The AEL was very well represented at the annual meeting for the Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in May 2025. Three faculty, three postdocs, and two graduate students all presented at the meeting. Dr. Jim Hood is also the Academic Delegate on the SFS Board of Directors.

Presentations: 

Meredith Bennett, Characterizing drying regimes and identifying environmental drivers of stream drying

Lindsey Bruckerhoff, Forecasting non-native smallmouth bass responses to future hydrologic conditions in the upper Colorado River basin

Liz Duskey, Leveraging spatial heterogeneity of imperiled populations for stream conservation goals

Justin Furby, Fish assemblage composition and performance across habitat gradients in novel ecosystems

Jim Hood, Temporal and longitudinal patterns in phosphorus species and transformations in a large river (Maumee River, OH) 

Allie Litmer, Quantifying the effects of mechanical removal on population dynamics of invasive Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)

Casey Pennock, Ecological stability of zooplankton communities in changing arctic lakes 

Shaley Valentine, Macrosystem structuring of the Upper Mississippi River: insights from fish ecology & 
The Wicked Problem: Conceptualizing Lake Erie’s Ecosystem in Progress towards Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management