Episodes

Friday Apr 18, 2025
2025 AFS Annual Meeting Preview
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
In this episode, San Antonio local meeting chair, Shaun Donovan, joins the podcast to preview the 2025 Annual Meeting. Learn about conference sessions and events, San Antonio travel tips, and more!
Episode guest:
Shaun Donovan
San Antonio River Authority
Local Chair, 2025 AFS Annual Meeting
https://afsannualmeeting.fisheries.org/
Interview recording date: April 2, 2025
2025 AFS Annual Meeting - abstract submission deadline:
Extended through April 22
2025 AFS Officer Election:
April 22 is the last date to vote! All members are encouraged to vote, via emailed instructions.

Friday Apr 04, 2025
AFS Awards Program - committee updates and career development
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
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
Jessica Mistak
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Updates:
Annual Meeting:
Abstract submission deadline: April 15Registration is now open!
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 lmaza@fisheries.org

Friday Mar 21, 2025
AFS Sections Roundup: Student & Early Career Professionals Subsection
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
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: hadley.boehm@state.mn.us
Updates and Deadlines:
2025 Awards nominations deadline: April 1
Spring webinars:
Applied Genetics for Fisheries Management: April 16
Annual Meeting:
Abstract submission deadline: April 15Registration is now open!
AFS Election:
Now open through April 22, 2025 - members should vote via instructions sent through email

Friday Mar 07, 2025
AFS Sections Roundup: Fisheries History Section
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
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:Jeff Jolley
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 15Registration is now open!
AFS Election:
March 20 - April 22 - members will receive voting instructions via email

Friday Feb 14, 2025
Part 2 of 2 - Meet Second VP Candidate Jeff Heindel
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
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 lmaza@fisheries.org.
Editor's note: I added a new feature this week - "chapter" markers, which should help separate the different sections of the audio file.

Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Part 1 of 2: Meet AFS Second VP Candidate, Brent Nichols
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
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 lmaza@fisheries.org.

Friday Jan 24, 2025
Black Bass 2025 - symposium preview
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
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: BlackBass2025@fishconserve.org
Black Bass 2025
AFS Annual Meeting
Additional content may be added to this episode when more conference details become available!

Friday Jan 10, 2025
AFS Policy - the whos, whats, and whys
Friday Jan 10, 2025
Friday Jan 10, 2025
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:Tom Bigford
Updates:Data & Technology Section webinar
January 28, 1 pm Eastern Time
2025 AFS Annual Meeting - Call for Sessions
Closes January 24th

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