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

Staff Member

Emily Kare Pherigo

Master's
Email: ekpvx8@mail.missouri.edu

Education

  • BA Knox College 1999

Biography

Emily is a Masters student researching the seasonal fish community of the Osage and Gasconade rivers, two tributaries of the lower Missouri River.. Big river systems, reproductive ecology of fish, aquatic habitat restoration

Project Completion Date
The role of tributaries on ecosystem recovery of the Missouri River June 2015
Presentations Presentation Date
Ridgway, J., E. Pherigo, and C. Paukert. Larval fish assemblages of a Free Flowing and a Regulated Tributary of the Lower Missouri River. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO January 2014
Ridgway, J., E. Pherigo, and C. Paukert. An assessment of Larval Fish Drift in the Lower Osage and Gasconade Rivers. Missouri River Natural Resources Conference, Nebraska City, NE March 2014
Ridgway, J., E. Pherigo, and C. Paukert. An assessment of Larval Fish Drift in the Lower Osage and Gasconade Rivers. Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Osage Beach, MO February 2014
Pherigo, E., and C. Paukert. Fish community above and below a low head dam on the Osage River. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO. January 2014
Pherigo, E., and C. Paukert. The Effects of River Regulation and a Low-Head Dam on the Fish Communities in Two Missouri River Tributaries. Missouri River Natural Resources Conference, Jefferson City, MO. 13 March 2013 March 2013
Pherigo, E., and C. Paukert. Summer fish community in two Missouri River tributaries. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Wichita, KS. 12 December 2012. December 2012
Pherigo, E., and C. Paukert. Fish community of the Osage and Gasconade rivers Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Osage beach, MO. 1 February 2012 February 2013
Pherigo, E., and C. Paukert. Fish community in a regulated and a free-flowing Missouri River tributary, 2012-2013. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Little Rock AR September 2013
Pherigo, E., and C. Paukert. Fish communities above and below a low head dam on the Osage River. Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Osage Beach, MO. February 2014
Pherigo, E., and C. Paukert. Effects of a low head dam on the fish community in the Osage River, a regulated tributary of the Lower Missouri River. Missouri River Natural Resources Conference, Nebraska City, NE. March 2014
Pherigo, E., C. Paukert, and D. Papoulias. Reproductive condition of spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) and golden redhorse (Moxostoma erythrurum) in the Osage and Gasconade Rivers. Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Osage Beach, MO. February 2014
Pherigo, E., C. Paukert, and D. Papoulias. Effects of river regulation on reproductive condition of spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) and golden redhorse (Moxostoma erythrurum) in two Lower Missouri tributaries. Missouri River natural Resources Conference, Nebraska City, NE. March 2014
Pherigo, E., C. Paukert, and D. Papoulias. Effects of river regulation on reproductive condition of spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) and golden redhorse (Moxostoma erythrurum) in two Lower Missouri tributaries. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO. February 2014
Role and Organization Individual         Start Date        End Date       
American Fisheries Society - Society member Pherigo September 2011 Present