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David Wellman is the Assistant Fisheries Biologist for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources stationed in District 1 at Farmington.  He has a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Kansas and a M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Resources from West Virginia University. His areas of interest include large river and reservoir management, as well as water quality issues. Assessment of walleye stocking in West Virginia reservoirs and population assessment of flathead catfish in Ohio River are two of his current projects. 

david.i.wellman@wv.gov

304-825-6787

Dr. Welsh is the Assistant Unit Leader for the USGS, West Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Stuart also is an adjunct Associate Professor of Ichthyology at WVU, where he teaches a graduate level Ichthyology class.  His research focuses on fish ecology, fish habitat, zoogeography, and systematics.  Stuart has been an AFS member since 1996, with involvement in the parent society, the Southern Division, and the West Virginia Chapter.  He served as Chair of the Student Affairs Committee, Southern Division AFS from 2002 to 2008.

swelsh@wvu.edu
304-293-5006

http://www.coopunits.org/West_Virginia/People/Stuart_Welsh/index.html

http://forestry.wvu.edu/faculty_staff/stuart_welsh

Brandon Keplinger is the Assistant Fisheries Biologist for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources stationed out of Romney in District II.  He has a B.S. and M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Resource Management obtained from West Virginia University.  His areas of interest include fish health impacts on stream and river communities, fish community monitoring, native brook trout population restoration, and stream, lake and small impoundment management.  Current projects include warmwater fisheries habitat enhancement and the assessment of smallmouth bass and macroscopic observations of fish health indicators in the South Branch River of the Potomac.  He has been a member of the WV Chapter of AFS since 2002. 

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