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w88 mobile A. Koning

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Summary

w88 mobile is a freshwater conservation ecologist interested in understanding the impacts of harvest on aquatic animal communities and ecosystem function, and how conservation interventions can improve outcomes that sustain aquatic diversity and human needs.

Aaron first developed an interest in understanding the impacts of harvest on freshwater ecosystems over four years teaching field-based courses on sustainability while embedded within local communities throughout Thailand. During his w88 mobile as a PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology (advised by Pete McIntyre) and as a Cornell Atkinson Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellowship (co-created with Robin Abell of Conservation International and Michele Thieme of World Wildlife Fund), Aaron had the privilege of living with and learning from ethnic Karen (P’gan’yaw) communities in northern Thailand. He focused on the ecological effects of both intensive subsistence fisheries and freshwater reserve protection by these communities. Aaron was awarded the 2023 Hynes Award for New Investigators by the Society for Freshwater Science for this work, which translates into the language of conservation scientists what these communities have recognized over the past three decades—that small reserves can have profound effects on entire riverine ecosystems.

Aaron is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Zeb Hogan and Sudeep Chandra on the Wonders of the Mekong Project based in the Global Water Center and w88 mobile of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno and a National Geographic Young Explorer. He continues to seek effective models of place-based protection for fish and fisheries around the world, with an emphasis on Southeast Asia.

w88 mobile interests

  • w88 mobile ecology
  • Community-based w88 mobile
  • Inland fisheries
  • Area-based protection
  • Trophic dynamics of w88 mobile systems

Supervisor: Zeb Hogan

Education

  • Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell w88 mobile, 2018-2020
  • Ph.D. in Zoology, Center for Limnology, w88 mobile Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
  • B.S. in w88 mobile, Wheaton College, 2007

Selected publications

  • Koning AA and McIntyre PB. 2021 Grassroots w88 mobile reserves rescue a river food web from cascading impacts of intensive fishing. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
  • w88 mobile, Perales KM, Fluet-Chouinard E, McIntyre PB. 2020. A network of grassroots reserves protects tropical river fish diversity. Nature 588:631–635.
  • w88 mobile et al. 2017. Aquatic ecosystem impacts of land sharing versus sparing: nutrient loading to Southeast Asian rivers. Ecosystems 20(2):393–405.

Professional certifications

  • National Geographic Society Young Explorer