Category Archives: conference

Duke Grad Student Mini-Symposium Recap

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Chuck

This past weekend I headed down to beautiful sunny Beaufort, North Carolina for the semi-biannual (is that even a word?) Duke Grad Student Mini-Symposium.  This event is open to all North Carolina-based universities willing to send grad students to check … Continue reading →

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Dogfish on Tour: Dooooook!

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Chuck

A little bit of shameless self-promotion for your Tuesday evening.  This weekend I’ll be speaking at the Graduate Student Mini-Symposium at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort.  This should be a nice, low-key event and a good opportunity to hang … Continue reading →

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AFS 2011 – Big Ol’ Recap

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Chuck

I’ve spent the last week at the 141st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, where nearly 4,000 fish nerds from the worlds of academia, management, and even art descended on Seattle for four days of talks, socials, interesting conversation … Continue reading →

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AFS 2011!

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Chuck

I’m in (uncharacteristically) beautiful sunny Seattle for the 141st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.  This conference is absolutely massive, with nearly 4,000 fish researchers and enthusiasts in attendance.  Due to a somewhat less ideal internet situation than I … Continue reading →

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Get Psyched for Tidewater ’12

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Chuck

Hope you’ve all enjoyed my brief time off as much as I have.  While I don’t necessarily consider blogging to be work, the two tend to coincide more often than blogging and vacation.  So in that spirit, let’s get back … Continue reading →

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AES 2011: The Aftermath and Aquarium

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Chuck

Yesterday marked the last day of shark talks and the always-entertaining AES banquet.  Congrats to gentleman, scholar, and friend to the blog Andy Nosal for picking up the Gruber Award for student presentations. Reptile and fish talks continued until 5 … Continue reading →

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AES 2011 Day 4

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Chuck

Today marked the last official day of shark talks at JMIH/AES, though there will still be plenty of bony fish a reptile talks tomorrow.  Most likely I’ll be exploring Minneapolis, and then it’s time for the long trip back and … Continue reading →

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AES 2011 Day 3

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Chuck

Time for the recap of day 3 of JMIH/AES 2011.  Read on below the jump…

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AES 2011 Day 2

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Chuck

It’s day 2 of JMIH/AES, and, as usual, there were too many great talks for me to go through them all.  Make sure to check WhySharksMatter and labroides on Twitter to fill in some of the gaps, and if anyone … Continue reading →

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AES 2011 Day 1

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Chuck

I’ll have to be fairly brief with this recap of day 1 of JMIH/AES 2011 so I can make the shuttle to the first “official” social of the conference, so hear goes:

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