Committee Chairs

Society Committees 2024-2025

Complete contact information for committee chairs can be found in the online Membership Directory. If you have any questions about committee activities, please feel free to contact the committee chair. You may also contact Lauren Maza at [email protected], your Unit Services contact.

(Last updated April 29, 2025)

Standing Committees

• Jessica Mistak, [email protected]
• Natalie Coash, [email protected]

• Award of Excellence: Debra Murie
• Distinguished Service Award: Gary Whelan
• Emmeline Moore Prize: Lisa Holst
• Emerging Leaders Mentorship Award Program: TBD
• Fellows Selection Program: Leanne Roulson, [email protected]
• Meritorious Service Award: Patrick Hanchin, [email protected]
• Outstanding Chapter Awards: TBD
• Fisheries Conservation Awards: Donna Parrish, Past Presidents Advisory Council Chair
• Publications Awards: Allison Pease, [email protected]
• Stanley Moberly Award: David Thorne, [email protected]

Annual Meeting (General Meeting Chairs): Co-chairs,

• Shaun Donovan, [email protected]
• Lee Gudgell, [email protected]

Board of Appeals: Chair, TBD

Board of Professional Certification: Overall Chair: Justin VanDeHey, [email protected]

• Education Subcommittee: Chair, TBD
• Experience Subcommittee: Chair, Lillian Herger, [email protected]
• Professional Development Subcommittee: Chair, Trina Hedrick, [email protected]

Climate Change Committee

• Abby Lynch, [email protected]
• Leslie Hartmann

Communications Committee: Chair: Kevin Dockendorf, [email protected]

Constitutional Consultant: Randy Schultz, [email protected]

Development Committee

• Tom Lang, [email protected],
• [email protected]

FishCAST Committee: Chairs

• Jory Jonas, [email protected]
• Greyson Wolf, [email protected]

Electronic Services Advisory Board: Chair, TBD

Ethics and Professional Conduct: Chair, Brian Missildine, [email protected]

Financial Planning and Procedures Committee: Chair, Troy Brandt, [email protected]

Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program: Co-chairs

• Kathy Guindon, [email protected]

Imperiled Species: Chair, Howard L. Jelks, [email protected]

• Crayfish Subcommittee: Chair, Christopher A. Taylor, [email protected]
• Gastropod Subcommittee: Chair, Paul D. Johnson, [email protected]
• Mussel Subcommittee: Chair, James D. Williams, [email protected]

Meetings Oversight: Co-chairs

• Paul Venturelli, [email protected]
• Gary Whelan, [email protected]

Membership: Co-chairs, Abigail Archer, [email protected]

Names of Fishes: Chair, Tom Dowling, [email protected]

Nominating: Chair, Eric Fetherman, [email protected]

Special Committees

AFS Archives and Records Committee: Christine Moffitt, [email protected]

Emerging Leaders Mentorship Award Program: TBD

Fish Management Chemicals: Co-chairs

• Don Skaar, [email protected]
• Brian Finlayson, [email protected]

Standardization: Jesse Trushenski, [email protected]

Strategic Plan Committee: Chair, Julie Simpson, [email protected]

Strategic Positioning Committee: Co-chairs

• Marlis R Douglas, [email protected]
• Joseph D Conroy, [email protected]

Liaisons

American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists: TBD

The American Society of Civil Engineers: Mike Garello, [email protected]

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists:
Mike and Marlis Douglas, [email protected]; [email protected]

Brazilian Society of Ichthyology: Luiz Silva, [email protected]

China Society of Fisheries: Yushun Chen, [email protected]

Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation: Karin Limburg, [email protected]

The Coastal Society: Tom Bigford, [email protected]

Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies: Leanne Roulson, [email protected]

Desert Fishes Council: David L Ward, [email protected]

Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture: John Magee, [email protected]

Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (FMCS): Jeremy Tiemann, [email protected]

National Fish Habitat Action Plan Board: Kimberly Dibble, [email protected]

Society for Conservation Biology: Paul Angermeier, [email protected]

Society for Freshwater Science: Shannon Brewer, [email protected]

United States Society of Ecological Economics, Karin Limburg, [email protected]

World Aquaculture Society: Carl Kittel,  [email protected]