PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, November 20th Thursday, November 21st Friday, November 22nd Saturday, November 23rd Sunday, November 24th
Wednesday, November 20th
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Thursday, November 21st
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08:30-08:45 Session 1: Welcome
Chair:
Krissy Wilson (Retired; Utah Division Wildlife Resources, United States)
08:45-11:30 Session 2: General Session I
Chair:
Brandon Senger (Nevada Department of Wildlife, United States)
08:45 | Undescribed Mexican trout diversity: an update and conservation status assessments (abstract) |
09:00 | Environmental DNA sampling of desert fishes: performance relative to location, species, and traditional sampling (abstract) |
09:15 | Critical swim speeds of two suckers and their hybrids (abstract) |
09:30 | Utilizing the Endangered Species Act to protect desert fishes: 3 cases (abstract) |
09:45 | Hot, cold, and hungry suckers (abstract) |
10:00 | Fish assemblage restoration in the lower Blue River, Arizona (abstract) |
10:15 | Invasive crayfish eradication - a complicated species requires complicated conservation efforts (abstract) |
10:30 | How many off-channel habitats are needed to sustain genetic diversity in 'big-river' fishes? (abstract) |
10:45 | Red Tank Draw drainage nonnative fish mechanical removal (abstract) |
11:00 | Passive detection data aid estimation of Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus survival rates (abstract) |
11:15 | Captive breeding of the Devils Hole pupfish (abstract) |
11:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-17:00 Session 3: General Session II
Chair:
Kate Boersma (University of San Diego, United States)
13:30 | Landscape modeling of threatened Yaqui Catfish in a data limited environment (abstract) |
13:45 | Born to be rewilded; the Pahrump Poolfish and Relict Leopard Frog find a new home in Las Vegas, Nevada (abstract) |
14:00 | Lower Colorado River area report (abstract) |
14:15 | Advances on the genetic characterization of the reproductive stock of Yaqui catfish, Ictalurus pricei (Rutter, 1896) of the Bavispe River sub-basin, Sonora (abstract) |
14:30 | Ongoing restoration projects for the endangered Moapa Dace, Moapa coriacea, at the Warm Springs Natural Area, Clark County, Nevada. (abstract) |
14:45 | Disentangling natural dispersal versus human-mediated introduction of the Longfin Dace across the trans-continental divide (abstract) |
15:00 | A comprehensive assessment of Mexican freshwater ichthyofauna extinction risk under the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (abstract) |
15:15 | A global review of patterns of aquatic macroinvertebrate dispersal and functional feeding traits in aridland rock pools (abstract) |
15:30 | Restoring Gray Redhorse populations in the Delaware River, New Mexico (abstract) |
15:45 | Phylogeography of Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865) (abstract) |
16:00 | Population estimates for Humpback Chub, Gila cypha, and Roundtail Chub, Gila robusta, in Westwater Canyon, Colorado River, Utah, 2016-2017 (abstract) |
16:15 | Spatial structure and survey method influence population estimates for endangered Comanche Springs Pupfish (abstract) |
16:30 | The success of Green Sunfish removals in McGee Wash (abstract) |
16:45 | Population status of the Sonoyta Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale) in the Sonoyta River, Sonora, Mexico (abstract) |
17:15-19:15 Session 4: Poster Session
17:15 | Stonefly assemblages vs trout in low-order creeks along the Northern Wasatch Front. (abstract) |
17:15 | Rainbow versus cutthroat trout effects on predatory invertebrate assemblages (abstract) |
17:15 | Predatory interrelations in Weber & Davis County streams (abstract) |
17:15 | Freshwater Fishes of North America, Volume 2 (abstract) |
17:15 | Potential for Gila Trout egg stocking as a successful repatriation tool (abstract) |
17:15 | Advancing technology: the PIT tag problem in the lower Colorado River (abstract) |
17:15 | Advances in the study and recovery of a reproductive stock of the Yaqui Catfish, Ictalurus pricei, in Arroyo Cajón Bonito, Sonora (abstract) |
17:15 | Genetic variability and Inbreeding of the Sonoyta Pupfish Cyprinodon eremus Miller and Fuiman, 1987, in artificial refuges and wild populations of Sonora, Mexico (abstract) |
17:15 | Spatial dispersion of soldier flies (Stratiomyidae, Diptera) between non-perennial water bodies in El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, Sonora, México (abstract) |
17:15 | Study for the recognition of the specific identity of the remaining population of the Long-finned Carp Agosia chrysogaster Girard, 1856 of the Sonoyta River from the variation of its mitochondrial genes (abstract) |
17:15 | Morphological investigation of the Sand Shiner Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865) (abstract) |
17:15 | Oregon / Northern California area report to the Desert Fishes Council, November 2019 (abstract) |
17:15 | Morphometric and meristic variation within populations of the Mexican Roundtail Chub Gila minacae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Northwest México (abstract) |
17:15 | Learning about how pupfish live (abstract) |
17:15 | Importance of drainage-specific growth curves for back-calculating spawning periodicity of federally endangered Colorado Pikeminnow and Razorback Sucker (abstract) |
19:15-21:15 Student Networking Session
Chair:
Heidi Blasius (USDI Bureau of Land Management, United States)
Friday, November 22nd
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08:30-10:30 Session 5: General Session III
Chair:
Tiffany Love-Chezem (United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States)
08:30 | A status and conservation update for the Desert Pupfish (abstract) |
08:45 | Structural analysis in gonopodium of the genus Poecilia (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) on selected species and its implication on taxonomy (abstract) |
09:00 | Spatial and temporal variation in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages at tributary confluences of the Pecos River (abstract) |
09:15 | Changes in fish diversity at La Silla River, Nuevo León, Mexico: biological collections as witness of the ecosystems quality (abstract) |
09:30 | Time for rescue: genetic conservation of imperiled fishes: Arkansas River Shiner (Notropis girardi), Peppered Chub (Macrhybopsis tetranema) and Plains Minnow (Hybognathus placitus). (abstract) |
09:45 | Seasonal and longitudinal water quality dynamics in three effluent-dependent rivers in Arizona (abstract) |
10:00 | Assessing genetic diversity among lineages of Gila Trout based on neutral and adaptive single nucleotide polymorphic loci (abstract) |
10:15 | Collaborative research, conservation, and management strategies for the endangered Devils Hole Pupfish (abstract) |
10:30-11:30 Session 6: Symposium Plenary Session (Speaker = Timothy Birdsong)
Timothy Birdsong
Chair:
Megan Bean (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, United States)
11:30-13:15Lunch Break
13:15-16:45 Session 7: Symposium - Changing Landscapes: The Shift of the Chihuahuan Desert to a Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem
Chair:
Megan Bean (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, United States)
13:15 | The role of climate in establishing goals and expectations for rangeland restoration projects in Far West Texas (abstract) |
13:30 | West Texas springs: leaking into an uncertain future (abstract) |
13:45 | The Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River (abstract) |
14:00 | Resource use and ecological interactions of invertebrate communities in springs of central and west Texas (abstract) |
14:15 | A semi-arid river in distress: contributing factors and recovery solutions for three imperiled freshwater mussels (Family Unionidae) endemic to the Rio Grande basin in North America. (abstract) |
14:30 | Assessing salinity toxicity of Popenaias popeii (Texas Hornshell) from the Rio Grande, Texas (abstract) |
14:45 | Thermal tolerance of Popenais popeii (Texas Hornshell), an endangered freshwater mussel endemic to the Rio Grande basin (abstract) |
15:00 | Controls on native fish diversity in the Big Bend and Forgotten Reach of the Rio Grande and implications for management (abstract) |
15:15 | Meeting in the middle: biogeography of Pecos drainage Cyprinodon (abstract) |
15:30 | Conservation status of Chihuahuan Desert fishes in the United States: a spatial perspective (abstract) |
15:45 | Conservation of aquatic SGCN wildlife in the Trans-Pecos Ecoregion of Texas (abstract) |
16:00 | Managing uplands to support riparian health (abstract) |
16:15 | The Nature Conservancy’s history and current role in fish conservation in the Chihuahuan Desert (abstract) |
16:30 | Conservation of Chihuahuan Desert fishes – past and present (abstract) |
17:15-18:45 Business Meeting
Chair:
Krissy Wilson (Retired; Utah Division Wildlife Resources, United States)
Saturday, November 23rd
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08:30-11:00 Session 8: General Session IV
Chair:
Jennifer Gumm (United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States)
08:30 | Conservation biogeography of Headwater Catfish (Ictalurus lupus) in the United States (abstract) |
08:45 | 2019 Bonneville Basin coordinator update (abstract) |
09:00 | Assessment of age-0 Colorado Pikeminnow survival in backwater nursery habitats of the middle Green River, Utah (abstract) |
09:15 | Leave your hat in the office: Informal working groups as a conservation tool (abstract) |
09:30 | Microplastic pollution in the effluent-dependent Santa Cruz River (abstract) |
09:45 | Spawning periodicity and growth of larval Colorado Pikeminnow and Razorback Sucker in the San Juan River, in response to abiotic and temporal variables (abstract) |
10:00 | Ecosystem simulation as an intermediate step to establishing Devils Hole Pupfish in captivity (abstract) |
10:15 | Demographics of Bonytail and Razorback Sucker in isolated ponds (abstract) |
10:30 | Comparative mitochondrial genetic investigation of three lower Rio Grande endemic species of freshwater fishes (abstract) |
10:45 | Ichthyofauna of the Bustamante River, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Priority Land Region for the State (abstract) |
Sunday, November 24th
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07:00-19:00 Field Trip - Mount Livermore Hike at the Davis Mountains Preserve
Mount Livermore Hike at the Davis Mountains Preserve
Chair:
Megan Bean (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, United States)