The 43rd annual meeting of the MT Chapter of AFS will be held February 8-12, 2010 at the Best Western GranTree in Bozeman. See you there.

The Unit was able to purchase an underwater ROV to better facillitate doing research in lentic ecosystems. The first use of the ROV will be to identify lake trout spawning areas and the abotic characteristics at those locations. The ROV is named ‘Deep Search.’

Check out the Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes book recently published by AFS. To order go to: http://www.afsbooks.org/55059C

Members of the MSU Student Subunit of AFS are headed to Colorado State to participate in the 2nd annual Western Division AFS Student Colloquium on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of October.

Travel Safe!