Student & Early Career Professionals Subsection of the Education Section of the American Fisheries Society

2025 Western Division and Colorado/Wyoming AFS Annual Meeting

Dates: May 11-15, 2025 Location: Westin Westminster in Westminster, Colorado Theme: Building Resilience: Investments in Fish Passage, Habitat Restoration, and Hatchery Modernization Call for Proposals – Symposia and Continuing Education Workshops – Deadline 12/23/2024 Theme: Building Resilience: Investments in Fish Passage, Habitat Restoration, and Hatchery Modernization Substantial resources, such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act,...

SDAFS 2025 – Asheville, NC

The North Carolina Chapter of the American Fisheries Society kindly invites you to the 2025 Southern Division AFS meeting in Asheville, NC from February 18 – February 21, 2025.

154th Annual AFS Meeting in Honolulu

154th Annual AFS Meeting in Honolulu

The AFS Annual Meeting in Honolulu is finally here! Check out the information below to see a snapshot of what will be happening each day at #AFS154 for students and early-career professionals. Share your experiences at the meeting using the official hashtag #AFS154. Take advantage of the opportunities for networking...

Meet the 2024 AFS SECP Officers!

Meet the 2024 AFS SECP Officers!

Carrie Pershyn​ – AFS SECP President Current Position? Fisheries Biologist & Nonprofit Research Manager​ Years with AFS? 8 Favourite Fish? Brook Trout Fun Fact… Carrie has walked over 500 kmfor eDNA samples and would walk 500 more.​    A cool fisheries memory? Gill netting on Lake Superior and watching the fastest fish fillet-ers I’ve...

New Student Angle in the Fisheries Magazine

In the Fisheries Magazine, Volume 48, Issue 11, Daria Gundermann writes a student angle column entitled “Don’t be Fickle with Your Fish and Climate Change Literature Searches: Use FiCli!” Read about FiCli database to learn how you can save time by streamlining a literature review. “Was my pantsuit always this...

Subunit Spotlight: Quebec Student Subunit

If there was a decent metaphor connecting boxing and AFS Student Subunits, the Quebec Student Subunit would be among the best pound-for-pound fighters in the game today. Perhaps, a better metaphor would high relate growth rates and theoretical maximum length parameters to the Subunit — which includes students from across...

Lian on her research and the Virtual Annual Meeting

Lian Guo is the subject of our member spotlight this month. If you were a part of this year’s Virtual Annual Meeting (VAM), you may have caught her presentation, co-organized symposium, or seen her posts on the discussion channels in Slack – another option provided for students and professionals to...

Daily Themes

Monday, Sept 14 Opening Plenary — Climate ChangeTuesday, Sept 15 Diversity and Inclusion DayWednesday, Sept 16 Plenary #2 — Science CommunicationThursday, Sept 17 Student and Early Career Professionals Day (direct to our tab on the workshop), SECP Business Meeting (4:10-5:10 pm EDT). Student awards are being given out live at...

Cassidy Miles on Diversity and Inclusion in AFS

Cassidy Miles (she/her) is a graduate student and the public relations and outreach coordinator for Western Illinois University’s student subunit of the Illinois AFS. She is passionate about matters of diversity and inclusion in fisheries science and started a fundraiser to support the Hutton Scholars program. Below is her experience...

Student and ECP workshop on fisheries careers

The Student and Early Career Professionals Subsection is providing a virtual workshop titled, “Preparing future scientists of fisheries: how to become a more a-lure-ing candidate” at this year’s AFS Virtual Annual Meeting on Thursday, 17 Sept 2020. We need your help to gauge interest and participation by taking a survey...

Age Estimates in Stock Assessments Webinar

Tune in Tuesday, June 23rd at 1 p.m. EDT for the webinar “How many candles on the birthday cake? The vital role of age estimates in stock assessments”. Click here to register. Age estimates for fishes provides vital information that is used in stock assessments, particularly those utilizing age-based models. Basic decisions such as...

Ian Kelmartin on West Coast fisheries

Ian Kelmartin is an early career professional in fisheries and a member of AFS. He highlights his professional position in West Coast fisheries and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted his job. I’m a biologist on the marine invertebrate management project for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. I...