Biography

Dr. Amanda Rosenberger serves as the Assistant Unit Leader of the Tennessee Fisheries Cooperative Research Unit. Originally from Virginia, she holds degrees from Bard College at Simon's Rock, the University of Florida, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Rosenberger's research focuses on the ecology and conservation of freshwater species, including fish, crayfish, and mussels, emphasizing the role of ecological processes in shaping their distributions, population characteristics, and community structure at local and landscape scales. She investigates mechanistic relationships between aquatic organisms and their environment, and how human intervention, nonnative species, and climate change can alter those relationships, ultimately informing conservation-oriented management decisions.