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Welcome:
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:10 Opening Comments. Michael Burgess, SNEC President
Plenary Presentation:
9:10 – 10:10 Preparing for the sea: comparative physiological strategies in anadromous fish and implications for management.
McCormick, Stephen D.
10:10 – 10:20 Break
Oral presentations, Morning Session:
10:20 – 10:35 Understanding impacts of changing environments and fishing pressure on the dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus).
Gosciminski, Corey, Wessley Merten, and Ben Galuardi.
10:35 – 10:50 Between a rockpile and a hard pace: Mapping the folk hydronymy of southern New England.
Gilmore, Amanda.
10:50 – 11:05 Microplastic exposure and antioxidant gene expression in wild estuarine killifish (Fundulus spp.).
** Deesha, FNU, Christian W. Conroy, Alireza G. Senejani, and Eddie D. Luzik.
11:05 – 11:20 Spatiotemporal patterns in elasmobranch community structure in Block Island coastal waters using Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUVs).
** Baldwin, Grace, David L. Taylor, Jake Beretta, Alex Korbobo, and Jon F. Dodd.
11:20 – 11:35 Novel East Coast ladder design shows improved passage for American Shad (Alosa sapidissima) and Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus).
** Ryerson, Owen, Kevin Mulligan, Bjorn Lake, Nick Anderson, Alexander Haro, and Casey Brown.
11:35 – 12:15 Awards and Business Meeting
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
Oral presentations, Afternoon Session I:
1:15 – 1:30 Simulating change to the New England seafood system using a qualitative model of the groundfish supply chain.
** Hope, Sarah, Madeleine Guyant, Kate Masury, and Gavin Fay.
1:30 – 1:45 Energy content determination of Atlantic forage species through proximate composition analysis.
** Capek, Rose and Kenneth Oliveira.
1:45 – 2:00 Assessing river herring habitat after aquatic herbicide (fluridone) application.
Reusch, Caroline.
2:00 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 2:45 Networking Activity
Oral presentations, Afternoon Session II:
3:00 – 3:15 Exploratory analysis of long-term migration dynamics of American Shad (Alosa sapidissima) using fish passage data.
Savatorova, Viktoria, Loren Tardif, Michelle Kraczkowski, Kelli Mosca, and Jacqueline Benway.
3:15 – 3:30 Microgeographic variation of eastern Blacknose Dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) populations.
** Gerbi, Elizabeth, Michaela Somers, Timothy S. Earley, Antonio Machado, and Barry Chernoff.
3:30 – 3:45 Abiotic and biotic drivers of declining flounder abundance, distribution, and condition in Long Island Sound, USA.
Zavell, Max, Katherine Helmer, Kelli Mosca, Matthew Gates, Kurt Gottschall, Paola Batta-Lona, Hannes Baumann, Sebastian Klarian, Eric T. Schultz.
3:45 – 4:00 Closing comments, Max Zavell, SNEC President
** Denotes student paper, Presenter name is underlined