2022 Presentations

ILMA - AFS Joint Annual Conference 2022

Session 1A : Fish Ecology

• Dahlia Martinez — Using Active Tracking to Assess Diurnal and Seasonal Habitat Use of Bigheaded Carp
• Bryan Sea —  Bigmouth Buffalo Movement and Habitat Overlap with Paddlefish and Bigheaded Carp
• Joseph Rector — Status of Ohio River Crappie Population Vital Rates and Relationships Between Environmental Variables and Year-Class Strength
• Sam Schaick — Catfish and Smallmouth Buffalo Populations in Commercially Versus Non-Commercially Harvested Pools of the Illinois River

Session 1B: Methods

• Kirsten James — Field Data Collection Tools
• Mark Lynch — Integrated Data Collection Acround the United States
• Diane Tancl — Statistically Valid Surveys of Lakes and Reservoirs in the United States
• Miles Corcoran — Cost-Effective Monitoring Networks: Reducing Field Visits While Maintaining Reliable Data

Session 2A: Watersheds

• Alana Bartolai — Lake Management Plans 101
• Shane Sinclair — Precision Conservation Managmement Program Summary
• Brian Valleskey — What is a NARP
• Austin Omer — Illinois Farm Bureau’s efforts toward implementing the Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy

Session 2B: Restoration

• Joshua D. Bruegge — Restoring Aquatic Connectivity in an Illinois River: Changes in Functional Groups of Fishes
• Alexis VandenBerg — Impacts of an Instream Restoration on Fish Communities and Abundance in a Midwestern Stream
• Integrated Lakes Management — Lake Shoreline Restoration
• Amanda Carter — Effects of Environmental Pool Management on 25 year of fish in backwaters of Upper Mississippi River Pool 26

Session 3A: Water Quality

• Andrew Margenot — Legacy phosphorus and bank erosion: overlooked contributors to phosphorus loading of Illinois surface waters?
• Javan Miner — Internal loading: yes that monitoring data is useful, here’s why, and how to use it
• Taylor Bookout — Illinois River Turbidity Response to Reduced Vessel Traffic
• Pamela Dugan, PhD — In-Lake Phosphorus Mitigation for the Restoration of Impaired Lakes

Session 3B: Fish Habitat

• Dakota R. Radford — Fish and prey resources in reservoir coves with and without offshore artificial habitat structures
• Spencer J. Phillips — Evaluation of artificial nest structures and in-stream habitat of Flathead Catfish in the Rock River using radio telemetry
• Michael A Nannini — Behavioral response of three sportfish species to artificial habitats
• Carly C. Fenstermacher — Ecosystem Response to a Whole-reservoir Coarse Woody Habitat Addition

Session 4A: Social Science of AIS & Fisheries

• Elizabeth Golebie — Overcoming barriers to invasive species prevention behaviors through values-framed outreach messages
• Edgar A. Rudberg, Ph.D — Online Boater Led Check-In/Check-Out Alternative  to In-Person Inspections: A COVID-19 Response Pilot
• North Joffe-Nelson — Trust, values and behavior regarding the spread of aquatic invasive species among recreational boaters in Illinois
• Thompson Hill — Testing How Social and Ecological Factors Influence Preference and Satisfaction for Panfish Angling Groups

Session 4B: Mussels & Invasive Carp

• Brian A. Metzke — Spatial autocorrelation of assemblage composition reveals scale of mussel metacommunities
• Steven E. Butler — Evaluation of a quantitative PCR screening procedure for rapid ID of invasive carp eggs and larvae in ichthyoplankton samples
• James K. Bland — Trial applications of Earth Tec QZ molluscide for the control of zebra mussel populations in ambient waterways
• Andrew Runyon — An Experimental Assessment of Size-Specific Mollusk Vulnerability to Juvenile Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) Predation

Session 5A: AIS and Nusiance Species

• Vanessa Williams — Canada Goose Management
• Adam Landry — Investigating Bigheaded Carp Ichthyoplankton Presence in Tributaries of the Illinois River
• Justin Kowalski — Determining how invasive Silver Carp influence trophic structure of native species in the Ohio River
• Keith Gray — Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting - New Applications for Managing Starry Stonewort
• Austin Happel — Decreases in wastewater pollutants increased fish diversity of Chicago’s waterways

Session 5B: Fish Resiliancy

• Ben Lubinski — 2020 Richland Creek Fish Kill - An overview and a site revisit 1 year later
• Hannah Holmquist — Fish community Responses to Water Level Fluctuations in Buttonland Swamp, Illinois
• David Philipp — The COVID Pandemic Revealed How Angling for Nesting Bass Impacts Annual Recruitment in a Population

Session 6A : Fish Population Ecology

• Amber Blackert — Drivers of Fish Growth and Recruitment in Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Black Crappie in the Emiquon Preserve
• Shaley Valentine — Resource Use of Bluegill along a Longitudinal Gradient in Five Reaches of the Mississippi River
• Morgan Winstead — Evaluating pectoral spine microchemistry for identifying stocked Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and inferring fish size
• George C. Balto — Analysis of the effect of habitat type/extent on sampling design parameter estimates

Session 6B: Species of Concern & Climate Change

• Jeremy Tiemann — Vitalogy: The Study of Life in the Vermilion River Basin
• David Kraft, PE, CFM — Waterway Restoration and Climate Resiliency
• Qihong Dai — Assessments of impacts from climate change agricultural disturbances on fish biodiversity in the Kaskaskia
• Sara Ashcraft — Assessing population viability and habitat preference of Eastern Sand Darter in Illinois Running Waters