Software issues prevented me from posting on my old site. If interested, please see my cv for happenings and publications over this timespan. However, high points include papers published in Nature Sustainability (on new ideas on energy issues and hydrodams to benefit fish) and Science Advances (a broad look at drivers and avenues for remediation of diadromous fish declines). Also,

February 2018 – August 2019 “High points include papers published in Nature Sustainability (on new ideas on energy issues and hydro-dams to benefit fish) and Science Advances (a broad look at drivers and avenues for remediation of diadromous fish declines). Also, op-eds in The New York Times, including in May 2019 “The Wrong Mine for the Wrong Place” with Paul

I remained on sabbatical, working on the Running Silver Project, journal articles and conservation essays. In August I attended the annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society, in Tampa, where I gave a talk titled “Why it Comes Down to Dams and Why More Dams Should come Down.” I also was pleased to accept the 2017 Carl R. Sullivan Fishery

Among a number of talks given was a videotaped public presentation on the Running Silver Project at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. I also was honored to be a keynote speaker in June at Fish Passage 2016 – International Conference on River Connectivity, held at UMASS–Amherst, giving a lecture titled Restoring Atlantic Diadromous Fishes: Why it Comes Down to

In October, I spoke (together with artist James Prosek and Photographers David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes and ecologist Karin Limburg) at the Dale Travis Lecture: The Future of Fisheries: Choices, Decisions, and the Role of the Arts, at SUNY-ESF in Syracuse. Former Ph.D. student George Jackman published his first journal article on his otolith-based winter flounder research. In November, I

Among several talks on rivers was a seminar at the Hudson River Foundation titled Against the Current: Repairing Atlantic Rivers to Restore Diadromous Fishes, now available online. I also had the honor of keynoting the 2015 Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference in Newport, RI, with a talk on challenges and opportunities in river restoration. Karin Limburg and I published a

Running Silver received a detailed and highly positive review in journal Bioscience. My serendipitous role in the genesis and evolution of the new Science & Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay was covered in the Daily News. And work in the Bronx River was included in the CUNY tv show, Study with the Best.

The New York Times published my op-ed on restoring the Susquehanna River, titled “Let the River Run Wild”  (with coauthors Karin Limburg & Amy Roe). Also spoke at some great conferences:  The American Catch: The Past, Present, & Future of New York’s Local Seafood; Central Park, NY; September 17th (with Paul Greenberg et al.) and Symposium on Urban River Restoration,