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

Staff Member


Paul W Simonin

Paul Simonin

Master's
Email: paul.simonin@uvm.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Simonin, P.W., L.G. Rudstam, P.J. Sullivan, D.L. Parrish, and B. Pientka. 2019. Early mortality and freshwater forage fish recruitment: nonnative alewife and native rainbow smelt interactions in Lake Champlain. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76(5): 806-814. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2017-0571. July 2018
Simonin, P.W., L.G. Rudstam, D.L. Parrish, B. Pientka, and P.J. Sullivan. 2018. Piscivore diet shifts and trophic level change after Alewife establishment in Lake Champlain. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 147: 937-947. doi: 10.1002/tafs.10080. | Abstract May 2018
Simonin, P.W., D.L. Parrish, L.G. Rudstam, P.J. Sullivan, B. Pientka. 2012. Native rainbow smelt and nonnative alewife distribution related to temperature and light gradients in Lake Champlain. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38 (Supplement 1): 115-122. March 2012
Simonin, P.W., D. L. Parrish, L. G. Rudstam, P. J. Sullivan, and B. Pientka. 2016. Interactions between hatch dates, growth rates, and mortality of age-0 native Rainbow Smelt and nonnative Alewife in Lake Champlain. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145: 649-656. doi: 10.1080/00028487.2016.1143401 | Abstract April 2016
Project Completion Date
Rainbow smelt and alewife in Lake Champlain January 2014
Presentations Presentation Date
Simonin, P.W., M. Riha, L.G. Rudstam, P.J. Sullivan, and D.L. Parrish. Comparing and predicting spatial community ecology of rainbow smelt and alewife in Lake Champlain vs. Lake Ontario. 58th Annual Conference of the International Association, 25-29 May 2015, Burlington, VT. May 2015
Simonin, P.W., L.G. Rudstam, D.L. Parrish, P.J. Sullivan, and B. Pientka. Spatial community ecology, cannibalism, and the resilience of Lake Champlain forage fish. 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Portland, Oregon, 16-21 August 2015. August 2015
Parrish, D.L., P.W. Simonin, L.G. Rudstam, P.J. Sullivan, and B. Pientka. Pelagic species interactions in Lake Champlain, USA-Canada. Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, 28-31 March 2015, Shinagawa, Japan. March 2015
Parrish, D.L., B. Pientka, L.G. Rudstam, P.W. Simonin, and P.J. Sullivan. Hydroacoustic surveys of the pelagic fish community in Lake Champlain. 74th annual meeting of the Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Burlington, VT, 15-17 April 2018. April 2018