November 20, 2015
A collaborative paper about the Grand Challenges facing management and conservation of North American inland fish and fisheries has been submitted to Fisheries. Lynch, A. J. S.J. Cooke, T. D. Beard, Jr., Y.-C. Kao, K. Lorenzen, A. M. Song, M. S. Allen, Z. Basher, D. B. Bunnell, E. V. Camp, I. G. Cowx, J. A. Freedman, V. M. Nguyen, J. K. Nohner, M. W. Rogers, Z. A. Siders, W. W. Taylor, S. Youn. Submitted. Grand challenges in the management and conservation of North American inland fish and fisheries. Fisheries.
November 12, 2015
I am attending the Southeast Fishes Council Meeting in Gainesville, FL. One of my former students at Stetson University, Vieve Patrick, is presenting a poster on Diet Overlap by Fish Species in the Volusia Blue Spring Food Web.
November 9, 2015
In Spring 2016 I will be teaching an online course in Physiology & Molecular Biology of Animals in the University of Florida Biology Department
October 13, 2015
My site about Florida Spring Fish is now live, but very much a work in progress. Visit it at http://www.Springs-Fish.com
September 29, 2015
I will be participating and presenting (with Dr. Dak Dekerckhove) at the Canadian Science and Advisory Secretariat of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The purpose of this meeting is to determine the feasibility and scaling for establishing regional baselines of fisheries productivity for informing management decisions.
August 24, 2015
This fall I will be teaching Introductory Biology Labs in the Biology Department at the University of Florida, as well as developing the Animal Biology module and labs for the online version of this course to be offered in Spring 2016.
July 16, 2015
I gave an invited presentation on “Management and Ecology of Asian Carp (Hypophthalmichthys spp.) in Illinois” to the Southeast Ecological Science Center of USGS in Gainesville, FL.
February 17, 2015
At the Annual Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American Fisheries Society I will be presenting some of my work on ecological effects of Gizzard Shad in Illinois, which is under preparation for publication. A student from Stetson University whom I assisted advising with her senior thesis project will be presenting a poster on “Variation in the Blue Spring food web as determined by stable isotope analysis.”
January 29, 2015
I will be presenting an overview of some of my sampling methodology research at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society in Savannah, GA. My presentation is entitled “Sampling Large-River Fish Communities – Challenges and Solutions.”
January 4, 2015
I will be co-instructing a graduate-undergraduate course in Riverine Ecology with Dr. Bill Pine at the University of Florida. http://wec.ufl.edu/floridarivers/River_class.htm
August 28, 2014
I have begun working at the University of Florida as a research associate in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. I will be working with collaborators at UF and USGS on studies of invasive species, and aquatic and fisheries ecology.
February 7, 2014
My paper, “River of the Dammed: Longitudinal changes in fish assemblages in response to dams” has been published in the journal Hydrobiologia.
November 21, 2013
We are gearing up to start our research in Blue Springs! My collaborators at Stetson University, Missy Gibbs and Kirsten Work, and I have received our permit to conduct research on nutrient and food webs dynamics in Blue Springs. We’re going to be using stable isotope analysis to trace nutrients from the groundwater, terrestrial detritus, and fluxes from migratory species such as manatees within the food web of Blue Springs.
November 21, 2013
My paper, “River of the Dammed: Longitudinal changes in fish assemblages in response to dams” has been accepted for publication, pending minor revisions, in the journal Hydrobiologia. My coauthors on this paper are Ben Lorson, Rich Taylor, Bob Carline, and Jay Stauffer.
August 12, 2013
I have started a new position, as the Brown Visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University in Deland, Florida. I will be teaching courses in Introductory Biology in Fall 2013 and Fish Ecology in Spring 2014, as well as conducting research on fishes in local springs and rivers.
June 16, 2013
I was interviewed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about my PhD research on the effects of gravel dredging on fish communities.
In very related news, commercial dredging is shutting down in the Allegheny River because of the “cost of complying with environmental rules that restrict commercial dredging to limited areas of the river to protect rare freshwater mussels, clams, darters and shallow, native fish habitat.”
June 10, 2013
My PhD research about the effects of gravel dredging on fish communities was the subject of a press release by Penn State News, and was picked up by various news feeds such as esciencenews.com, EurekaScienceNews.com, and ScienceDaily.com
June 5, 2013
I was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article about Asian Carp.
May 31, 2013
My research using stable isotope analysis to examine the effects of Asian carp on native food webs was featured in the Spring newsletter (“The Helm”) of Illinois-Indiana SeaGrant. http://www.iisgcp.org/newsroom/helm/helm13_spr_final.pdf
March 6, 2013
We presented our research on “Evaluation of gears for sampling various life stages of Asian Carp” at the Annual Meeting of the Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society in Rend Lake, IL.
February 25, 2013
I presented a talk about our lab’s research at the Asian Carp Technical & Policy Workgroup meeting in Chicago, IL on Monday, February 25.
January 23, 2013
I gave a talk entitled “Management of Asian Carp in the Illinois River” for the University of Illinois Student Subunit of the American Fisheries Society on Wednesday, January 23.
January 7, 2013
My paper “Gravel dredging alters diversity and structure of riverine fish assemblages” has been published in Freshwater Biology. The full citation is:
December 21, 2012
I gave an invited seminar on some of my Asian carp research for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters, entitled “Asian Carp in the Illinois River: Sampling, Monitoring, and Food-web Effects.” Coauthors were Steve Butler, Matt Diana, and Dave Wahl.
December 17, 2012
My paper on the effects of pulp mill and sewage effluents on fish assemblages has been assigned an issue in River Research Applications: The full citation is:
Freedman, J.A., R.A. Curry, & K.R. Munkittrick. 2012. Stable Isotope Analysis Reveals Anthropogenic Effects on Fish Assemblages in a Temperate Reservoir. River Research and Applications. 28: 1804–1819. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1576. or Email PDF
November 30, 2012
I presented a 5-minute lightning talk entitled “Foodweb Effects of Asian Carp in the Illinois River” at the Prairie Lightning Symposium, I Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign IL. My talk was featured in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette.
November 24, 2012
My paper “Largemouth Bass Predation Effect on Stocked Walleye Survival in Illinois Impoundments” (coauthors: John Hoxmeier, Lisa Einfalt, Ron Brooks, and Dave Wahl) was featured in an article on BigIndianaBass.com entitled “Going Against the Research Grain.”
November 22, 2012
My dissertation paper “Gravel dredging alters diversity and structure of riverine fish assemblages” with coauthors Bob Carline and Jay Stauffer was published online (Early View) by Freshwater Biology.
October 16, 2012
My paper “Largemouth Bass Predation Effect on Stocked Walleye Survival in Illinois Impoundments” (with coauthors John Hoxmeier, Lisa Einfalt, Ron Brooks, and Dave Wahl) was published in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
September 18, 2012
I taught a one-day workshop on “Fishes & Crayfishes of Illinois” for the Aquatics component of East Central Illinois Master Naturalist Program (University of Illinois Extension) in Penfield, IL.
August 23, 2012
I presented “Macroinvertebrate assemblages differ in lakes with and without gizzard shad” (coauthors Matt Diana and Dave Wahl) at the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Saint Paul, MN.