Month: August 2023

Dr. Jim Hood gave an Ohio Sea Grant Seminar August 29 as part of the Research Webinar Series. His talk was titled, “A new modeling approach for estimating stream phosphorus cycling from high-frequency dissolved phosphorus monitoring.”

Jim’s presented on the results of work conducted with his students, Devan Mathie and Joe Gentine, and in partnership with researchers in the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) and the OSU Department of statistics, Oksana Chkrebtii and Emerson Webb.

You can find a recording of Jim’s presentation on the Ohio Sea Grant website here.

Hood Lab PhD student, Hannah Moore, traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, with fellow AELers Rachael Finigan, Jacob Bentley, and Dr. Casey Pennock to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.

Hannah gave a talk on her PhD research, titled, “Reservoir functional age influences sport fish population characteristics.”

Dr. Hood and Hood Lab PhD candidate Hannah Moore jointly oversaw undergraduate Marley McLaughlin in the Aquatic Ecology & Fisheries Management Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the Aquatic Ecology Lab in partnership with the Ohio Division of Wildlife. The students selected for the REU program participated in a variety of professional development and skill building sessions throughout the summer while also working with their advisors to create and execute a research plan that answered a specific question about an aquatic ecosystem or fishery in Ohio.

Marley, along with her REU cohort, presented the results of their research on Friday, July 28. Marley’s project was titled, “Analysis of expert opinion and monitoring data indicates that reservoir littoral zone degradation decreases largemouth bass abundance.”