Monday Oral Presentations
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Monday Oral Presentations
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Sessions: (G) General
(D) Diadromous
(e) eDNA
* student presentation
(G) Benthic Modification and Biotic Associations at Natural and Artificial Habitats Excavated by Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) and Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus). Ryan Munnelly | Room: Quincy
(G) Fishing for Space in the New Blue Economy: Conflict, Cooperation and Co-existence among Fishing, Aquaculture and Wind Industries in Southern New England Working Waterfronts. Syma Ebbin/Nat Trumbull | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Eels in the Classroom: Developing an Environmental Education Outreach Program to Promote Migratory Fish Awareness. Aaron Henning | Room: Nantucket
(D) Movement Patterns of Adult Anadromous Rainbow Smelt in Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire, USA. Chloe Pearson * | Room: Cape Cod
(G) Variation in Energy Density of Northwest Atlantic Forage Species: Ontogenetic, Seasonal, Annual, and Spatial Patterns. Mark Wuenschel (stand-in: Richard McBride) | Room: Quincy
(G) Investigating Potential Impact of Wind Energy Development on Larval Fish on the Northeast US Shelf. Harvey Walsh | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Diadromous Fishes, Tribal Nations, Climate Change and Human Impacts. Amy Teffer | Room: Nantucket
(D) Can New Technology Improve Our Understanding of Anadromous Fish Behavior? Chris Rillahan * | Room: Cape Cod
(G) Modeling Aquatic Biodiversity in New England Streams to Support Management Decisions that Consider Climate Change. Jennifer Rogers | Room: Quincy
(G) The Greater Atlantic Regional Research Set-Aside Program – Twenty Years of Industry Funded Research. Sara Turner | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Juvenile River Herring Habitat Use in the Connecticut River. Allison Roy | Room: Cape Cod
(G) Decades of Change: A Retrospective of Fish Diets in the Western Atlantic. Nathan T. Hermann * | Room: Quincy
(G) Perceptions of Risk and Adaptive Capacity of Commercial Fisheries Across the United States. Bobby Murphy | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Snap-a-Striper: Morphometrics, Otoliths, and Citizen Science in Stock Discrimination of Striped Bass in Maine. Zach Whitener | Room: Nantucket
(D) A Matter of Scales: Addressing Allometry when Predicting Passage Performance Through Velocity Barriers. Theodore Castro-Santos | Room: Cape Cod
BREAK 10:00 AM - 10:20 PM
PLENARY 10:20 AM - 12:20 PM
LUNCH 12:20 PM - 1:00 PM
(e) Power to Act: Establishing eDNA Survey Power for Imperiled and Invasive Fishes in Maine. Michael T. Kinnison | Room: Quincy
(G) Balancing ecosystems, harvests, and seafood markets. Jeremy Collie | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Managing Diadromous Species along the Watershed-Ocean Continuum. Valerie Ouellet | Room: Nantucket
(D) Predicted Effects of Historic Habitat Loss and Novel Habitat Creation on Blueback Herring in the Hudson River Watershed. Dan Stich | Room: Cape Cod
(e) Assessing seasonal occupancy of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) in Massachusetts embayments using eDNA. Carly McCall | Room: Quincy
(G) Time Will Tell: Linking Otolith Geochemistry to Growth Ring Formation in White Hake (Urophycis tenuis). Benjamin LaFreniere * | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) A Watershed Management Decision-Support Tool to Predict Juvenile Herring Out-Migration Loss Using a Process-Based Hydrologic Model. Katherine King * | Room: Nantucket
(D) Abundance, habitat use, and movement of American eel in a recently restored watershed. Sara Turner | Room: Cape Cod
(e) It's About Time: Seasonal eDNA Abundance Calibration for Three Diadromous Species. James Garner * | Room: Quincy
(D) Gulf of Maine River Herring Network: Connecting people around the fish that connect us all. Mike Thalhauser | Room: Nantucket
(D)Telemetry-derived artificial intelligence SDMs: A generalizable conservation framework to inform species interactions with offshore wind energy developments. Evan Ingram * | Room: Cape Cod
(e) T4 Environmental DNA/RNA: Tools, Techniques and Technologies to Protect Tribal Aquatic Resources. Jack Paar | Room: Quincy
(G) Endangered Species Act Recovery Criteria and Expenditures for Fish Managed by USFWS. Patrick D. Shirey | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Holding on to historic managers: lessons learned from a decade of extension work with Massachusetts River Herring Wardens. Abigail Archer | Room: Nantucket
(D) Acoustic telemetry validation of Atlantic Sturgeon dorsal scute microchemistry: complementary tools to reconstruct life-history of an endangered species. Evan Ingram * | Room: Cape Cod
BREAK 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
(e) Pairing environmental DNA with acoustic monitoring of anadromous fish in the Penobscot River, Maine. Julia Sunnarborg * | Room: Quincy
(G) Early Life History of American Lobsters in Coastal Southern New England Waters. Declan McCormick * | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Response of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) to critically high-water temperatures in streams with physical barriers. Corey Pelletier * | Room: Nantucket
(D) Using video monitoring to assess emigration patterns for juvenile alewife. Meghna N. Marjadi * | Room: Cape Cod
(e) Metabarcoding with DNA Standard Quantifies Fish eDNA. Michael Coogan | Room: Quincy
(G) What they do in the Shallows: Fine-scale shallow water movements of White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Bryan Legare * | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Count me in: Bayesian N-mixture modeling of aggregating trout in thermal refuges using underwater video surveys. Christopher J. Sullivan * | Room: Nantucket
(D) Potential of passive acoustic monitoring for diadromous fishes. Rodney Rountree | Room: Cape Cod
(e) Does the journey affect the destination? eDNA metabarcoding methods and their influence on downstream results. Tim O'Donnell | Room: Quincy
(G) I will survive!: High survivorship of sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) following catch and release in a rapidly growing land-based fishery in Massachusetts. Jeff Kneebone | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Looking for Stripers: Monitoring Changes to Species Assemblage in the Tewapskik (Annapolis River), Nova Scotia, Following the Decommissioning of a Tidal Power Station. Leah Creaser | Room: Nantucket
(e) Identification and quantification of diets in Striped Bass in Atlantic Canada using traditional and eDNA methods. Russell Easy | Room: Quincy
(G) Effects of climate on salmonid productivity: a global meta-analysis across freshwater ecosystems. Brian Gallagher * | Room: Martha's Vineyard
(D) Frostfish (Atlantic Tomcod) Fall Migrations, Winter Spawning, and Fecundity. Trevor Avery | Room: Nantucket