The Aquatic Ecology Lab was very well-represented at the Ohio Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (OCAFS) winter meeting February 19-20 in Newport, Kentucky. Faculty members Lindsey Bruckerhoff and Stu Ludsin both attended, as did seven graduate students, three undergraduate students, and one technician. Additionally, graduate student Kylee Wilson and technician Andrew Foley both served on the OCAFS Executive Committee, while Stu Ludsin is the President-Elect and was honored with the Meritorious Service Award.

AEL Presentations

• Best Student Presentation: Megan Herbruck, Intra-annual spatiotemporal dynamics of stream fish communities
• Seth Drake, Water quality improvements correspond with increased human use and occurrence of fish, aquatic insects, and freshwater mussels
• Stu Ludsin, Mechanistic Insights into Recruitment Asynchrony in Western and Central Lake Erie's Yellow Perch Populations
• Demetra Williams, Good things to come? Walleye larvae captured above the former Ballville Dam site in the Sandusky River following removal

AEL Posters

• Best Student Poster: Elle Krellwitz, Quantifying passage success at road-stream crossings for small stream fishes across Ohio
• Andrew Foley, Understanding spatial variation of crustacean zooplankton during the larval Yellow Perch production period in Central Lake Erie
• Kayla Geller, Diet selectivity of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) in Western Lake Erie in the presence of non-native Bythotrephes longimanus
• Alexa Howard, Quantifying the spawning phenology and fecundity of Ohio River Sauger (Sander canadensis)
• Sophia Laird, Long term morphological shifts of Sand Shiners following population remediation in the Scioto River