By: Lynn Mattes “Adventurous Biologists Wanted” was the attention grabbing headline on a flyer I saw at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ career center part way through my last year of undergraduate. (A long-time colleague saw this same announcement at Wichita State University in Kansas about a year later.) This […]
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In our Research Highlights blog series, we debut newly published fisheries research by our women of fisheries colleagues. If you have research you would like to highlight and share with our readers, submit a nomination form here! This Month’s Research Highlight:Harrison, S.E., and S.M. Gray. 2024. Effects of light pollution […]
Attention all early career professionals! If you haven’t had a chance to apply for this year’s award, we are extending the deadline to January 17, 2024. With the help of money raised from our 2023 fisHER Adventure Classic, we will be able to offer one $250 award this year to […]
By Kimberly Bonvechio In our Research Highlights blog series, we debut newly published fisheries research by our women of fisheries colleagues. If you have research you would like to highlight and share with our readers, submit a nomination form here! This Month’s Research Highlight: Andres, Kara J., Timothy D. Lambert, […]
*UPDATE: Deadline has been extended until January 17, 2024! With the help of money raised from our 2023 fisHER Adventure Classic, we will be able to offer ONE $250 award this year to an early career professional. Funds can be used to help with professional training, attending an upcoming professional […]
Reflecting on the 2023 American Fisheries Society meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan this past August and its theme Adaptive Approaches to Understand and Manage Change in Fisheries, we are humbled by the efforts AFS President April Croxton and her planning team put into creating a more inclusive space for all […]
You heard the great news – Women of Fisheries is 5 years old! To celebrate this amazing milestone, we created new limited edition merchandise. These designs will only be available for a limited time, so get them while you can. We have dozens of options, from magnets to sweatshirts to […]
In case you missed it, a number of Women of Fisheries blog posts have been highlighted in the American Fisheries Society publication Fisheries Magazine! See below for a complete list of featured articles and the magazine issue months they were published in, along with the links to the original blog […]
Thank you to everyone who has made our second annual Early Career Award possible! It was an amazing pool of applicants, and thanks to proceeds from the fisHER Adventure Classic and generous monthly recurring donations by Robert Campbell we were again able to support two awards this year! Learn more […]
Communicating our science is important. The platform and channel we use to do that vary depending on the audience, scope, and information we wish to communicate. Here, we highlight some of the work recently published by our community of women fisheries professionals, listed in alphabetical order by source name. Did […]