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 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!
Hadley Boehm – AFS SECP President-Elect
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.”
Matea Djokic – AFS SECP Secretary-Treasurer
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!
Adrienne Chenette – AFS SECP Western Division Rep
Current Position? Grad student at UC Santa Cruz & Research Fellow with American Rivers
Years with AFS? 4
Favourite Fish? Arctic Grayling
Lauren Yancy – AFS SECP Webmaster & Communications Committee
Current Position? Master’s student at University Alaska Fairbanks & Habitat Biologist at Alaska Dept Fish & Game
Years with AFS? 6
Favourite Fish? Dolly Varden
Shannon Clarke – AFS SECP Communications Committee
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!”
Jake Wolff – AFS SECP Communications Committee
Current Position? Master’s student at Texas A&M University
Years with AFS? 4
Favourite Fish? Guadalupe bass!
Chase Spicer – AFS SECP Southern Division Rep
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!
Logan Zebro – AFS SECP North Central Division Rep
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
