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Dan Fitzgerald PhD was recently awarded the prestigious Haldane Prize from the British Ecology Society.  Dr. Kirk Winemiller was Dan’s major advisor.  

On March 29, the Aquatic Ecology Lab said good-bye to Sonia Huckembeck who returns to Brazil to complete her dissertation and degree at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande.  Sonia is researching the trophic ecology of frog communities in wetlands of southern Brazil.  He major advisor is Dr. Alexandre Garcia, longtime collaborator of the lab.…

Dr. Eduardo Cunha joined the Aquatic Ecology Lab on March 1, 2018 as a postdoc investigating the ecology of river–floodplain ecosystems.  He is assisting with development of individual-based models of fish population and food web dynamics of fluvial ecosystems in response to scenarios of hydrology and temperature.  Eduardo received his PhD from the Universidade Estuadual…

The Aquatic Ecology Lab welcomed two doctoral students from Brazil.   Laísa Wociechoski Cavalheiro, a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Animal Ecology– Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, arrived to College Station on September 1 and will return to Brazil on January 15 next year.  Laísa is doing her dissertation research on…

The Aquatic Ecology Lab is hosting two researchers from the Universidade Federal do Pará in Belem, Brazil.  Dr. Luicano Montag arrived in June and will spend a sabbatical year at Texas A&M.  During his visit, Dr. Montag will give seminars, collaborate on research on the community ecology of Amazonian stream fishes, and attend scientific conferences. …

Lab Members and Collaborators Attend International Symposium on Flood pulse Ecosystems in Siem Reap, Cambodia Dr. Winemiller, doctoral student Caroline Arantes, and aquatic ecology lab collaborators Pitagoras Piana (University of Western Paraná, Brazil) and David Hoeinghaus (University of North Texas) attended t he International Symposium on Flood pulse Ecosystems in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from July…