2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

Matthew Acre

USGS

Research Fisheries Biologist

9:00am CST

W-05: Guerilla-Style, Know-Nothing Software Development Using ChatGPT TBA

6:00pm CST

Welcome Networking Social - Sponsored by USFWS TBA

1:40pm CST

S-02: Climbing the Ladder Towards Aquatic Connectivity for Stream Fishes in Eastern South Dakota TBAEvan Spencer

2:00pm CST

S-02: Fish Freeways: How Rock Ramps are Assisting Prairie Stream Fish Movement TBASeth Callahan

2:20pm CST

S-02: Beyond barriers: Fish communities in a recovering tributary of Lake Erie TBAMatthew Acre

2:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: First occurrence of American Brook Lamprey (Lethenteron appendix) in the Cuyahoga River, OH TBAZane McAdams Fisheries Track: Movement of Walleye and Sauger assessed using acoustic telemetry in Lewis and Clark Lake, a Missouri River reservoir TBAWill Radigan S-02: Moxostoma Migratory Movements during Restoration Efforts in the Cuyahoga River, OH TBASophia Bonjour

4:00pm CST

S-04: Evaluation of the Effects of a Slot Length Limit and Stocking Changes for Rainbow and Brown Trout in Lake Taneycomo, Missouri TBAShane Bush

4:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Evaluating Data-limited Population Assessment Tools for Walleye TBACaleb Branam Wildlife Track: Creating a state-space model to assess the population status of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula) TBAJustin Remmers Wildlife Track: Expansion of Motus in Missouri and the Midwest: examples of local and large scale Motus tracking TBAKristen Heath-Acre

10:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Apples and Oranges? Using radio and acoustic telemetry to evaluate restoration success. TBASeth Fopma Fisheries Track: Determination and Comparison of Morphometrics and Meristics Used to Identify River and Shorthead Redhorse TBADevon Oliver

10:40am CST

S-04: Evaluating Lake-Run Brown Trout in Saginaw Bay Using Acoustic Telemetry TBAApril Simmons

11:20am CST

S-08: The Return of Alligator Snapping Turtles to Their Former Range in Kansas TBADaren Riedle

1:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Response of Fish Communities to Backwater Restoration in the Upper Mississippi River TBAHannah Lenning

2:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Characterizing Riverine Habitat through the Use of UAS and Side-Scan Sonar TBATyler Hessler S-07: Exploring tools to evaluate invasive carp management success across different density gradients and river systems TBAJim Lamer

2:40pm CST

S-07: Invasive Carp Removals in Missouri River Tributaries TBAAdam McDaniel

3:20pm CST

S-07: Invasive Carp Removal Approaches in the Missouri River Basin TBAJessica Howell

3:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Navigating the Currents: Investigating Environmental Cues for Pallid Sturgeon Immigration and Emigration for a Missouri River Tributary TBAJenna Ruoss

4:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Dispersal of Juvenile Lake Sturgeon Stocked in the Saginaw River Basin TBAMaxwell Majinska

6:00pm CST

P-71: Factors Affecting Detection Efficiencies of Acoustic Transmitters in a Large Midwestern Reservoir TBAHannah Thomas 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-80: Tracking Movement and Habitat Utilization of Invasive Carp Within the Presence Front of the Ohio River TBAAndrew Peters P-99: The Next Frontier: Development of a Lake Fish Biogeographical Model in the Canadian Shield, Minnesota TBAJessica Massure

8:00am CST

S-07: Aggregation for Eradication: An Exploratory Grass Carp Management Strategy in the Upper Mississippi River TBAMax Monfort

9:00am CST

Fisheries Track: If at First You Don’t Succeed: The Evolution of Capture Methods in Great Lakes Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) Control TBARobert Mapes

11:00am CST

Fisheries Track: Using Side-Scan Sonar and N-Mixture Models to Estimate the Abundance of Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) in the Lamine River, MO TBACade Roach

11:40am CST

S-07: Limited Catch: The Use of Supplementary Biological Data To Further Develop Our Understanding Of Lake Erie Grass Carp TBADillon Weik