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AFS Student & Early Career Professionals Subsection – Student & Early Career Professionals Subsection of the Education Section of the American Fisheries Society Search for: Home About Documents Meet the Executive Committee Membership Why Join AFS in College? Why Join AFS in High School? News and Events Calendar Sign up for News Student Angle Submissions Submit News Awards & Scholarships Annual Meeting Travel Awards Undergraduate Travel Assistance Award Other Meeting Awards Get Involved Resources for You Job Resources How to Become an Early Career Professional How to Get a Job How to Write a Resume/CV Research Resources How to Analyze Your Data How to Conduct Undergraduate Research How to Make your Research Relevant for Fisheries Management Student Resources How to Get Active in AFS How to Prepare for Graduate School Relevant Topics to Keep in Mind as a Graduate Student Subunit Resources How to Establish a Student Subunit Student Subunits Subunit Guidance Writing Resources How to Peer Review How to Publish in Graduate School How to Write a Popular Piece about your Research How to Write and Defend Your Thesis How to Write Effective Scholarship Applications Home About Documents Meet the Executive Committee Membership Why Join AFS in College? Why Join AFS in High School? News and Events Calendar Sign up for News Student Angle Submissions Submit News Awards & Scholarships Annual Meeting Travel Awards Undergraduate Travel Assistance Award Other Meeting Awards Get Involved Resources for You Job Resources How to Become an Early Career Professional How to Get a Job How to Write a Resume/CV Research Resources How to Analyze Your Data How to Conduct Undergraduate Research How to Make your Research Relevant for Fisheries Management Student Resources How to Get Active in AFS How to Prepare for Graduate School Relevant Topics to Keep in Mind as a Graduate Student Subunit Resources How to Establish a Student Subunit Student Subunits Subunit Guidance Writing Resources How to Peer Review How to Publish in Graduate School How to Write a Popular Piece about your Research How to Write and Defend Your Thesis How to Write Effective Scholarship Applications Search for: Student & Early Career Professionals Subsection of the Education Section of the American Fisheries Society Announcements Meet the 2024 AFS SECP Officers! Carrie Pershyn ​ – AFS SECP President Current Position? Fisheries Biologist & Nonprofit Research Manager​ Years with AFS? 8 Favourite Fish? Brook Trout Fun Fact… Carrie has walked over 500 km for eDNA samples and would walk 500 more.​ A cool fisheries memory? Gill netting on Lake Superior and watching the fastest fish fillet-ers I’ve ever seen! Hadley Boehm ​ – AFS SECP President-Elect Current Position? Postdoc at University of Missouri – Columbia​ Years with AFS? 12 Favourite Fish? Yellow Perch Fish fun (more like disappointing) fact… Disney and Pixar lied…Finding Nemo misrepresents the amazing reproductive life history of clownfish.” Matea Djokic ​ – AFS SECP Secretary-Treasurer Current Position? PhD Candidate at ​University California, Irvine​ Years with AFS? 6 Favourite Fish? Any fish I’m working with! But pupfish & lumpsuckers are really cute :)​ ​ Fun Fish Fact… Female mosquitofish are so metal! Aside from being livebearers, they can store sperm for months to allow self-fertilization at an ideal time.”​ Coolest Fisheries Field Experience? Matea worked with pallid sturgeon for her MS thesis research! Markelle Morphet ​ – Canadian Rep & Communications Committee Current Position? Grad student at University of Toronto Scarborough Years with AFS? 5 Favourite Fish? Lake Sturgeon Adrienne Chenette ​ – AFS SECP Western Division Rep ​ Current Position? Grad student at UC Santa Cruz & Research Fellow with American Rivers Years with AFS? 4 Favourite Fish? Arctic Grayling Kyle Glenn – AFS SECP Northeast Division Rep Current Position? Trout Unlimited Biologist Years with AFS? 6 Wildest Fish Experience? During a snorkel survey a large brown trout swam into and broke my goggles!​ Lauren Yancy ​ – A FS SECP Webmaster & Communications Committee ​ Current Position? Master’s student at University Alaska Fairbanks & Habitat Biologist at Alaska Dept Fish & Game​ Years with AFS? 6 Favourite Fish? Dolly Varden Shannon Clarke – AFS SECP Communications Committee ​ Current Position? Science Advisor at Fisheries & Oceans Canada​ Years with AFS? 5 Favourite Fish? Brook Trout Crazy Field Work Memory… While working in the backcountry of Alberta and B.C. in the Rocky Mountains, porcupines ate holes in my waders, and one time marmots stole my lunch!”​ Jake Wolff – AFS SECP Communications Committee ​ Current Position? Master’s student at Texas A&M University​ Years with AFS? 4 Favourite Fish? Guadalupe bass!​ Chase Spicer – AFS SECP Southern Division Rep Current Position? PhD student at East Carolina University, Greenville N.C Years with AFS? 5 Favourite Fish? Striped Bass Fun Fish Fact… Pirate perch got their name when ichthyologist Charles C. Abbott, observed that a specimen he kept in an aquarium ate only other fish!”​ My coolest Field Work is tagging striped bass at spawning grounds in eastern North Carolina. One of the reasons I love studying anadromous fish is understanding how far they travel! Every fish you hold has a story it’s waiting to tell; you just have to understand where it’s been and where it’s going! Logan Zebro – AFS SECP North Central Division Rep Current Position? Just defended MS thesis at University of Nebraska at Kearney, and will be starting PhD at South Dakota State​ Years with AFS? 6 Favourite Fish? Walleye Heath Cook – AFS SECP Communications Committee Current Position? PhD Candidate at Cornell University Years with AFS? 6 Favourite Fish? Any member of Sparidae (Porgies) ​ Fun Fact! Heath grew up in Australia​ Announcements Upcoming Deadlines… Don’t miss upcoming deadlines for scholarships, awards, and travel grants being offered. Check out our awards and scholarships page to find active awards, and others that should be released soon for 2024. The Undergrad Travel Assistance Award deadline is being extended to May 8! Click here to go to the page! Announcements Southern Division AFS Conference Student Angles SECP Communication Committee member Jake Wolff attended the SDAFS conference this February. While at the conference, he took time to interview a handful of students about their experiences in AFS and fisheries sciences more generally. See below each student’s angle! Stephen O’Brien Stephen is originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee. After spending time in Colorado at the Colorado School of Mines, Stephen came back to Chattanooga where he now works for the Southeast Conservation Corps. Stephen’s research interests are broadly aquatic ecology, with emphasis on salmon conservation. The highlight of Stephen’s SDAFS conference was the career and graduate school workshop where he made connections with students and professionals, and was able to get his resume and cover letter checked by leading experts in the field of fisheries science. River Watson River is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi, but is originally from rural central Arkansas. River is most interested in the study of how the environment impacts the connectivity of fishes, whether that is recent anthropogenic habitat change driving genetic structuring between populations, or ancestral river patterns dividing once connected species resulting in speciation. She finds passion in linking geological, hydrological, or human driven changes with genetic changes. The highlight of River’s SDAFS conference was catching up with old friends and co-workers that she doesn’t get the chance to see on a regular basis. Lucas Stevens Lucas is an undergraduate senior at Texas A&M University and the president of the TAMU subunit of AFS. Lucas has been involved with AFS since the fall of 2020 when he was a freshman at Texas A&M. In the future, Lucas wishes to acquire a stable job in fisheries...