Atlantic City Annual Meeting Review
The WQ section supported two symposia held at the 2018 AFS meeting in Atlantic City, NJ. Andrew Todd and Yetta Jager organized the symposium ‘Bad Acid: Past and future risk of acidification to aquatic...
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Melvin Samson: 2016 Student Poster Winner
Melvin Samson of State University of NY College of Environmental Science and Forestry has won our annual poster award. His poster is entitled: Tracking Hypoxia Exposure in Yellow Perch with Otolith Chemistry: Spatial Variation in...
A sediment-specific family-level biomonitoring tool to identify the impacts of fine sediment in temperate rivers and streams
The technique uses macroinvertebrates, and will be of interest to those familiar with, or using, the ICI in biomonitoring. Many state water quality agencies collect macroinvertebrate data as part of their monitoring, and use...
Coho salmon mortality in Western US watersheds
Bioinfiltration prevents lethal stormwater impacts. Adult coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch return each autumn to freshwater spawning habitats throughout western North America. The migration coincides with increasing seasonal rainfall, which in turn increases storm water...
Mason King – 2015 Winner of WQS Poster contest
Mason King, graduate research assistant at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, has won the Water Quality Section award for best student poster at the AFS annual meeting in Portland Oregon. His poster was...
Andrew Todd is new President Elect
Congratulations to Andrew Todd on being elected as the new President Elect of the Water Quality Section. Professionally, Andrew works as a research biologist, conducting research on the impacts of diverse stressors (e.g. acid-rock drainage,...
2014 Student Poster Winner – Steve Mattocks
M.S. Candidate Department of Environmental Conservation University of Massachusetts Amherst Determining the Ecological Consequences from Historical Damming of New England Watersheds – Anadromous river herring, collectively alewives and blueback herring, were historically abundant in most...
John Meldrim, Ph.D. – 50 years a member in good standing!
One of our original members, John Meldrim , will be recognized this year at the annual meeting for 50 years as a member of the society. When you see him, congratulate him on his...
Brandy Bossle
My research on the bioaccumulation patterns of Hg in bluegill and largemouth bass was one component of a larger research program investigating Hg in fishes from the Fish/Fisheries Conservation lab at University of South...
Student Focus — Sagar Shrestha and Jack Farrelly
Student Focus: Graduate students Sagar Shrestha (left) and Jack Farrelly (right) at Aquaculture and Fisheries Center of University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff conducting water quality and fish community monitoring in an agricultural stream, southeast Arkansas,...
