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Asian Carp and Other Aquatic Invasives Track
Asian Carp Track
Carnivores Track
Conservation Collaboration & General Wildlife Track
Fish Habitat and Genetics Track
Fish Physiology and Behavior Track
Forest and Grassland Songbirds Track
General Fisheries & Wildlife Track
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Group 10: Education & Outreach and Human Dimensions
Group 1: Camera Methods
Group 2: Population Dynamics - Estimation - Monitoring
Group 3: Invasive Species
Group 4: Water Quality - Toxicology - Animal Health
Group 5: Genetics
Group 6: Diets
Group 7: Techniques & Technology
Group 8: Animal Behavior
Group 9: Habitats & Habitat Relationships
Student Research-in-Progress Poster
Rivers and Oxbows Track
S01: Citizen Science: Collaboration with the Public for Natural Resource Management and Conservation
S02: Cooperative Ecosystem Study Units: Working Together to Support Informed Public Trust Resource Stewardship
S03: CWD Management: Facilitating Agency Collaboration
S04: Ducks to Dickcissels: Collaboration for the Conservation of Multiple Species in Grasslands
S05: Managing Fish Habitat and Fisheries Affected by Habitat in Inland Glacial Lakes
S06: Advances and Challenges in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and Management
S07: Development - Validation - and Application of Standardized Population Assessments in Inland Waters
S08: Waterbird Use and Monitoring of Wetland Protection - Restoration and Enhancement Projects
S09: Back to the Future: Fish and Wildlife Research in an Era of Rapid Change
S10: Collaborating for Fisheries Management: Opportunities and Challenges from Interactions of Local Lake Organizations with State Agencies
S11: Two Worlds - One Goal: Importance of Fisheries and Toxicology Collaboration
S12: Coordinating Successful Wildlife Disease Responses
S13: Extension and Outreach for Anglers and Hunters: Challenges - Innovation - Collaboration
S14: Managing Aquatic Invasive Species Through Collaboration
S15: Community-based Research and Restoration in Milwaukee County Wisconsin
Salmonids Track
Small Mammals Track
Streams - Dams - Reservoirs Track
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Sturgeon - Esocids - Coregonids Track
Tools & Technology: Wildlife Habitat Track
Ungulates Track
Upland Game Birds & Pollinators Track
Walleye and Perch Track
Walleye Track
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Jennifer Kanine
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
Director, Kowabdanawa odë kė
Monday
, January 29
8:00am CST
Plenary Session, Awards Presentation & Ignite Session
Ballroom A/B
10:00am CST
Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
Ballroom C & Foyer
12:00pm CST
Lunch Break on own
N/A
1:20pm CST
SYMPOSIA-03: Five Decades (or More) of Chronic Wasting Disease: Lessons Learned
102C
SYMPOSIA-04: Birds, Grasslands, and the Need for Collaboration
102B
1:40pm CST
SYMPOSIA-05: A Herculean Task: Reversing Lake Eutrophication
102D&E
2:00pm CST
CARNIVORES: Determining Coyote-Wolf Hybridization in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Using Mitochondrial DNA
103C
SYMPOSIA-02: Pollinators in Our Parks – How Is Invasive Plant Management Impacting Native Bees in National Parks?
102A
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Using GIS to Predict the Impacts of Woody Biomass Harvesting on Forest Biodiversity: Case Studies in Northeast USA
103B
2:20pm CST
CARNIVORES: Recommendations for the Update of the Bad River Band Ma'iingan Plan
103C
SYMPOSIA-03: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Surveillance and Management in Missouri
102C
SYMPOSIA-05: Investigating Fish Kills to Identify Emerging Threats and Long-term Stress
102D&E
2:40pm CST
SYMPOSIA-03: Responding to a Recent Outbreak of Chronic Wasting Disease in Wild Deer in Minnesota
102C
SYMPOSIA-04: Prairie Contour Buffer Strips Serve as Bird Nesting Habitat in Midwestern Agricultural Landscapes
102B
3:20pm CST
CARNIVORES: The American Black Bear and Baited Hair-snares: A Quantitative Ethogram and Behavioral Analysis
103C
SYMPOSIA-01: Monarch Eggs and Caterpillars, Data, Data Management, and Data Quality: A Case Study
101B
SYMPOSIA-03: Chronic Wasting Disease Management and Surveillance: A Michigan Perspective
102C
SYMPOSIA-04: Beyond Wetlands: The Importance of Grassland Habitat for Breeding Waterfowl in an Agricultural Landscape
102B
3:40pm CST
CARNIVORES: Public Preferences for Management Actions in Response to Various Black Bear – Human Interactions
103C
SYMPOSIA-02: Assessing Vernal Pools for Informed Decision Making in Resource Management
102A
SYMPOSIA-03: CWD and the Threat to Waawaashkeshi (white-tailed Deer) in the Ceded Territories
102C
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Impacts of Prescribed Fire Intensity and Seasonality on Woody Vegetation
103B
4:00pm CST
CARNIVORES: Bobcat Home Range Size, Home Range Overlap, and Habitat Utilization in Northern Wisconsin
103C
SALMONIDS: Diet Complexity and Specialization of Lake Michigan Salmonids: Contrasting Trophic Indicators
103E
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Songbird Responses to Drought Conditions with Temporal Scale Considerations
103B
4:20pm CST
CARNIVORES: Estimating Density of Bobcats in Midwestern Landscapes Using Spatial Capture-Recapture Models
103C
SYMPOSIA-05: Nuisance “Weeds” or Critical Fish Habitat: Balancing Trade Offs with Minnesota’s Aquatic Plant Management Program
102D&E
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Effects of Land Management Type on American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) Occupancy and Recruitment
103B
5:00pm CST
Student / Professional Networking Mixer
Hilton: Crystal Ballroom
Tuesday
, January 30
8:00am CST
SYMPOSIA-06: Initial Description of Dermocystid Infections in Silvery Salamanders (Ambystoma Platineum) from Vermilion County, Illinois
101B
SYMPOSIA-07: An Overview of North American AFS Freshwater Fish Sampling Standardization
102A
UNGULATES: Elk Monitoring in Wisconsin: Trail Cameras and Citizen Science
103C
8:20am CST
SYMPOSIA-06: A Ranavirus-associated Mass Mortality Event in an Illinois Amphibian Community
101B
SYMPOSIA-09: Ecological Niche Modeling to Disentangle the Effects of Climate and Eutrophication on Minnesota Lakes
102C
UNGULATES: Annual and Seasonal Home Ranges of Female Elk in Northwestern Minnesota
103C
8:40am CST
SYMPOSIA-06: Impact of Snake Fungal Disease on Population Viability
101B
SYMPOSIA-08: Secretive Marshbird Response to Fire and Grazing in Wetlands of Western Minnesota
102B
UNGULATES: Deer Recruitment in Wisconsin: New Survey Methods
103C
9:00am CST
SYMPOSIA-06: Can Turtles Serve as Bio-indicators of Environmental Health? Applications of Conservation Physiology in Midwestern Herpetology
101B
SYMPOSIA-08: Spectacular Response of Waterbirds to Restoration of Cat Island Chain in Lower Green Bay, Wisconsin
102B
SYMPOSIA-09: Monarchs: Climate and Implications for Preservation of an Endangered Phenomenon
102C
UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Does Diversity Matter? Ring-necked Pheasant Nest Site Selection and Nest Survival in Grassland Reconstructions
103B
9:20am CST
RIVERS & OXBOWS: Capture Efficiency of a Fine-mesh Seine in a Large River: Implications for Abundance, Richness, and Diversity Analyses
103E
SYMPOSIA-06: Urban Wildlife: An Important Focus for Conservation
101B
SYMPOSIA-07: An Overview of Indiana’s New Reservoir Status and Trends Monitoring Program
102A
SYMPOSIA-08: Marsh Bird Occupancy of Wetlands in the Glacial Habitat Restoration Area of Wisconsin
102B
SYMPOSIA-09: Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability for Wildlife
102C
UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Do Pheasants Use Spring Cover Crops?
103B
9:40am CST
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
SYMPOSIA-06: Landscape Genetics Reveal Possible Drought and Glacial Refugia Are Driving Population Structure of Northern Leopard Frog in North Dakota
101B
SYMPOSIA-07: Electrofishing Equipment and Safety Standardization in Missouri
102A
SYMPOSIA-08: Waterfowl Use of Restored Wetlands in the Glacial Habitat Restoration Area of Wisconsin
102B
UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Space, Habitat and Abundance: Hotspot Analysis of Distribution of Ring-necked Pheasants in Eastern South Dakota
103B
10:20am CST
SYMPOSIA-06: Using eDNA Surveys to Detect a Fossorial Species of Conservation Concern, the Kirtland Snake (Clonophis kirtlandii) in Northwest Ohio
101B
SYMPOSIA-08: Guiding Wetland Restoration in the Calumet Region of Illinois and Indiana Through Monitoring Breeding Marsh Birds
102B
UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Disentangling Effects of Fire, Habitat, and Climate on an Endangered Prairie-Specialist Butterfly
103B
10:40am CST
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
SYMPOSIA-07: Developing, Validating, and Applying Standard Methods to Improve Fisheries Management and Research
102A
SYMPOSIA-08: Wetland Quality for Waterbirds in Illinois
102B
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
11:00am CST
ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Detecting Round Goby in the Field Using a Portable eDNA Detection Kit
102D&E
SYMPOSIA-06: Soft-Release May Not Enhance Translocation Efforts for Massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus)
101B
SYMPOSIA-08: Marsh Bird Use of Wetlands Managed for Waterfowl in Illinois
102B
UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Comparing Bee and Grasshopper Communities in Missouri's Reconstructed and Remnant Prairies
103B
11:20am CST
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
SYMPOSIA-07: Evaluating Electrofishing Techniques: A Critical Step in Developing Standardized Sampling Methods for Smallmouth Bass
102A
UNGULATES: Pilot Testing a Program to Allow Hunters to Sample Their Own Deer for CWD
103C
UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Planting for Pollinators: Evaluation of Four Prairie Seed Mixes
103B
11:40am CST
ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Spatiotemporal Patterns from Electrofishing Catches at Lake Michigan Invasive Species Hotspot Locations
102D&E
UNGULATES: Long-term Collaborative Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management, Using Focused Rewards Guided by Prevalence Distributions: a Proposal
103C
UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Impacts of Neonicotinoid Seed-treatment Use on Native Pollinator Abundance and Diversity in Missouri Agroecosystems
103B
1:20pm CST
ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Combining Invasive Species Risk Assessments with Climate Change Scenarios to Predict Future Invaders in the Great Lakes
102D&E
RIVERS & OXBOWS: Origins, Current Status, and Potential Roles of Oxbows for Conservation and Nutrient Reduction in Agricultural Landscapes: Introduction to the Oxbow Session
103E
SYMPOSIA-06: Weather Patterns and Habitat Usage of Adult Eastern Tiger Salamanders in the Prairie Pothole Region of West-Central Minnesota
101B
SYMPOSIA-07: Using Statewide Survey Data to Support Local-scale Management in Michigan Streams
102A
SYMPOSIA-08: Survey Methodology, Movement Ecology, and Vital Rates of the Virginia Rail and Sora in the Lake Erie Coastal Marshes of Northern Ohio
102B
SYMPOSIA-11: Aquatic Tox in Amphibians--perfluorinated Substances Are Chemicals of Emerging Concern
102C
SMALL MAMMALS: Effects of Age, Sex, and Population Dynamics on Dispersal of American Martens
103B
1:40pm CST
FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Seasonal Habitat Use by Fledgling Cerulean Warblers (Setophaga cerulea)
103C
RIVERS & OXBOWS: Oxbow Restorations in Iowa: A Compilation of Data and Lessons Learned over the past 17 Years
103E
SYMPOSIA-06: The Influence of Landscape Factors and Prescribed Fire on the Occupancy Dynamics of Blue-Spotted Salamanders
101B
SYMPOSIA-08: King Rail Trapping and Telemetry at the Winous Point Marsh Conservancy
102B
SMALL MAMMALS: Movement Ecology of Marten (Martes americana) in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, Michigan
103B
2:00pm CST
SYMPOSIA-08: Michigan Black Tern Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation of Coastal Wetlands
102B
SYMPOSIA-11: Pollutant Stress in the Maumee River: Impacted Physiology and Reproduction in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) and Sunfish (Lepomis spp.)
102C
SMALL MAMMALS: American Marten Habitat Use: A Resource Selection Function for Michigan's Northern Lower Peninsula
103B
2:20pm CST
ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Implementation of an Aquatic Invasive Species Early Detection Program on Lake Superior
102D&E
FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Range-wide Patterns of Migratory Connectivity and Nonbreeding Distribution of Vermivora Warblers
103C
SYMPOSIA-06: Home Range and Movements of Spiny Softshell Turtles (Apalone spinifera), Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta), and Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina) in an Urban Minnesota Lake
101B
SYMPOSIA-12: Coodinating White-Nose Syndrome: Readiness, Response, Recuperation
103A
SMALL MAMMALS: Nest Tree Use by Southern Flying Squirrels in Fragmented Midwestern Landscapes
103B
2:40pm CST
FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Response of Larval Lepidoptera and Their Avian Predators to Experimental Ice Storms in a Northeastern Forest
103C
RIVERS & OXBOWS: Integrating Reconstructed Oxbows in Watershed Planning to Achieve Habitat and Water Quality Goals
103E
SYMPOSIA-06: Preliminary Habitat Modeling of Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata) and Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Indiana
101B
SYMPOSIA-08: Challenges of Wetland Restoration Monitoring--If You Build It Will They Come, If They Come Will You Know It?
102B
SMALL MAMMALS: Sex Biased Effects on Prevalence of Parasites in Southern Flying Squirrels
103B
3:20pm CST
SYMPOSIA-06: Snake Occupancy and Abundance in Restored Grasslands
101B
SYMPOSIA-07: Evaluation of Four Modified Fyke Net Designs for Standard Fish Sampling
102A
SYMPOSIA-11: Modeling Effects of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) Exposures on Fish Populations
102C
SYMPOSIA-12: Coordination of Wildlife Disease Response with Tribal Governments
103A
SMALL MAMMALS: Survival of Gray and Fox Squirrels in Minnesota: A Case Study of the Effects of Hunting
103B
3:40pm CST
ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Alternative Sea Lamprey Barrier Technologies: History as a Control Tool
102D&E
SYMPOSIA-12: Insights Relative to Black Bear Physiology and Potential Implications for Human Medicine
103A
SMALL MAMMALS: Modeling the Effects of White-nose Syndrome on the Bat Community of Wisconsin
103B
4:00pm CST
TWS North Central Section Annual Member & Executive Board Meeting
Hilton: Regency Ballroom
SMALL MAMMALS: Testing the Efficacy of Chitosan as a Potential Treatment for White-Nose Syndrome
103B
4:20pm CST
ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Early Detection Monitoring of New Zealand Mudsnails Using Qualitative and eDNA Surveys
102D&E
FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Patch Size Dynamics of Birds in Mixed-Grass Prairies: Why Might the Influence of Patch Size Vary
103C
SYMPOSIA-06: Trade-offs Between Temperature, Predation Risk, and Nest Survival in the Blanding's Turtle
101B
SMALL MAMMALS: Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Timber Harvesting Techniques on the Bat Community in a Midwestern Hardwood Forest
103B
4:40pm CST
SMALL MAMMALS: Utilizing Non-invasive Techniques to Determine Genetic Variation and Demographics of Snowshoe Hare in Michigan
103B
5:00pm CST
Wildlife Acoustics: Passive Acoustic Monitoring Workshop
Hilton: Walker
6:00pm CST
Trade Show & Poster Social and Student Research-in-Progress Posters
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. A Comparison of Autumn Electrofishing and Autumn Fyke Nets for Sampling Bluegill and Redear Sunfish Populations
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. A Wetland Invader and Climate Change: The Effects of Typha X Glauca on Wetland Biodiversity
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Green River Conservation Opportunity Area
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. An Ecological Framework for Using Environmental DNA (eDNA) to Detect Kirtland’s Snakes (Clonophis kirtlandii)
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Arboreal Camera Trapping Reveals Arboreal Behavior of Hyla versicolor, Peromyscus leucopus and Peromyscus maniculatus in Northern Wisconsin
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Assessing Bat Diets via Guano Metagenomics
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Burbot (Lota lota) Movement and Age Distribution Within the St. Clair-Detroit River System
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Change in the Fish Community After Restoration of the Little Rapids, St Marys River
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Determination of the most accurate method to estimate length and weight in small bodied fishes
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Development of eDNA Techniques for Endangered Mussels
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Did the Massasauga (Sistrurus Catenatus) Cross the Road?
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Different Management Practices Affecting Arthropod Diversity in the Kakamega Rain Forest
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Differential Microhabitat Use Between Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus and Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus in Northern Wisconsin
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Direct Comparison of eDNA Capture and Extraction Methods Through Detection and Quantification of Target DNA in Cloned Cells and the Effect of Stochasticity on eDNA Recovery
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Divergent Responsiveness of Two Isoforms of the Estrogen Receptor to Mixtures of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Fathead Minnow and Bluegill Sunfish
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Diversity, Distribution, and Habitat Associations of Non-native Mollusks in the Chicago Region
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Effect of Vegetation Composition and Structure on Daily Nest Survival in Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) and Dickcissel (Spiza americana) in Iowa
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Effects of Soil Conditions on Cutaneous Bacteria of the Red-backed Salamander
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Efficacy of Artificial Cover Objects to Monitor Tiger and Blue-Spotted Salamanders
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Evaluating Potential Effects of Camera Density on Capture and Recapture Rates of Bobcats
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Evaluating Potential Effects of Proximity to Roadways in a Road-naïve Population of Turtles
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Evaluating the Effect of Forced Re-nesting on Whooping Crane Nest Success
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Evolutionary Consequences of Fragmentation on Plant Communities in Northwest Ohio
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Feasibility of Reintroducing Spring Peepers (Pseudacris crucifer) to Their Historic Range
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Filling in the Gaps: Clonophis Kirtlandii in Illinois
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Floral and Soil Stoichiometric (C:N) Response to Prescribed Fire in Tallgrass Prairie
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Food Selection of American Green-winged Teal During Spring Migration in Illinois
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Forensic Methods for Species Determination of Unknown Wildlife Carcasses or Remains
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Great Lakes Fisheries and Aquatic Biota: eDNA Technology in Monitoring and Management
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Herpetofauna Surveys on Three Public Properties in Chickasaw County, Iowa
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Incorporating Aerial Imagery into Waterfowl Population Estimates
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Influence of Environmental and Physiological Interplay on the Condition and Movement Behavior on Subpopulations Under Unpredictable Climatic Conditions
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Influence of Water Quality on Unionid Density and Diversity in a Tributary of the Chippewa River, MI, USA
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Is It Time for an Additional Approach to Wildlife Education: Better Preparing Graduates by Including the Professional Science Master’s in Our Educational Repertoire
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Long Term Biological Monitoring of the Coldwater River
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Long-term Macroinvertebrate Assemblages of the White River, Indiana
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Mapping High-Resolution Sonar as a Biological Research Tool
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Measuring Ruffed Grouse Drumming Log Characteristics
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Mnomen (wild Rice) Genetics Project from Kalamazoo and St. Joseph River Watersheds
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Monitoring Catch Success of Turtles in Pool 12 of the Upper Mississippi River
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Mycoplasma Detection and Prevalence in the Endangered Illinois Alligator Snapping Turtle
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Nonlethal Strategy to Determine Gender in Brown Trout Using Morphometric Measurements
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Point Count Data Error Rates from a Large-scale, Statewide Avian Study: The Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Population Change, Nest-site Selection, and Nesting Success in a Restored Population of Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, 1986-2016
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Population Demographics of the North American River Otter in Ohio After 12 Years of Harvest
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
Poster Display. Presence of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Northern Michigan Waters and Their Relationship to Land Use and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Quantifying Physical Maturation of Artificial Fish Spawning Reefs in the St. Clair-Detroit River System
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Quantifying Shorebird Abundance and Distribution Through Aerial Surveys in the Illinois River Valley
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Ranavirus Effects on Metamorphic Salamander Body Condition and Growth in Created Wetlands
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Recording Southern Flying Squirrel Responses
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Risk-averse Foraging and Gray Fox Climbing Behavior
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Sampling Designs for Landscape-level eDNA Monitoring Programs Using Three-level Occurrence Models
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Semi-automated Data Processing for Mobile Hydroacoustic Surveys Using Side-facing Transducers
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Size and Demography of Illinois’ Largest Known Blanding’s Turtle Population
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Snowshoe Hare in Lower Michigan: The Shifting Range of a Climate-Sensitive Species
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Social Information and Habitat Selection in the Vermivora Complex
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Testing the Effectiveness of eDNA Procedures
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. The Anthropogenic Effects on the Urban and Rural Coyote Diet
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. The Application of Prescribed Burns and Food Plots with White-tailed Deer in Northern Wisconsin
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. The Effect of Prescribed Fire and Deer Exclusion on an Oak-hickory Woodland of West-central Illinois
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. The Effect of Prescribed Fire, Landscape Position, and Deer Browsing on Spring Ephemerals in an Oak-hickory Woodland of West-central Illinois
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Tracking Desert Songbirds: The Post-fledging Period in Gray Vireos (Vireo vicinior)
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Tracking the Impacts of Bat White-nose Syndrome in Wisconsin with Citizen Scientists
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Understanding Relationships Between Habitat and Deer Demographics and Health Through Partnerships with DMAP Participants
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Using Fyke Nets to Survey Spring Ponds
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Utilizing Non-invasive Techniques to Measure Mercury (Hg) Concentrations in Endangered, Adult Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Northeastern Illinois
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Variation of Seasonal Activity Patterns in Ursus Americanus in Wisconsin, USA
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display. Wildlife Species Usage of Man-Made Watering Holes in the Manistee National Forest
Ballroom C & Foyer
Poster Display: Autumn Habitat Selection of Eastern Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) in Delaware County, Indiana
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Diet of a Reintroduced River Otter Population in the Upper Rio Grande, New Mexico
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Evaluating Predator Communities and Duck Nest Survival in Eastern South Dakota
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Genetic Diversity of the Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus) in Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Southwest Michigan
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Habitat Modeling for River Otters in Wisconsin
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Microhabitat use of Migrating Northern Saw-Whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus)
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Non-target Species Occurrence at Bear Bait Sites
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Recording Flying Squirrel Responses
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Spatial and Temporal Effects of Fragmentation on Marsh Bird Communities within Saginaw Bay, Michigan
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. The Evaluation of Cover Crops for Grassland Nesting Waterfowl in Eastern South Dakota
Ballroom C & Foyer
Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Waterfowl Hunter Recruitment, Retention, and Participation Trends
Ballroom C & Foyer
Wednesday
, January 31
8:00am CST
CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Evaluating Indices of Full-Season Productivity for American Woodcock
102D&E
WATERFOWL: Visibility Bias and Disturbance of Waterfowl During Aerial Surveys
102B
9:00am CST
SYMPOSIA-13: Adapting Existing Methods to Reach Waterfowl Hunters with the Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers! Message
101B
9:20am CST
GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Managing Phragmites with Science on Your Side
103D
SYMPOSIA-13: Furbearer Trappers: Invasive Species Outreach and Detection Opportunities
101B
10:40am CST
CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: A Bird in the Hand: Shotguns, Deadly Oil Pits, Cute Kittens, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
102D&E
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
SYMPOSIA-14: The Aggressive Invader Crawling in Your Backyard: Responding to Red Swamp Crayfish Infestations in Michigan
102A
STREAMS, DAMS & RESERVOIRS: Go with the Flow? Strengths and Weaknesses of FlowCAM® for Characterizing Zooplankton Communities
102C
WATERFOWL: Response of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) in Ohio to Shifts in Location of Colonies Composed of Artificial Nesting Platforms
102B
11:10am CST
LIGHTING TALK: Understanding Attitudes Towards Controversial Subjects in Wildlife Management: How Students View Regulated Commercial Harvest
103C
11:20am CST
WATERFOWL: Status Update on Cranes and Crop Damage in the Upper Midwest
102B
11:30am CST
LIGHTING TALK: The Effect of Season of Prescribed Burning on Avian Communities in Minnesota Lowland Brushland
103C
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Group 10: Education & Outreach and Human Dimensions
Group 1: Camera Methods
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S01: Citizen Science: Collaboration with the Public for Natural Resource Management and Conservation
S02: Cooperative Ecosystem Study Units: Working Together to Support Informed Public Trust Resource Stewardship
S03: CWD Management: Facilitating Agency Collaboration
S04: Ducks to Dickcissels: Collaboration for the Conservation of Multiple Species in Grasslands
S05: Managing Fish Habitat and Fisheries Affected by Habitat in Inland Glacial Lakes
S06: Advances and Challenges in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and Management
S07: Development - Validation - and Application of Standardized Population Assessments in Inland Waters
S08: Waterbird Use and Monitoring of Wetland Protection - Restoration and Enhancement Projects
S09: Back to the Future: Fish and Wildlife Research in an Era of Rapid Change
S10: Collaborating for Fisheries Management: Opportunities and Challenges from Interactions of Local Lake Organizations with State Agencies
S11: Two Worlds - One Goal: Importance of Fisheries and Toxicology Collaboration
S12: Coordinating Successful Wildlife Disease Responses
S13: Extension and Outreach for Anglers and Hunters: Challenges - Innovation - Collaboration
S14: Managing Aquatic Invasive Species Through Collaboration
S15: Community-based Research and Restoration in Milwaukee County Wisconsin
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