Category: Member Spotlights
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...
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...
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...
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...
Covid-19 has widely disrupted the nation’s sense of normalcy and the same is true for fisheries students and professionals. For a few its “business as usual” but for many people in fisheries, the environment...
Author: Sam Grinstead, President of the Iowa State University Student Subunit Spring Semester 2020 has been a busy and formative time for our subunit. Activities have included the Iowa Chapter meeting, bi-monthly scientific...
Paul DeRolf has been an active member of AFS since 2014. He has served as the President of the Ball State University’s (BSU) Student Subunit of AFS for the past year and is an...
My name is Caleb Yann, and I have been an active member of the American Fisheries Society since 2018. I am currently the vice president of the Mt. Hood Community College Student Subunit of...
Walleyes stocked this week will help fisheries biologists in future stocking decisions. Spawned this past spring then raised at the Department of Natural Resources’ Rathbun Hatchery, the 8- to 10-inch advanced fingerlings join walleyes...
The plight of the salmon Traversing the coast along the Pacific Northwest into the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada is a picturesque and mesmerizing experience, unless you are a sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)...
Paddlefish Research The work of graduate student Landon Pierce, of Lincoln, Neb., moves from rolling hills and pine tree habitat of the swift fox underwater as he studies the American paddlefish. The billed fish...
Major: Natural Resource Management, Fisheries Science Expected Graduation Year: Spring 2015 What inspired you to attend SDSU? During my senior year at the University of Minnesota I searched for a nationally-recognized graduate program, a fascinating...