2015 Annual Meeting

Bismarck, North Dakota

David Schumann won the Robert Klumb Scholarship with Andrew Carlson as an honorable mention. Zachary Jessee, Jenna Haag, Dalton Benage, Logan Gutzmer, and Josue Hernandez were winners of the Sauger Scholarships. The Schmulbach Award was presented to Morgan Kauth. The Outstanding Young Professional Award went to Mike Smith. Two award winners for the Al Kriel award were: Barbara-Ann Lytle and Logan Gutzmer. Jeremy Kientz won the best student paper for his paper entitled “Movement and Survival of Wild Rainbow Trout within the Deerfield Reservoir System, South Dakota”. Best student poster went to Jerry Warmbold for this study on “An Emerging Decline: Large consumers decrease aquatic insect emergence by an order of magnitude in a Missouri River backwater.” Greg Simpson won the best professional paper for “Re-establishment of finescale dace (Phoxinus neogaeus) in Mud Lake” and Landon Pierce was awarded the best professional poster for “Differences in capture probability of an endangered species (Pallid Sturgeon) among four sampling gears.”

Sauger Scholarship recipients
Sauger Scholarship recipients from left to right, Zachary Jessee, Jenna Haag, Dalton Benage, Logan Gutzmer, and Josue Hernandez.
Kauth-James C. Schmulback award
Morgan Kauth was the recipient for the Dr. James C. Schmulbach Memorial Scholarship.