What symposia shall we plan for 2017?
The Estuaries Section is looking for ideas for symposia to organize for the 147th AFS Annual Meeting that will be held in Tampa, Florida on August 20-24, 2017. This year’s theme is, “Fisheries Ecosystems:...
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2016 Student Travel Funding Awarded to Two Students
The Estuaries Section is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Student Travel Award. Samantha Binion-Rock from the North Carolina State University, who is making a presentation at AFS at 1:00pm on Thursday...
Out of breath and hungry: the effects of hypoxia on feeding dynamics of Atlantic croaker using natural chemical tags
By John Mohan 2015 Recipient of Estuaries Section Student Travel Award University of Texas at Austin. Marine Science Institute. Author John Mohan taking a water sample. Hypoxia, or low dissolved oxygen, occurs in many aquatic...
Notes from the Field
SUNY ESF doctoral student Christopher Nack (right) working with field assistant Brian O’Malley in a freshwater tidal backwater, studying essential habitat for larval and juvenile American Shad in the Hudson River estuary. This backwater...
Spawning Potential for Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) in the Penobscot River after Dam Removal: An Acoustic Telemetry and Habitat Suitability Study
By Catherine Johnston 2015 Recipient of Estuaries Section Student Travel Award University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences The removal of dams on Maine rivers offers the potential to restore fish habitat and...
Monsters of Stock Assessment Workshop at AFS 2015 Annual Meeting
August 16, 2015, 12pm-3pm Portland Hilton, Broadway I-II-III rooms The AFS Estuaries and Marine Fisheries Sections are organizing a “Monsters of Stock Assessment” workshop at the 2015 AFS annual meeting in Portland. This workshop...
Happy Birthday Estuaries Section!
The Estuaries Section is 20 years old! The Section began in 1994 under the leadership of Donna Turgeon from NOAA Fisheries and started with 78 members. Now we have over 200! The Section has...
Anthony Overton and his Red Drum
See what Anthony has been up to in his lab! His research interests generally focuses around four broad aspects of fisheries: Early Life Fish Ecology, Foraging and Trophic Dynamics, Fisheries Management, and Fish Health....
AFS Talks Climate Change and Fisheries Policy on Capitol Hill
In Fisheries magazine, September 2013 by Ward Slacum, Versar, Columbia, MD & Lee Benaka, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD 20910. E-mail: [email protected] The Potomac Chapter...
Estuaries Section Member Profile—Abigail Franklin Archer
Estuaries Section President 2014 Where do you work currently and what do you do in your job? I work in Massachusetts for the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Marine Program. Our mission is to establish,...
