʻs Fisheries Ecosystem Service”
Session: Valuing Fish Populations, Habitat, and Water Quality within Social-Ecological Systems
3:45 p.m., Room 309
Tues., Sept. 17
Presenter: Abigail Lynch
“The Magnitude of Lentic Recreational Fisheries Catch in the United States”
Session: Surveying 2.0 – Novel methods for data collection in recreational fisheries
8:30 a.m., Room 322AB
Presenter: Abigail Lynch
“Climate Adaptation Planning with Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) Switch Points”
Session: Decision analysis to include social and ecological values in fisheries decisions
3:45 p.m., Room 324
Wednesday, Sept. 18
Presenter: Annika Walters
“Co-produced research to explore climate change adaptive capacity of native stream fishes”
Session: Understanding the Adaptive Capacity of Fish: Resiliency in a Changing Climate
8:15 a.m., Room 306A
Presenter: Gretchen Stokes
“Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures”
Session: Understanding the Adaptive Capacity of Fish: Resiliency in a Changing Climate
8:45 a.m., Room 306A
Thursday, Sept. 19
Presenter: Yoshimi Rii
“eDNA Monitoring; an Emerging Technology for Monitoring Fish Biodiversity”
Session: Advanced Technologies for Fisheries Monitoring and Integration with Cultural Practices
11:45 a.m., Room 323B
Presenter: Rebecca Shaftel
“Modeled streamflow and stream temperature inform conditions affecting Chinook salmon in Alaska”
Session: Emerging threats to northern fish, fishers, and ecosystems
1:30 p.m., Room 318B
Presenter: Joseph T. Mrnak
“Directing ecosystem transformation through purposeful food web manipulations”
Session: Adapting Introduced and Invasive Species Management Under Shifting Environments
3 p.m., Room 301A