The Aquatic Ecology Lab successfully hosted the Lake Erie - Inland Waters Annual Research Review in December 2023. The two-day event had 20 speakers and 13 posters, with presentations on topics from invasive grass carp, to dam removal in Cuyahoga National Park, to economics of Ohio's fisheries. At the AEL we are honored to host this event and we are proud of all the AELers who presented.

Rachael Finigan & Elizabeth Marchall (OSU-AEL); and Michael Sovic (OSU, Center for Applied Plant Sciences). Genetic structure across Ohio populations of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides).

Kylee Wilson & Lindsey Bruckerhoff (OSU-AEL); Zachary Slagle & Heather Luken (ODNR-DOW); and Stuart Ludsin (OSU-AEL). Preliminary insights into factors that drive Yellow Perch angling success in western Lake Erie.

Jacob Bentley & Stuart Ludsin (OSU-AEL). Feeding ecology of Blue Catfish and other top predators in central Ohio reservoirs.

Olivia Houpt, Kylee Wilson & Stuart Ludsin (OSU-AEL). Understanding the impact of invasive Bythotrephes longimanus on Yellow Perch angling success in western Lake Erie. [Poster]

Manjunath Manubolu & Kavitha Pathakoti (OSU-AEL); Kenneth Riedl (OSU, Food Science & Technology); Christian Lauber & Lauren Mashburn Warren (Nationwide Children's Hospital, Institute for Genomic Medicine); Miki Watanabe-Chailland & Lindsey Romick-Rosendale (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, NMR-Based Metabolomics Core); and Stuart Ludsin (OSU-AEL). Microcystin Effects on Juvenile Yellow Perch Stress Physiology, Liver Metabolomics, and Gut Microbial Composition. [Poster]

Elizabeth Marschall (OSU-AEL); Richard Budnik (Ohio EPA); and Carey Knight & Ann Marie Gorman (ODNR-DOW). Modeling Yellow Perch distributions in response to changing habitats in Lake Erie’s Central Basin. [Poster]

Full Program of Speakers and Posters [pdf]

If you attended this year's Research Review and would like access to talks, please contact Jenny Pfaff (pfaff.20@osu.edu).