On today's episode, we're talking all about the AFS Awards program! Our guests are current AFS Awards Committee chairs - Jessica Mistak and Natalie Coash. Jess and Natalie stopped by to talk about current efforts to update to the awards program and this year’s schedule for announcing the 2025 award recipients. In addition, we spent a fair amount of time talking about how AFS committee leadership can positively impact career development.

Episode guests:

Natalie Coash

Missouri Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Unit

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Updates:

Annual Meeting:

Abstract submission deadline: April 15

Upcoming Webinar:

Applied Genetics for Fisheries Management: April 16

AFS Election:

Now open through April 22, 2025 - members should vote via instructions sent through email

Comments or questions?

Email us at [email protected]

Join us for another stop on our tour of AFS Sections! In this episode, we're featuring the Student and Early Career Professionals Subsection of the Education Section. Hadley Boehm, the current president of the Subsection, joins Beneath the Surface to chat about the Subsection's projects, as well as the benefits of mentoring and getting involved with AFS.

Episode guest:

Hadley Boehm

President, Student and Early Career Professional Subsection

https://students.fisheries.org/

Email: [email protected]

Updates and Deadlines:

2025 Awards nominations deadline: April 1

Spring webinars:

Applied Genetics for Fisheries Management: April 16

Annual Meeting:

Abstract submission deadline: April 15

AFS Election:

Now open through April 22, 2025 - members should vote via instructions sent through email

Interested in fisheries history? It's time to highlight another AFS Section - the Fisheries History Section! Section President Jeff Jolley joins the podcast to share updates on how this Section is working to reestablish itself and plan for the future. 

Episode Guest:

Updates and Deadlines:

2025 Awards nominations deadline: April 1

Spring webinars:

Indigenizing Salmon Science and Management: March 19

Applied Genetics for Fisheries Management: April 16

Annual Meeting:

Abstract submission deadline: April 15

AFS Election:

March 20 - April 22 - members will receive voting instructions via email

Part 2 of 2 in the Second Vice President Candidate series!

The 2025 AFS officer election will be held March 20-April 22. AFS members will receive information via email regarding how to vote.

Today on AFS Beneath the Surface, get to know Second Vice President candidate, Jeff Heindel. Jeff shares his professional background and past involvement with AFS, as well as some ideas for the future.

Send questions, comments, and future podcast topics to [email protected].

Editor's note: I added a new feature this week - "chapter" markers, which should help separate the different sections of the audio file.

This episode is part one of a two-part series!

The 2025 AFS officer election will be held March 20-April 22. Today on AFS Beneath the Surface, get to know Second Vice President candidate, Brent Nichols. 

Brent stopped by Beneath the Surface to share his background and experience, so that AFS members and voters had a chance to "meet" him via this podcast episode.

Send questions, comments, and future podcast topics to [email protected].

Black Bass 2025 will be held in August in San Antonio, in conjunction with the 2025 AFS Annual Meeting. Today's episode features Dave Philipp, one of the conference chairs, who stopped by recently to share a preview of this summer's conference.

Episode guest:

David Philipp, Fisheries Conservation Foundation

Conference inquires: [email protected]

Black Bass 2025

AFS Annual Meeting

Additional content may be added to this episode when more conference details become available!

What is AFS's role in policy? And honestly, what is policy anyway? To answer these questions, we're going back to the beginning of the AFS policy program and chatting with the first (but now retired!) AFS Policy Director, Tom Bigford.

Episode Guest:

Updates:

January 28, 1 pm Eastern Time

2025 AFS Annual Meeting - Call for Sessions

Closes January 24th

Today we're continuing our tour of AFS sections - this time we're highlighting the Science Communication Section. Join Sci Comm Section president Kamden Glade, as he shares the section's history and how to get involved!

Episode Guest:

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Science Communication Section Social Media:

Instagram: @afs_scicomm

Twitter: @AFS_SciComm

Bluesky: @afs-scicomm.bsky.social

Have you ever asked what the term development means to non-profit organizations? Is it grant writing/management, relationship management, or fundraising? (or all of the above and more?)

AFS Development Manager, Jenna Hanks, is today's guest; she joins the podcast to help explain development at the American Fisheries Society.

Episode guest:

Jenna Hanks

AFS Development Manager

AFS Development - Additional Information

Updates:

Call for Submissions for symposia and continuing education courses for the 2025 Annual Meeting!

Membership Renewals

In today's episode, we're taking a deep dive into the AFS Education Section. Join us to learn more about this Section's current and upcoming projects!

Episode guest:

Martin Hamel

President, AFS Education Section

Associate Professor,  Fisheries Management & Ecology, University of Georgia

https://warnell.uga.edu/directory/people/martin-hamel

Updates

Giving Tuesday is December 3, 2024!

Upcoming Webinar hosted by the Fisheries Management Section

Conservation Milestone: Apache Trout Delisting

December 4th at 1:30 pm

The Call for Submissions for 2025 Annual meeting symposia and continuing education courses opens on December 6th.