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

Staff Member

Justin Waraniak

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Email: jxw6349@psu.edu

Project Completion Date
Landscape Transcriptomics as a new tool for natural and agricultural resource management August 2023
Forecasting Aquatic Invasions in Rivers: Using Riverscapes Genetics to Inform Invasive Fish Species Management at Regional Scales August 2025
Presentations Presentation Date
Waraniak, J., M.S. Eackles, J. Keagy, G.D. Smith, M. Schall, S. Stark, S.L. White, D.C. Kazyak, and T. Wagner. 2024. Population genetic structure and demographic history reconstruction of introduced flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) in two US mid-Atlantic rivers. Society for Freshwater Science. Philadelphia, PA. June 2024
Waraniak, J., J. Keagy, and T. Wagner. 2024. Landscape transcriptomics of wild brook trout populations (<i>Salvelinus fontinalis</i>) to successive heatwaves. Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Honolulu, HI. August 2024
Keagy, J. J. Waraniak, and T. Wagner. A Landscape Transcriptomics Approach to Evaluating and Predicting Organismal Response to Extreme Heat Events. Evolution. July 2024