James E Wright annual travel award<\/a> to the 2016 AFS national meeting, Kansas City MO<\/strong><\/em>
\nNathan Lucas, University of Connecticut
\n“Using Riverscape Genetics to Inform Conservation of Eastern Brook Trout Populations”
\nCo-advisors: Jason Vokoun, Amy Welsh<\/p>\nJackman Eschenroeder, Georgia Southern University
\n“Hybridization and Replacement of Roanoke Bass with Invasive Rock Bass in Virginia: A Genetic Analysis of the Problem”
\nAdvisor: Jamie Roberts<\/p>\n
2016 Coastwide Salmonid Genetics meeting, Astoria OR<\/strong><\/em>
\nRyan Whitmore, Humboldt State University
\n“Escapement estimates for coho salmon using transgenerational mark-recapture” (poster)
\nAdvisor: Andrew Kinziger<\/p>\nCarolyn Tarpey, University of Washington
\n“Contemporary population structure and phylogeography of pink salmon” (oral)
\nAdvisor: Lisa Seeb<\/p>\n
2016 Fisheries Society of the British Isles annual meeting, Bangor University, UK<\/strong><\/em>
\nTaylor Wilcox, University of Montana
\n“Understanding environmental DNA detection probabilities: A case study using a stream-dwelling char”
\nAdvisor: Michael Schwartz<\/p>\nNote: <\/strong><\/em>The James E Wright award is the section’s only annual student travel award. The other student travel awards (to the 2016 Coastwide Salmonid Genetics and FSBI meetings) were requested by the respective program organizers. The Genetics Section welcomes and encourages requests for student travel stipends from organizers of meetings or symposia focusing on genetic applications to fisheries and aquatic resource management and conservation.<\/p>\nJeff Olsen
\nPresident, Genetics Section, AFS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello fellow Genetics Section members, Please join me in congratulating our student travel award recipients for 2016. This is an amazing group and you can see from their presentation titles the depth and breadth of genetic applications in fisheries and aquatic resource management and conservation. As a side note, the researchers advising our two James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","odd","first-child","last-child"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}