Monday Poster Presentations
Poster titles and abstracts are grouped by session - General, eDNA, or Diadromous
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* student presentation
(G) Environmental Influences on American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) Stock Dynamics. Jamie Behan
(G) First Record of an Adult Sharptail Mola in Massachusetts and Notes on Ocean Sunfish Strandings. Carol D. “Krill” Carson (I)
(G) Western Atlantic Torpedo Strandings on Cape Cod in the Fall and Early Winter of 2020 and 2021, Including Mass Stranding Events on Long Point, Provincetown, MA. Carol D. “Krill” Carson (II)
(G) Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) Demographics, Habitat Use, and Movements Around Nantucket, MA. Caroline Collatos *
(G) Shallow Water Baitfish Assemblages in New Hampshire Coastal and Estuarine Waters. Samuel Comeau *
(G) Thermal Tolerance of American Lobster (Homarus americanus) Larvae and Post-Larvae: Understanding the Physiology of Vulnerable Life Stages in a Changing Climate. Aubrey Jane *
(G) Monitoring Little Tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus) Movements and Post-Release Survival in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts. Edward Kim
(G) It’s Getting Hot in Here: Forecasting Climate Change and Hake Abundance within the Gulf of Maine. Benjamin LaFreniere *
(G) Leveraging Multi-Species and Multi-Year Telemetry Datasets to Examine Metrics of Movement and Phenology of Chesapeake Bay Fishes. Mariah Livernois
(G) Examining Fish Assemblage Response to Dam Removal. Callista Macpherson *
(G) Modeling Geospatial Variation in Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes Along the US Northeast Continental Shelf: Isoscape Development for Studies of Movement and Trophic Ecology. Rhiannon B. Moore *
(G) Demonstrating Effectiveness of a Microprocessor-Based Shark Bycatch Reduction Device (BRD) in Longline Fisheries Using an Academic-Industry Partnership. Michael Nguyen *
(G) Characterizing Winter Flounder Populations in Massachusetts Waters. Katrina A. Zarrella Smith *
(G) Effects of Acoustic Tag Attachment on Jonah Crab Molting, Growth, and Mortality. Stephen Zicari
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(e) Within-Lake Spatial Variation in Fish Sedimentary DNA Concentrations. Grayson Huston *
(e) Environmental DNA’s Usage and Accessibility in Southeastern Massachusetts Monitoring Agencies. Eva Kozol *
(e) Environmental DNA (eDNA) as an Alternative Method to Estimate Juvenile Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) Recruitment in Freshwater Systems. Sharon Mann *
(e) Assessment and Monitoring of Fish in Estuarine Systems Using eDNA. Alison Watts
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(D) Exploring the Relationship Between Scale and Otolith Geochemistry in Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis). Brian Alper
(D) Multispecies Response to Enhanced River Connectivity in the Mill River, Taunton, Massachusetts. Stephanie Berkman
(D) Characterizing the Timing of Juvenile Alewife Outmigration Using Time Lapse Photography: I’ll Be Watching You! Michael Burgess *
(D) A Review of Biological Responses of Diadromous Fishes to Climate Change to Support the 2025 Revisions of the State Wildlife Action Plans. Kevin R. Burgio
(D) Comparing Age and Growth of Juvenile River Herring in Freshwater and Estuarine Environments. Julian Burgoff *
(D) Using Otolith Geochemistry to Quantify the Duration of Estuarine Residency of Rainbow Smelt in New Hampshire. Alexa Cacacie *
(D) Assessing Food Availability and Growth Rate as Emigration Triggers for Juvenile River Herring. Abigail Farrell *
(D) River Herring Catch in the Gulf of Maine: Spatial and Temporal Trends in Catch from the Maine-New Hampshire Inshore Trawl Survey. Rebecca Peters
(D) A Summary of Recent Downstream Passage Results for American Eel in the North Atlantic-Appalachian Region; where do we go from here? Bryan Sojkowski
(D) EelStream Eel Passage System 2022 Field Evaluation. Eric Truebe
(D) Using eDNA as a Method for Prioritizing River Restoration Projects in the Greater Long Island Sound Region. Jon C. Vander Werff
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