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Margaret (Maggie) Harings
Margaret (Maggie) Harings
Maggie is testing the ability to use salmon DNA to predict daily salmon counts in five Yukon River tributaries. Her primary research interests include investigating the impacts of climate change on Arctic resources as well as bolstering climate change resiliency in fisheries management and for local communities that rely heavily on subsistence fishing opportunities. Maggie is also interested in ecological monitoring of high-use waterbodies containing critical spawning habitat for anadromous fish as well as population dynamics of Pacific Northwest steelhead and Chinook populations. In her free time, you'll find her splitboarding; rafting; serving as the chair of the Alaska Chapter of the American Packrafting Association; and telling visual stories of remote Alaska through outdoor photography.
maharings at alaska.edu
maharings at alaska.edu
Erik is a fisheries biologist who studies the effects of environmental change on fish populations and aquatic food webs. His research uses field, lab, experimental, and quantitative approaches to tackle problems with implications for natural resource management, conservation, and habitat restoration. Much of his recent research focuses on how Alaskan salmon are responding to a changing environment.
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eschoen at alaska.edu
My research focuses on the population and community ecology of freshwater fishes, often linking environmental stressors (e.g., large reservoirs, groundwater pumping, wildfire) to freshwater fish population and assemblage dynamics across a variety of aquatic ecosystems. This research bridges the gap between basic and applied fisheries ecology, integrating quantitative ecological analyses, spatial statistical methods, landscape ecology and conservation biology to address conservation and management issues. Recent projects have focused on evaluating spatial ecological processes as predictors of steelhead spawning distribution, vulnerability analysis of bull trout habitat and populations to wildfire and climate change, designing practical applications for spatial stream network models, and developing multi-state occupancy estimation methods for lotic systems.
Jeffrey.Falke at alaska.edu
Kristen Reece
Kristen Reece
Kristen is a graduate of Iḷisaġvik College, Alaska's only tribal college.
With the support of an Undergraduate Research Experience award from the BLaST program in the spring of 2022, she has been learning molecular biology techniques in collaboration with the salmon abundance team. She has enjoyed learning laboratory techniques, conducting research, and how it affects her subsistence fishing community.
Kristen was accepted into the BLaST Scholars program for the fall of 2023 to study at UAF. With support from WDAFS and BLaST, she will be testing species-specific qPCR assays for non-target species, Arctic Grayling, to determine if trends in their relative abundances correlate with those identified in Chinook and chum eDNA concentration data.
Kristen, her husband, and their two daughters enjoy outdoor activities together; hiking, camping, fishing, mushroom hunting, and berry picking. Kristen was born and raised on the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the Lower Tanana River, but her family roots in Selawik. She enjoys learning about her Indigenous culture and the traditional Iñupiaq customs of her people.
kereece at alaska.edu
Justin Hill
Justin Hill
Justin uses genetic techniques to answer questions relevant to the ecology of fishes and birds. He is currently analyzing the diets of common mergansers to determine their predation impact on juvenile salmonid populations in the Chena and Salcha River. His goal is to pursue a career as a field biologist for an environmental consulting firm or state agency.
jahill7 at alaska.edu
jahill7 at alaska.edu
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