UCA biology students well-received at fisheries meeting

Ginny and Reid Adams of UCA’s Department of Biology recently accompanied nine UCA students to the Arkansas-Mississippi American Fisheries Society meeting in Tunica, Miss. Seven of the students presented five oral talks and two student poster presentations, and four of the seven presenters were undergraduates. All of the presentations were highly complimented by other universities as well as state and federal agency personnel. Sarah Pavan, an undergraduate Biology major, won recognition for the best undergraduate oral presentation. Her talk was entitled “Temporal patterns of development in southern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon gagei) in Cadron Creek, Arkansas” and is part of Sarah’s Honor’s thesis (co-advised by Ginny and Reid Adams). Based on recent interest in fish/fisheries ecology, the Adamses will be establishing a UCA American Fisheries Society sub-unit.