Four AEL undergraduate researchers successfully defending their thesis last week:

• Melissa Bittner (Advisor: Elizabeth Marschall) – Thesis title: Analyzing the shift to piscivory in age-0 largemouth bass using stable isotopes
   
• Taylor Brown (Advisors: Mike Fraker and Stuart Ludsin) – Thesis title: Predator-prey space use in response to chemical cues of predation
   
• Steve Hadick (Advisor: Stuart Ludsin) – Honors thesis title: Coping with climate change: exploration of metabolic acclimation across generations in a tropical fish
   
• Madelyn Strahan (Advisors: Corey Becher and Stuart Ludsin) – Thesis title: Tag retention and mortality in inland reservoir channel catfish