10:00am • Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
3:00pm • Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
6:00pm • Poster Display. Survival, Nesting, and Brood-rearing Ecology of Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse in Northwestern Colorado
6:00pm • Poster Display. Common Snapping Turtle Monitoring and Assessment in Illinois
6:00pm • Poster Display. Stream Connectivity Effects on Island Backchannel Habitat Conditions Under Regulated Flows in the Lower Osage River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Habitat Preferences of Turtles on 9-Mile Island of Pool 12 of the Mississippi River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Depth Distribution of Juvenile Bluegill Sunfish in an Oligotrophic Wisconsin Lake
6:00pm • Poster Display. Larval Fish Community Survey of Pools 19, 18, and 17 of the Upper Mississippi River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Morphological Differences in Three Catostomidae Species Between Two Midwestern Rivers
6:00pm • Poster Display. Using Canvasbacks (Aythya Valisineria) as a Bioindicator of Wetland Quality in the Upper Midwest
6:00pm • Poster Display. Vegetation Diversity and Connectedness in Ditches Across Northwest Ohio
6:00pm • Poster Display. Bat Community Ecology of Myotis Septentrionalis in Northeastern Iowa
6:00pm • Poster Display. Assessment of Monarch Butterfly Habitat and Productivity in Urban Spaces: Methods and Approaches
6:00pm • Poster Display. Use of eDNA to Predict the Presence of Mudpuppies (Necturus Maculosus Maculosus) Along the St. Clair-Detroit River System
6:00pm • Poster Display. Using Side-scan Sonar to Classify River Aquatic Habitat
6:00pm • Poster Display. Seasonal Movements of Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis Canadensis) on the Huron-Manistee National Forest in Northern Michigan
6:00pm • Poster Display. Changes of Native Bee Diversity in Agriculture Systems Due to Additional Habitat
6:00pm • Poster Display. Flight Initiation Distances of Nesting Piping Plovers (Charadrius Melodus) in Response to Human Disturbance
6:00pm • Poster Display. Monitoring Data, Decision Support Tools and the Midwest Avian Data Center
6:00pm • Poster Display. Minnows, Madtoms, and Mudpuppies: Population Demographics of Sensitive Aquatic Organisms Indicates Improved Habitat Conditions in the St. Clair-Detroit Rivers System
6:00pm • Poster Display. Deer Recruitment in Wisconsin: New Estimation Methods
6:00pm • Poster Display. Effects of Distance from Water Control Structures on Furbearer Detection on Track Plates in Crex Meadows Wildlife Area, Grantsburg, Wisconsin
6:00pm • Poster Display. Utilizing Diverse Cover Crop Mixes in the Establishment of Native Warm Season Grasses
6:00pm • Poster Display. Comparison of Swimming Speeds in Larval Bighead, Silver, and Grass Carp
6:00pm • Poster Display. Using Geolocators to Examine Seasonal Movements and Migratory Connectivity of Cerulean Warblers, a Declining Migratory Songbird That Breeds in Indiana
6:00pm • Poster Display. Assessment of Painted Turtle Age and Size from Long-term Pond Study
6:00pm • Poster Display. Movement Patterns of Eastern Box Turtles in an Urban Ohio Landscape
6:00pm • Poster Display. Distribution and Phenology of Didymosphenia Geminata in the St. Marys River, a Great Lakes Connecting Channel
6:00pm • Poster Display. Determining Potential Bias by Chaoborus During Hydroacoustic Surveys of Prey Fish Biomass in Ohio Reservoirs
6:00pm • Poster Display. Comparing Swimming Performance of Bluntnose Minnows Pimephales Notatus in Lentic and Lotic Systems
6:00pm • Poster Display. Ecotypic Variation in Physiological Reaction Norms in Wintering Lizards: A Common-environment Experiment Using Populations from Two Latitudes
6:00pm • Poster Display. Roost Site Habitat Selection by Maternity Colonies of Federally Endangered Myotis Sodalis in Bottomland Hardwood Forests
6:00pm • Poster Display. Human Observers vs Autonomous Recording Units: A Comparison of Two Avian Research Methods
6:00pm • Poster Display. Influence of Habitat and Intrinsic Characteristics on Survival of Neonatal Pronghorn
6:00pm • Poster Display. Sampling Characteristics of Egg Mats
6:00pm • Poster Display. Urban Bat Community Composition Along a Rural-Urban Gradient
6:00pm • Poster Display. Free Food Is Not Free: Do Food Plots Pose Greater Predation Risk Than Resource Benefit for Northern Bobwhite Quail?
6:00pm • Poster Display. Long-term Changes in Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influence Larval Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) Relative Abundance
6:00pm • Poster Display. Grassland Bird Response to Grassland Restorations That Vary in Vegetative Diversity
6:00pm • Poster Display. Influence of Temperature Gradient on Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Rapid Creek
6:00pm • Poster Display. Exploitation of Paddlefish in the Mississippi River
6:00pm • Poster Display. The Occurrence of Pitcher’s Thistle on Piping Plover Protected Beaches
6:00pm • Poster Display. Associations Among Habitat Characteristics and Meningeal Worm Prevalence in Eastern South Dakota
6:00pm • Poster Display. Rusty Crayfish Consumption of Silver Carp Fecal Pellets
6:00pm • Poster Display. American Marten Habitat Suitability in the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan
6:00pm • Poster Display. Long-term Trends in age-0 Yellow Perch Perca Flavescens Abundance in Southern Lake Michigan
6:00pm • Poster Display. Multi-stressor Effects of PPCPs on Daphnia Magna Growth, Reproduction, and Mortality
6:00pm • Trade Show & Poster Social
6:00pm • Poster Display. Analysis of Age in the Black Crappie (Pomoxis Nigromaculatus) Using Scale Structures
6:00pm • Poster Display. Incorporating Detection Probability into Northern Great Plains Pronghorn Population Estimates
6:00pm • Poster Display. Integrating Inventory and Monitoring Studies with National Park Service Park Web Pages
6:00pm • Poster Display. Selection Preference of Cavity Nesting Waterfowl
6:00pm • Poster Display. Use of Lake Erie's Ohio Reef Complex by Walleye (Sander Vitreus) During the Spring Spawning Season
6:00pm • Poster Display. Home Range Size, Movements, and Survival Rates of Sora and Virginia Rails in a Managed Marsh Complex in Northwestern Ohio
6:00pm • Poster Display. Variation in Fish Communities of the Lower Wabash River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Microhabitat Use of Migrating Northern Saw-whet Owls
6:00pm • Poster Display. Seasonal Dynamics of Blue Suckers Cycleptus Elongatus Inhabiting Great-river Tributaries in Missouri
6:00pm • Poster Display. Reproductive Potential of Silver and Bighead Carp in the Upper Mississippi River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Ozark Mountain Cold Water Stream Temperatures
6:00pm • Poster Display. Ontogenetic Diet Shifts of Blue Catfish (Ictalurus Furcatus) Using Stable Isotope Analysis
6:00pm • Poster Display. Using Construal Theory to Understand Students' Problemization of a Biodiversity Socio-Scientific Issue
6:00pm • Poster Display. Flathead Catfish Recruitment in the Lower Wabash River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Influences of Mixed Severity and Time Since Fire on Diversity in Ponderosa Habitats
6:00pm • Poster Display. Fuel for Shorebirds: A Survey of Potential Invertebrate Prey Items Along Northern Lake Michigan’s Coastline During Nesting and Migration
6:00pm • Poster Display. The Benthic Invertebrate Communities of Northern Lake Michigan’s Cladophora “graveyards”
6:00pm • Poster Display. Effects of Invasive Non-Native Aquatic Macrophytes on the Foraging and Diet Composition of Small-sized Fish
6:00pm • Poster Display. Impacts of Extreme Conditions on White-tailed Deer Antlers Using Harvested and Naturally Cast Antler Metrics
6:00pm • Poster Display. Relationship Between Water Temperature and Flow Rates for Missouri Streams
6:00pm • Poster Display. Radio-tracking Fledgling Cerulean Warblers in Southern Indiana
6:00pm • Poster Display. Comparison of Methods for Characterization of Fish Thermal Habitat
6:00pm • Poster Display. Using Citizen Science to Monitor Carnivores in Nebraska
6:00pm • Poster Display. Long-Term Fish Community Monitoring and Status of Topeka Shiner at Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota
6:00pm • Poster Display. Validating Aging Structures in Asian Carp
6:00pm • Poster Display. Brood Rearing Resource Selection of Greater Sage-Grouse on the Eastern Fringe of Their Range
6:00pm • Poster Display. Evaluating Differences in Invertebrate Communities Between Remnant and Restored Prairies in Missouri
6:00pm • Poster Display. Application of Photo-identification Software Using Spot Patterns of African Civets (Civettictis Civetta) in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana
6:00pm • Poster Display. Light Traps Provide Insight About age-0 Fish Use of Restored Shorezone Areas in the St. Clair River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Survival and Drift Behavior of Pallid Sturgeon Free Embryos and Larvae in an Artificial Channel
6:00pm • Poster Display. Summer Roost Selection of Four Myotis Species in the Pine Ridge Region of Western Nebraska
6:00pm • Poster Display. Age and Growth Demographics of Asian Carp in the Upper Mississippi River
6:00pm • Poster Display. Trends in Relative Abundance of Sport Fishes of the Tahquamenon River, Michigan During 1988-2016
6:00pm • Poster Display. Initial Assessment of Rates of Cercariae Infections in Host Snail Populations
6:00pm • Poster Display. The Role of Habitat Size and Quality on Presence and Abundance of Small Arvicoline Rodents in Northeast Iowa
6:00pm • Poster Display. Tag Retention and Survival of Small Bighead Carp Implanted with Acoustic Tags at Three Temperatures
6:00pm • Poster Display. Use of Silicone Passive Sampling Devices (PSDs) for Assaying Potential Exposure of Northern Leopard Frogs to Pesticides in Agricultural Wetlands
6:00pm • Poster Display. Dispersal of Vertebrates Among Islands in a Riverine Ecosystem
6:00pm • Poster Display. Roosting Habits of the Northern Long-eared Bat (Myotis Septentrionalis) in a Managed Forest
6:00pm • Poster Display. Seasonal Home Ranges, Movements, and Habitat Selection of Female Elk in Northwestern Minnesota
6:00pm • Poster Display. Environmental Variables Influencing Raccoon Exposure to Parvovirus in Wisconsin
6:00pm • Poster Display. Benthic Foragers Selecting for the New Zealand Mud Snail
6:00pm • Poster Display. Butterfly Survey of Restored Croplands and Native Prairies in the Northern Loess Hills of Western Iowa
6:00pm • Poster Display. Comparison of Two Sampling Techniques and Management Effects on Herptile Fauna of Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Northwest Missouri
6:00pm • Poster Display. Partnering with Graduate Programs for Conservation
6:00pm • Poster Display. Population Structure Analysis of Western Painted Turtles
6:00pm • Poster Display. The Northeast Climate Science Center: Improving the Way Climate Science Informs Resource Management
6:00pm • Poster Display. Abstract Correction for Meretsky and Fischman
6:00pm • Poster Display. No Changes in Bat Encounters on the Mio Ranger District During the Summers of 2010-2016
6:00pm • Poster Display. Patch Size and Nest Density Influence Nest Survival
6:00pm • Poster Display. Reversing Habitat Loss in Reservoirs: No One Can Do It Alone
6:00pm • Poster Display. Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Timber Harvest Techniques on the Bat Community in a Midwestern Hardwood Forest: Occupancy Analyses Using Bio-acoustics
6:00pm • Poster Display. Loafing: The Wild Turkey's Guide to the Nap
6:00pm • Poster Display. Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) Drumming Log Preferences Near Tomahawk, Wisconsin
6:00pm • Poster Display. Qualitative Analysis of Landowner Behavior Preceding a Market Bust Using Farm Magazine Articles
6:00pm • Poster Display. Influence of Body Size and Sex on Ectoparasite Loads in Southern Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys Volans)
6:00pm • Poster Display. An Attempt to Quantify the Usefulness of Thermal Imagers for Locating Grassland Bird Nests
6:00pm • Poster Display. Attractants for Asian Carp Larvae