Awards for poster and oral presentations

Award Place	Name	Student Type	Presentation Type	Title
3	Ben Luukkonen	Masters	Poster	Survival and recovery rates of Canada geese in urban areas of Iowa
2	Kyla Bas	Masters	Poster	Variation in individual quality of lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) ducklings in relation to spring phenology and density dependence
1	Blake J Mitchell	Masters	Poster	Assessing invertebrate sampling methods for landscape-level brood survey research

3	Kelsey Navarre	Masters	Oral	Implications of Covariation in Demographic Rates for Lesser Scaup
2	Luke Matthews	Masters	Oral	Waste Grain Availability in Post-harvest Rice and Corn Fields, California
1	Madeleine Lohman	Masters	Oral	Spatiotemporal variation in waterfowl demography

3	Jay A. VonBank	PhD	Poster	Wintering Movements and Energy Expenditure following a Large-Scale Distribution Shift in Greater White-fronted Geese
2	Breanne Murray	PhD	Poster	Fecal biomarkers of stress in mallard ducks
1	Dan Smith	PhD	Poster	Estimating the energy landscape of the Suisun Marsh

3	Matthew Dyson	PhD	Oral	Identifying critical nesting habitat for ducks in Albertas western boreal forest.
2	Robert Blenk	PhD	Oral	SWAMP: Updates on an agent-based modeling program to evaluate carrying capacity of winter and migrational habitats
1	Thomas Riecke	PhD	Oral	Abundance drives cause-specific teal mortality

	Starla Phelps	Undergraduate	Poster	Black-bellied Whistling Duck Site Fidelity and Nest Box Use at the Northern Edge of Their Expanding Range

Special thanks to the following people who volunteered their time to evaluate the student presentations: