So excited by the mail waiting at my desk today! We're trying out a new way to teach hands-on invasive aquatic plant identification in the off-season. I was inspired by examples I saw by a Montana organization (Grow Wild) who found an artist to make displays using ... 🧵1/2

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 (also my first!) We (Alison Coulter, BJ Schall, Tanner Davis) assessed the risk of the live bait trade as a pathway of invasive species introductions and provide recommendations for regional collaboration and prevention. authors.elsevier.com/a/1h%7Etj1R%7E…

Hannah Mulligan gave a great talk today and successfully defended her MS! So great to see hard work pay off! SDStateNRM Amanda Cheeseman Mark Kaemingk

Ahhh it’s back!!! ☺️

Then to now!! Successfully defended my MS thesis, and I am thrilled to announce that I accepted a PhD position starting in May with Alison Coulter at SDStateNRM☺️.

Communicating about invasive species can get tricky! On Feb. 27-28, Sea Grant will host The Invasive Species Language Workshop, uniting research and scicomm to share best practices for talking about biological invasions w/ scientists, stakeholders, the public. (1/2) @GLANSIS_News

Are you attending the 84th Fish and Wildlife Conference? Do you like meeting people and hockey?!? Scan the QR code to purchase tickets ($10) in section 102 to the Sioux Falls Stampede hockey game on 1/30 @ 7:05pm at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. We hope to see you there!

Another year of the #WISSiouxFalls outreach event! Our main activity includes “fishing for facts” which aims to educate aspiring scientists about invasive, non-game, and game species in SD by answering/learning a fact about them! SDStateNRM

We (Alison Coulter and I) did interviews today for a research video on invasive carp, their status in SD, and research being conducted in the state to slow their spread! Excited to see how the video turns out! Stay tuned!

If you are attending the Annual AFS meeting in Honolulu this year and research introduced/invasive species, then please see the flyer below for a student TRAVEL AWARD opportunity! 🐟 Alison Coulter American Fisheries Society

SDSU, SDSU Extension, and GFP have been working together to create a Aquatic Invasive Species Middle School Curriculum and Activity Guide. This week we started filming videos (Ebsen House Productions) to compliment the curriculum. Videos can also stand alone. Stay tuned ☺️

Another year of teaching 5th grade students how to use a dichotomous key to ID fish! ☺️

Second day of filming occurred today! ☺️

Hannah Mulligan and I were interviewed a couple weeks ago about our research with invasive carp. Check out the video🐟🐟🐟🐟South Dakota State University SDStateNRM SDSU College of Ag, Food & Environmental Sciences youtube.com/watch?v=DOWGSO…

Fun day sampling on the river yesterday 🐟☺️

New podcast! Learn about work, led by South Carolina DNR, that we supported with NFHP. Students and volunteers got hands-on learning through marsh & oyster restoration, fishing, and crabbing with local professionals. S.C. Dept. of Natural Resources #NFBW2024 fisheries.noaa.gov/podcast/teachi… 🦪🦀🎣

One week remaining to submit your application for the IISS student travel award!

✨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT✨ We found that anglers participate in risky behaviors when disposing of leftover baitfish and have limited knowledge of bigheaded carp. Alexis Gerber Alison Coulter link.springer.com/article/10.100…

All the zebra mussels watching y'all not properly clean, drain, and dry your boats so they can spread all over the place with ease:

Just put together a simple guide on how to vectorize R plots in PowerPoint. Check out my first Medium article 🥳 nalinan.medium.com/how-to-vectori…