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JR

Jarod Reibel

Grand Valley State University
Sunday, January 28
 

6:00pm CST

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer
 
Monday, January 29
 

1:20pm CST

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Influence of Spatial Alignment on Photographic Detection Rates at Remotely Triggered Camera Stations 103B

1:40pm CST

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Telemetry Drones and GPS Collars: What Your Engineering Department Can Do for You 103B

2:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: CWD Management and Response in Wisconsin: Lessons Learned and New Beginnings 102C

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Surveillance and Management in Missouri 102C

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: Responding to a Recent Outbreak of Chronic Wasting Disease in Wild Deer in Minnesota 102C

3:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: Chronic Wasting Disease Management and Surveillance: A Michigan Perspective 102C

4:20pm CST

CARNIVORES: Estimating Density of Bobcats in Midwestern Landscapes Using Spatial Capture-Recapture Models 103C

4:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: Panel Discussion on Opportunities for CWD Collaboration 102C

5:00pm CST

Student / Professional Networking Mixer Hilton: Crystal Ballroom

7:30pm CST

UW-Madison and UW-Stevens Point Alumni & Friends Combined Reception Ballroom A/B
 
Tuesday, January 30
 

8:00am CST

UNGULATES: Elk Monitoring in Wisconsin: Trail Cameras and Citizen Science 103C

8:20am CST

UNGULATES: Annual and Seasonal Home Ranges of Female Elk in Northwestern Minnesota 103C

8:40am CST

UNGULATES: Deer Recruitment in Wisconsin: New Survey Methods 103C

9:00am CST

UNGULATES: Pregnancy Rates and Body Condition of White-tailed Deer in Wisconsin 103C

9:20am CST

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

9:40am CST

UNGULATES: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Antler Point Restrictions to Achieve Various White-tailed Deer Management Goals 103C

10:20am CST

UNGULATES: The Wisconsin Deer Management Assistance Program: Improving Relationships One Landowner at a Time 103C

10:40am CST

UNGULATES: Retention of Youth Deer Hunters in Nebraska 103C

11:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-09: An Uncertain Climate for Deer Wintering Complexes: Scenario Planning for Complex Adaptive Systems 102C

11:20am CST

UNGULATES: Pilot Testing a Program to Allow Hunters to Sample Their Own Deer for CWD 103C

11:40am CST

UNGULATES: Long-term Collaborative Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management, Using Focused Rewards Guided by Prevalence Distributions: a Proposal 103C

1:20pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: Effects of Age, Sex, and Population Dynamics on Dispersal of American Martens 103B

1:40pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: Movement Ecology of Marten (Martes americana) in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, Michigan 103B

2:00pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: American Marten Habitat Use: A Resource Selection Function for Michigan's Northern Lower Peninsula 103B

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Mallard Use of Incentivized Conservation Program Wetlands During Winter in Mississippi 102B

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-12: The Wisconsin Bald Eagle Bio-Sentinel Program: Using Bald Eagles as Indicators of Ecosystem Health 103A

3:20pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: Survival of Gray and Fox Squirrels in Minnesota: A Case Study of the Effects of Hunting 103B

3:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Using Variation in Lake Sturgeon Microsatellite Loci to Assess Artificial Spawning Reefs and Sampling Methods in a Large River System 102A

4:00pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: If We Build It THEY Will Come: Restored Prairies and Grassland Birds 103C

4:20pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Patch Size Dynamics of Birds in Mixed-Grass Prairies: Why Might the Influence of Patch Size Vary 103C

4:40pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: Utilizing Non-invasive Techniques to Determine Genetic Variation and Demographics of Snowshoe Hare in Michigan 103B
 
Wednesday, January 31
 

8:00am CST

WATERFOWL: Visibility Bias and Disturbance of Waterfowl During Aerial Surveys 102B

8:20am CST

WATERFOWL: True Metabolizable Energy of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation for Ducks 102B

8:40am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Reducing Lead Exposure in Bald Eagles in the Upper Midwest 102D&E

9:00am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Development of a Standardized Monitoring Program for Bald Eagles in the Southwest Alaska Network of National Parks 102D&E

9:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: The Urban-Rural Divide in Fish & Wildlife Conservation Funding 102D&E

9:40am CST

WATERFOWL: Response of Wetland Food Webs to Neonicotinoid Insecticide Contamination 102B

10:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program: 80 Years of Conservation Success 102D&E

10:40am CST

WATERFOWL: Waterfowl Hunter Satisfaction over the Years 102B

11:00am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Collaboration to Improve Fire Management Outcomes: Increasing the Application of Research to Prescribed Fire in the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Ecoregion 102D&E

11:20am CST

WATERFOWL: Status Update on Cranes and Crop Damage in the Upper Midwest 102B

11:40am CST

WATERFOWL: Saving an American Icon: The Challenge and Successes of Reintroducing Whooping Cranes 102B