The annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society took place in Columbus, Ohio, for the week of August 30 through September 3. Many members of the AEL contributed to the planning of this meeting, and many also helped to organize and arrange aspects of the meeting. AELers contributed 16 oral presentations, five posters, and chaired one session. Below is a list of all of the AEL authored talks and posters, but there were many more talks and posters with AELer contributors.

Other highlights from the meeting including undergraduate researcher recently turned technician, Lizzie Feeney was runner up for best student poster, graduate student Demetra Williams won the cornhole tournament, and the AEL was well represented in the Spawning Run 5K.

Oral Presentations

• Meredith Bennett: Identifying drying regimes and community thresholds in non-perennial streams
• James Dowling: Seasonal Shifts in Habitat Selection and Movement of Large River Fishes
• Seth Drake: Stability of abundance-occupancy relationships of fishes before and after water quality improvements
• Liz Duskey: A wild Smallmouth Bass appeared! Simulating environmental thresholds driving native fish declines.
• Andrew Foley: Spatiotemporal Variation of Zooplankton in Central Lake Erie and Fish Recruitment Implications
• Megan Herbruck: Reading Between the Rings: Environmental Drivers of Larval Stream Fish Growth
• Sophia Holupka: Assessing Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix movement and residency in the Ohio River basin to inform management
• Alexa Howard: Intraspecific Variation in Life History Traits of Ohio River Sauger (Sander canadensis)
• Manao Kato: A Novel Approach to Discriminate Local Spawning Stocks Using Otolith Chemistry of Surrogate Species
• Elle Krellwitz: Linking Aquatic Organism Passage to Upstream–Downstream Assemblage Structure Across Culverts
• Stuart Ludsin: Sink or Swim Together: Why Great Lakes Management Needs a Bigger Boat (Plenary)
• Casey Pennock: Water Quality Improvements Correspond with Increased Occurrence of Fish, Insects, and Mussels
• Zachary Steele: A Great Lakes data-sharing platform to facilitate ecosystem-based management: Needs and challenges
• Mack White: Why Y? Evaluating Genetic Biocontrol for Invasive Channel Catfish Management in the San Juan River Basin
• Demetra Williams: Evaluating Changes in Walleye Recruitment in Lake Erie Following Dam Removal
• Kylee Wilson: Invasive Bythotrephes’ impacts on Yellow Perch feeding habits in western Lake Erie

Posters

• David Drinko: Asynchrony Between Two Lake Erie Basins: A Statistical Analysis of Recruitment
• Lizzie Feeney: Impact of Thermal Regimes on Larval S. atromaculatus Growth
• Reagan Oller: Movement and Habitat Use of Sauger Sander canadensis in the Ohio River
• Sawyer Olson: Utilizing Side-Scan-Sonar to compare habitat and fish community diversity in the Scioto River
• Michaela Porter: Habitat use and movement of Lake Sturgeon reintroduced into the Scioto River

Session Chair

• Lindsey Bruckerhoff: Environmental thresholds to inform ecology, conservation, and management of fishes