Andew Honsey is pictured ice fishing for cisco on Lake Charlevoix on 31 January 2022. Photo Credit: Ralph Tingley, USGS.
Andrew Honsey, PhD
Hello! I am a fisheries biologist with the USGS Great Lakes Science Center, and I am stationed at the Hammond Bay Biological Station in Millersburg, MI.
I provide science to support the conservation and restoration of ciscoes (herring and chubs) and whitefishes throughout the Great Lakes. My current projects encompass a variety of topics, including surveying Great Lakes tributaries for river spawning populations of ciscoes or whitefishes, analyzing recruitment (population-level reproductive success) drivers and dynamics of cisco and lake whitefish populations across the basin, characterizing shifts in body shapes among ciscoes throughout the last century in lakes Michigan and Huron, and comparing the body shapes of ciscoes reared in hatcheries and laboratories to those of wild populations.
Professional Experience
2020-Present: Fisheries Biologist, USGS Great Lakes Science Center
2019-2020: Postdoctoral research associate, Hansen Lab, University of Minnesota
Education and Certifications
PhD (2018), Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
M.S. (2014), Forestry and Natural Resources (Fisheries Track), Purdue University
B.S. (2012), Biology, Hillsdale College
Science and Products
Demographic, morphometric, and meristic data describing cisco (Coregonus artedi) captured in the Spanish River, Ontario, Canada, 15-16 November 2022
Bottom Trawl Catch Alewife Densities and Ages in Lakes Michigan and Huron
Traditional and geometric morphometric data describing wild and artificially reared cisco (Coregonus artedi) from lakes Huron and Ontario
Historical Spawning Sites for Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and Cisco (Coregonus artedi) in Lake Ontario and Connecting Channels, 1860-1970
Andew Honsey is pictured ice fishing for cisco on Lake Charlevoix on 31 January 2022. Photo Credit: Ralph Tingley, USGS.
Publications by this scientist
Synchrony of alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, year-class strength in the Great Lakes region
Documentation of a probable spawning run of cisco Coregonus artedi in the Spanish River, Ontario, Canada
Declines and shifts in morphological diversity of ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) in lakes Huron and Michigan, 1917–2019
Synthesizing professional opinion of Lake Whitefish and Cisco recruitment drivers across the Great Lakes
Impacts of artificial rearing on cisco Coregonus artedi morphology, including pugheadedness
A proposed methodology for conducting threats assessments within the Great Lakes Coregonines restoration framework
Morphological differences between wild and hatchery-reared Bloater (Coregonus hoyi) from Lake Michigan, USA
A science and management partnership to restore coregonine diversity to the Laurentian Great Lakes
Longitudinal analyses of catch-at-age data for reconstructing year-class strength, with an application to lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in the main basin of Lake Huron
Predicting physical and geomorphic habitat associated with historical lake whitefish and cisco spawning locations in Lakes Erie and Ontario
Science and Products
Demographic, morphometric, and meristic data describing cisco (Coregonus artedi) captured in the Spanish River, Ontario, Canada, 15-16 November 2022
Bottom Trawl Catch Alewife Densities and Ages in Lakes Michigan and Huron
Traditional and geometric morphometric data describing wild and artificially reared cisco (Coregonus artedi) from lakes Huron and Ontario
Historical Spawning Sites for Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and Cisco (Coregonus artedi) in Lake Ontario and Connecting Channels, 1860-1970
Andew Honsey is pictured ice fishing for cisco on Lake Charlevoix on 31 January 2022. Photo Credit: Ralph Tingley, USGS.
Andew Honsey is pictured ice fishing for cisco on Lake Charlevoix on 31 January 2022. Photo Credit: Ralph Tingley, USGS.
Publications by this scientist