Tuesday, February 11, 2025

 Awards for best posters and presentations at KNRC 2025

The Awards Committee of the Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society would like to recognize several award winners during presentations held on February 6th and 7th 2025 in Manhattan, Kansas (as part of the Kansas Natural Resources Conference).

Connor Ossowski certificate of appreciation for serving as Past president

There were many great presentations at the 2025 Kansas Natural Resources Conference. In total, we judged 14 oral presentations and 10 posters. Thank you to those that volunteered to judge presentations.

These meetings would not be as valuable without your willingness to share your research and management findings. We thank those presenters and encourage others to share their project outcomes at next years’ meeting. The winners of the 2025 awards are as follows:

 

Best Professional Presentation

Jeff Koch: Percid stocking evaluations in Kansas reservoirs

 

Best Student Presentation

Randy Wilson: Quantifying avian predation rates of the Colorado Pikeminnow

 

Best Professional Poster

Ryan Waters: Fishes of the Arkansas River in Kansas

 

Best Student Poster

Joshua Holloway: Recent range expansions of four species of freshwater mussels in the Spring River of Kansas

 

 

-Bryan Sowards

Award Committee Chairman