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Morgan Shaw Defends Thesis
On July 12, Morgan Shaw successfully defended her master's thesis. Morgan is advised by Jim Hood. The title of her thesis presentation was, "Sediment source shapes interactions between dissolved…

AEL Hosts Youth Summer Watershed Institute
When the folks at the Ohio Supercomputer Center reached out to see if the AEL could talk about aquatic ecosystems for a group of 6th & 7th graders, we said, ABSOLUTELY! Their annual Youth…

Finigan & Marschall publication in Ecology of Freshwater Fish
PhD candidate, Rachael Finigan, has her first first-author paper with advisor, Libby Marschall. The paper titled, Population life-history differences and their correlates across a regional spatial…

REU students visit IFRE
On June 11 the summer REU students visited the Ohio Division of Wildlife Inland Fisheries Research Unit (IFRE). The students and their advisors, Lindsey Bruckerhoff and Casey Pennock, enjoyed a…

AELers at SFS 2024
At the Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2-6, 2024, AELers contributed three talks and two posters.
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AELers at ASLO
The AEL was well represented by the Hood Lab at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, June 2-7, 2024. The group contributed five…

Dr. Ludsin hosts Larval Fish Conference
Dr. Stu Ludsin hosted the Annual Meeting of the Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society in Huron, Ohio, May 12-16. Over four days 70+ researchers from at least 10 different…

AEL Picnic Success!
AELers gathered for a wonderful picnic potluck hosted by Jim Hood. A great time was had by all, especially everyone who got to watch the new lab members who hadn't yet learned how difficult it is…