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
Publications by this scientist
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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 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
We investigated using longitudinal models to reconstruct year-class strength (YCS) from catch-at-age data, with an example application to lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in the main basin of Lake Huron. The best model structure depended on the age range used for model implementation. The YCS trajectory from the full age range (3–30 years) was similar to the trajectory from a narrow age...
Authors
Ji X. He, Andrew Edgar Honsey, David F. Staples, James R. Bence, Tracy L. Claramunt
Predicting physical and geomorphic habitat associated with historical lake whitefish and cisco spawning locations in Lakes Erie and Ontario Predicting physical and geomorphic habitat associated with historical lake whitefish and cisco spawning locations in Lakes Erie and Ontario
The Great Lakes basin was historically populated by multiple, coevolved coregonine species, but much of that diversity has been lost. In Lakes Erie and Ontario, both lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and cisco (Coregonus artedi) occurred in high numbers before habitat degradation, overfishing, invasive species, and other factors caused significant declines. There is growing...
Authors
Hannah M Schaefer, Andrew Edgar Honsey, David Bunnell, Brian Weidel, Robin DeBruyne, James S. Diana, Dimitry Gorsky, Edward F. Roseman
Improved understanding and prediction of freshwater fish communities through the use of joint species distribution models Improved understanding and prediction of freshwater fish communities through the use of joint species distribution models
Two primary goals in fisheries research are to (i) understand how habitat and environmental conditions influence the distribution of fishes across the landscape and (ii) make predictions about how fish communities will respond to environmental and anthropogenic change. In inland, freshwater ecosystems, quantitative approaches traditionally used to accomplish these goals largely ignore...
Authors
Tyler Wagner, Gretchen J.A. Hansen, Erin Schliep, Bethany Bethke, Andrew Honsey, Peter Jacobson, Benjamen C. Kline, Shannon L. White
Recruitment synchrony of yellow perch (Perca flavescens, Percidae) in the Great Lakes region, 1966–2008 Recruitment synchrony of yellow perch (Perca flavescens, Percidae) in the Great Lakes region, 1966–2008
Population-level reproductive success (recruitment) of many fish populations is characterized by high inter-annual variation and related to annual variation in key environmental factors (e.g., climate). When such environmental factors are annually correlated across broad spatial scales, spatially separated populations may display recruitment synchrony (i.e., the Moran effect). We...
Authors
Andrew E. Honsey, David B. Bunnell, Cary D. Troy, David G. Fielder, Michael V. Thomas, Carey T. Knight, Stephen Chong, Tomas O. Hook
Science and Products
Publications by this scientist
Filter Total Items: 16
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 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
We investigated using longitudinal models to reconstruct year-class strength (YCS) from catch-at-age data, with an example application to lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in the main basin of Lake Huron. The best model structure depended on the age range used for model implementation. The YCS trajectory from the full age range (3–30 years) was similar to the trajectory from a narrow age...
Authors
Ji X. He, Andrew Edgar Honsey, David F. Staples, James R. Bence, Tracy L. Claramunt
Predicting physical and geomorphic habitat associated with historical lake whitefish and cisco spawning locations in Lakes Erie and Ontario Predicting physical and geomorphic habitat associated with historical lake whitefish and cisco spawning locations in Lakes Erie and Ontario
The Great Lakes basin was historically populated by multiple, coevolved coregonine species, but much of that diversity has been lost. In Lakes Erie and Ontario, both lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and cisco (Coregonus artedi) occurred in high numbers before habitat degradation, overfishing, invasive species, and other factors caused significant declines. There is growing...
Authors
Hannah M Schaefer, Andrew Edgar Honsey, David Bunnell, Brian Weidel, Robin DeBruyne, James S. Diana, Dimitry Gorsky, Edward F. Roseman
Improved understanding and prediction of freshwater fish communities through the use of joint species distribution models Improved understanding and prediction of freshwater fish communities through the use of joint species distribution models
Two primary goals in fisheries research are to (i) understand how habitat and environmental conditions influence the distribution of fishes across the landscape and (ii) make predictions about how fish communities will respond to environmental and anthropogenic change. In inland, freshwater ecosystems, quantitative approaches traditionally used to accomplish these goals largely ignore...
Authors
Tyler Wagner, Gretchen J.A. Hansen, Erin Schliep, Bethany Bethke, Andrew Honsey, Peter Jacobson, Benjamen C. Kline, Shannon L. White
Recruitment synchrony of yellow perch (Perca flavescens, Percidae) in the Great Lakes region, 1966–2008 Recruitment synchrony of yellow perch (Perca flavescens, Percidae) in the Great Lakes region, 1966–2008
Population-level reproductive success (recruitment) of many fish populations is characterized by high inter-annual variation and related to annual variation in key environmental factors (e.g., climate). When such environmental factors are annually correlated across broad spatial scales, spatially separated populations may display recruitment synchrony (i.e., the Moran effect). We...
Authors
Andrew E. Honsey, David B. Bunnell, Cary D. Troy, David G. Fielder, Michael V. Thomas, Carey T. Knight, Stephen Chong, Tomas O. Hook