Emily Mensch
@MenschEmily
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PhD student @ucdavis | translational ecology & conservation of fishes | MSc @MichiganStateFW
Davis, CA
Joined October 2019
Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River tributaries above the 4 recently dismantled dams for the first time 60 & 112 years. It is exciting and bodes well for the future. Still, it will take several years for fish runs to recover & there is still much more work to do.
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Had the privilege of writing this year’s Halloween blog about a fish with a very special place in my heart 🤗
"Got Blood? Unmasking a vampire fish," by Emily L. Mensch @MenschEmily. They’re strong, they’re fast, and they’re out for blood….. 🎃🐟 https://t.co/1je6GmQjba
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"Ash in the Rivers: The Unexplored Consequences of Post-Wildfire Runoff on Freshwater Fish," by Garfield Kwan (@GarfieldKwan) & Christine Parisek (@caparisek). 🐟🔥 #Wildfire #Freshwater #Fishes
https://t.co/ttw8gI7JIW
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Me w/ a giant garter snake! Once found across the CV it's now a fed threatened species. Like other CV wetland endemics, it now depends on rice fields. If we lost rice, we'd lose the snake. Thanks @LauraKojima for taking me & @MenschEmily out w/ USGS to visit these rad creatures
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“We had a really bad year last year. We had a really bad year this year. Say we wipe out this cohort. Salmon are on a three-year lifecycle. That’s starting to look like the anatomy of an extinction.” https://t.co/Ze5HElI9qX
@UCDavisWater @UCDavis_Kerlin
calmatters.org
The fire is moving into areas where salmon are waiting to spawn. Experts worry that the Park Fire could be the deathblow to these fish.
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Yay! Check out a cool article and video highlighting some of the work we did during our first field season. Couldn’t have asked for a better team! 🦆 🐟 🌾 ❤️
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Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025! PIs - Enter your position info here: https://t.co/Fn1LRAA5Ip Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: https://t.co/Nrz9e2kx0M pls RT!
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Unpopular opinion my favorites birds are 1) pigeons and 2) grackles
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We’ve started with a wonderful demo by Sac/Davis AFS president @lepisosteibae . Stop by for fishy fun until 7pm!
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Hey fellow Davis/Sacramento fish heads- come join us for a fun Friday Gyotaku event tomorrow! 🐟 🎨
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"All that surrogate wetland habitat for all the different species is a very important part of our operation," @MontnaFarms Jon Munger talks about the important of rice in supporting California's wildlife. 🌾🛩️
Rice planted by plane as California's season gets underway
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It's #BiodiversityDay! These Creek Chub and Common Shiners are providing the spawning conditions necessary for Endangered Redside Dace. We need species diversity and diversity (variation) within species (the stuff of natural selection) for healthy ecosystems.
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Did you know we will be tabling at #UCDavisPicnicDay ?! Click da link to learn more! https://t.co/I4PaaFQSr1
picnicday.ucdavis.edu
Explore wildlife conservation biology in fishes, birds, mammals, and herpetofauna!
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Get you a lab mate who gifts you the cutest little stuffy of your current hyper-fixation creature (GIANT ISOPOD- did y’all know they can survive ~5 years WITHOUT FOOD??) 🥹💖 @austinrspence
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Serina Moheed - @MoheedSerina, a PhD student in the Stachowicz Lab in @ucdavisbiology, monitors #seagrasswastingdisease in Northern CA, investigating whether there are multiple strains of the slime-mold pathogen in the Bodega & Tomales Bay estuaries. #WorldSeagrassDay 1/4
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Part of my scheme to turn all of my ecology friends into fish people 😈🙏
I had the honor of processing fish and seining for @MenschEmily’s PhD work today. It was SO FUN! Love the fishy folks!
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Work with Mikaela in Texas- can attest there’s no one better to research fish behavior/communication with 🤩
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