Archived News
November 16-20 2022: Blake Hansen and I attend the Desert Fishes Council annual meeting in St. George, UT. I presented a talk entitled "Fish Behavior and Mortality During a Monsoonal Spate in the San Juan River, UT, USA", and Blake gave a talk entitled "From Bad to Worse: High Nonnative Densities and Monsoonal-Induced Habitat Deterioration in Backwater Nurseries may Explain the Recruitment Bottleneck of Imperiled Fishes in the San Juan River of NM, CO, and UT."
October 10 2022: I give a talk to the Chert Glades Chapter of the Missouri Master Naturalists in Joplin, MO. The talk is entitled "Long-term change of fish communities in a polluted river basin: does cleaner water "act" on fishes?"
October 05 2022: I give a seminar entitled "Sewage, Metals, and Sediments as Impediments to Native Fish Conservation in Kansas" as part of the Northeastern State University Science and Technology Seminar Series in Tahlequah, OK.
August 10 2022: Alex King successfully defends her thesis. The title of her thesis is "Chemical and Biological Stressors Threaten Native Fish Diversity in the Spring River Subbasin of Kansas."
July 01 2022: The second year of our research project entitled "Habitat Characteristics and Resource Availability in Secondary Channel and Mainstem Backwaters of the San Juan River of NM, CO, and UT" begins.
May 19 2022: Blake Hansen and I complete swiftwater rescue training in Idaho Springs, CO.
April 13 2022: Alex King presented two virtual oral presentations at the Pittsburg State University Research Colloquium, including "Cleansing our waters: how riffle fish communities in the Spring River of Kansas responded to pollution legislation and remediation" and "Contemporary extent of the Blackspotted Topminnow invasion and frequency of hybridization with native Blackstripe Topminnow in the Spring River subbasin." Alex won an award for her presentation on the Spring River riffle fish communities. Furthermore, Blake Hansen gave a poster presentation at the colloquium entitled "Lack of high-quality nurseries is not just a human problem: nonnative fish densities in backwater nurseries of the San Juan River, NM, CO, UT."
April 09-10 2022: We have the first joint PSU-KSU Ichthyology field trip, with Baxter Springs, KS serving as our home base. The trip was organized by myself, Dr. Keith Gido, and Dr. Michi Tobler, both from Kansas State University. We collected 51 total fish species during this weekend field trip.
April 01 2022: I hosted Dr. Casey Pennock for the PSU Department of Biology Friday seminar series. His talk was entitled "Can water use and fish conservation be balanced?"
February 03-04 2022: Myself and three members of my lab attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Fish behavior and mortality during a monsoonal spate in the San Juan River, UT, USA", and Alex King developed a talk called "Cleansing our waters: how riffle fish communities in the Spring River of Kansas responded to pollution legislation and remediation". Furthermore, poster presentations were given by Blake Hansen ("Lack of High-Quality Nurseries is Not Just a Human Problem: Nonnative Fish Densities in Backwater Nurseries of the San Juan River, NM, CO, UT") and Josh Holloway ("Assessing the Morphological Variability of Orangethroat Darters in an Ecotonal Riverscape").
November 17-18 2021: Michaela Fishback attended the virtual Desert Fishes Council Annual Meeting and presented a poster entitled "Nonnative Virile Crayfish (Faxonius virilis) distribution and density in secondary channel and island backwaters of the San Juan River, NM, CO, and UT." I helped Michaela develop this poster.
November 5-7 2021: I attended the annual Kansas Herpetologist Society meeting, which was held at Pittsburg State University.
September 01 2021: I become acting president of the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
July 01 2021: Our research project entitled "Habitat Characteristics and Resource Availability in Secondary Channel and Mainstem Backwaters of the San Juan River of NM, CO, and UT begins."
June 29 2021: An article entitled "Lakes Are Losing Oxygen-and Their Inhabitants Are in Danger" by Jennifer Clare Ball was published in Wired magazine. I was interviewed as part of this article.
May 15 2021: Our research project entitled "Frequency and Extent of Hybridization between Nonnative Blackspotted Topminnow and Native Blackstripe Topminnow in the Spring River subbasin" begins.
April 14 2021: Alex King presented an oral presentation entitled "A black spot on our record: invasion history of the nonnative Blackspotted Topminnow (Fundulus olivaceus) in the Spring River Subbasin of Kansas, with a comparison to long-term trends in Blackstripe Topminnow (Fundulus notatus) prevalence" at the virtual Pittsburg State University Research Colloquium. Alex won an award for this presentation.
March 19 2021: I gave a seminar to the Department of Biology at Pittsburg State University entitled: "Sewage, metals, and sediments as impediments to native fish conservation in Kansas."
March 18 2021: I gave a seminar to the Kansas State University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series entitled: "Sewage, metals, and sediments as impediments to native fish conservation in Kansas."
March 10 2021: I gave a seminar to the Department of Biological Science at Emporia State University entitled: "Sewage, metals, and sediments as impediments to native fish conservation in Kansas."
February 18-20 2020: Kali Boroughs and I attended Catfish 2020: The Third International Catfish Symposium in Little Rock, AR. Kali presented a poster on her graduate thesis entitled: "Have Neosho Madtom (Noturus placidus) densities responded to improved water quality in the Spring River of southeastern Kansas?"
January 30-January 31 2020: Myself and three members of my lab attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Deterministic and stochastic factors influence the distribution of Blackside Darter in Kansas", for which I won the Best Professional Presentation award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Pittsburg State University graduate student Kali Boroughs presented a poster entitled "Have Neosho Madtom (Noturus placidus) densities responded to improved water quality in the Spring River of southeastern Kansas?", for which she won the Best Student Poster award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Finally, Alexandra King presented a poster entitled "Status of the Sunflower State's Ozarkian fish fauna."
22 August 2019: Our research concerning the response of fish and macroinvertebrates to improving water quality in the Spring River of Kansas was featured in the Pittsburg Morning Sun.
17 August 2019: Our research concerning the response of fish and macroinvertebrates to improving water quality in the Spring River of Kansas was featured on the front page of the Joplin Globe.
07 August 2019: Our research concerning the response of fish and macroinvertebrates to improving water quality in the Spring River of Kansas was featured on a broadcast of KODE/KSNF in Joplin.
08 July 2019: Our paper entitled "Long-term change of fish communities in a polluted watershed: does cleaner water “act” on fishes?" was one of the Top 20 Most Downloaded articles in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society in 2018.
May 19-24 2019: I attended the Society for Freshwater Science annual meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, and presented a talk entitled "The environmental niche of two imperiled stream ecosystem engineers: Hornyhead Chub and Redspot Chub."
January 31-February 01 2019: Myself and two students attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Population status of the Hornyhead Chub and Redspot Chub in Kansas." Pittsburg State University undergraduate Joshua Holloway presented a poster entitled "Historical and contemporary distribution of the nonnative Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) in the Spring River subbasin of Kansas", for which he won the Best Student Poster award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society for the second year in a row.
25 April 2018: I won the Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award at the Pittsburg State University Graduate School and Research Awards Banquet (pictured right).
13 February 2018: I won the Best Professional Paper award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society for the talk I gave at the KNRC on February 9th. Also, Josh Holloway won the Best Student Poster award for the poster he presented at KNRC.
February 8-9 2018: Myself and three students attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Long-term change of a fish community in a polluted watershed: does clean water "act" on fishes?." Pittsburg State University undergraduate Joshua Holloway presented a poster entitled "Discovery of the Arkansas Darter (Etheostoma cragini) in the Cow Creek Drainage, Cherokee County, Southeastern Kansas." Josh, Derek Scholes, Alex King, and I were co-authors on the oral presentation and poster.
25 June 2017: Our manuscript on otolith microchemistry with Longfin Dace (Agosia chrysogaster) was featured on the cover of the August 2017 issue of Hydrobiologia. (Whitney, JE, KB Gido, SC Hedden, GL Macpherson, TJ Pilger, and TF Turner. 2017. Identifying the source population of fish re-colonizing an arid-land stream following wildfire-induced extirpation using otolith microchemistry. Hydrobiologia 797: 29-45.)
15 June 2017: The Wildlife Management Institute published a story over my postdoctoral research on the effects of climate change on North American inland fish and fisheries.
15 April 2017: Myself and three students (pictured right) attended the annual Southwestern Association of Naturalists meeting in Lawton, OK, where I presented a talk entitled "Identifying the source population of fish re-colonizing an arid-land stream following wildfire-induced extirpation using otolith microchemistry."
27 January 2017: Attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference in Wichita, KS and presented a talk entitled "The potential for climate change to influence fish distributions in the Spring River Basin of KS, MO, and OK."
17 January 2017: I began my 3rd semester at Pittsburg State University.
17 December 2016: The Pittsburg State Biology Faculty newsletter for 2016 is published.
16 December 2016: Completed my 2nd semester at Pittsburg State University.
30 June 2016: The University of Missouri College of Forestry, Agriculture, and Natural Resources published a news story about my postdoctoral research and recent Capitol Hill briefing on the effects of climate change on North American inland fishes.
29 June 2016: The special issue of Fisheries magazine concerning the effects of climate change on North American inland fishes was published online. The Fisheries special issue was the focus of my postdoctoral research at the Missouri Cooperative Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit.
29 June 2016: The U.S. Geological Survey issued a press release about the upcoming special issue of Fisheries magazine on the effects of climate change on North American inland fishes, which was the focus of my postdoctoral research project.
13 June 2016: Presented a talk entitled "Effects of Climate Change on Fish Physiology" as part of a Capitol Hill briefing to congressional staff about the effects of climate change on inland fish. The briefing was organized by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Other presenters in the briefing included Len Hunt (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry), Craig Paukert (USGS Missouri Cooperative Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit), and Abigail Lynch (USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center). A story about the briefing appeared on the AFS website, which also included a link to pictures from the briefing.
06 May 2016: My first semester as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Pittsburg State University is completed.
30 April 2016: The special issue of Fisheries concerning the effects of climate change on North American inland fish and fisheries, organized by Abigail Lynch, Craig Paukert, Len Hunt, and myself, was accepted for publication. The special issue will be published in Fisheries in July 2016.
16 March 2016: Presented a talk entitled "Climate change and fish physiology" in a special session on the effects of climate change on North American inland fish and fisheries at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources conference in Pittsburgh, PA
23-24 February 2016: Attended the joint Kansas and Nebraska Chapters of the American Fisheries Society meeting in Manhattan, KS and presented a talk entitled "The first to arrive and the last to leave: colonization and extinction dynamics of prairie stream fishes."
11 January 2016: Started as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, USA.
14 October 2015: Sky Hedden, Keith Gido, and I had a paper accepted for publication in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management. The manuscript describes the effects of nonnative flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) consumption on native fishes in the upper Gila River, New Mexico, USA.
16-21 August, 2015: I attended the 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Portland, OR and presented a talk entitled "Native and nonnative fish response to coupled drought-wildfire disturbance: the role of thermal guild."
14 August, 2015: The University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources published a news story about my postdoctoral research on their website.
21-22 July, 2015: I presented a workshop in Jackson, MO entitled "Multivariate Statistic using R" to employees of the Missouri Department of Conservation and graduate students from Southeast Missouri State University.
24 June, 2015: The United States Geological Survey published an article about my postdoctoral research as one of the top stories on their website.
01-05 June, 2015: I attended a workshop on the effects of climate change on inland fish and fisheries in Bozeman, MT at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center. I organized this workshop as part of my postdoctoral research project with the help of collaborators from the University of Missouri and the USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Sciences Center. The workshop was attended by 27 experts that worked to synthesize the effects of climate change on fishes.
01-02 April, 2015: I presented a talk entitled "Efficacy of otolith microchemical analysis to infer population connectivity of longfin dace Agosia chrysogaster in mainstem-tributary networks" at the Tennessee Technological University Environmental Sciences Colloquium in Cookeville, TN.
20 February, 2015: I gave the departmental seminar for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia. My presentation was entitled "Spatiotemporal response of aquatic native and nonnative taxa to wildfire disturbance in a desert stream network."
06-09 January, 2015: I traveled to the USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Sciences Center in Reston, VA for a planning meeting concerning my postdoctoral research project.
12 December, 2014: I participated in my PhD graduation ceremony at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS.
03 November, 2014: I began work as a postdoctoral research associate in the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
15 August, 2014: I completed my PhD at Kansas State University.
November 16-20 2022: Blake Hansen and I attend the Desert Fishes Council annual meeting in St. George, UT. I presented a talk entitled "Fish Behavior and Mortality During a Monsoonal Spate in the San Juan River, UT, USA", and Blake gave a talk entitled "From Bad to Worse: High Nonnative Densities and Monsoonal-Induced Habitat Deterioration in Backwater Nurseries may Explain the Recruitment Bottleneck of Imperiled Fishes in the San Juan River of NM, CO, and UT."
October 10 2022: I give a talk to the Chert Glades Chapter of the Missouri Master Naturalists in Joplin, MO. The talk is entitled "Long-term change of fish communities in a polluted river basin: does cleaner water "act" on fishes?"
October 05 2022: I give a seminar entitled "Sewage, Metals, and Sediments as Impediments to Native Fish Conservation in Kansas" as part of the Northeastern State University Science and Technology Seminar Series in Tahlequah, OK.
August 10 2022: Alex King successfully defends her thesis. The title of her thesis is "Chemical and Biological Stressors Threaten Native Fish Diversity in the Spring River Subbasin of Kansas."
July 01 2022: The second year of our research project entitled "Habitat Characteristics and Resource Availability in Secondary Channel and Mainstem Backwaters of the San Juan River of NM, CO, and UT" begins.
May 19 2022: Blake Hansen and I complete swiftwater rescue training in Idaho Springs, CO.
April 13 2022: Alex King presented two virtual oral presentations at the Pittsburg State University Research Colloquium, including "Cleansing our waters: how riffle fish communities in the Spring River of Kansas responded to pollution legislation and remediation" and "Contemporary extent of the Blackspotted Topminnow invasion and frequency of hybridization with native Blackstripe Topminnow in the Spring River subbasin." Alex won an award for her presentation on the Spring River riffle fish communities. Furthermore, Blake Hansen gave a poster presentation at the colloquium entitled "Lack of high-quality nurseries is not just a human problem: nonnative fish densities in backwater nurseries of the San Juan River, NM, CO, UT."
April 09-10 2022: We have the first joint PSU-KSU Ichthyology field trip, with Baxter Springs, KS serving as our home base. The trip was organized by myself, Dr. Keith Gido, and Dr. Michi Tobler, both from Kansas State University. We collected 51 total fish species during this weekend field trip.
April 01 2022: I hosted Dr. Casey Pennock for the PSU Department of Biology Friday seminar series. His talk was entitled "Can water use and fish conservation be balanced?"
February 03-04 2022: Myself and three members of my lab attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Fish behavior and mortality during a monsoonal spate in the San Juan River, UT, USA", and Alex King developed a talk called "Cleansing our waters: how riffle fish communities in the Spring River of Kansas responded to pollution legislation and remediation". Furthermore, poster presentations were given by Blake Hansen ("Lack of High-Quality Nurseries is Not Just a Human Problem: Nonnative Fish Densities in Backwater Nurseries of the San Juan River, NM, CO, UT") and Josh Holloway ("Assessing the Morphological Variability of Orangethroat Darters in an Ecotonal Riverscape").
November 17-18 2021: Michaela Fishback attended the virtual Desert Fishes Council Annual Meeting and presented a poster entitled "Nonnative Virile Crayfish (Faxonius virilis) distribution and density in secondary channel and island backwaters of the San Juan River, NM, CO, and UT." I helped Michaela develop this poster.
November 5-7 2021: I attended the annual Kansas Herpetologist Society meeting, which was held at Pittsburg State University.
September 01 2021: I become acting president of the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
July 01 2021: Our research project entitled "Habitat Characteristics and Resource Availability in Secondary Channel and Mainstem Backwaters of the San Juan River of NM, CO, and UT begins."
June 29 2021: An article entitled "Lakes Are Losing Oxygen-and Their Inhabitants Are in Danger" by Jennifer Clare Ball was published in Wired magazine. I was interviewed as part of this article.
May 15 2021: Our research project entitled "Frequency and Extent of Hybridization between Nonnative Blackspotted Topminnow and Native Blackstripe Topminnow in the Spring River subbasin" begins.
April 14 2021: Alex King presented an oral presentation entitled "A black spot on our record: invasion history of the nonnative Blackspotted Topminnow (Fundulus olivaceus) in the Spring River Subbasin of Kansas, with a comparison to long-term trends in Blackstripe Topminnow (Fundulus notatus) prevalence" at the virtual Pittsburg State University Research Colloquium. Alex won an award for this presentation.
March 19 2021: I gave a seminar to the Department of Biology at Pittsburg State University entitled: "Sewage, metals, and sediments as impediments to native fish conservation in Kansas."
March 18 2021: I gave a seminar to the Kansas State University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series entitled: "Sewage, metals, and sediments as impediments to native fish conservation in Kansas."
March 10 2021: I gave a seminar to the Department of Biological Science at Emporia State University entitled: "Sewage, metals, and sediments as impediments to native fish conservation in Kansas."
February 18-20 2020: Kali Boroughs and I attended Catfish 2020: The Third International Catfish Symposium in Little Rock, AR. Kali presented a poster on her graduate thesis entitled: "Have Neosho Madtom (Noturus placidus) densities responded to improved water quality in the Spring River of southeastern Kansas?"
January 30-January 31 2020: Myself and three members of my lab attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Deterministic and stochastic factors influence the distribution of Blackside Darter in Kansas", for which I won the Best Professional Presentation award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Pittsburg State University graduate student Kali Boroughs presented a poster entitled "Have Neosho Madtom (Noturus placidus) densities responded to improved water quality in the Spring River of southeastern Kansas?", for which she won the Best Student Poster award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Finally, Alexandra King presented a poster entitled "Status of the Sunflower State's Ozarkian fish fauna."
22 August 2019: Our research concerning the response of fish and macroinvertebrates to improving water quality in the Spring River of Kansas was featured in the Pittsburg Morning Sun.
17 August 2019: Our research concerning the response of fish and macroinvertebrates to improving water quality in the Spring River of Kansas was featured on the front page of the Joplin Globe.
07 August 2019: Our research concerning the response of fish and macroinvertebrates to improving water quality in the Spring River of Kansas was featured on a broadcast of KODE/KSNF in Joplin.
08 July 2019: Our paper entitled "Long-term change of fish communities in a polluted watershed: does cleaner water “act” on fishes?" was one of the Top 20 Most Downloaded articles in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society in 2018.
May 19-24 2019: I attended the Society for Freshwater Science annual meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, and presented a talk entitled "The environmental niche of two imperiled stream ecosystem engineers: Hornyhead Chub and Redspot Chub."
January 31-February 01 2019: Myself and two students attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Population status of the Hornyhead Chub and Redspot Chub in Kansas." Pittsburg State University undergraduate Joshua Holloway presented a poster entitled "Historical and contemporary distribution of the nonnative Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) in the Spring River subbasin of Kansas", for which he won the Best Student Poster award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society for the second year in a row.
25 April 2018: I won the Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award at the Pittsburg State University Graduate School and Research Awards Banquet (pictured right).
13 February 2018: I won the Best Professional Paper award from the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society for the talk I gave at the KNRC on February 9th. Also, Josh Holloway won the Best Student Poster award for the poster he presented at KNRC.
February 8-9 2018: Myself and three students attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference (KNRC) in Manhattan, KS. I presented a talk entitled "Long-term change of a fish community in a polluted watershed: does clean water "act" on fishes?." Pittsburg State University undergraduate Joshua Holloway presented a poster entitled "Discovery of the Arkansas Darter (Etheostoma cragini) in the Cow Creek Drainage, Cherokee County, Southeastern Kansas." Josh, Derek Scholes, Alex King, and I were co-authors on the oral presentation and poster.
25 June 2017: Our manuscript on otolith microchemistry with Longfin Dace (Agosia chrysogaster) was featured on the cover of the August 2017 issue of Hydrobiologia. (Whitney, JE, KB Gido, SC Hedden, GL Macpherson, TJ Pilger, and TF Turner. 2017. Identifying the source population of fish re-colonizing an arid-land stream following wildfire-induced extirpation using otolith microchemistry. Hydrobiologia 797: 29-45.)
15 June 2017: The Wildlife Management Institute published a story over my postdoctoral research on the effects of climate change on North American inland fish and fisheries.
15 April 2017: Myself and three students (pictured right) attended the annual Southwestern Association of Naturalists meeting in Lawton, OK, where I presented a talk entitled "Identifying the source population of fish re-colonizing an arid-land stream following wildfire-induced extirpation using otolith microchemistry."
27 January 2017: Attended the Kansas Natural Resources Conference in Wichita, KS and presented a talk entitled "The potential for climate change to influence fish distributions in the Spring River Basin of KS, MO, and OK."
17 January 2017: I began my 3rd semester at Pittsburg State University.
17 December 2016: The Pittsburg State Biology Faculty newsletter for 2016 is published.
16 December 2016: Completed my 2nd semester at Pittsburg State University.
30 June 2016: The University of Missouri College of Forestry, Agriculture, and Natural Resources published a news story about my postdoctoral research and recent Capitol Hill briefing on the effects of climate change on North American inland fishes.
29 June 2016: The special issue of Fisheries magazine concerning the effects of climate change on North American inland fishes was published online. The Fisheries special issue was the focus of my postdoctoral research at the Missouri Cooperative Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit.
29 June 2016: The U.S. Geological Survey issued a press release about the upcoming special issue of Fisheries magazine on the effects of climate change on North American inland fishes, which was the focus of my postdoctoral research project.
13 June 2016: Presented a talk entitled "Effects of Climate Change on Fish Physiology" as part of a Capitol Hill briefing to congressional staff about the effects of climate change on inland fish. The briefing was organized by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Other presenters in the briefing included Len Hunt (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry), Craig Paukert (USGS Missouri Cooperative Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit), and Abigail Lynch (USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center). A story about the briefing appeared on the AFS website, which also included a link to pictures from the briefing.
06 May 2016: My first semester as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Pittsburg State University is completed.
30 April 2016: The special issue of Fisheries concerning the effects of climate change on North American inland fish and fisheries, organized by Abigail Lynch, Craig Paukert, Len Hunt, and myself, was accepted for publication. The special issue will be published in Fisheries in July 2016.
16 March 2016: Presented a talk entitled "Climate change and fish physiology" in a special session on the effects of climate change on North American inland fish and fisheries at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources conference in Pittsburgh, PA
23-24 February 2016: Attended the joint Kansas and Nebraska Chapters of the American Fisheries Society meeting in Manhattan, KS and presented a talk entitled "The first to arrive and the last to leave: colonization and extinction dynamics of prairie stream fishes."
11 January 2016: Started as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, USA.
14 October 2015: Sky Hedden, Keith Gido, and I had a paper accepted for publication in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management. The manuscript describes the effects of nonnative flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) consumption on native fishes in the upper Gila River, New Mexico, USA.
16-21 August, 2015: I attended the 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Portland, OR and presented a talk entitled "Native and nonnative fish response to coupled drought-wildfire disturbance: the role of thermal guild."
14 August, 2015: The University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources published a news story about my postdoctoral research on their website.
21-22 July, 2015: I presented a workshop in Jackson, MO entitled "Multivariate Statistic using R" to employees of the Missouri Department of Conservation and graduate students from Southeast Missouri State University.
24 June, 2015: The United States Geological Survey published an article about my postdoctoral research as one of the top stories on their website.
01-05 June, 2015: I attended a workshop on the effects of climate change on inland fish and fisheries in Bozeman, MT at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center. I organized this workshop as part of my postdoctoral research project with the help of collaborators from the University of Missouri and the USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Sciences Center. The workshop was attended by 27 experts that worked to synthesize the effects of climate change on fishes.
01-02 April, 2015: I presented a talk entitled "Efficacy of otolith microchemical analysis to infer population connectivity of longfin dace Agosia chrysogaster in mainstem-tributary networks" at the Tennessee Technological University Environmental Sciences Colloquium in Cookeville, TN.
20 February, 2015: I gave the departmental seminar for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia. My presentation was entitled "Spatiotemporal response of aquatic native and nonnative taxa to wildfire disturbance in a desert stream network."
06-09 January, 2015: I traveled to the USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Sciences Center in Reston, VA for a planning meeting concerning my postdoctoral research project.
12 December, 2014: I participated in my PhD graduation ceremony at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS.
03 November, 2014: I began work as a postdoctoral research associate in the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
15 August, 2014: I completed my PhD at Kansas State University.