Making Waves: Dr. Amanda Subalusky

Making Waves is the podcast of the Society for Freshwater Science

Episode 27: Animal Migrations and Freshwater Nutrient Subsidies , Amanda Subalusky

This month's podcast features Dr. Amanda Subalusky discussing how migrations of large animals can introduce nutrient and energy subsidies into river systems and her research on the importance of subsidies from wildebeests and hippopotamuses to the Mara River in East Africa.

Dr. Amanda Subalusky is a postdoctoral scientist at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, where her research focuses on how animal movement and behavior affect food web structure and ecosystem function. Her work combines observational and experimental approaches to study how much carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus is introduced by animals into stream systems, and the ecosystem and community implications of those additions.

• Subalusky et al. 2017: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614778114
• Subalusky et al. 2016: https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12474

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Archive

Episode 1: Dave Penrose, SFS President (2/20/2013)

Episode 2: From Pollution to Propulsion, Dr. Val Smith (3/14/2013)

Episode 3: Value of Biodiversity? Dr. Brad Cardinale (4/24/2013)

Episode 4: Assessing Australia's Intermittent Streams, Dr. Catherine Leigh (6/20/2013)

Episode 5: Reservoirs, Sediment & their Biological Impacts, Dr. William Graf (8/15/2013)

Episode 6: How Flow Influences Fish Communities, Meryl Mims (10/16/2013)

Episode 7: Contamination From Hydraulic Fracturing: Causes & Solutions, Rob Jackson (12/15/2013)

Episode 8: Conflicting Interests In Bristol Bay, AK: Mining vs. Salmon, Carol Ann Woody (2/15/2014)

Episode 9: Resistance or Vulnerability in Stream Invertebrate Communities to Drought? Dr. Kate Boersma (4/20/2014)

Episode 10: Conservation and Restoration in the Award-Winning Willamette Basin, Dr. Stanley Gregory (7/1/2014)

Episode 11: Promoting Diversity in Freshwater Science, Dr. Marcelo Ardon, Dr. Krista Capps, Dr. Checo Colon-Gaud, Dr. Judy Li & Dr. Patina Mendez (8/20/2014)

Episode 12: How Wide is a Stream? Dr. Jeffery Muehlbauer (10/30/2014)

Episode 13: Biomonitoring in Streams, Dr. Raphael Mazor (2/15/2015)

Episode 14: Nitrogen Fixation in a Warming World, Dr. Jill Welter (5/6/2015)

Episode 15: Carbon in Detrital Food Webs, Dr. Amy Rosemond (9/18/2015)

Episode 16: Seeding Citizen Science: The Early Life of a Grassroots Watershed Organization, Kelly Stettner (11/28/2015)

Episode 17: Microplastic Pollution in Freshwaters, Dr. Sherri Mason (2/29/2016)

Episode 18: Major changes in the production pathways of the Great Lakes, Dr. Soren Brothers (3/15/2016)

Episode 19: Climate Change and Lake Ice, Dr. Sapna Sharma (7/15/2016)

Episode 20: Large River Ecology, Dr. Wyatt Cross (10/4/2016)

Episode 21: River Conservation in Tropical Regions, Dr. Elizabeth Anderson (11/30/2016)

Episode 22: Counting the world's lakes and measuring how much water is in them, Mathis Messager (1/28/2017)

Episode 23: Freshwater Salinization, Dr. Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles (3/22/2017)

Episode 24: Using Quantitative & Computational Approaches to Explain Biodiversity, Dr. Jonathan Tonkin (6/9/2017)

Episode 25: Modeling Environmental DNA Movement in Streams, Arial Shogren (9/13/2017)

Episode 26: Carbon Fates, Dr. Erin Hotchkiss (11/17/2017)

Episode 27: Animal Migrations and Freshwater Nutrient Subsidies , Amanda Subalusky (12/21/2017)

Meet Your Hosts

Timothy Cline

Timothy Cline is a graduate student in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science at the University of Washington. He is broadly interested in aquatic ecology including predator-prey interactions, exogenous resource subsidies, resilience, and ecosystem management.

Eric Moody

Eric is a PhD student at Arizona State University who is interested in the causes and consequences of intraspecific stoichiometric variation, especially in desert aquatic ecosystems.

Erin Larson

Erin Larson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the role of disturbance in shaping the taxonomic and functional composition of stream insect communities in mountainous regions ranging from Colorado's Rocky Mountains to Ecuador's Andes.

About Making Waves

Mission

We aim to disseminate current research in the aquatic sciences to a general audience through a semi-monthly podcast as well as other interactive. Our goal is to frame recent high-profile research papers or career achievements in the broader context of current environmental and scientific issues. Our focus is to follow and expand on the new mission of the Society for Freshwater Science in covering all types of ground-breaking research that is relevant aquatic systems. We hope to interview a wide variety of scientists ranging from graduate students to tenured professors from a diversity of countries and backgrounds. We will not focus solely on the research, but also on the story of the researcher. We feel it is both important and interesting to discuss with the researcher how they came to this point in their career and how they came upon the idea of the research being featured. We would additionally like to discuss other unique outreach activities related to the research that the investigators may be involved in.

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The podcast will be released every other month beginning in the fall of 2012. A new podcast will be released on the 15th of each month. Individual podcasts will vary in length but will generally be 15-30 minutes long. Each podcast will be accompanied by associated media (e.g. links to papers discussed, videos related to the research, and/or a discussion forum). Podcasts will be made available as mp3s and through the SFS YouTube channel.

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The Making Waves podcast would like to acknowledge facilities support from Arizona State University and the University of Washington.