Fisheries at SIUC

Fall 2006:

All were well-fed at the annual Christmas Party [pictures]
Melody Meadows, one of our Accountants, has moved to another position on campus. We wish her luck and happiness in her new digs at SIUC.
Sandy Walker, our Office Supervisor, retired December 15. Let's hope she enjoys her new freedom and her multiplying grandbabies.
A new research vessel is coming to SIUC

Spring 2007:

Mississippi River sturgeon on Marketplace
Congratulations to the SIUC Student Subunit for winning the 2006 Most Active Subunit Award through the North Central Division of AFS
Heidi Lewis is the 2007 recipient of the 2006 USAS Subunit Travel Award for a presentation she will give at the upcoming AQUA 2007 meeting in San Antonio.

Summer 2007:

Chris Green, doctoral candidate, received the Best Paper award for a talk entitled "The role of previous experience with piscivory and exposure to fish predators on survival of walleye Sander vitreus fingerlings" at the Southern Division of AFS meeting in Memphis, Spring 2007
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Lydy for his promotion to full professor
Brett Timmons won third place for his aquaculture poster on snail control at the St. Louis Area Undergraduate Research Symposium in April 2007
The RV Shovelnose (plus fairy princess) is here [picture]
FIAC research in toxicology and river ecology featured in the April 2007 Perspectives Magazine
Rob Colombo received a Dissertation Research Assistantship for summer 2007 from the Graduate School
Our Director, Chris Kohler, was awarded the 2007 Outstanding Scholar Award by the College of Science
The Student Subunit's fishing derby on Campus Lake has been cancelled due to insurance issues. We hope to have this event during Fall 2007.

Fall 2007:

The 2007 Fall Hog Roast pictures are here
Fisheries circa 1953 featured on the SIUC Legacy web page
We now have a Data Library Site; send any reports or data that you want published on the web to Dr. Garvey
The Wetland Field Center Site is now running.

Spring 2008:

Congratulations to Dawn Sechler, John Zeigler, and Mike Stahl who all won travel awards to the recent IL AFS meeting in Rockford, IL
Congratulations to Heidi Lewis, who won the Mulvihill Aquaculture Student Scholarship at the recent World Aquaculture Society Meeting
Please welcome Dr. Jesse Trushenski to the faculty; she was selected by the Department of Zoology as our new fish physiologist
Congratulations to Nick Wahl who recently won the Joan Duffy Travel Award from IL AFS
Recent radio clip about pallid sturgeon conservation by WSIU's Dan Cantor

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