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Anna Faust The Azolla apocalypse? Appearance, spread, and impact of the nitrogen-fixing species in Lake Springfield, MO
Arindam Mandal Sustainable Tillage Approaches for Improving Tomato Yield, Soil Health, and Pest Resistance in Missouri’s Organic Agriculture
Ashley Hrdina Subject Matter Focus of State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Magazines
Autumn Shull Applied Learning through professional internships: Natural Resource Management Internship in land management. My experience with the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Avery Zenke Evaluating the influence of sound on utilization distributions of native fishes in a tank: A comparative study of ostariophysan and non-ostariophysan responses to a boat motor sound
Bani Kumar Biswas Biochar in Sustainable Agriculture: Short-Term Impacts on Soil Properties, Nutrient Dynamics, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Different Midwest Missouri Farmlands
Calvin Burdess Estimating  Historical Erosion and Deposition Patterns in Missouri’s Gasconade River with Mean Streambed Elevation Changes
Camrin Peaslee Odonate Abundance and Diversity in Ponds of an Urban University Campus
Cary Chevalier The Missouri Western State University’s John Rushin Teaching and Research Prairie: the first four years of prairie reconstruction and multidisciplinary biology research in an outdoor Applied Learning laboratory
Christopher Kirchhofer Breeding success of the Red-winged Blackbird validates bottomland hardwood forest restoration efforts in Southeast Missouri
Connor Bruemmer Hyporheic community sampling in Ozark streams: Determining if well installation is a disturbance
Csengele Barta Prairie plant species’ vulnerability to biological invasions: velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) suppresses big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) growth and development
Daniel Castillo Variation in butterfly composition at the Kickapoo Edge Prairie
Daniel Garten Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Occupancy in a Southern Missouri Woodland
Danielle McQueen Examining the Effectiveness of Voluntary Surveillance for CWD in White-tailed Deer in Missouri
Falcon Turner Wetland Management Internship at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge
Fatimat Shittu Presenter Unable to Attend Evaluation of hematologic profile parameters, body condition score and diagnosis of the aminic status in Katahdin ewes
Gabrielle Campbell Plethodontid salamander diversity and abundance in a popular Missouri show cave
Grace Allen Spatial Ecology of Blanding’s turtle, Emydoidea blandingii, Using Radio Telemetry and GPS Tracking Data on Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, Northwest Missouri
Jacob Vitale Defining old-growth characteristics of upland, xeric pine-oak forests in the Interior Highlands
Jaslyn Johnson Does Exposure to Cold Temperatures Influence Azolla Biomass?
Jennah Klein Exploring Disparities in Environmental Education and Its Impact on Environmental Justice: A Conceptual Overview
Joshua Bruegge Developing complementarity-based conservation priority ranks for Missouri’s aquatic natural communities based on fish and crayfish distributions
Kaitlyn J. Bebensee Small mammal community composition and diet in Southwestern Missouri prairies
Kali Rouse The large and medium sized mammal communities at Bull Shoals Field Station
Karen Klug Untapped Potential: American Sycamore and Black Walnut Sap Production Characteristics Compared to Sugar Maple
Katelin Meek Arthropod Visitors of American Elderberry Across Cultivar and Flowering Season
Katie Leonard Birds of Morris Prairie Conservation Area: Species response to restoration
Kaylee Woelfel Bird-friendly Communities Program
Kendall Smith Schooling dynamics of juvenile Grass Carp in response to sound
Kyra Bunch Optimizing Germination Rates in Black Walnut (Juglans nigra): A Comparative Study of Walnut Curing and Stratification Methods for High Production Cultivars
Lanissa Post Theileriosis (Theileria cervi) causes mortality in white-tailed deer fawns
Leah K. Berkman From the cradle: genetic diversity of the central Missouri endemic Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae)
Lucky Atabo Demographic assessment of habitat quality for the Mississipi Kite in a landscape of energy development
Lyndsey Rightnowar Bridge to Biodiversity: An Effort to Restore MO’s only Native Bamboo, Giant River Cane (Arundinaria gigantea)
Marlee Malmborg Monitoring American Kestrel Nesting Success: Insights on Box Monitoring, Tracking Reproduction and Habitat Use
Matt McNaney Measuring the Impact of Elevated Nitrate on Stream Health, Diversity of Fishes, and Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) as a Sentinel Species
Melanie Cohen Evaluating Introductory Adult Conservation Programming at Prairie Fork Conservation Area
Mohan Acharya Extending pasture-based sheep and goat production information to the farmers through Train-the-Trainer program
Ophelia Pettington Microbial composition of rhizosphere and bulk soils in areas of the Missouri Tri-State mining district
Quin Gray Occurrence and Abundance of Microplastics Accumulated in Missouri Stream Fishes
Rachel Suttmueller Cultivating Skills in Fisheries, Communication, and Conservation: Interning at Roaring River Fish Hatchery through the Johnny Morris Institute of Fisheries, Wetlands, and Aquatic Systems
Sarah King Fishing Guides as Citizen Scientists? Insights into State Licensing Requirements for Freshwater Fishing Guides
Sarah Sommer Influence of Sequence Stratigraphy on Karst in Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri
Sasha Goodnow Studying the impacts of southern pine beetle on loblolly pine in the Homochitto National Forest using remote sensing
Sonja Weber Pollinator Habitats in North Dakota’s Grasslands: Tracking Bee Diversity and Habitat Preferences of Populations in Managed Areas
Tessa Poolman Mapping and Mitigating Bird Collisions: A Volunteer-Driven Initiative in Kansas City
Tyson Cook Using Occupancy Modeling To Inform Management Decisions On A Restored Tallgrass Prairie
Yonah Bennett Zoonotic disease and diet surveys of raccoons (Procyon lotor) across urban-rural gradients in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri