IAFS 40th Aniversery

40th Anniversary of the Indiana Chapter of the American Fisheries Society

Home Schedule Registration Abstracts Contact Us

 

During this year’s Spring business meeting we will be voting for offices of Vice- president and Secretary-treasurer.  We have two candidates for Vice–president and one for Secretary-treasurer.  Nominations for these offices will remain open until the vote.  If you are interested in running for one of these offices please feel free to call or email me. 

 

Dave Kittaka, past-president

(wk)812 279 1215

dkittaka@dnr.IN.gov


Candidates for Vice-President

Michelle Cain

 

Michelle Cain is a candidate for Vice President.  She has a B. S. Wildlife Biology and a M. S. in Aquatic Biology and Fisheries Management.  Both degrees were acquired from Ball State University.  She is currently working for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources as the Assistant District 6 Fisheries Biologist.  She started her involvement in IAFS as a student at Ball State both as a member and as the subunit president.  In December of 2007, she took over the position of newsletter editor.  You probably all recognize her name from the barrage of emails she sends you weekly with important IAFS updates and news.  She has also been a parent chapter member since 2006.

Jeremy Price

 

Jeremy is a native Hoosier and spent a lot time fishing on the Tippecanoe River while growing up.  He turned his love for the water and fishing into a career when he attended Purdue to study Fisheries.  Prior to graduating in 1999, he was deeply involved in the Purdue subunit of IAFS, serving as the vice-president, president, and webmaster.  After Purdue, Jeremy went on to Michigan State University where he conducted his thesis work studying the application of fixed-riverine hydroacoustics for enumerating outmigrating chinook salmon smolts in the Muskegon River, MI.

 

Jeremy returned to Indiana in 2003 as an assistant fisheries biologist under the tutelage of Bob Robertson in district 1.  In his seven years with the division, Jeremy has served as the district 1 assistant (4-1/2 years), the lakes compliance biologist (2-1/2 years), and recently returned to duties in northwest Indiana as the district 1 fisheries biologist.  In his spare time he enjoys hunting, fishing, and spending time with his wife, Kathy, and his three children:  Abby, Carlie, and Garrison.

 


Candidate for Secretary-Treasurer

Bryan Kalb

Bryan Kalb is a fisheries biologist for Duke Energy Indiana, based out of Plainfield, IN.  He received a B.S. in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences in 2005 from Purdue University, and is currently working on his M.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from the University of Illinois.  His job responsibilities primarily include project leadership/oversight for customer projects including field sampling, data analyses, report preparation, and QA/QC to support project permitting efforts.  Before starting work with Duke Energy in 2005 he worked as an