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Benjamin Tjepkes
University of Missouri
Graduate Student
Columbia, Missouri
https://btjepkes.github.io/
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I am a graduate student at the University of Missouri studying how long-term patterns in tree phenology relate to climate and forest bird communities in the central hardwoods region.
Sunday
, January 19
5:00pm CST
Student Icebreaker Meet & Greet
Grand FGH (4th Floor)
6:00pm CST
Welcome Networking Social - Sponsored by USFWS
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
Monday
, January 20
8:00am CST
Plenary Session 1 and Awards
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Ben Batten • Jim Inglis
10:05am CST
Coffee Break - Sponsored by Wildlife Management Institute
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
10:30am CST
Annual Membership Meeting – North Central Section of The Wildlife Society
Grand C (4th Floor)
Jeremy Holtz
12:00pm CST
Student & Professional Networking Luncheon (pre-registration required)
Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)
2:00pm CST
Wildlife Track: Effects of Landscape Characteristics on Occurrence and Density of Native Bumblebee Species. Fort Riley. Kansas
Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)
Cassidy Lathrom
2:20pm CST
S-01: Breeding bird community in the Mississippi River floodplain forest: Two Decades of change
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Mike Wellik
2:40pm CST
S-01: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Autonomous Recording Units for Detecting Upper Mississippi River Migratory Landbirds
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Nicole Michel
3:00pm CST
Coffee Break
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
3:20pm CST
S-01: A framework to facilitate habitat conservation for marsh birds in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Michael Monfils
S-06: Burn with Care – Challenges and Considerations for Replicating Historic Fire in Missouri State Parks
Grand C (4th Floor)
Ron Colatskie
3:40pm CST
Wildlife Track: Space use and habitat selection of a recolonized bobcat population
Regency F (2nd Floor)
Ellen Audia
4:00pm CST
Wildlife Track: Integrated dynamic occupancy models reveal declines in gamebird distributions in Illinois and sampling bias in eBird data
Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)
Lauren Scopel
4:20pm CST
Wildlife Track: Using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System to fill knowledge gaps for priority Neotropical migratory birds in the Midwest and beyond
Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)
Sarah Kendrick
4:40pm CST
Wildlife Track: Creating a state-space model to assess the population status of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
Regency F (2nd Floor)
Justin Remmers
Tuesday
, January 21
8:00am CST
Plenary Session 2 and Awards
Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)
Rob Hunt • Roger Still
10:05am CST
Coffee Break
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
10:40am CST
Wildlife Track: Temporal Dynamics and Potential Niche Separation Amongst Carnivores: A Decadal Analysis
Regency F (2nd Floor)
Max Larreur
Wildlife Track: The power of bats: evaluating protected bats during energy project planning
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Brittany Schweiger
2:00pm CST
Wildlife Track: Use of thermal-imaging drones to assess assumptions of density estimation techniques
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
David Delaney
2:20pm CST
Wildlife Track: Wetland Management and Habitat Associations of Breeding Secretive Marsh Birds, including King Rail, in Missouri
Regency F (2nd Floor)
Ryan McGinty
2:40pm CST
Wildlife Track: River-Floodplain Connectivity: Effects on Ecological Communities in Restored Wetlands along the Lower Missouri River
Regency F (2nd Floor)
Josh Williams
6:00pm CST
P-08: Examining the Intraspecies and Interspecies Communication Between Canid Species in Central Wisconsin
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Adrienne Cohoon
P-15: Optimizing Density Estimation Methods Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Eastern-Whip-poor-wills (Antrostromus vociferus)
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Haley Holiman
P-18: Long-term Dynamics of Seasonal Tree Phenology and Forest Songbird Populations Across the Central Hardwoods (Preliminary Findings)
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Benjamin Tjepkes
P-96: Development and Cloud Implementation of the New Annual National Land Cover Database for the United States
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Jesslyn Brown
Wednesday
, January 22
8:00am CST
S-13: wdnr.fmdb – A case study of living data in Wisconsin DNR’s Fisheries Management Program
Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)
Paul Frater
S-16: Migratory Birds and Climate Change: Symposium Opening Remarks
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Douglas Gorby
S-19: Midwest Landscape Initiative and the Midwest Conservation Blueprint
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Rachael Carlberg
8:40am CST
S-16: Microclimates and Species Life History Differences Inform Climate Vulnerability in a Grassland Songbird Community
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Benjamin Zuckerberg
9:20am CST
S-19: Collaborative Conservation for the Next Generation
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Rachael Carlberg
9:40am CST
S-13: Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project: Adapting to change
Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)
Shelby Timm
10:20am CST
S-19: A Partner-Focused Path Forward To Conserve Grasslands and Midwest Communities
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Alex Wright
11:20am CST
S-19: Development and Implementation of Missouri's Landscape Health Index
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Jon Podoliak
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