We have a new paper out describing our hierarchical approach to decision analysis for double-crested cormorant and fisheries management. A joint effort among many state and federal agencies to incorporate values and quantitative models! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A decision analytic approach to hierarchical decisions for double-crested cormorant conflict resolution - Environment Systems and Decisions

Double-crested cormorants (Nannopterum auritum) are piscivorous, migratory waterbirds that often conflict with fisheries interests in North America, stemming from depredation effects on fish populatio...

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Our dog was locked in a staring contest at the back window this morning

New article from my former PhD student that looks to understand how competition with invasive round gobies might influence native slimy sculpin populations in the Great Lakes. Lab trials showed that gobies could outcompete slimies for shelters, but temps and fish size could influence effects.🐟

Competition between invasive round goby and native slimy sculpin in a coldwater laboratory setting

Slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus) abundance has substantially declined in many regions of the Laurentian Great Lakes coincident with the arrival and ran…

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Come work with us! This 1.5-year postdoc position with our Michigan State University team will lead lake & stream ecology research that is data-intensive & highly collaborative, as well as the translation of those results into action in partnership with communities. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Join our team! The UW–Madison Aquatic Sciences Center, which administers both Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Water Resources Institute, is hiring an Associate Director for Outreach and Engagement. https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associate-director-for-outreach-and-engagement-madison-wisconsin-united-states

August as an academic

Job: Come work with me! Ready to turn your love for lakes into a career? Join the MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams as our new Inland Lakes Shoreline Educator! MS and experience with shoreline protection desired. Location: Upper Peninsula. careers.msu.edu. Search for posting # 1148258.

Values matter for making fish passage decisions! 🐟 That’s the take home from our new paper describing SDM for selective fish passage decisions. In partnership with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using structured decision making to evaluate the tradeoffs of selective fish passage

Dams have dramatically altered rivers and are a major contributor to native fish population declines. However, many dams serve important ecological, social, and economic functions, such as flood cont...

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FINAL DAY! Help shape the future of large lakes research! JGLR is seeking two early career researchers to join its editorial board. Gain publishing and peer review experience. At least one editor will be outside the U.S./Canada. Apply by Jan 31: https://bit.ly/49sc99y

New work from our lab describing efforts to evaluate power for detecting trends in sportfish monitoring data! academic.oup.com/najfm/advanc...

Estimating the power of a standardized monitoring program for sport fish in Georgia, USA

ABSTRACTObjective. Biological monitoring is a major component of management decisions and operating budgets of many natural resource management agencies. G

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We are recruiting an MS student at UGA to work on population monitoring and modeling of alligators in GA! Likely a combination of decision analytic tools to develop a monitoring plan and some field work. See the link for more details. Please share widely! 🐊❓ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on coastal ecology. Come be my colleague! Please share. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

Our friends at Lake Superior State University have an open posting for an Assistant Professor of Aquaculture! Come for the state-of-the-art hatchery facility, stay for the chance to work in beautiful Sault Ste. Marie: buff.ly/RwewNHI #GreatLakesJobs

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

Fishy folks! There’s a new open access book, “Understanding Recreational Fishers,” with a ton of great info for social-ecological science for fisheries management. (Including a chapter on adaptive management that I led). An amazing group of editors and authors! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Understanding Recreational Fishers

This open access book presents unique insights of embracing the complete social-ecological system for better management of recreational fisheries.

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@taylorfishlab.bsky.social - a Fishmas gift for you?

Katie O'Reilly@drkatfish.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It’s all about that bass on Day 4 of #25DaysofFishmas - the Suwannee Bass (Micropterus notius), that is! We head to the Florida Panhandle to find this lesser-known cousin of the largemouth bass who is like the quiet - but interesting - cousin at the black bass family holiday get-together.

Not much is scarier for a #GreatLakes fish than the invasive sea lamprey, sometimes called vampire fish 🧛 But while they're more trick than treat in their introduced range, they're actually threatened in parts of their native range of the Atlantic coasts of Europe + North America - that's scary!

After decades of sea lamprey control it made sense to reflect and identify lessons learned. These lessons are salient to other invasive species control programs! Co-authors incl @greatlakesjulie.bsky.social @kfilerrobinson.bsky.social @margaretdocker.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Ten lessons for controlling invasive species: Wisdom from the long-standing sea lamprey control program on the Laurentian Great Lakes

Abstract. Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) control in the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America is among the largest and most successful control programs

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Just FYI… in case you want to vote. ⭕️🐟

Phish@phish.com · 2y ago

Phish is honored to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2025! Big congratulations to our fellow nominees. The Fan Vote is now open! Vote daily through April 21 → vote.rockhall.com

Know of a great JGLR paper published in 2024 whose lead author was a student when it was accepted? Nominations due Wed, Jan 15.

International Association for Great Lakes Research@iaglr.bsky.social · 2y ago

The JGLR/Elsevier Student Award is awarded annually to the top-ranked paper in the current volume of the Journal of Great Lakes Research whose lead author was a student at the time of acceptance. Nomination information and portal: bit.ly/4j49wyN

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Considers submitting your abstract to the 48th Larval Fish Conference, which will be held in Québec City June 15-19 2025. We welcome talks on both larval and juvenile stages, in 7 thematic sessions. More details here: larvalfishconference.com

48th Larval Fish Conference

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This was a fun project to work on, and Sean did an excellent job on this paper describing our decision analysis process for supplemental sea lamprey control in the Great Lakes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decision analysis of Integrated Pest Management: A case study on invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes Basin

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) provides a powerful framework for addressing threats to human well-being caused by nuisance species including invasiv…

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The B-52s tonight in our new arena for the new hockey team- the Rock Lobsters. I ❤️Athens

Sculpins are the best! We wrote a review of the four species in the GL a few years ago, if you’re interested in learning more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Synthesis of the Biology and Ecology of Sculpin Species in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Implications for the Adaptive Capacity of the Benthic Ecosystem

The Laurentian Great Lakes have experienced recent ecosystem changes that could lead to reductions in adaptive capacity and ultimately a loss of biodiversity and production throughout the food web....

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Katie O'Reilly@drkatfish.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎶Sculpin’ around the #Fishmas tree🎶 On Day 10 of #25DaysofFishmas, we’re doing a deep dive with the Deepwater Sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsonii), a small, bottom-dwelling #GreatLakes fish who’s not typically in the spotlight

A fish near and dear to my heart

Katie O'Reilly@drkatfish.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎶Sculpin’ around the #Fishmas tree🎶 On Day 10 of #25DaysofFishmas, we’re doing a deep dive with the Deepwater Sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsonii), a small, bottom-dwelling #GreatLakes fish who’s not typically in the spotlight

Black Bass 2025. storymaps.com/stories/baf0...

Black Bass Symposium

San Antonio, Texas • August 10 -14, 2025

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Come join us at the University of Guelph!! We are hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of teaching! We have an awesome group of new faculty! 🧪🌱✨

Tess Grainger@tessgrainger.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in undergraduate biology teaching! Come work at the University of Guelph and join an awesome department with a great and large cohort of new faculty!

Happy that my first post is to direct you to a new pub by my first PhD student! An IBM to predict changes in fish pops with changes in fish passage. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Predicting the response of fish populations to changes in river connectivity using individual-based models

Barrier removal restores physical stream processes and improves accessibility of critical habitats to migratory fishes. Although increasing connectivi…

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