Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member


Zach Ahrens

Zach Ahrens

Master's

Biography

Zach earned his BS from the University of Wisconsin and thereafter became enamored of the Colorado Plateau. Zach works to conserve native fishes with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.. Zach is interested in adapting natural resource management to the changing climate and other anthropogenic stressors.
Project Title: Unintended fragmentation: fish community impacts and conservation implications of the Piute Farms Waterfall on the San Juan River.

Research Publications Publication Date
Pennock CA, Ahrens ZT, McKinstry MC, Budy P, Gido KB. 2021. Trophic niches of native and nonnative fishes along a river-reservoir continuum. Scientific Reports 11:12140 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91730-1 | Download June 2021
Presentations Presentation Date
Ahrens, Z., P. Budy, G. Thiede and D. Weedop. 2019. Unintended fragmentation: fish community impacts and conservation implications of the Piute Farms Waterfall, San Juan River, UT. Oral presentation: Annual Meeting of the Utah Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Provo, Utah, 12 – 14 March 2018. March 2019