Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2018 has ended

Create Your Own Event

Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2018

Welcome to the interactive web schedule for the 2018 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference! For tips on how to navigate this site, visit the "Helpful Info" section. To return to the main Conference website, go to: www.midwestfw.org.

Paul DeRolf

Munster, Indiana

7:00am CST

Conference Registration Desk Open Ballroom A Foyer

1:00pm CST

Workshop. Healthy Lakes Initiative with an Emphasis on Habitat Restoration Best Practices 102B

6:00pm CST

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer

7:00am CST

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

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

1:00pm CST

Wild Jobs Café Hilton: Wright Ballroom A/B

1:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Using Aquatic Landscape Ecology to Inform Lake Habitat Management at Multiple Scales 102D&E

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-04: Using Grazing to Manage Grasslands for Waterfowl and Migratory Bird Production Goals on a 53,000-acre Wetland Management District 102B

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Investigating Fish Kills to Identify Emerging Threats and Long-term Stress 102D&E

2:40pm CST

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 CST

SYMPOSIA-04: Beyond Wetlands: The Importance of Grassland Habitat for Breeding Waterfowl in an Agricultural Landscape 102B

3:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Large Woody Debris and Fish Habitat Structure Additions: Picking the Right Lakes, Setting Expectations, and How to Best Implement 102D&E

4:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Advancing Aquatic Vegetation Management for Fish 102D&E

4:20pm CST

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

4:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Wisconsin’s Healthy Lakes Initiative: Working with Lakefront Property Owners to Apply Best Management Practices 102D&E

5:00pm CST

Student / Professional Networking Mixer Hilton: Crystal Ballroom

7:30pm CST

Time on Own N/A

7:00am CST

Speaker Ready Room 101C

8:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: An Overview of North American AFS Freshwater Fish Sampling Standardization 102A

8:20am CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Evaluating Potential Consequences of Hydrologic Separation at Brandon Road Lock and Dam on Native Fishes and Mussels in the Illinois River Waterway 103E

8:40am CST

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

9:00am CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Backwater Fish Community Response to Habitat Restoration on the Upper Mississippi River: 30 Years of Successful Projects 103E

9:20am CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Capture Efficiency of a Fine-mesh Seine in a Large River: Implications for Abundance, Richness, and Diversity Analyses 103E

9:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-10: Fish Sticks: Building Local Capacity to Implement Fish Sticks Projects 103A

10:00am CST

Wild Jobs Café Hilton: Wright Ballroom A/B

11:20am CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Effects of Valley Shape and Non-Native Species on Fish Assemblages of U.S. and Mongolian Rivers 103E

11:40am CST

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

12:00pm CST

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Origins, Current Status, and Potential Roles of Oxbows for Conservation and Nutrient Reduction in Agricultural Landscapes: Introduction to the Oxbow Session 103E

1:40pm CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Oxbow Restorations in Iowa: A Compilation of Data and Lessons Learned over the past 17 Years 103E

2:00pm CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Occurrence, Abundance, and Habitat Use of Topeka Shiners in Restored and Unrestored Oxbows in Iowa and Minnesota 103E

2:20pm CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Oxbows as Battery Packs: Giving a Much Needed Boost to the Endangered Topeka Shiner 103E

2:40pm CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Integrating Reconstructed Oxbows in Watershed Planning to Achieve Habitat and Water Quality Goals 103E

3:00pm CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

4:20pm CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: Prioritizing Fish Passage Restoration in the Lake Superior Basin: A Project Evaluation Approach Utilizing Multi-Agency Efforts and Publicly Available Tools to Address Aquatic Connectivity 103E

4:40pm CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: The Importance of Field Assessments in Modeling Fish Passage of Barriers in Great Lakes Tributaries 103E

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

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Comparing Substrate Composition Changes Above Two Lowhead Dams from 2012 to 2017 Using Side Scan Sonar 103D

10:00am CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

12:00pm CST

Conference Adjourns N/A