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Erin O'Shaughnessey

Monday, January 29
 

1:20pm

ASIAN CARP: Validating Aging Structures in Asian Carp from the LaGrange Reach of the Illinois River to Known-Age Asian Carp from China 103D SYMPOSIA-05: Using Aquatic Landscape Ecology to Inform Lake Habitat Management at Multiple Scales 102D&E

1:40pm

ASIAN CARP: Habitat Use and Movement of Juvenile Asian Carp in the Illinois River 103D

2:00pm

ASIAN CARP: Satellite GPS Telemetry of Asian Carp in the Upper Illinois River Waterway 103D SYMPOSIA-05: Adapting to Climate Change: Tools for Managers of Inland Glacial Lakes 102D&E

2:20pm

ASIAN CARP: Age and Growth Demographics of Asian Carp in the Upper Mississippi River 103D SYMPOSIA-05: Investigating Fish Kills to Identify Emerging Threats and Long-term Stress 102D&E

2:40pm

ASIAN CARP: Reproductive Potential of Silver and Bighead Carp in the Upper Mississippi River 103D SYMPOSIA-05: The Influence of Lake Habitat and Landscape Context on Bluegill Growth and Population Size Structure in Midwest Glacial Lakes 102D&E

3:20pm

ASIAN CARP: Using Microchemistry and Stable Isotopes to Determine Natal Origin and Movement of Asian Carp in Pools 16-19 of the Mississippi River 103D SYMPOSIA-05: Walleye Habitat: Considerations for Successful Natural Reproduction and Stocking 102D&E

3:40pm

ASIAN CARP: Juvenile Asian Carp as Forage for Predatory Fish in the LaGrange Reach of the Illinois River 103D

4:00pm

ASIAN CARP: Linking Aquatic-terrestrial Habitats Through Resource and Process Subsidies: Insights from Too Few Salmon and Too Many Carp 103D

4:20pm

ASIAN CARP: Advancements in Assessing Silver Carp Populations in the Illinois River, Illinois: A Comparison Between Standard Electrofishing and Novel Trawling Techniques 103D

4:40pm

ASIAN CARP: Electrotrawling as a Method to Mass Remove Invasive Carp 103D
 
Tuesday, January 30
 

9:00am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Diet Analysis of Predatory Fish in Pools 19 and 20 of the Upper Mississippi River with Contrasting Habitats and Asian Carp Abundance 102D&E

9:20am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Inclusion of New Zealand Mud Snails in the Diet of Benthic Foragers 102D&E

9:40am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Development and Implementation of an Adaptive Management Approach for Monitoring Non-indigenous Fishes in Lower Green Bay, Lake Michigan 102D&E

10:20am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Grass Carp Spawning in Lake Erie Tributaries; When and Where? 102D&E

10:40am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Habitat Quality Explains Population Collapse of Invasive Rusty Crayfish in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 102D&E SYMPOSIA-06: Quantifying Home Ranges and Hibernacula Characteristics of Captive-Reared, Recently-Released Juvenile Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) 101B

11:00am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Detecting Round Goby in the Field Using a Portable eDNA Detection Kit 102D&E

11:20am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Battle of the Claws: Competition Between Two Non-native Crayfish Species in the Chicago Region and Potential Spread of Red Swamp Crayfish Throughout the Great Lakes Region 102D&E

11:40am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Spatiotemporal Patterns from Electrofishing Catches at Lake Michigan Invasive Species Hotspot Locations 102D&E

1:20pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Combining Invasive Species Risk Assessments with Climate Change Scenarios to Predict Future Invaders in the Great Lakes 102D&E

1:40pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Effects of 2, 4-D Herbicide Treatments Used to Control Eurasian Watermilfoil on Fish and Zooplankton in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 102D&E

2:00pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: From Water Chemistry to Fish: The Impacts of Zebra Mussels Across Multiple Trophic Levels 102D&E

2:20pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Implementation of an Aquatic Invasive Species Early Detection Program on Lake Superior 102D&E

2:40pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: A Lakewide Survey of Asian Clam (Corbicula fluminea) Distribution at Warmwater Discharges in Lake Michigan 102D&E

3:20pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Beam Me Up, Scotty! Using a Beam Trawl to Assess the Relative Abundance of Round Gobies Across a Variety of Habitat Types in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron 102D&E

3:40pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Alternative Sea Lamprey Barrier Technologies: History as a Control Tool 102D&E

4:00pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Stable Isotopes Indicate Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) Increase Dependence of Lake Food Webs on Littoral Energy Sources 102D&E

4:20pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Early Detection Monitoring of New Zealand Mudsnails Using Qualitative and eDNA Surveys 102D&E

4:40pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Collaboratively Managing Lake Erie Grass Carp Through a Structured Decision Making Process 102D&E

5:00pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Selective, Safe and Low Cost Carp Pesticide 102D&E

6:00pm

Poster Display. Age Distribution of Yellow Perch Perca Flavescens in the Indiana Portion of Lake Michigan Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Great Lakes Fisheries and Aquatic Biota: eDNA Technology in Monitoring and Management Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Predicting the Potential Distribution of the Nonnative Red Swamp Crayfish Procambarus Clarkii in the Laurentian Great Lakes Ballroom C & Foyer
 
Wednesday, January 31
 

8:00am

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Comparing Substrate Composition Changes Above Two Lowhead Dams from 2012 to 2017 Using Side Scan Sonar 103D SYMPOSIA-14: A Multi-Jurisdictional Approach to Asian Carp in the Upper Illinois River and Chicago Area Waterway System 102A

8:40am

FISH HABITAT & GENETICS: Using GIS to Predict Habitat in Lakes: An Example Using Nearshore Substrate Categories 103A

9:20am

SYMPOSIA-14: Addressing the Threat of Organisms in Trade in the Great Lakes Region: Science-based Risk Assessment and Outreach 102A

9:40am

SYMPOSIA-14: Collaborative Multi-jurisdictional Aquatic Invasive Species Control 102A

10:20am

SYMPOSIA-14: Developing a Framework for the Management and Control of Asian Carp in the Missouri River Basin 102A

10:40am

SYMPOSIA-14: Asian Carp Contracted Harvest in the Upper Mississippi River 102A

11:20am

FISH HABITAT & GENETICS: Biological Assessment of Lionfish (Pterois volitans) Control via CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Drive Technology 103A SYMPOSIA-14: Collaborative Efforts by USFWS Green Bay Leads to Better Management of AIS in Lake Michigan 102A

11:40am

SYMPOSIA-14: Revisiting a Forgotten Invader: Discovery of a Third Corbicula in Illinois 102A