Student Presentation Awards: Competitors Announced!
Congratulations to the following finalists who will advance to the judging round at NACCB! Be sure to check out their talks and posters at the conference. Winners will be announced at 10:30am on Thursday July 30th, prior to the closing plenary. Awards will be given for “Best Presentation” and “Best Presentation with a Conservation Application” in the following categories:
Full-length talks, competitors include:
Erin Crockett: Impacts of Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Diversity on Carbon Storage in Northern Forests
Avalon Owens: Light pollution is a driver of insect declines
Connor Wood: Using the ecological significance of animal vocalizations to improve inference in acoustic monitoring programs
Alexandra DeCandia: Microbial Dysbiosis and its Implications for Disease in Genetically Depauperate Santa Catalina Island Foxes (Urocyon littoralis catalinae)
Suvankar Biswas: Corridor Connectivity Drives Tiger Meta-population Dynamics In The Terai-Arc Landscape, India
Cinnamon Mittan: Phylogenetic Relationships and Potential Cryptic Species in the Global Invasion of Cane Toads (Rhinella)
Anna Nisi: Exposure to Human Development Drives Mortality Risk and Creates Source-Sink Dynamics for Pumas in a Fragmented Landscape
Scott Nordstrom: Fires Alter Multiple Vital Rates and Slow Population Declines in a Long-lived Prairie Plant
Stacey Nerkowski: A Rabbit’s Tale: Genomic Assessment of Pygmy Rabbit Populations Including the Endangered Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus Idahoensis)
Brock Burgess: Genotyping-by-Sequencing Applications for Informing Invasive Species Management: A Case Study using Sitka Deer in the Haida Gwaii Archipelago
Kristen Hirsh-Pearson: Mapping the Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild for Canada
Tim Korpita: Field trials of an anti-Bd probiotic skin treatment for a declining amphibian
Amy Van Scoyoc: Human activity reshapes the predator-prey temporal response race
David Kurz: Building bridges in the era of Trump: how can conservation academics help recover bipartisan US conservation policy support?
Speed talks, competitors include:
Sarah MacKell: Assessment of Floral Resource Competition Between Native Bees and Honeybees in Toronto
Lauren Kim: Food Forest Stories: Developing Intergenerational Green Space to Promote Urban Biodiversity and Reimagine the Public Park
Alex Nicol-Harper: Breeding Propensity versus Fertility in the Common Eider: A Need for Coordination Across the Boundaries Between Population Ecology and Conservation
Justin Waraniak : Population connectivity in agricultural landscapes: Land use effects on gene flow in northern leopard frogs in the Prairie Pothole Region
Kristin Hoelting: Pathways for Improved Consideration of the Cultural Benefits of Ecosystem Services in Environmental Decision-making
Erin Murphy: Evaluating the role of market-based instruments in protecting marine ecosystem services in wild-caught fisheries
Kelly Russo: Assessing Human Impacts on Bat Activity and Species Richness at Multiple Scales
Meera Sethi: Success Depends on What You Measure: A Global Meta-Analysis of Invertebrate Responses to Habitat Restoration
Posters, competitors include:
Misbah Younis: Synthesis,Characterization and application of zeolite for plastic degradation from Astola Island(First Protected Area of Pakistan)
Benjamin Ha: “Fishing” Out the Exomes: An analysis of genes under selection in endangered tidewater gobies
Jenna Parker: Physiological Consequences for Orphaned African Elephants
Amanda Martin: Challenges and Opportunities for Terrapene carolina carolina under Different Climate Scenarios
Ashwin Sivakumar: Fossil-Augmented Species Distribution Models Reveal the Shifted Baselines of California Avifauna under Climate Change
Claire Teitelbaum: Local and Behavioral Adaptations to Temperature in a Trailing Edge Population