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Gretchen A Hansen

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Fisheries Systems Ecologist
St. Paul, MN

https://gretchenhansen.squarespace.com/

6:00pm

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer

7:00am

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer Speaker Ready Room 101C

8:00am

Plenary Session, Awards Presentation & Ignite Session Ballroom A/B

10:00am

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

12:00pm

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm

WALLEYE: Biological and Social Responses to Walleye Recruitment Failure on Minocqua Chain, Wisconsin 103A

1:40pm

WALLEYE: Recovery and Management of the Saginaw Bay Walleye Population 103A

2:00pm

WALLEYE: Ecosystem Changes and Effects on Walleye Sustainable Harvest in Lake Mille Lacs, Minnesota 103A

2:20pm

WALLEYE: Identifying Recruitment Bottlenecks for age-0 Walleye in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 103A

2:40pm

SYMPOSIA-05: The Influence of Lake Habitat and Landscape Context on Bluegill Growth and Population Size Structure in Midwest Glacial Lakes 102D&E (CANCELLED) WALLEYE: Lac Vieux Desert: Management Challenges and a Cooperative Plan to Restore a Naturally-reproducing Walleye (Sander vitreus) Population in a Northern Wisconsin Lake 103A

3:00pm

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

3:20pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Walleye Habitat: Considerations for Successful Natural Reproduction and Stocking 102D&E WALLEYE: Potential for Reducing Largemouth Bass Abundance in Wisconsin Lakes Using Angler Harvest 103A

3:40pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Large Woody Debris and Fish Habitat Structure Additions: Picking the Right Lakes, Setting Expectations, and How to Best Implement 102D&E WALLEYE: Quantifying the Costs of Climate Adaptation to Agencies and Anglers: A Case Study of Wisconsin’s Inland Lake Walleye Fishery 103A

4:00pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Advancing Aquatic Vegetation Management for Fish 102D&E WALLEYE: Walleye Management in the Red Lakes, Minnesota: Collapse, Recovery, and Cooperative Management 103A

4:20pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Nuisance “Weeds” or Critical Fish Habitat: Balancing Trade Offs with Minnesota’s Aquatic Plant Management Program 102D&E

4:40pm

WALLEYE: Differential Effects of Algal and Sedimentary Turbidity on the Visual Systems of Walleye (Sander vitreus) and Their Prey 103A

5:00pm

Student / Professional Networking Mixer Hilton: Crystal Ballroom

7:30pm

UW-Madison and UW-Stevens Point Alumni & Friends Combined Reception Ballroom A/B

8:00am

SYMPOSIA-09: Modeling Oxythermal Stress of Cisco Across Midwest Lakes to Aid Management of Cold-Water Fish Habitat 102C

8:20am

SYMPOSIA-09: Ecological Niche Modeling to Disentangle the Effects of Climate and Eutrophication on Minnesota Lakes 102C

8:40am

SYMPOSIA-09: Digital Media as a Source of Contemporary and Novel Fisheries Data 102C

9:00am

WALLEYE & PERCH: A Multi-scale Approach to Identifying and Addressing the Causes of Minnesota’s Declining Yellow Perch Populations 103D

9:20am

SYMPOSIA-09: Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability for Wildlife 102C

10:00am

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

10:20am

SYMPOSIA-09: Bet Hedging in an Era of Rapid Change: Protecting Wildlife by “Conserving Nature’s Stage” 102C SYMPOSIA-10: Encouraging Civic Engagement in Fisheries Management 103A WALLEYE & PERCH: Forecasting the Impacts of Climate and Land-use Change on Percid Recruitment in Lake Erie 103D

10:40am

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Habitat Quality Explains Population Collapse of Invasive Rusty Crayfish in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 102D&E SYMPOSIA-09: Manager's perspectives on climate adaptation on public lands in the Upper Midwest: Implications for monitoring and tracking progress 102C SYMPOSIA-10: City Staff Using DNR Methods to Survey Local Fisheries 103A WALLEYE & PERCH: Changes in Yellow Perch Recruitment in Relation to Walleye Abundance in Green Bay 103D

11:00am

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

11:20am

SYMPOSIA-09: Panel Discussion and Q&A 102C

11:40am

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Trophic Alterations in the Ohio River Fish Assemblages 103E

1:20pm

SYMPOSIA-07: Using Statewide Survey Data to Support Local-scale Management in Michigan Streams 102A

4:20pm

SYMPOSIA-07: Patterns and Trends in the Fish Assemblage of a Floodplain Lake, Ten Years of Restoration 102A SYMPOSIA-11: Biological Effects of Septic Seepage on Resident Fish Species in Minnesota Lakes 102C

6:00pm

Trade Show & Poster Social and Student Research-in-Progress Posters Ballroom C & Foyer

8:20am

FISH PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR: Temperature Effects on Bluegill Sunfish and Largemouth Bass Metabolism 103B

9:00am

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Developing “Manager’s Models”: Teaching Graduate Students to Communicate How Science Informs Management and Policy 103D