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Ecology and Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems
Lab News 
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2022
Check out recent paper by Ethan and colleagues as part of the United Nation's Decade of Restoration call for research: Understanding anthropogenic impacts on zoogeochemistry is essential for ecological restoration

Check out recent article by The Bellingham Herald and Wenatchee World about newly published research by Ethan Duvall: Spatiotemporal Responses of Wintering Bald Eagles to Changes in Salmon Carcass Availability in the Pacific Northwest

We're excited to welcome Felipe Siqueira Pacheco, a new postdoc in the Flecker Lab. Felipe is a biologist with expertise in aquatic ecosystem ecology, tropical limnology, biogeochemistry, and modeling. At Cornell, Felipe is working on an interdisciplinary project examining how expanding aquaculture can contribute to sustainable and nutritious food systems in the Amazon Basin.

Check out this new BioScience paper exploring the evolutionary consequences of dams on riverine fishes. This review by Liam, Alex, and colleagues is highlighted as the May Editor's Pick!

Our Amazon dams computational sustainability paper is now out in Science: Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion.  The paper is part of a large collaborative effort exploring tradeoffs between hydropower generation and ecosystem services at the scale of the whole Amazon.   The paper illustrates the importance of planning at the whole-basin scale and international cooperation for large transboundary river basins such as the Amazon.

Ethan has returned from a month-long expedition to Loreto, Peru, as part of a collaborative effort to study the unique interactions between animals and mineral licks in the Amazon Rainforest! 

2021

Congratulations to Rafael for joining the faculty of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley! He is the newest Assistant Professor in the School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences. Check out his faculty page here. We're going to miss you Rafa!

Check out this new Nature Food paper by Sebastian, Alex, and colleagues about the nutritional consequences of substituting fisheries with aquaculture and chicken in the Peruvian Amazon

Congratulations to Rafael for receiving the 2021 Society of Freshwater Science Hynes Award! The prestigious Hynes Award honors a new investigator for an outstanding publication. Check out Rafael's award-winning Nature Communications paper: Almeida et al. 2019 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon hydropower with strategic dam planning

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2020
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Sebastian, Rafael, and Alex are all part of the Science Panel for the Amazon, working with 150+ experts on a UN sponsored report summarizing the current state of scientific knowledge and sustainability solutions for the Amazon

We are very proud to announce that the Flecker lab soccer team has won the Ithaca league final! 

Take a look at this news article featuring research by Alex, Rafael, and Carla on the environmental consequences of hydropower development  in the Amazon.

Check out this science education paper by Amelia and other EEB grad students about teaching speciation (or take a look at the press release).

Check out Rafael's new paper on on short-term hydrological effects of two mega dams recently built in the Amazon.

We welcome Ethan Duvall and Sebastian Heilpern to the lab!
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Check out Marisol's paper in Biological Invasions, looking at the impacts of an introduced predator in Lake Gatun, Panama. 

Check out CompSust video by CaravanLab (a company founded by FleckerLab alums Jennifer Moslemi and Marita Davison)

See our recent TREE paper by Hammerschlag and colleagues on aquatic predators and ecosystem services

Listen to Finding Harold, a radio story on The Leap by Dr. Laurel Braitman on armored catfish, Cornell, and life (12:25 minutes in).


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