2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

CR

Calvin Rezac

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks

Aquatic Biologist; Curator of Decapods

8:00am CST

Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)

12:00pm CST

W-09: Tour of the Hellbender Propagation Facility and Herpetarium at the St. Louis Zoo (CAPACITY FULL) Offsite

6:00pm CST

Welcome Networking Social - Sponsored by USFWS Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

1:40pm CST

S-02: Climbing the Ladder Towards Aquatic Connectivity for Stream Fishes in Eastern South Dakota Regency B (2nd Floor)Evan Spencer

2:00pm CST

S-02: Fish Freeways: How Rock Ramps are Assisting Prairie Stream Fish Movement Regency B (2nd Floor)Seth Callahan S-04: Trout Streams of the Northern Ozarks: Overview of Missouri's Ribbon Areas Grand A (4th Floor)Blake Stephens

2:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Evaluating the influence of climate change on walleye and largemouth bass consumption rates in a northern Wisconsin lake Regency C (2nd Floor)Jeston Hassler Wildlife Track: Monitoring tarantulas in Missouri glades: Conservation of a charismatic arachnid. Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Becky Hansis-O'Neill

2:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Movement of Walleye and Sauger assessed using acoustic telemetry in Lewis and Clark Lake, a Missouri River reservoir Regency C (2nd Floor)Will Radigan

3:00pm CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

3:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Environmental changes lead to reduced Walleye production in Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota Regency C (2nd Floor)Tom Jones

3:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Using Live Freshwater Mussels as Habitat Regency D (2nd Floor)Madison Dunlap S-04: Evaluating Brown Trout strains stocked into Spring River, Arkansas Grand A (4th Floor)Joseph Kaiser S-05: Scars to Shiners. Iowa's Private-Public Partnership to Save the Endangered Topeka Shiner through Oxbow Restorations. Grand B (4th Floor)Brandon Iddings

4:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Spectaclecase Mussel Detection in the Upper Mississippi River Using eDNA Regency D (2nd Floor)Tariq Tajjioui

4:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Addressing the Data Need to Manage Future Change in Fisheries Regency D (2nd Floor)Madalyn Siller S-02: Facilitated Discussion - Developing an Aquatic Connectivity Team: An example from the Missouri Stream Connectivity Partnership. Regency B (2nd Floor)Eric Rahm

4:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Assessing Habitat Quality Changes for Cool- and Warm-Water Fishes Regency D (2nd Floor)Madalyn Siller

6:00pm CST

Offsite Dinner and Social ($) - Sponsored by Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation Anheuser-Busch Brewery

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by PayIt Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

10:05am CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

10:20am CST

S-11: Evaluating the Slenderwrist Burrowing Crayfish, Fallicambarus petilicarpus, for Endangered Species Act listing Grand C (4th Floor)Caitlin Bloomer

10:40am CST

S-11: Insights from Multi-locus DNA Sequence Data into Species Boundaries within Hobbseus Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) Grand C (4th Floor)Patrick Allison Jr.

11:00am CST

S-11: Conservation and Taxonomic Status of the Spiny Scale Crayfish, with an emphasis on Kentucky Populations Grand C (4th Floor)Zachary Loughman

11:20am CST

S-11: From streams, swamps, sloughs and roadside ditches: The places you will go while sampling the rare crayfishes of Texas, USA. Grand C (4th Floor)Dusty Swedberg

11:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Flow and temperature impacts on catfish populations in two Missouri River tributaries Regency D (2nd Floor)BJ Schall

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

1:20pm CST

S-11: Shelter Preferences of Cambarus robustus, a Surrogate Study for the Federally Threatened Cambarus callainus Grand C (4th Floor)Hannah Holbert

1:40pm CST

S-11: Status survey for Banded Mudbug (Lacunicambarus freudensteini) and Lonesome Gravedigger (Lacunicambarus mobilensis) in Southeastern Mississippi Grand C (4th Floor)Calvin Rezac

2:00pm CST

S-11: First Comprehensive Habitat Survey of the Upper Guyandotte River and Pinnacle Creek for an Endangered Crayfish (Cambarus veteranus). Grand C (4th Floor)Montana Fonner

2:20pm CST

S-11: Evaluation of Eye Stalk Microchemistry as a Potential Indicator of Crayfish Environmental History Grand C (4th Floor)Cameron Haeffner

2:40pm CST

S-11: Clawing for Survival: Mapping Invasive and Endemic Crayfishes in the Upper Saint Francis River Basin Grand C (4th Floor)Anna Raney

3:00pm CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

3:20pm CST

S-07: Invasive Carp Removal Approaches in the Missouri River Basin Regency E (2nd Floor)Jessica Howell

3:40pm CST

S-08: Ecology of an Urban Population of Common Snapping Turtles in Indiana Grand B (4th Floor)Jean-Baptiste Johnson

3:50pm CST

S-12: Ducks Plus: Cultivating Sustainable Landscapes with Partners Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Mark Flaspohler

4:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Applications of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Fish Biodiversity Assessments of Missouri Ozark Stream and Mississippi River Lowland Habitats Regency D (2nd Floor)David Duvernell

4:10pm CST

S-12: Incorporating Ecological Design for Production and Resilience: A Case Study in the Lower Missouri River Floodplain Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Zach Miller

4:20pm CST

S-08: Weather weirding and frog phenology: how some species may adapt to climate change Grand B (4th Floor)Melissa Youngquist

4:30pm CST

S-12: Not Just for Ducks: Facilitated Discussion Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)

4:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Native Rough Fish Management Progress in Minnesota Regency C (2nd Floor)Shannon Fisher

6:00pm CST

Poster Session & Tradeshow Social - Co-Sponsored by Aquatic Control, HDR Engineering & NASA Grand Ballroom (4th Floor) P-06: Effect of Prairie Dog Burrow Density on Intensity of Ticks on Small Mammals in South Dakota Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Zack Wilson P-36: Conservation Status Assessments and Surveys of Cambarus monongalensis and Lacunicambarus thomai Within Western Pennsylvania Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jaden Rusnak P-37: A Survey of Crayfishes of the Upper Cumberland & Kentucky River Watersheds in Southeastern Kentucky Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kaleb Norris P-38: Effects of Environmental Variables on Crayfish Occupancy in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes and Wetlands Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Dalton Clayton P-39: Freshwater Mussel Diversity and Restoration in Cub Creek, Nebraska Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexis Oetterer 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 Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Julia Hampton P-46: Planning for Resiliency: Identifying Aquatic Conservation Priorities Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Josh Bruegge P-48: Life History of Skipjack Herring in the Mississippi River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Theodore Goetz P-50: Spatial Extent of Fish Community Change in an Indiana Stream Following Reconnection to the Mississippi River Basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexander Searfoss P-53: Distributional Survey of the Fishes of the Lower St. Francis River Watershed Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)David Ostendorf P-54: Assessing Fish Passage Barriers in Wyoming and Montana Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Stephanie Webster P-61: Building a case for holistic and conservative management of a genetically unique strain of Walleye in Southern Missouri Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Dave Knuth P-63: Where the lake whitefish are in the upper Great Lakes Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Gwendolyn Phillips P-64: How will growth of warm-water and cool-water fish change with warming climate? Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kaden Ball P-66: Examining Age-length Relationships across North Platte Channel Catfish (Ictalurus Punctatus) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sarah Hayden P-69: Evaluating Natural Recruitment of Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Black Crappie in Two Community Fishing Ponds in Southeastern South Dakota Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jason Uden P-71: Factors Affecting Detection Efficiencies of Acoustic Transmitters in a Large Midwestern Reservoir Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Hannah Thomas P-72: Sanding or Sectioning: how does otolith preparation method affect reader agreement? Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Amelia Finnell P-74: Evaluating Flood-Induced Habitat Connections Using Remotely Sensed Data Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Natalie Liberati P-75: Natal Origin and Movement of Invasive Carp in the Missouri River Basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Hannah Mulligan P-76: Investigating Bigheaded Carp Migratory Behavior in a Large Lotic System Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Logan Zebro P-83: Determining hybridization of bighead and silver carp by analyzing body shape with geometric morphometric techniques Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexandra Johnson P-87: EcoPath with Ecosim: Application in the lower Mississippi River for Invasive Bighead and Silver Carp Management Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kassidy Frame P-92: Angler use and satisfaction of South Dakota urban and community fisheries following supplemental stocking of adult Largemouth Bass and Hybrid Sunfish Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Aysah Dondlinger

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

S-08: Crawfish Frog Conservation in the Midwest Grand B (4th Floor)Nate Engbrecht

8:20am CST

S-11: Development of Point-of-Use Detection Tools for Prevention and Control of Red Swamp Crayfish Grand C (4th Floor)Caden Jungbluth S-14: How RAD are Walleye Fisheries at the Southern End of their Range? Regency A (2nd Floor)Melissa Wuellner

8:40am CST

S-11: Red Swamp Crayfish Home Range and Movement in an Invaded Lentic Ecosystem Grand C (4th Floor)William Ota

9:00am CST

S-08: Current status and future directions for Crawfish Frog conservation in Arkansas Grand B (4th Floor)Amanda Bryant

9:20am CST

S-08: Status of the Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus) in Missouri Grand B (4th Floor)Jeff Briggler

9:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Using Eye Lenses to Identify Rearing Origin of Large, Fingerling Walleye Regency C (2nd Floor)BJ Schall

10:20am CST

S-08: Status of the Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus) in Illinois Grand B (4th Floor)Scott Ballard

10:40am CST

S-08: An Update on the Status and Conservation of Crawfish Frogs (Lithobates areolatus) in Indiana Grand B (4th Floor)Nate Engbrecht

11:00am CST

S-11: Parasite-Induced Trophic Cascade via Trait-Mediated Effects on Invasive Crayfish Grand C (4th Floor)Cheyenne Stratton

11:20am CST

S-08: Future headstarting plans for Indiana’s endangered Crawfish frogs Grand B (4th Floor)Blake Klocke S-14: Factors affecting year-class strength of Walleye (Sander vitreus) populations in western irrigation reservoirs Regency A (2nd Floor)Steve Chipps