{"id":146,"date":"2017-11-06T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallearn.wpengine.com\/mtafs\/?page_id=146"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:46:09","slug":"officers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Officers<\/h3>\n<p>MNAFS consists of four officers including the President, the President-Elect, the Past-President, and the Secretary-Treasurer.<\/p>\n<h3>Executive Committee (EXCOM)<\/h3>\n<p>The EXCOM consists of the four elected officers and four additional at-large members elected for two-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>The MNAFS Executive Committee (EXCOM) consists of four elected officers (President, President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, Past-President) and four additional at-large members elected for two-year terms at the Annual Meeting.\u00a0\u00a0The four at-large members consist of one DNR representative, one open (private, tribal, and other state agencies) representative, one Federal representative, and one Academic\u00a0representative.\u00a0 The EXCOM is authorized to act on behalf of the Chapter between Annual Meetings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">2026 Executive Committee<\/h3>\n<p><strong>President-Elect<\/strong>: <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Calub Shavlik, MN DNR<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>President<\/strong>: Kyle Zimmer, University of St. Thomas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Past-President<\/strong>: Tom Jones, DNR<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">, retired<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary-Treasurer<\/strong>: Mike Bush, Concordia College of Minnesota<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Representative<\/strong>: Solomon David, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n<p><strong>DNR Representative<\/strong>: Matt Ward, DNR<\/p>\n<p><strong>Federal Representative<\/strong>: <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Lynn Waterhouse, UMN Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Representative<\/strong>: Nathan Mielke, MPCA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers MNAFS consists of four officers including the President, the President-Elect, the Past-President, and the Secretary-Treasurer. Executive Committee (EXCOM) The EXCOM consists of the four elected officers and four additional at-large members elected for two-year terms. The MNAFS Executive Committee (EXCOM) consists of four elected officers (President, President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, Past-President) and four additional at-large members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd","first-child","last-child"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/mnafs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}