Delta Students Win Big at NADS
Delta Waterfowl Foundation students took home the majority of the awards from the North American Duck Symposium.
Held in Toronto, Ontario the event brought together the leading waterfowl biologists in North America. Students sponsored by Delta Waterfowl were among the presenters. Organizers recognized the best of the presentations with awards recognizing masters, doctorate oral presentations and posters, as well as travel awards.
The Delta students receiving awards were:
Ph.D. oral presentations
Courtney Amundson and Matthew R. Pieron, Quantifying the Effects of Predator Management on Mallard Recruitment in North Dakota
Ph.D. Posters
Courtney L. Amundson and Todd W. Arnold, Marker Effects on Mallard Ducklings
Matthew R. Pieron and Frank C. Rohwer, Effects of Large-scale Predator Reduction on Duck Nest Success in Eastern North Dakota
Masters oral presentations
Christopher J. S. Martin and Jennifer I. McCarter, Top-down or Bottom-up? Compensatory Predation and Food Resource Limitation on Ducks in a Complex Prairie Food Web
Sarah J. Thompson and Todd W. Arnold, Effects of Encroaching Woody Vegetation on Upland-nesting Ducks
Travel awards
Courtney Amundson and Matthew R. Pieron, Quantifying the Effects of Predator management on Mallard Recruitment in North Dakota
Sarah J. Thompson and Todd W. Arnold, Effects of Encroaching Woody Vegetation on Upland-nesting Ducks
John A. Dassow, Michael W. Eichholz, Patrick J. Weatherhead, and Joshua D. Stafford, Risk-taking by Prairie Ducks: Can Hen Detect Reduced Predator Abundance and Adaptively Modify Parental Investment?