New paper describing a replicated movement study aimed at understanding movement across culverts in Louisiana. Fish movement is hard.
doi.org/10.1002/rra.70017
#fish #ecology #movement #culvert

Paper linking channel morphology change over time with fish community dynamics and resource use. This is another paper built on our long term dataset of Mississippi fish assemblages (>1,000 collections over 25+ years).
doi.org/10.1002/eap.70148
#fish #ecology #longtermchange

Paper on assemblage structure and life history strategies associated with hydrology and other environmental correlates. This is one of many papers out built on our long term dataset of Mississippi fish assemblages (>1,000 collections over 25+ years).
doi.org/10.1111/eff.70036
#fish #ecology

I am a bit behind in posting papers. Maybe, just maybe, this is because I could not access bluesky from MS for most of 2025?

New paper out on the rare (maybe not?) Percina lenticula. Paired targeted sampling with eDNA to dramatically increase what we know of this species occurrence in the Pascagoula and Pearl River systems.
doi.org/10.1002/aqc.... #darter #fish #eDNA #conservation

New paper out on (unexpected) population structure of the Bayou Darter, endemic to Bayou Pierre in Mississippi.
dx.doi.org/10.3354/esr0... #darter #fish #conservation #popgen

First 5 days of #AdventOfCode are done! Here's a distilled day 5 solution doing part 1 and 2 together.

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

Happy to announce applications are open for the 2025 summer REU at USM focusing on Gulf Coastal Plain ecology. May have one of the students in the lab, please distribute to interested students. #REU #ecology #undergraduate

www.usm.edu/biological-e...

etap.nsf.gov/award/7064/o...

Headed to the 50th Southeastern Fishes Council today. Looking forward to lots of great talks, three from the lab here.

sefishescouncil.org/event-5827792