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Poster Session & Tradeshow Social TBA
P-01: Efficacy of Trapping Programs to Control Raccoon Populations TBAJennifer Schultze
P-02: Zoonotic disease and diet surveys of raccoons (Procyon lotor) across urban-rural gradients in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri. TBAYonah Bennett
P-03: Exploring Variation in Immune Physiology and Movement in White-Tailed Deer TBAHolly Redmond
P-04: Impacts of Targeted Removals on White-tailed Deer Behavior TBAKristine Cotten
P-05: Analysis of Trap Design Characteristics of Fisher Monitoring Stations TBAErik Holterman
P-06: Effect of Prairie Dog Burrow Density on Intensity of Ticks on Small Mammals in South Dakota TBAZack Wilson
P-07: Using Camera Traps to Explore Coyote Presence Across an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis TBAJacob Meyer
P-08: Examining the Intraspecies and Interspecies Communication Between Canid Species in Central Wisconsin TBAAdrienne Cohoon
P-09: Survey of mammal biodiversity in a midwestern urban natural area using trail cameras: a collaboration between Missouri Western State University (MWSU) and Snapshot USA (2022-2024) TBACary Chevalier
P-10: Predicting habitat suitability for endangered Indiana bats using niche-based distribution modeling TBAElizabeth Biro
P-11: Bat Communities along an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis, MO TBAElizabeth Biro
P-12: Comparing Pre and Post White-nose Syndrome Distributions of Three Bat Species in Eastern Nebraska TBADaniel Peacock
P-13: Exploring Fecal and Environmental DNA Detection of Bat Species of Greatest Conservation Need via Nanopore Adaptive Sampling TBAThomas Raad
P-14: Tracking Black-crowned Night-herons Across Chicagoland TBASarah Slayton
P-15: Optimizing Density Estimation Methods Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Eastern-Whip-poor-wills (Antrostromus vociferus) TBAHaley Holiman
P-16: Activity patterns of Eastern Whip-poor-wills across different Midwestern forest management regimes TBAHolly Coates
P-17: Nestling fecal metabarcoding provides insights into the diet and habitat quality of a declining grassland passerine TBAJoshua Angell
P-18: Long-term Dynamics of Seasonal Tree Phenology and Forest Songbird Populations Across the Central Hardwoods (Preliminary Findings) TBABenjamin Tjepkes
P-19: Is there a shift in Migration Timing of Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus)? TBARuby Valadez
P-20: Assessing Bird-Window Strike Collisions: Patterns of Avian Mortality and Mitigation Strategies at Ball State University TBAAshley Fitch
P-21: Role of acorns in Red-headed Woodpecker overwintering in northeastern Illinois TBAAdrianna Yoder
P-22: Investigating Wild Turkey Poult and Hen Diets Across Kansas: Landscape Influences on Arthropod and Plant Diversity TBACy Marchese
P-23: Functional Connectivity of Blanding’s Turtle Habitat in Central Michigan TBAMirabai Moseley
P-24: Spatial Ecology of Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) on Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, Northwest Missouri TBAGrace Allen
P-25: Demographics of Two Spotted Turtle Populations in Clark County, Ohio TBANeil Boyles
P-26: Assessment of Spotted Turtle Populations in Southwestern Ohio TBAShayne Harris
P-27: Metapopulation Dynamics of Urban Turtles: Why Did the Turtle Leave Campus? TBAMark Mills
P-28: Spatial and temporal patterns in Galapagos giant tortoise nesting activity TBAEmily Donovan
P-29: The Incubation Duration of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Nests Located on Cape Lookout National Shoreline TBAClaire Sullivan
P-30: Indirect Monitoring of Burmese Python (Python Bivittatus) Populations Through Cause-Specific Mortality of Virginia Opossums (Didelphis Virginiana) In Key Largo, Florida, USA TBAArya Sanjar
P-31: On The Overwintering Temperatures Of Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) in East-Central Missouri And The Influence Of Substrate And Shaded Air Temperature On Emergence, Egress, And Ingress TBABen Jellen
P-32: Herpetofauna and Tarantula Avoidance: A Missouri Glades Location Survey TBAZach Pfeiffer
P-33: St. Louis Wildlife Project TBAElizabeth Biro
P-34: Testing for Tick-borne Disease Pathogens in the Lone Star Tick in St. Louis TBAWhitney Anthonysamy
P-35: Measuring welfare of wild tarantulas during field surveys using heart rate. TBATim Lopez
P-36: Conservation Status Assessments and Surveys of Cambarus monongalensis and Lacunicambarus thomai Within Western Pennsylvania TBAJaden Rusnak
P-37: A Survey of Crayfishes of the Upper Cumberland & Kentucky River Watersheds in Southeastern Kentucky TBAKaleb Norris
P-38: Effects of Environmental Variables on Crayfish Occupancy in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes and Wetlands TBADalton Clayton
P-39: Freshwater Mussel Diversity and Restoration in Cub Creek, Nebraska TBAAlexis Oetterer
P-40: Integrating eDNA Techniques in Freshwater Biomonitoring of Fish and Macroinvertebrates TBAMadison Suttman
P-41: Quantifying Avian Predation Rates of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) TBARandall Wilson
P-42: Assessment of Fish Guilds in the Lower Wabash River Using Standardized Long-Term Monitoring TBAOlivia Wertman
P-43: Understanding our past and forecasting our future: discovering associations among hydrogeomorphology, water chemistry, and the distribution and abundance of biota in the Upper Mississippi River System TBAJulia Hampton
P-44: Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Aquatic Life Monitoring in the Illinois River and Kaskaskia River Basins TBABilly Nixon
P-45: A Comparison of Gear Efficacy for Sampling Fishes Occupying Near-Shore, Off-Channel Riverine Habitats TBADevon Oliver
P-46: Planning for Resiliency: Identifying Aquatic Conservation Priorities TBAJosh Bruegge
P-47: Fishing for recovery: Assessing stream fish and macroinvertebrate community response post-fertilizer spill into an Illinois creek. TBAShaley Klumker
P-48: Life History of Skipjack Herring in the Mississippi River TBATheodore Goetz
P-49: Thermal Ecology of Salmonids in Northern Japan: Predicting Co-existence Among Competitors in a Warming World TBALucas Fischer
P-50: Spatial Extent of Fish Community Change in an Indiana Stream Following Reconnection to the Mississippi River Basin TBAAlexander Searfoss
P-51: Assessing Differences in Reproductive Potential in Two Shovelnose Sturgeon Populations TBALydia Flinders
P-52: From the cradle: genetic diversity of the central Missouri endemic Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae) TBALeah Berkman
P-53: Distributional Survey of the Fishes of the Lower St. Francis River Watershed TBADavid Ostendorf
P-54: Assessing Fish Passage Barriers in Wyoming and Montana TBAStephanie Webster
P-55: Investigating the sublethal responses of Smallmouth Bass to environmentally relevant concentrations of PFOS TBAErin Pulster
P-56: Evidence of skin pigment mutations in Blue Catfish and their importance to a Midwestern fishery TBABrett Miller
P-57: Assessment of Habitat Suitability in Maumee and Sandusky Rivers for Sauger (Sander canadensis) Reintroduction TBAElizabeth Anderson
P-58: Stock-Contribution Comparisons for Walleye Over Time in Lake McConaughy, Nebraska TBARobert Allison
P-59: Assessing Ogaa Mortality and Angling Practices in a Changing Climate TBAMac McPherson
P-60: Diet composition and overlap of walleye and largemouth bass in northern Wisconsin lakes: implications for walleye recruitment and size structure of prey fish TBADaniel Dembkowski
P-61: Building a case for holistic and conservative management of a genetically unique strain of Walleye in Southern Missouri TBADave Knuth
P-62: Growth and Mortality of Devils Lake White Bass TBATodd Caspers
P-63: Where the lake whitefish are in the upper Great Lakes TBAGwendolyn Phillips
P-64: How will growth of warm-water and cool-water fish change with warming climate? TBAKaden Ball
P-65: Big and Small, We Sample Them All: An Assessment of Missouri’s Flathead Catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) Fisheries to Guide Management and Sampling Efforts TBARobert Weber
P-66: Examining Age-length Relationships across North Platte Channel Catfish (Ictalurus Punctatus) TBASarah Hayden
P-67: Population Demographics of Three Major Catfish Species on the Wabash River TBACade Naughton
P-68: Maintaining Trophy Potential of Riverine Smallmouth Bass Populations in the Menominee River TBASamantha Embersits
P-69: Evaluating Natural Recruitment of Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Black Crappie in Two Community Fishing Ponds in Southeastern South Dakota TBAJason Uden
P-70: Abundance and growth rates of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) from Lake Michigan and connected tributary habitats TBAMallory Wagner
P-71: Factors Affecting Detection Efficiencies of Acoustic Transmitters in a Large Midwestern Reservoir TBAHannah Thomas
P-72: Sanding or Sectioning: how does otolith preparation method affect reader agreement? TBAAmelia Finnell
P-73: Temporal Replication of Assigned Ages for Silver Carp Otoliths TBABrendon Tran
P-74: Evaluating Flood-Induced Habitat Connections Using Remotely Sensed Data TBANatalie Liberati
P-75: Natal Origin and Movement of Invasive Carp in the Missouri River Basin TBAHannah Mulligan
P-76: Investigating Bigheaded Carp Migratory Behavior in a Large Lotic System TBALogan Zebro
P-77: Temporal Occupancy of Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) within Tributaries of the Ohio River TBAPatrick Padilla
P-78: Community Sampling Gears Affect Silver Carp Density Estimates Derived from Hydroacoustic Surveys TBAGarrett Johnson
P-79: Spatial and Temporal Trends of Silver Carp Body Condition in the Ohio River TBAAdam Musolf
P-80: Tracking Movement and Habitat Utilization of Invasive Carp Within the Presence Front of the Ohio River TBAAndrew Peters
P-81: Evaluating Conspecific Feeding Sounds as an Attractant for Invasive Carp TBAAdam McFall
P-82: Genetic control of grass carp through RNA interference TBAChris Merkes
P-83: Determining hybridization of bighead and silver carp by analyzing body shape with geometric morphometric techniques TBAAlexandra Johnson
P-84: Impacts of Spatiotemporal Variation of Hydrological Conditions on Native and Invasive Ichthyoplankton Communities in the Lower Wabash River Basin TBAAlexis Gerber
P-85: Quantifying the Impacts of Invasive Carp through Monitoring Native, Planktivorous Gizzard Shad in the Open River Reach TBAKamryn Wittkop
P-86: How invasive carp removal affects fish community size spectra. TBACharles McDunn
P-87: EcoPath with Ecosim: Application in the lower Mississippi River for Invasive Bighead and Silver Carp Management TBAKassidy Frame
P-88: Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and the impact on native fish communities throughout the Mississippi River basin TBAJustin Harms
P-89: Effects of Embryonic Exposure to Predation Cues on Embryo and Larval Behavior in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) TBAAbby Yake
P-90: Density and community composition of aquatic invertebrates in interdunal wetland ponds at Ludington State Park, MI, USA TBARowan Faust
P-91: Comparisons of Zooplankton Communities Before and After Chemical Renovation in Lake Ogallala, Nebraska TBATheo Huber
P-92: Angler use and satisfaction of South Dakota urban and community fisheries following supplemental stocking of adult Largemouth Bass and Hybrid Sunfish TBAAysah Dondlinger
P-93: Fishy Business: How to Market the Outdoors TBABenjamin Poli
P-94: Urban Wildlife Management success: Eleven years of Canada goose (Branta Canadensis) population management on Missouri Western State University campus. TBACary Chevalier
P-95: Subject Matter Focus of State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Magazines TBAAshley Hrdina
P-96: Development and Cloud Implementation of the New Annual National Land Cover Database for the United States TBAJesslyn Brown
P-97: Impact of L-Dopa on the growth and development of Brassica: Insights from velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) seed metabolomics TBASonja Weber
P-98: Velvet bean soil inclusions enhance tomatoes' growth, biomass, and photosynthetic assimilation efficiency TBASonja Weber
P-99: The Next Frontier: Development of a Lake Fish Biogeographical Model in the Canadian Shield, Minnesota TBAJessica Massure
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