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Aaron A. Koning

Curriculum vitae [pdf]


— Abbreviated curriculum vitae —

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Water Center, University of Nevada, Reno

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University (2018-2020)

Ph.D. 2018, Department of Zoology & Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin

B.S. Biology 2007, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL

Publications

  1. Jerde et al. 2021. Are genetic libraries sufficient for environmental DNA metabarcoding of Mekong River Basin fish? Water 13(13):1767. [pdf]

  2. Kelson SJ, Hogan Z, Jerde CL, Chandra S, Ngor PB, Koning AA. 2021. Fishing methods matter: Comparing the community and trait composition of the dai (Bagnet) and gill net fisheries in the Tonle Sap River in Southeast Asia. Water 13(14)1904. [pdf]

  3. Koning AA and McIntyre PB. 2021. Grassroots reserves rescue a river food web from cascading impacts of overharvest. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi:10.1002/fee.2293. [pdf]

  4. Cooke SJ, Twardek WM, Lynch AJ, Cowx IG, Olden JD, et al. 2021. A global perspective on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on freshwater fish biodiversity. Biological Conservation, 253:108932. [pdf]

  5. Koning AA, Perales KM, Fluet-Chouinard E, McIntyre PB. 2020. A network of grassroots reserves protects tropical river fish diversity. Nature 588, 631–635. [pdf]

  6. Tiegs SD et al,. 2019. Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian areas. Science Advances 5(1): eaav0486.

  7. Koning AA, Moore JB, Suttidate N, Hannigan R, McIntyre PB. 2016. Aquatic ecosystem impacts of land sharing versus sparing: nutrient loading to Southeast Asian rivers. Ecosystems, 20(2):393-405. [pdf]

  8. Winemiller KO, McIntyre PB, Castello L, Fluet-Chouinard E, Giarrizzo T, Nam S, et al. 2016. Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong. Science, 351(6269), 128–129. [pdf]

  9.  McIntyre PB, Reidy Liermann C, Childress ES, Hamann,E, Hogan JD, Januchowski-Hartley SR, Koning AA, Neeson TM, Oele DL, Pracheil BM. 2016 Conservation of migratory fishes in freshwater ecosystems. In Closs, GP, Krkosek, M & Olden, JD.  Conservation of Freshwater Fishes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. [pdf]

  10. Childress ES & Koning AA (2013). Polydomous Crematogaster pilosa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) colonies prefer highly connected habitats in a tidal salt marsh. Florida Entomologist 96(1), 235-237. [pdf]

  11. Cooperman MS, So N, Arias M, Cochrane TA, Elliott V, Hand T, Hannah L, Holtgrieve GW, Kaufman L, Koning AA, Koponen J, Kum V, McCann K., McIntyre PB, Min B, Ou C, Rooney N, Rose KA, Sabo JL, Winemiller KO. (2012). A watershed moment for the Mekong: Newly announced community use and conservation areas for the Tonle Sap Lake may boost sustainability of the world’s largest inland fishery. Cambodian Journal of Natural History, 2: 101-106. [pdf]

Awards

National Geographic Early Career Award (2019-2021)

Cornell Atkinson Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020)

National Science Foundation IGERT Traineeship (2016-2018)

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2015-2017)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2011-2016)

Mustard Seed Foundation Harvey Fellowship (2013-2015)

U. Wisconsin Zoology Department Graduate Research Grants (2012, 2013)

U. Wisconsin Center for Limnology Anna G. Birge Award (2012)

Teaching

BIO 342 Fish Ecology and Management (Summer 2021) | Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies

MSID 4001 Sustainability and the Environment (2015-2016) | University of Minnesota Studies in International Development

Culture and Ecology of the Andaman (2014-2016) | International Sustainable Development Studies Institute

Zoology 101 & 102 Animal Biology & Animal Biology Lab (2011-2012) | Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin

Presentations

Koning AA. 2020.

Koning AA. 2019. Riverine reserves: testing the efficacy and impacts of spatial protection for tropical inland fisheries. University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign-Urbana, IL. Nov 21. Hosts: David Philipp & Julie Claussen          

Koning AA. 2019. Trophic consequences of intensive harvest cascade through a tropical river food web. Carleton University, Ottawa Canada. Feb 1. Host: Steve Cooke

Koning AA, Perales KM, Fluet-Chiounard E, McIntyre PB. 2019. Community-based reserves benefit fish and fishers in Southeast Asia’s Salween River Basin. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Reno, NV.                                      

Williams R, Philipp DP, Claussen JE & Koning AA. 2019. Using native fish conservation areas to conserve mahseer species in Bhutan and Thailand. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Reno, NV.                                                             

Koning A.A. 2017. Global subsistence fisheries. Invited Lecture, Ecology of Fishes, University of Wisconsin | Madison, WI

Koning A.A. & McIntyre, P.B. 2017. A tropic cascade: fish mediate top-down control on algal biomass inside and outside of reserves. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting | Portland, OR. Abstract in Review.

Koning A.A. & McIntyre, P.B. 2017. Riverine reserves: migrating principles of marine reserve design upstream. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting | Raleigh, NC

Scott Tiegs and CELLDEX Consortium. Global-scale patterns and drivers of organic matter decomposition in streams and riparian zones. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting | Raleigh, NC

Koning A.A. & McIntyre, P.B. 2014. Limitation and land use: Nutrient status and limitation within tributaries of two major Southeast Asian rivers. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting | Sacramento, CA

Koning A.A. 2013. Ecosystem Ecology. Invited Lecture, Wheaton College | Wheaton, IL