Dear membership, We have the 2nd VP Election coming up very soon. As part of this we have a webinar scheduled for members to meet the candidates – Julie Defilippi Simpson and Cecil Jenniings. This is a fantastic opportunity to get to know these two exceptional AFS members who have agreed to make the commitment... Read More
AFS Virtual Spring Conference 2020: A message from leadership “We wanted to provide an update for you on the virtual conference. We have a full 10 talks to lead us off on April 16 (Orth Plenary, 7 Alaska, 2 contributed), 48 submitted abstracts and counting, and over $5,000 raised so far from Sponsors! As of... Read More
Some outstanding symposia are planned for Columbus, Ohio. Don’t forget to prepare and submit your abstracts for the FITS-hosted symposium “Merging Data Science and Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences to Solve Big Problems.” Advancing technologies and software have allowed us to collect and process enormous amounts of data (aka “big data”). Big data are data that... Read More
AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes March 13, 2020 Attendees: Kayla, Rebecca, Paul, Dan, Tiffany Old Business Rebecca has fixed the email/newsletter issue. Limited to one user on mailchimp and limits on sending emails Difficult to manage as a group MailPoet has been activated on the FITS Site. Action Item:... Read More
AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes February 14, 2020 Attendees: Dan, Kayla, Rebecca, Paul Review of business meeting feedback Goals Filming continuing education workshops Host on a website, potentially charge small fee for non-members to watch or make access only for members of FITS (incentives for joining FITS). If... Read More
We invite all Bayesians to submit an abstract to a Bayesian inference in fisheries symposium! Background and submission information are below. During the submission process, select the symposium title from the list of available sessions (9234: Bayesian Inference: Applications and Interpretation). Title: Bayesian Inference: Applications and Interpretation Background Bayesian inference has become a common tool... Read More
The Socioeconomics Section invites you to submit to the symposium “A Fisheries Biologist’s Guide to Using Human Dimensions Data (Including Data You Didn’t Know You Had).” Our goal is to present tangible examples of taking human dimensions data (e.g., surveys, creels, polls, census) and transforming it into useful information that can be used in fisheries... Read More
Try your hand this year at taking a virtual reality photo showing your fisheries work! FITS is looking for the best photos to highlight in a virtual-reality experience, to be presented at the 2020 AFS Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Submit your photos taken using the Google Cardboard Camera app for an awesome prize: a... Read More
The Fisheries Information Technology Section is pleased to announce a symposium for AFS 2020 in Columbus centered around emerging challenges associated with processing, manipulating, and analyzing large data sets to inform fisheries and aquatic science or, broadly speaking, natural resource management. See the full abstract description below and contact Dan Weaver (daniel.weaver@maine.edu) or Paul Venturelli... Read More
**VOLUNTEERS NEEDED** Subject experts are needed to assist on several efforts. If interested please contact a FITS officer. These efforts are: Regulatory changes to the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act have been proposed that will have significant impacts to fisheries. We need NEPA experts to help review the proposed changes to identify concerns and provide information... Read More
