Southeast Freshwater Biodiversity Strategy

I recently coordinated a project between the UGA River Basin Center and the great folks at the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute to develop a prioritization for aquatic conservation in the Southeast. We used museum records, state natural heritage data, and even some individual researchers’ personal collections to develop range maps for almost 1,050 species of fishes, mussels, and crayfishes. Find out more about the project at Southeastfreshwater.org. This report and the ESRI Story Map that accompanies it got a surprising amount of press, appearing in newspapers as far away as New York.