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McKensie Vaske
Iowa State University
Graduate Research Assistant
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Sunday
, January 19
8:00am CST
Conference Registration Desk Open
Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)
9:00am CST
W-01: Introduction to Map Making in R (CAPACITY FULL)
Grand B (4th Floor)
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
7:00am CST
Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by St. Louis Zoo WildCare Institute
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
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)
12:00pm CST
Lunch On Your Own
Offsite
Student & Professional Networking Luncheon (pre-registration required)
Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)
1:40pm CST
Fisheries Track: Effects of Flow Variation on Recruitment in a Central Missouri Stream Fish Assemblage
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Connor Church
2:00pm CST
Fisheries Track: Identifying Spawning Sites and Fidelity of Ogaa (walleye Sander Vitreus): Implications for Fishery Stewardship
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Kayla Lenz
2:40pm CST
S-02: Moxostoma Migratory Movements during Restoration Efforts in the Cuyahoga River, OH
Regency B (2nd Floor)
Sophia Bonjour
3:00pm CST
Coffee Break
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
3:20pm CST
Fisheries Track: Spatial and temporal resource use of the Upper Mississippi River
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Shaley Valentine
3:40pm CST
Fisheries Track: Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Using Live Freshwater Mussels as Habitat
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Madison Dunlap
4:00pm CST
Fisheries Track: Spectaclecase Mussel Detection in the Upper Mississippi River Using eDNA
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Tariq Tajjioui
6:00pm CST
Offsite Dinner and Social ($) - Sponsored by Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation
Anheuser-Busch Brewery
Tuesday
, January 21
7:00am CST
Speaker Ready Room Open
Mills 4 (4th Floor)
Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by PayIt
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
8:00am CST
Plenary Session 2 and Awards
Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)
Rob Hunt • Roger Still
10:05am CST
Coffee Break
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
10:20am CST
Fisheries Track: Apples and Oranges? Using radio and acoustic telemetry to evaluate restoration success.
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Seth Fopma
10:40am CST
Fisheries Track: Enhancing the science of age estimation: the creation of fishage.org
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Mark Pegg
11:00am CST
Fisheries Track: Big River Bluegill: How and why bluegill population dynamics vary along a large river gradient
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Kristen Bouska
11:20am CST
Fisheries Track: Microplastic Abundance in Fish Species with Differing Feeding Habits in a Large Midwestern River
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Michael Louison
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-08: A PVA to Support Conservation Planning for Blanding’s Turtles in Iowa
Grand B (4th Floor)
Elizabeth Lang
1:40pm CST
Fisheries Track: Response of Fish Communities to Backwater Restoration in the Upper Mississippi River
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Hannah Lenning
S-07: Evaluating Invasive Carp Management on the Illinois Waterway Through Adaptive ‘Multi-Agency Monitoring’
Regency E (2nd Floor)
Michael Spear
2:00pm CST
Fisheries Track: Exploring Assessment Techniques for Minnesota's Newest Sport Fish: the Burbot
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Kristen Patterson
S-07: Exploring tools to evaluate invasive carp management success across different density gradients and river systems
Regency E (2nd Floor)
Jim Lamer
2:20pm CST
Fisheries Track: Recruitment of Channel Catfish stocked as advanced fingerlings and yearlings in Ohio reservoirs
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Stephen Tyszko
S-07: Invasive Carp Growth Chronologies: Management Tool To Help Evaluate Harvest Success?
Regency E (2nd Floor)
Kaiden Vinavich
2:40pm CST
Fisheries Track: Trends in Population Status and Range-Wide Geographic Patterns of Genetic Variation for the Federally Petitioned Bluestripe Darter
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Brittany Harried
3:00pm CST
Coffee Break
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
3:20pm CST
Fisheries Track: Identifying potential sources of natural recruitment of muskellunge in Green Bay, Lake Michigan
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Ryan Eastman
S-09: Anonymous Location Data Integrated with Intercept Surveys: A Powerful Combined Approach to Measuring Lake Recreation
Mills 3 (4th Floor)
Rebecca Krogman
3:40pm CST
Fisheries Track: Navigating the Currents: Investigating Environmental Cues for Pallid Sturgeon Immigration and Emigration for a Missouri River Tributary
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Jenna Ruoss
4:00pm CST
Fisheries Track: Dispersal of Juvenile Lake Sturgeon Stocked in the Saginaw River Basin
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Maxwell Majinska
4:20pm CST
Fisheries Track: Reproductive Characteristics of a Vulnerable Riverine Specialist in the Unchannelized Missouri River
Regency C (2nd Floor)
BJ Schall
S-07: Copious Copi: Using Incentives and Marketing to Control Bigheaded Carps
Regency E (2nd Floor)
James Garvey
6:00pm CST
Poster Session & Tradeshow Social - Co-Sponsored by Aquatic Control, HDR Engineering & NASA
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
P-38: Effects of Environmental Variables on Crayfish Occupancy in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes and Wetlands
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Dalton Clayton
P-51: Assessing Differences in Reproductive Potential in Two Shovelnose Sturgeon Populations
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Lydia Flinders
P-88: Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and the impact on native fish communities throughout the Mississippi River basin
Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)
Justin Harms
Wednesday
, January 22
7:00am CST
Continental Breakast with Exhibitors
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
8:00am CST
S-15: An Overview of the Sustainable Rivers Program
Grand A (4th Floor)
Heidi Mehl
8:20am CST
Fisheries Track: Evaluating Lake Sturgeon Spawning Site Use and the Relative Contribution of Spawning Tributaries to Harvest in the Lake Winnebago System
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Sam Embersits
S-15: Modifying Water Velocities to Promote Lake Sturgeon Spawning Success on the Mississippi River
Grand A (4th Floor)
Sarah Peper
8:40am CST
Fisheries Track: Assessing Age and Incremental Growth Rates in Cedar River Shovelnose Sturgeon through an 18-year Mark-Recapture Dataset
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Juliana Kaloczi
S-15: Lake Sturgeon Response to Modified Flows on the Salt River
Grand A (4th Floor)
Annie Hentschke
9:00am CST
S-15: Assessing the effects of experimental flow releases on Shovelnose Sturgeon spawning in the Des Moines River, Iowa
Grand A (4th Floor)
McKensie Vaske
9:20am CST
S-15: Shovelnose Sturgeon Summer Habitat Selection on the Des Moines River, Iowa
Grand A (4th Floor)
Daniel Paulson
9:40am CST
S-15: Movement of Pectoral Sandpipers from an Iowa stopover site
Grand A (4th Floor)
Victoria Fasbender
10:20am CST
S-11: Habitat Associations of Invasive Rusty Crayfish and Native Virile Crayfish in a Shallow, Eutrophic Natural Lake
Grand C (4th Floor)
Dalton Clayton
10:40am CST
S-15: Native Freshwater Mussels in the Allegheny River: Science to Support the Sustainable Rivers Program
Grand A (4th Floor)
Teresa Newton
11:20am CST
Fisheries Track: Influence of Thermal Variation on Paddlefish Thermal Tolerance, Recovery and Post-Release Behavior
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Shasta Kamara
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