Program

Quick Program Links

• Complete Program (up-to-date info online)
• Personal Scheduler (We recommend you try this!)

• Complete Program Guide (in PDF, as printed on 8/10/12)
• Schedule at a Glance (all events in PDF, as of 8/17/12)
• Summary of Schedule at a Glance Changes since 8-6-2012
• Program Grid (technical program in PDF, as printed)
• Abstracts (In PDF, as printed 8/16/2012)
• Plenary Session
• Author list (as printed)
• Poster list (as printed)
• Poster Floor Layout
• Instructions for Oral Presenters (including uploading) 
• Instructions for Poster Presenters

Program Overview

The 142^nd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society will have an exciting program that is sure to interest fisheries professionals from across the continent and the world. Forty four symposia will cover a great diversity of topics with several focused on Great Lakes issues.  An additional 299 contributed papers will offer attendees a further opportunity to hear stimulating presentations on a wide range of current issues and research findings. In addition, 173 posters will be available for viewing in the Exhibition Hall (Poster Floor Layout) and authors (Poster List by Author) will be available at the formal Poster Session during the Trade Show on Monday.

A Personal Scheduler is available to select the presentations you would like to attend by first reviewing the titles and abstracts online, then customizing your own personal schedule – a great way to stay Green!
In addition, a searchable listing of all program offerings is available at: Complete Program (online).

Please don’t hesitate to contact the Program Committee and we look forward to seeing you in St. Paul!

Charles Anderson, Program Co-chair caafs2012@gmail.com

Peter Jacobson, Program Co-chair pjafs2012@gmail.com

Loren Miller, Symposia lmm@umn.edu

Missy Drake, Contributed Papersmtdafs2012@gmail.com

Cindy Tomcko, Posters ctafs2012@gmail.com

Symposia

• Biology and Control of Invasive Fishes: Lessons Across Species and Regions
• Teaming up Atlantic and Pacific Salmonid Biologists to Enhance Recovery of Endangered Salmon in North America
• Understanding the Ecological and Social Constraints to Achieving Sustainable Fisheries Resource Policy and Management
• The Role of Molecular Genetics in Fisheries Management in the Great Lakes Region
• Valuing Alternative Views in Fisheries Management
• Effects of Anthropogenic Chemicals on Chemosensation and Behavior in Fish: Organismal, Ecological, and Regulatory Implications
• Advances in Telemetry in the Great Lakes and Beyond
• Development of Sustainable Fisheries Resources Internationally: Useful Tools in Simulations, Modeling, and Planning.
• Innovations in Thermal Research and Ecological Effects of Thermal Discharges
• Fisheries Data Dissemination – Building Better Networks
• Diel Vertical Migration: Scaling Down From Populations to Individuals
• Comparing and Contrasting Fisheries Research and Management Paradigms Across Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
• Science Communication: Information Delivery and the New Face of 21st Century
• Calibration, Validation and Other Recent Progress on the AFS Standard Methods for Sampling Freshwater Fish.
• The Interdependence of Fish Populations and Their Food Webs in Temporally Varying Environments.
• Free Data: Opportunities in Open-Access Network Databases to Advance Spatiotemporal Scales of Inquiry in Fisheries Science
• Making Native Fish and Their Habitat Relevant: Contemporary Challenges and Creative Solutions to Generate Broad Public Interest
• Stakeholder Involvement in Fisheries Science: New Approaches and New Partnerships
• Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration 75th Anniversary
• Fishery Information Networks As Agents of Change
• Effects of Climate and Land Use Changes on Fish and Fish Habitat in Streams and Lakes: Special Emphasis on Strategies for Fisheries Management and Conservation
• Connectivity in Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystems: Patterns, Processes and Consequences
• Fish Habitat Condition Assessment in the Midwest and Great Plains
• Standardization in Hydroacoustic Assessments: Fundament or Folly?
• Understanding Complex Linkages Between Fish and Fisheries in a Changing Ocean
• Upper Mississippi River Restoration: Combining Habitat Rehabilitation, Monitoring, and Research to Enhance Fish Communities.
• Moving Beyond Distribution and Abundance in Quantifying Fish Habitat Selection
• Lake Trout East and West: What Can We Learn by Comparing Lake Trout Restoration in the Eastern USA to Lake Trout Suppression in the Western USA?
• Role of Forage Species in Ecosystem Approaches to Management
• New Perspectives in Fish Habitat: Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Scaling
• Great Lakes Fish Communities: Tales, Lessons, and Futures
• Fish Habitat and the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009
• Double-Crested Cormorants and Fisheries Management: Policy, Perceptions, and Research
• The National Fish Habitat Partnership – Building Relationships to Enhance Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems
• The Future of Fishing: Leisure, Sport and Conservation
• Science and Management Community Aquatic Habitat Connectivity Discussion
• Collaboration Through Fisheries Networks: Restoration of Sturgeon and Paddlefish Populations
• Missouri and Mississippi River Flooding 2011: Impacts of Historic Flows on Big River Systems
• The NOAA Habitat Blueprint: Improving Fisheries, Marine Life, and Coastal Communities Through Habitat Conservation
• The New Food Web: Emerging Methods for Bringing Together Social and Ecological Networks
• Making the Connection Between Land, Water, and Sustainable Fisheries: Management Beyond the Aquatic Zone
• Climate and Fisheries: Responses of a Socio-Ecological System to Global Change
• Geomorphic-Based Design Responses to Natural Disasters
• Constructing Fish Passage Projects
• Achieving Sustainability — Connecting the Environment with the Economy At a Bioregional Scale