{"id":5736,"date":"2014-06-07T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2014-06-07T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:43:57","slug":"ssi-travel-grantee-tyler-mcfadden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/06\/07\/ssi-travel-grantee-tyler-mcfadden\/","title":{"rendered":"SSI Travel Grantee: Tyler McFadden"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tyler McFadden received a $500 SSI travel grant to attend the International Symposium on Mangroves as Fish Habitat in Mazatlan, Mexico. Tyler wrote an Ecologue post about his experience and what he learned from it.<\/address>\n

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\"McFadden<\/p>\n

Mangroves are coastal forested wetlands that occur in throughout the tropical intertidal zone.\u00a0 Renowned for their ecosystem services, mangroves provide habitat for economically important fish species, provide coastal protection from storm events, and contain some of the largest carbon stocks of any tropical ecosystem.\u00a0 In the summer of 2013, I worked in Honduras as part of the Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program investigating the role of mangroves in climate change mitigation (see website for project details: http:\/\/www.cifor.org\/swamp\/home.html<\/a> ).\u00a0 While in Honduras, I gathered field data for my Honors thesis studying the effects of roosting waterbirds on nutrient cycles in mangroves.<\/p>\n

In early April, thanks to funding from the Student Sustainability Initiative and the University Honors College, I had the opportunity to present the results of this research at the Western Division American Fisheries Society annual meeting in Mazatlan, Mexico.\u00a0 I presented a poster as part of the 2nd<\/sup> International Symposium on Mangroves as Fish Habitat.\u00a0 Working in the mangroves last summer, I was impressed by the diversity of fish living in the mangroves.\u00a0 I was curious how nutrient inputs by birds could not only affect the mangroves, but also the fish that rely upon the mangroves.\u00a0 Unfortunately I didn\u2019t know a lot about mangrove associated fish.\u00a0 This symposium brought me up to date on the current state of knowledge concerning mangrove-fish interactions and will provide future directions for my research.<\/p>\n

In addition to learning about mangrove associated fish, I learned about how mangroves are managed throughout the world, from the Bahamas, to Mexico, to Pakistan.\u00a0 I met researchers from several different countries and got to know many of the students from the Mexican Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.\u00a0 One of the highlights of the conference for me was learning about all of the high quality research being done in Mexico and throughout Latin America.\u00a0 Much of this work never reaches scientists in the United States because of language barriers.\u00a0 The informational and cultural exchange that this meeting fostered will likely contribute greatly to the sustainable management of both mangroves and their associated fisheries.<\/p>\n

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– Tyler McFadden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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