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 with others, and share your pictures via the social feed in the conference mobile app!
Go and read about our nominated candidates.
Then click on the google forms link to cast your vote.
Voting is open from September 3 to October 3, 2024
Rules
If you run into problems while voting, please email [email protected].
Current Position? Fisheries Biologist &
Nonprofit Research Manager
Years with AFS? 8
Favourite Fish? Brook Trout
Fun Fact… Carrie has walked over 500 km
for 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 ever seen!
Current Position? Postdoc at University of Missouri – Columbia
Years with AFS? 12
Favourite Fish? Yellow Perch
Fish fun (more like disappointing) fact… “Disney and Pixar lied…Finding Nemo misrepresents the amazing reproductive life history of clownfish.”
Current Position? PhD Candidate at University California, Irvine
Years with AFS? 6
Favourite Fish? Any fish I’m working with! But pupfish & lumpsuckers are really cute :)
Fun Fish Fact… “Female mosquitofish are so metal! Aside from being livebearers, they can store sperm for months to allow self-fertilization at an ideal time.”
Coolest Fisheries Field Experience? Matea worked with pallid sturgeon for her MS thesis research!
Current Position? Grad student at UC Santa Cruz & Research Fellow with American Rivers
Years with AFS? 4
Favourite Fish? Arctic Grayling
Current Position? Master’s student at University Alaska Fairbanks & Habitat Biologist at Alaska Dept Fish & Game
Years with AFS? 6
Favourite Fish? Dolly Varden
Current Position? Science Advisor at Fisheries & Oceans Canada
Years with AFS? 5
Favourite Fish? Brook Trout
Crazy Field Work Memory… “While working in the backcountry of Alberta and B.C. in the Rocky Mountains, porcupines ate holes in my waders, and one time marmots stole my lunch!”
Current Position? Master’s student at Texas A&M University
Years with AFS? 4
Favourite Fish? Guadalupe bass!
Current Position? PhD student at East Carolina University, Greenville N.C
Years with AFS? 5
Favourite Fish? Striped Bass
Fun Fish Fact… “Pirate perch got their name when ichthyologist Charles C. Abbott, observed that a specimen he kept in an aquarium ate only other fish!”
My coolest Field Work is tagging striped bass at spawning grounds in eastern North Carolina. One of the reasons I love studying anadromous fish is understanding how far they travel! Every fish you hold has a story it’s waiting to tell; you just have to understand where it’s been and where it’s going!
Current Position? Just defended MS thesis at University of Nebraska at Kearney, and will be starting PhD at South Dakota State
Years with AFS? 6
Favourite Fish? Walleye
We are pleased to announce that the proposed changes to the bylaws of the Student and Early Career Professionals Subsection (SECP) of the American Fisheries Society have been reviewed by the AFS parliamentarian and the President of the Education Section. We are now ready to move forward with the voting...
Wednesday, February 14 2 pm Eastern Time Register Now North America is a global center for native freshwater mussel diversity. Mussels are among the most imperiled fauna on the planet. Over the past three decades, there has been substantial research on mussels, however, there are still substantial information gaps that...
Tuesday, February 13 2 pm Eastern Time Register Now If you are an established professional looking for better ways to communicate with students and early career professionals, this is for you! If you are a student or early career professional seeking out mentors in your organization or AFS, this is for...
President-Elect Logan Zebro My name is Logan Zebro, and I was nominated serve as President-elect for the Student and Early Career Professional Subsection Representative (SECP) of the Education Section. I am a first-year Ph.D. student at South Dakota State University in Dr. Alison Coulter’s lab. My dissertation work is using...
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...
Fish and Fisheries at the Food-Water-Energy Nexus We look forward to welcoming you to Seattle, Washington for the 9th World Fisheries Congress from 3-7 March 2024. Organized through the World Council of Fisheries Societies, every four years delegates from around the world meet to exchange ideas and perspectives about new...
The 2024 National American Fisheries Society Conference will be held in Honolulu, HI from September 15-19, 2024.
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 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...
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...
Racial injustices have plagued our world for a long time, and some recent events involving police brutality on members of the Black community have sparked a movement to put an end to these issues in America. Much like how the #MeToo movement brought about sweeping reform of sexual harassment and...
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...
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...
