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 at 10:30am on Wednesday July 20th, 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:

Jacqueline Wallis: Deliberative Fairness and Conservation

Maria Viteri: Small Mammal Community Change Across Spatiotemporal Gradients of Human Impact in California

Jennifer Waldo: Investigating the Potential of Helicopter-Vessel Communication for Bycatch Avoidance in Tuna Purse Seine Fisheries

Anjelika Kidd-Weaver: Before-after-control-impact Assessment of Aversive Conditioning to Alter Alligator Tolerance of Humans in Human-dominated Environments

David Tian: Severe Inbreeding and Mutation Load in the Critically Endangered Devils Hole Pupfish

Leyna Stemle: Habitat Value of Constructed Breeding Pools for the Endangered Sonoma California Tiger Salamander

Stephanie Clements: Conflicting Results for Maximizing Total Herpetofaunal Richness vs. Conserving Forest Specialists in a Pastoral Tropical Landscape

Kelly Russo Petrick: Identifying Factors that Influence Bat Habitat Suitability

Christopher Jadallah: A Means and an End: Harnessing Community Science Literacy for River Restoration

Thomas Stevens: Even the Largest Urban Forest Fragments May be Unable to Conserve Urban Avoiding Species

Alana Luzzio: Harnessing Genomic Techniques to Inform Conservation Management of the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi)

Kathryn Ware: Evaluating Avian Breeding Diversity and Nesting Activity in Fragmented Pine Plantations

Cassandra Thompson: Are Pesticides Problematic? Carryover Effects of Aquatic Neonicotinoid Exposure on the Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica)

Nathaniel Wehr: Island Characteristics and Species Traits Describe Mammal Diversity Across Islands of the Great Lakes of North America

Rosemary Frederick: The Maternal Effects of Production Environment on Elymus elymoides in Ecological Restoration

Pablo Medrano: Key Species and Areas for Research and Conservation in Road Ecology. A Widely Applicable Approach

Melissa Cronin: Estimating Shark and Ray Catch in Tuna Fisheries to Inform Assessment and Conservation

Anjana Parandhaman: Modeling Edge vs Core Adaptive Potential for the Mojave Desert Tortoise Using Integrative Landscape Genomics and Habitat Suitability Assessments

Susan Gordon: Floral Diversity, Not Habitat Size or Connectivity, Increases Diversity in a Butterfly Metacommunity

Tyler Treakle: Factors Associated with the Successful Preemptive Conservation for Species at-risk to be Listed under the US Endangered Species Act

Jared Messick: Investigating How Relational Values Influence Landowner Participation in an Endangered Species Conservation Program

Jessica Beaudette: Mindfulness and Conservation: How Contemplative Methods can Benefit Science and Improve Conservation Outcomes

Speed talks, competitors include:

Hyun Seok Yoon: Spatial Heterogeneity in the Added Conservation Value From Protecting Land Influences Protected Area Priorities

Greta Schmidt: Multi-scale Responses to Urbanization by a Southern California Felid

Anna Weber: How Reliable are Noninvasive Samples for Sequencing Hypervariable Loci?

Lia Chalifour: Identifying A Pathway Toward Recovery For Depleted Wild Pacific Salmon Populations In A Large Watershed Under Multiple Stressors

Posters, competitors include:

Bethany Johnson: Using Remotely Sensed Data to Post-process Species Distribution Models for IUCN Red Listing

Hammed Adedamola Akande: Species Distribution Models Predicts Range Loss for the Endangered Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Africa

Dotun Arije: Effects of N-fertilizer Rates on CO2 Emission and Yield Production of Maize

Justice Best: Factors Influencing Mojave Desert Tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, Density and Patchiness Modeled at a Landscape Scale

Samuel Chang: Species Spatial Uncertainty Effects on the Extent of Occurrence and Area of Occupancy IUCN Red List Criterion B Metrics

Cheng Chen: Global Camera Trap Synthesis Highlights the Importance of Protected Areas in Maintaining Mammal Diversity

Jeremy Adkins: Pinus monophylla Seedling Trait Variation and Performance Under Various Seasonal Precipitation Regimes in a Field Common Garden