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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2018

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Mark Davis

Illinois Natural History Survey
Associate Research Scientist
Champaign, IL

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Landscape Conservation Design, eDNA, conservation genetics, threatened & endangered species, fish and wildlife conservation, climate resilience and adaptation, rattlesnakes

6:00pm CST

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer

7:00am CST

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

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

2:20pm CST

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Using Circuit Theory to Map Connectivity of the U.S. Great Lakes Coastline 103B

3:40pm CST

WALLEYE: Quantifying the Costs of Climate Adaptation to Agencies and Anglers: A Case Study of Wisconsin’s Inland Lake Walleye Fishery 103A

7:00am CST

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Initial Description of Dermocystid Infections in Silvery Salamanders (Ambystoma Platineum) from Vermilion County, Illinois 101B

8:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: A Ranavirus-associated Mass Mortality Event in an Illinois Amphibian Community 101B UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Genetic Analysis of Sharp-tailed Grouse in East-central Minnesota Indicates High Genetic Diversity Remains After a Recent Population Bottleneck 103B

8:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Impact of Snake Fungal Disease on Population Viability 101B

9:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Spectacular Response of Waterbirds to Restoration of Cat Island Chain in Lower Green Bay, Wisconsin 102B

9:20am CST

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

9:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Landscape Genetics Reveal Possible Drought and Glacial Refugia Are Driving Population Structure of Northern Leopard Frog in North Dakota 101B

10:00am CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

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

10:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Wetland Quality for Waterbirds in Illinois 102B

11:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Marsh Bird Use of Wetlands Managed for Waterfowl in Illinois 102B

11:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Waterbird and Vegetation Responses to 10 Years of Restoration at an Illinois River Floodplain Wetland Complex 102B

11:40am CST

(CANCELLED) SYMPOSIA-06: Community, Health, and Stress Response of Reintroduced and Resident Amphibians to Oak Woodland Restoration 101B

12:00pm CST

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm CST

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

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-06: The Influence of Landscape Factors and Prescribed Fire on the Occupancy Dynamics of Blue-Spotted Salamanders 101B

2:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Michigan Black Tern Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation of Coastal Wetlands 102B

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-12: Coodinating White-Nose Syndrome: Readiness, Response, Recuperation 103A

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Challenges of Wetland Restoration Monitoring--If You Build It Will They Come, If They Come Will You Know It? 102B

3:40pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Landscape Genetic Analysis of a Planned Prairie Corridor Through a Midwestern Agricultural Landscape Using the Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) as an Indicator 103C

4:20pm CST

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

4:40pm CST

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

6:00pm CST

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

7:00am CST

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

FISH HABITAT & GENETICS: Effectiveness of Shallow Water Habitat Restoration in the St. Clair River 103A

10:40am CST

FISH HABITAT & GENETICS: Using Genetic Tools to Inform Conservation of Wisconsin’s Native Brook Trout 103A

11:00am CST

FISH HABITAT & GENETICS: Genetic Connectivity of Seven Fish Species Sampled Above and Below the Prairie Du Sac Dam on the Lower Wisconsin River 103A

11:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Social Behavior and Ecology May Interact to Shape the Gut Microbiome in Feral Horses (Equus caballus) 102D&E

11:40am CST

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

12:00pm CST

Conference Adjourns N/A