Freshwater ecology and fisheries management


We combine field research, experimental approaches, and quantitative modeling to understand how anthropogenic stressors influence freshwater fisheries, and develop new approaches to help important fisheries deal with a changing world.
Photo: Rachel Benedict, WDNR.

Latest News

New Nature Communications paper on asymmetric impacts of climate change
New Nature Communications paper on asymmetric impacts of climate change

Check out our new paper in Nature Communications that examines how thermal habitat for different fish species is altered by climate change.

New paper on walleye maternal effects in Fisheries Research
New paper on walleye maternal effects in Fisheries Research

Check out our new paper in Fisheries Research understanding the importance of maternal identity to egg characteristics in walleye.

Phenology in the news
Phenology in the news

Our new paper in Limnology and Oceanography Letters has generated some news coverage.

New paper on phenology in L&O Letters
New paper on phenology in L&O Letters

Check out our new paper in Limnology and Oceanography Letters examining the implications of increasingly extreme phenology on walleye recruitment.

Introducing the Incredible HALK (Hierarchical Age Length Key)
Introducing the Incredible HALK (Hierarchical Age Length Key)

Check out our new paper in Fisheries introducing a hierarchical method for age assignment for fisheries data.