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Aquatic Ecology Lab Provides Training in Fisheries Methods to Cambodian Fisheries Students and Professionals
Dr. Winemiller and PhD students, Luke Bower and Dan Fitzgerald provided instruction in fisheries methods at the Cambodian Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute (IFReDI) in Phnom Penh on February 1-2, 2016. The workshop was attended by 25 individuals from IFReDI, the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and the Royal Agricultural University. Students practiced laboratory…
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Authors of Science Journal article strive to save world’s mightiest rivers
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – A group of 40 international scientists led by a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences professor says three of the earth’s mightiest rivers are being ravaged in the name of progress. The findings of Dr. Kirk Winemiller, Regents Professor in the department of wildlife and fisheries sciences and…
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Dr. Winemiller presented opening plenary lecture
Dr. Kirk Winemiller, Regents Professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences recently presented the opening plenary lecture at the 1st Costa Rican Congress and 4th Latin American Symposium of Ichthyology held in San José, Costa Rica from 2-5 November. The talk was entitled, Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches”. The…
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Functional Traits, Convergent Evolution, and Periodic Tables of Niches
Dr. Kirk Winemiller and doctoral students Luke Bower and Daniel Fitzgerald together with Dr. Eric Pianka (Denton Cooley Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin) recently published a paper in Ecology Letters entitled “Functional Traits, Convergent Evolution, and Periodic Tables of Niches” in which they explore implications of convergent evolution…
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Visiting Scholars
During the Fall 2015 semester, the Winemiller Aquatic Ecology Lab has been hosting two visiting scientists from Brazil. Rodrigo Ferreira Bastos is a doctoral student from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Larissa Strictar Pereira is a doctoral student from the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Brazil. Rodrigo…
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TWRI Mills Scholar Tony Rodger finds high flow events critical for lower Brazos fish
By Leslie Lee Tony Rodger, who graduated earlier this month with a master’s degree from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University, studied minnow species in the lower Brazos River Basin to determine how environmental flows affected early life stage survival. His study concluded that high flow events help maintain the biodiversity…
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Caroline Arantes receives Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award
Doctoral student Caroline Arantes received the 2015 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Graduate Research. This award recognizes and encourages excellence in graduate student research for both master’s and Ph.D. students. The Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Awards are the highest awards in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences presented to faculty, staff and students.…
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If you rebuild it, they will come back
Re-establishing environmental flows in Caddo Lake brings back the paddlefish By Sara Carney When visitors travel to Caddo Lake on the Texas-Louisiana border, they may see people canoeing on the blue-green water, navigating between the towering bald cypress trees and the Spanish moss that sweeps down from the branches. They may see fishers catching largemouth…
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New publications added
207. Pease, A.A., J.M. Taylor, K.O. Winemiller, and R.S. King. 2015. Ecoregional, catchment, and reach-scale environmental factors shape functional-trait structure of stream fish assemblages. Hydrobiologia 753:265-283. [PDF] 206. Kaymak, N., K.O. Winemiller, S. Akin, Z. Altuner, F. Polat, and T. Dal. 2015. Stable isotope analysis reveals relative influences of seasonal hydrologic variation and impoundment on…
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Dr. Kirk Winemiller Announced as AFS Distinguished Achievement Award Winner for Research
Dr. Kirk Winemiller, a regents professor of wildlife and fisheries sciences, has been selected to receive this year’s university-level Distinguished Achievement Award for Research. Dr. Winemiller was notified of his selection in a surprise announcement by Dr. Bill Dugas, Acting Vice Chancellor and Acting Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The Distinguished Achievement Awards, which are…