{"id":12,"date":"2018-01-09T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2018-02-15T19:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T19:21:06","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/02\/IMG_0338-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/02\/IMG_0338-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/02\/IMG_0338-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/02\/IMG_0338-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/02\/IMG_0338-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/02\/IMG_0338.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Kevin Bestgen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Senior Research Scientist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Director, Larval Fish Laboratory<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"mailto:kbestgen@colostate.edu\">kbestgen@colostate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">970 491-1848<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">J.V.K Wagar Building Room 32\/33<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><\/b>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>I am a Research Scientist and aquatic ecologist working mainly on native and endangered fishes and their ecosystems.\u00a0 With students and colleagues in the Larval Fish Laboratory, a research group in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, we investigate factors affecting distribution and abundance of native aquatic organisms, especially those related to altered flow, water temperature, and sediment regimes, and introduced, nonnative fishes.\u00a0 We search for solutions to conserve native fishes and their habitats in riverine systems regulated by dams and invaded by nonnative predaceous fishes.\u00a0 Our geographic focus is the western United States, with a focus on Colorado and Utah and the Colorado River basin.\u00a0 These interdisciplinary conservation issues are challenging given complex ecological interactions, climate change effects, and diverse stakeholder interests that are set in an arid environment with a rapidly expanding human population.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kevin Bestgen Senior Research Scientist Director, Larval Fish Laboratory Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology kbestgen@colostate.edu 970 491-1848 J.V.K Wagar Building Room 32\/33 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I am a Research Scientist and aquatic ecologist working mainly on native and endangered fishes and their ecosystems.\u00a0 With students and colleagues in the Larval Fish Laboratory, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/kbestgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}