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

Staff Member

Martinique Chavez

Master's
Phone: (505) 6599259 -
Email: martinique.chavez@usu.edu

Education

  • BA University of New Mexico 2014

Biography

I am an Ecology M.S. student in the Department of Watershed Sciences and the Ecology Center within the S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University.
I am currently working with Dr. Phaedra Budy with funding from the Bureau of Reclamation to study movement patterns and space use of the federally endangered Rio Grande Silvery Minnow in a heavily altered riverscape. Prior to coming to Utah State University, I received a BS in Political Science and Communications from the University of New Mexico and worked as a Fisheries Biologist, focusing on imperiled desert fishes. I plan to pursue a PhD, or a career in Ecology and public policy.

Research Publications Publication Date
Clark Barkalow, S., M. J. Chavez, S. P. Platania. 2021. Otolith Microstructure Analysis Elucidates Spawning and Early Life Histories of Federally Endangered Fishes in the San Juan River. Ichthyology and Herpetology 109:860-873. https://doi.org/10.1643/i2020011
| Abstract | Download | Publisher Website 		September 2021
Project Completion Date
BoR: Understanding and quantifying potential movement patterns of Rio Grande Silvery Minnow in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico January 2023
Presentations Presentation Date
Chavez, M. J., S. L. Clark Barkalow, and S. P. Platania. Importance of drainage-specific growth curves for back-calculating spawning periodicity of federally endangered Colorado Pikeminnow and Razorback Sucker. 51st Annual Desert Fishes Council Meeting, 20-24 November 2019. Alpine, TX. Poster November 2019
Chavez, M. J., P. Budy, and C. A. Pennock. 2022. Exploring movement patterns of an endangered minnow in a fragmented desert river. 54th Annual Meeting, Desert Fishes Council, St. George, UT, 16-20 November 2022. Oral Presentation. November 2022
Chavez, M. J., P. Budy, and C. A. Pennock. 2022. Characterizing movement patterns of the endangered Rio Grande Silvery Minnow in a fragmented river. 153rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Spokane, WA, 21-25 August 2022. Oral Presentation. August 2022
Chavez, M. J., P. Budy, and C. A. Pennock. 2022. Characterizing Rio Grande Silvery Minnow movement patterns. Utah American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ogden, UT, 7-9 March 2022. Oral Presentation. March 2022
Chavez, M. J., P. Budy, and C. A. Pennock. 2021. Exploring Movement Patterns. 152nd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Baltimore, MD, 6-10 November 2021. Oral Presentation. November 2021
Chavez, M. J., P. Budy, C. A. Pennock. 2021. Big moves by a little fish: characterizing movement patterns of an endangered minnow in a fragmented river. Western Division American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, 10-15 March 2021. Virtual Conference. March 2021
Technical Publications Publication Date
Budy, P., M.J. Chavez, C. Pennock, G.P. Thiede, and Peter MacKinnon. 2021. Rio Grande Silvery Minnow movement dynamics in the Middle Rio Grande. Annual Report to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Albuquerque Area Office. UCFWRU 2021(1):1-30. June 2021