PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, November 14th Thursday, November 15th Friday, November 16th Saturday, November 17th Sunday, November 18th
Wednesday, November 14th
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Thursday, November 15th
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08:30-09:00 Welcome
Chairs:
Phil Pister (Desert Fishes Council, United States)
Krissy Wilson (Desert Fishes Council, United States)
Krissy Wilson (Desert Fishes Council, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
09:00-11:30 Session 1: Lee Simons: Advocate for Desert Fishes Symposium
Chairs:
Lesley Fitzpatrick (Retired, United States)
Brandon Senger (Nevada Department of Wildlife, United States)
Brandon Senger (Nevada Department of Wildlife, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
09:00 | Remembrance of Dr. Lee H. Simons (abstract) |
09:15 | Lee Simons a Carpenter of Convergence: Restoration Project Legacy for Southern Nevada Aquatic Species with Current Status Updates. (abstract) |
09:30 | The Direct Impacts of Non-Native Species on Pahrump Poolfish, Empetrichthys latos latos (abstract) |
09:45 | Antipredator Club Cell Evaluation in Insular Fishes (abstract) |
10:00 | Recovery on Private Land – Pahranagat Roundtail Chub Progress (abstract) |
10:15 | History and Status of Fish Conservation on the Upper Muddy River, Nevada (abstract) |
10:30 | Ten Years of Restoration Projects for the Endangered Moapa Dace, Moapa coriacea at the Warm Springs Natural Area, Clark County, Nevada. (abstract) |
10:45 | Virgin River Long-Term Fish Community Monitoring (abstract) |
11:00 | Devils Hole and the Legacy of Lee Simons: 2011-2016 (abstract) |
11:15 | Comparative Study of Microbial Biogeochemistry of Devils Hole and Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility (abstract) |
11:30-13:00Lunch
13:00-16:00 Session 2: Standing Between Life and Extinction: Book Preview Symposium
Chair:
David Propst (Desert Fishes Council, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
13:00 | The next Chapter in the Battle Against Extinction (abstract) |
13:15 | Reflections on Some Good Friends: the Pioneers of the Desert Fishes Council (abstract) |
13:30 | Mining Hidden Waters: Groundwater Depletion, Aquatic Habitat Degradation and Loss of Fish Diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion of Texas (abstract) |
13:45 | The Exotic Dilemma: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Recover Native Colorado River Basin Fishes (abstract) |
14:00 | Ghosts of Our Making: Extinct Aquatic Species of the North American Desert Region (abstract) |
14:15 | The Value of Specimen Collections for Conserving Biodiversity (abstract) |
14:30 | The Devils Hole Pupfish: Science in a Time of Crisis (abstract) |
14:45 | Long-Term Monitoring of a Desert Fish Population Aravaipa Creek, Arizona. (abstract) |
15:00 | Conservation and the Historical Distribution of Gila Trout (abstract) |
15:15 | Large-River Fish Conservation in the Colorado River Basin: Progress and Challenges with Endangered Razorback Sucker (abstract) |
15:30 | Politics, Imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures (abstract) |
15:45 | Searching for Common Ground Between Life and Extinction (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 3: General Session I
Chair:
Kaleb Smith (Arizona Game and Fish Department, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
16:00 | Feeding Ecology of Co-Occurring Early Life Stage Suckers in a Regulated River (abstract) |
16:15 | Laboratory Experiments to Determine Effectiveness of Light Traps to Detect Razorback Sucker Larvae (abstract) |
16:30 | The Influence of Groundwater Fluctuations on the Distribution and Habitat Associations of Two Cyprinid Fishes in a Desert Spring Complex. (abstract) |
16:45 | Fine-Scale Analysis of Population Structure in the Relict Dace Using RAD Sequencing (abstract) |
17:00 | Hope in a Highly Regulated River: Native Fish Recovery in the Colorado River (abstract) |
17:15 | Efficacy of Mechanical Removal of Nonnative Fish from Closed Systems. an Update on Bonita and Aravaipa Creeks. (abstract) |
17:45-19:45 Session 4: Poster Session
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
17:45 | Biodiversity, Biogeography, & Conservation of North American Desert Fishes I: Areas of Endemism (abstract) |
17:45 | Biodiversity, Biogeography, & Conservation of North American Desert Fishes II: Faunal Assembly (abstract) |
17:45 | Restoration of Aquatic Habitats and Native Fishes in the Desert: Some Successes in Western North America (abstract) |
17:45 | Fifty years of Desert Fishes Council Proceedings as a resource for retrieving otherwise lost knowledge and control of shifting baselines (abstract) |
17:45 | Lower Colorado River Area Report (abstract) |
17:45 | See the Light: Construction of a Collapsible Larval Fish Light Trap Using a Low-Power LED Light Source (abstract) |
17:45 | Current Conservation Status of Some Freshwater Fishes and Their Habitats in Mexico. (abstract) |
17:45 | Native Fish Dominance in the Grand Canyon, Arizona (abstract) |
17:45 | Report on the Development of a Refuge Pond for the Sonoyta River Form of the Longfin Dace at the CEDO Research Station, Rocky Point, Sonora, Mexico. (abstract) |
17:45 | Summary of Pond Construction of a Holding Pond for the Endangered Yaqui Catfish. (abstract) |
17:45 | Long-Term Perspective of Native Fishes Within the Muddy River, Nevada (abstract) |
17:45 | Conservation Agreement and Strategy for Springsnails in Nevada and Utah (abstract) |
17:45 | Black Canyon City Heritage Park Native Fish Refuge Population Update (abstract) |
17:45 | Broodstock Density Mediates Larval Production of Captive-Spawned Loach Minnow and Spikedace (abstract) |
17:45 | Comparing and Contrasting Pupfish, Headwater Catfish, and Northern Largemouth Bass (abstract) |
17:45 | Lee Simons: a Legacy in Southern Nevada (abstract) |
17:45 | Water Quality and Sediment Chemistry of Selected Habitats of the Mohave Tui Chub, Mojave National Preserve, California, 2018 (abstract) |
17:45 | The Effects of Red Swamp Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, on Experimental Populations of the Amargosa Pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosae. (abstract) |
17:45 | Laughlin Lagoon Avian Predation Monitoring (abstract) |
17:45 | The Renovation and Modernization of the Aquatic Research and Conservation Center (abstract) |
17:45 | Genetic Variability and Inbreeding of the Sonoyta Pupfish Cyprinodon eremus Miller and Fuiman, 1987, in Artificial Refuge and Wild Populations of Sonora, Mexico. (Variabilidad Genética y Endogamia del Pez Cachorrito del Sonoyta Cyprinodon eremus Miller y Fuiman, 1987, en Refugios Artificiales y Poblaciones Silvestres de Sonora, México) (abstract) |
17:45 | Does Sympatry Influence Dietary Niche Overlap? an Analysis of Gut Content in Poeciliopsis prolifica and Poeciliopsis latidens (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) (abstract) |
17:45 | Study and Conservation Strategies of Yaqui Catfish in Northwest Mexico: Recovery and Management Plan. (Estrategias de Estudio y Conservación del Bagre Yaqui, Ictalurus pricei, en el Noroeste de México: Programa de Recuperación y Manejo) (abstract) |
17:45 | A Holocene Snail Fauna in the Middle Snake River Sub-Basin, Southern Idaho, U.S.a. (abstract) |
17:45 | Spatial and Temporal Variation in Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Structure in Salinized Reaches of the Pecos River (abstract) |
17:45 | Freshwater Mollusk Water Quality Tolerances and Observations About the Effects of Dams in the Middle Snake River Sub-Basin, Southern Idaho (abstract) |
17:45 | Evolution of Gonopodial Asymmetry and Behavioral Laterality in the Livebearing Fish Xenophallus umbratilis (abstract) |
17:45 | Beaver-Mediated Ponds Provide Cold Water Refugia in a Degraded Desert Stream (abstract) |
17:45 | Nevada Area Report (abstract) |
17:45 | Homogenizing Effects of Historic Lake Bonneville: Can Phylogeography Inform Community Assembly? (abstract) |
17:45 | Predacious Diving Beetle (Dytiscidae) Dynamics Within a Refuge Tank Ecosystem for the Endangered Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis). (abstract) |
17:45 | Desert Fishes Research and Management in Texas: Rio Grande, Pecos, and Devils Rivers (abstract) |
17:45 | Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Freshwater Fish Communities (abstract) |
17:45 | Upper Colorado Basin Area Report (abstract) |
17:45 | The Aquatic eDNA Atlas and Applications for Desert Fish (abstract) |
19:45-21:45 Student Networking Session
Chair:
Heidi Blasius (U.S. Bureau of Land Management, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
Friday, November 16th
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08:30-12:00 Session 5: General Session II
Chair:
Anthony Robinson (Arizona Game and Fish Department, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
08:30 | Demographics of Riparian Lizards in the Chiricahua Mountains in Relation to Water Availability and Emerging Aquatic Insects as a Potential Food Source (abstract) |
08:45 | Should One Age a Warmwater Fish in a Coldwater System? (abstract) |
09:00 | Severely Understudied Impacts of Fishes in North America’s Arid Land Aquatic Ecosystems (abstract) |
09:15 | A Comparison of Riffle and Beaver Pond-Dwelling Trout in Northeastern Utah (abstract) |
09:30 | Implications of Using Treated Wastewater as Habitat for Desert Fishes (abstract) |
09:45 | Endangered Species Recovery on a Landscape Scale - Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge (abstract) |
10:00 | Trophic Ecology of Roundtail Chub, Gila robusta, Along a Gradient of Invasion (abstract) |
10:15 | Stream-Specific and Generalized Habitat Suitability Criteria for Four Native Desert Fishes (abstract) |
10:30 | How Old Is the Devils Hole Pupfish and Why Should We Care? (abstract) |
10:45 | Observations on the Ecology, Distribution, and Status of the Inyo Mountains Salamander. (abstract) |
11:00 | Restoring the Terrestrial Connections of Devils Hole (abstract) |
11:15 | Go with the Flow: Flow Regime and Fish Populations in Four Arizona Streams (abstract) |
11:30 | Cryptic but Reel: Using Social Psychology Principles in Educational Videos to Acquaint the Public with Cryptic Fishes (abstract) |
11:45 | Differences in Aquatic Invertebrate Diversity and Community Composition in Perennial Systems of the Rio Sonoyta Basin, Arizona and Sonora (abstract) |
13:30-17:00 Session 7: General Session III
Chair:
David Rogowski (DFC, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
13:30 | Forgotten Secrets of Invasive Fish Eradication (abstract) |
13:45 | Drought Cues Induce Dispersal in an Aquatic Beetle, Haliplus punctatus (Coleoptera: Haliplidae) (abstract) |
14:00 | Biogeochemical Analyses of Airborne Deposition of Lead (Pb) Contamination in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona. (abstract) |
14:15 | Effect of Diurnal Flow Variability on Water Quality Dynamics in the Effluent-Dependent Santa Cruz River (abstract) |
14:30 | Chichencanab, a Catastrophic Ecosystem? (Chichencanab, un Ecosistema Catastrófico?) (abstract) |
14:45 | Intraspecific Response of Sonora Suckers to Consecutive Wildfire Disturbances (abstract) |
15:00 | Comparative Morphometrics Analysis Among Refuge and Wild Populations of Sonoyta Pupfish Cyprinodon eremus Miller & Fuiman, 1987 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae). (Análisis Morfométrico Comparativo de Poblaciones de Refugio y Silvestres del Pez Cachorrito del Sonoyta Cyprinodon eremus Miller y Fuiman, 1987 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae)) (abstract) |
15:15 | Effects of Body Size on Vulnerability to Predation in Juvenile Roundtail Chub Stocked in the Upper Verde River, Arizona (abstract) |
15:30 | Comparison of Aging Structures and Life History Aspects of an Historical Population of the Roundtail Chub, Gila robusta (Cyprinidae), in the Yampa River Canyon, Colorado (abstract) |
15:45 | A New Las Vegas Home for the Pahrump Poolfish, Empetrichthys latos (abstract) |
16:00 | Does Increasing Food-Web Stability Mediate the Effects of Cattle Grazing in Aquatic Desert Ecosystems? (abstract) |
16:15 | Developing YY Males to Control Nuisance Fish Populations in the Southwest (abstract) |
16:30 | Ecological Traits of Non-Native Fundulus Grandis in the Pecos River: Implications for Impacts on Native Species (abstract) |
16:45 | Bonytail, the Arizona Tuna? Convergence in Muscle and Tendon Anatomy in Scombrids and Gila cypha (abstract) |
17:15-18:15 Business Meeting
Chair:
Krissy Wilson (Desert Fishes Council, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
Saturday, November 17th
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08:30-12:00 Session 8: General Session IV
Chair:
Pilar Wolters (Arizona Game and Fish Department, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
08:30 | The Conservation Landscape: Finding Success at the Intersection of Ecological, Social, and Institutional Dimensions (abstract) |
08:45 | Long-Term Patterns of Fish Community Structure in Lake Mohave, Arizona-Nevada (abstract) |
09:00 | Limiting Factors and Recovery of Woundfin in the Virgin River (abstract) |
09:15 | An Evaluation of Three Artificial Structures to Reduce Predation on Hatchery-Reared Bonytail and Razorback Suckers (abstract) |
09:30 | Quantifying the Predatory Threat of a Nonnative Fish on Native Fishes in the San Juan River (abstract) |
09:45 | Spatial and Temporal Variation of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in the Upper Gila River, New Mexico and Response to Drought, Wildfire and Monsoonal Flooding (abstract) |
10:00 | Oregon / Northern California Area Report, November 2018 (abstract) |
10:15 | Factors Influencing Successful Mechanical Removal of Green Sunfish (abstract) |
10:30 | Potential for a Multi-Species Refuge: Investigating Competition Between Historically Co-Occurring Cyprinids (abstract) |
10:45 | A Resurvey of Springsnails in and near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge 31 Years Later (abstract) |
11:00 | Do “Designer Flows” for Native Fish Also Protect Aquatic Insects and Riparian Plants? (abstract) |
11:15 | A Post-Stocking Survival and Movement Analysis of Razorback Sucker and Bonytail in the Lower Colorado River. (abstract) |
11:30 | Assessment of Razorback Sucker Monitoring in the Lower Colorado River Basin (abstract) |
11:45 | Age, Growth, and Age at Maturity of Bonefish (Albula Species) Among Cuban Habitats (abstract) |
13:30-17:00 Session 9: General Session V
Chair:
Julie Carter (Arizona Game and Fish Department, United States)
Location: Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium
13:30 | Distribution of Fishes and Fish Assemblages in the Northern Owens Valley (abstract) |
13:45 | Comparisons of the Age Structure of Several Populations of Bonneville Bluehead Sucker (abstract) |
14:00 | Challenges in Desert Pupfish Management in Salt Creek and San Felipe Creek, Riverside and Imperial Counties of California (abstract) |
14:15 | Post-Stocking Fate of Razorback Sucker in Topock Marsh, AZ (abstract) |
14:30 | Use of the Lower Dolores River by Endangered Fishes, 2013-2017 (abstract) |
14:45 | Response of Macroinvertebrate Communities to High Flows in the Owens River Gorge (abstract) |
15:00 | A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Protecting Instream Flows and Endemic Species in the Devils River, Texas (abstract) |
15:15 | Captive Propagation of the Devils Hole Pupfish at the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility (abstract) |
15:30 | Waterfall Formation at a Desert River-Reservoir Delta Isolates Endangered Fishes (abstract) |
15:45 | Prescribed Fire as a Tool to for Sensitive Species Conservation (abstract) |
16:00 | Submersible PIT Antennas Document a New Spawning Location for Colorado Pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus lucius, in the Green River, Utah (abstract) |
16:15 | Critical Rearing Grounds for the Endangered Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius): Management Challenges in a Rapidly Changing Ecosystem. (abstract) |
16:30 | Genetic and Morphological Analysis of Hybridization Between Native and Invasive Pupfishes (Cyprinodon) (abstract) |
Sunday, November 18th
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08:00-13:00 Field Trip-Amargosa River
Field trip will be a hike along the wild and scenic reach of the Amargosa River in Tecopa. We will leave Furnace Creek at 8 am and drive to Tecopa, hike (and view pupfish and dace) till 12 noon. After we will drink and eat food at the brewery (owned by the landowner granting us access).