AFS Beneath the Surface – Details, episodes & analysis

Each year during the Annual Meeting, AFS welcomes a new president to lead the organization. In this episode, meet 2024-2025 AFS President Miguel Garcia Bermudez! Miguel shares his background and involvement in AFS, as well as what he's looking forward to during his presidency.

Episode guest: Miguel Garcia Bermudez

AFS Officers' Bios

Updates/links:

Best Student Presentations Webinar

Thursday, October 24, 2024

3 pm Eastern Time

Committee Volunteer Interest Form

Meet the 2024 Award of Excellence recipient, Francis Juanes in today's episode! Dr. Juanes talks about his current and future projects, as well as past involvement in AFS.

Guest:

Francis Juanes

Liber Ero Professor of Fisheries

University of Victoria

juanes@uvic.ca

Lab website: https://juaneslab.weebly.com/

FishSounds: https://fishsounds.net/index.js

Updates from AFS:

AFS photo album (2024 Annual Meeting and more): https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanfisheriessociety/albums

Best Student Papers webinar: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a599dcba-811b-4191-be87-fef5c9eec9a1@ea04981a-ce57-48f5-96aa-0b09f880fa48

It's time for a fisheries policy update! This week, AFS Policy Consultant, Drue Winters, shares updates from the Hill related to fisheries resources.

The World Fisheries Congress delayed us in posting this episode, but today we're back on track. This episode is the second in the two-part series featuring AFS Officer Candidates.

The 2024 AFS officer election will be held March 22-April 26. Today on AFS Beneath the Surface, get to know Second Vice President candidate, Marlis Douglas. 

Marlis shares her professional background and past involvement with AFS, as well as some ideas for the future.

Send questions, comments, and future podcast topics to membership@fisheries.org.

This episode is part one of a two-part series!

The 2024 AFS officer election will be held March 22-April 26. Today on AFS Beneath the Surface, get to know Second Vice President candidate, Lori Martin. 

Lori shares her professional background and past involvement with AFS, as well as some ideas for the future.

Send questions, comments, and future podcast topics to membership@fisheries.org.

Join us for a preview of the upcoming 2024 World Fisheries Congress! AFS is joined by Donna Parrish - World Council of Fisheries Societies President and Abigail Lynch - 2024 World Fisheries Congress Program-Co Chair.

Donna and Abby share some insight on bringing the WFC to the United States and some highlights of the Congress.

2024 World Fisheries Congress: https://wfc2024.fisheries.org/

American Fisheries Society: https://fisheries.org/

In this episode, we're visiting with 2023-2024 AFS President, Cecil Jennings. Cecil shares insight on his route to becoming an AFS officer and his current presidential plan of work.

The American Fisheries Society is excited to share the first episode of our new podcast! AFS Executive Director, Doug Austen, shares a preview of Society events in 2024. 

Events mentioned during the webinar:

2024 World Fisheries Congress

2024 AFS Annual Meeting

January 9 webinar - Standard Sampling Review

Registration

February 4 webinar - Freshwater Mussel Research - USGS

Registration

Today's episode features an conversation with Sara Cannon, a member of the Respectful Meetings Working Group. Sara shares updates on the Working Group's initiatives for the Honolulu meeting, as well as tips for being a respectful visitor to the Hawaiian Islands.

Sara Cannon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries at the University of British Columbia.

Additional Resources:

Respectful Visitor Guide on the Annual Meeting website

Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo (KUA)

Send comments, questions, and future episode ideas to lmaza@fisheries.org.

This episode is a preview of the soon-to-be-published second edition of Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes! Join book's editors to learn about the book's development, what's new in the Second Edition, and more.

Guests:

Scott Bonar

Norman Mercado-Silva

Kevin Pope

Erin Tracy

Standard Methods description:

Second updated edition of an important, popular reference book that provides standard sampling methods recommended by the American Fisheries Society for assessing and monitoring freshwater fishes in North America. Involves contributions from over 500 fisheries scientists from almost 200 agencies, universities, and nongovernmental organizations.

Preorders are being accepted now! https://fisheries.org/2024/05/now-accepting-bulk-pre-orders-for-standard-methods-for-sampling-book/