Welcome to The Riverscape Ecology Lab
Work in our lab focuses on the conservation and sustainable management of freshwater fish diversity, understanding reasons for its decline, and developing approaches for mitigating threats in Texas, the southern Great Plains, and beyond. We address questions regarding species- and community-level change across spatial and temporal scales using a variety of study approaches, including meta-analyses, field experiments, natural snapshot and trajectory experiments, landscape modeling, and molecular techniques. Our work strongly emphasizes how anthropogenic environmental manipulations, either destructive or restorative in nature, cause shifts in fish abundance, distribution, and community structure.
Whats New
June 2018
Steph George became more comfortable in her desertified supervisory role, including overseeing gill net repairs in the motel courtyard.
Steph George became more comfortable in her desertified supervisory role, including overseeing gill net repairs in the motel courtyard.
May 2018
Will Curtis and Amy Gebhard had a paper accepted to Freshwater Science; the Year of the Sculpin is now complete!
Stream habitat connectivity surveys in Florida were briefly interrupted by wildlife.
April 2018
Steph George made her first research trip to far flung west Texas and immersed herself in her graduate work (photo by Amanda Pinion).
March 2018
Eric Malone's thesis paper was accepted to Global Change Biology. Congratulations to Eric!
February 2018
Juju Wellemeyer's thesis paper was accepted and published in Ecological Indicators. Congratulations to Juju!
January 2018
Matthew Madewell and Fernando Chavez presented a poster at the Texas Chapter American Fisheries Society meeting
Josh Perkin presented an oral presentation at the Texas Chapter American Fisheries Society Meeting
December 2017
Stephanie George has joined the lab as a graduate student. Welcome to Stephanie!
Nick Loveland, Jake Madewell, Fernando Chavez, and Josh Heitikko have joined the lab as undergraduate technicians. Welcome to the gang!
November 2017
Juju Wellemeyer and Eric Malone successfully defended their theses in Tennessee. Congratulations to Juju and Eric!
October 2017
New paper on Great Plains cyprinids out in Fish and Fisheries (see Publications page).
September 2017
Juju Wellemeyer accepted a job with the Missouri Department of Conservation as a Resource Staff Scientist. Congratulations to Juju!
September 2017
The Riverscape Ecology Laboratory at Texas A&M University is spawned.
Fishes Below the Surface
Steph George snapped this picture of a Longnose Dace during a recent venture to west Texas.
Amy Gebhard snapped this picture of a Banded Sculpin during her research on the species.
Juju Wellemeyer snapped this picture of a lamprey during sampling.
Eric Malone snapped this picture of a Banded Sculpin chowing-down on a Redline Darter.
