Congratulations to the following finalists who will advance to the live judging round at NACCB! Be sure to check out their talks and posters at the conference.  Winners will be announced by 6:3opm on Thursday, June 27th, prior to the closing plenary. Up to two awards in the following categories will be awarded: “Best Presentation” and “Best Presentation with a Conservation Application.”

Full-length talks, competitors include:

Josefina Cortes: Roots and changes: social-ecological filters drive presence of agroecological principles in family farming of the southern Andes. A case study of indigenous and non-indigenous campesinos, and life migrants.

Sydney Collins: Individually consistent parental behaviour predicts reproductive success in a long-lived nocturnal seabird

Faezehalsadat Khalifehsoltanian: Enhancing Conservation Outcomes through Improved Estimation of Forest Growth Potential: Integrating Satellite and LiDAR estimates of old growth forest

Tyler Black: Invasive green crabs halt recruitment of clam populations within the Central Coast region of British Columbia

Mac Wilson: Patterns of bumble bee (Bombus spp.) on and near cannabis farms in Humboldt County, California

Jonathan Chu: Factors that influence the variation in predation rates imposed by outdoor owned domestic cats (Felis catus) –  BEST CONTRIBUTED TALK!

Christopher Dennison: The Birds of Motown: using bioacoustics to explore factors affecting avian diversity and occupancy in Detroit, Michigan – BEST CONTRIBUTED TALK!

Ryan OConnor: Silencing the Shore: The Effects of Onshore Anthropogenic Noise on Marine Mammals Informed by Mixed Methods

Lara Volski: People and wolves in the Columbia River Gorge: How carnivore recovery reveals the significance of place-based knowledge and trust

Carol Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas: Revealing pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing the adoption of Silvopastoral Systems in Colombia

Camille DeSisto: Impacts of tourism on deforestation in protected areas across Madagascar

Jack Hendrix: Faithful pals and familiar locales: social and spatial site fidelity during reproduction in woodland caribou

Speed talks, competitors include:

Isaac Meza Padilla: The impact of social media on illegal wildlife trade in Mexico: What have we learned after a year of monitoring?

Bright Olunusi: Exploring Human-Bear Interactions in Massachusetts and the Implications for Conservation Strategies

Vanessa Hum: Bird-window collision monitoring at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada : a window of opportunity to implement effective solutions – BEST SPEED TALK!

Posters, competitors include:

Nikol Damato: Evaluating factors influencing compliance with vessel regulations to minimize disturbances to endangered killer whales (Orcinus orca) – BEST POSTER!

Kathryn Grabowski: Limited spatiotemporal niche partitioning among mesocarnivores in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique