Session 1: Moose Behavior and Monitoring
Make better choices: behavioral response of moose to summer heat stress in Minnesota – Michelle Carstensen, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Assessing moose calf survival using unmanned aerial thermal imaging – Erin Largent, Northern Michigan University
Session 2: Estimation and Monitoring Techniques
Developing and evaluating novel techniques for moose monitoring – Remington Moll, University of New Hampshire
Counting moose from the ground and air: How do they compare? – Alexej Siren, University of New Hampshire
From calls to counts: monitoring moose populations using acoustic recorders – Sandesh Lamichhane, University of New Hampshire
Life-history stages and behavior influence demographic classification of moose captured on camera traps – Zalmai Moheb, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Session 3: Parasites and Disease
Habitat-associated risk of endoparasitism and survival in New York moose – Jen Grauer, SUNY – ESF
Improving surveillance of meningeal worm infection in moose through peptide-based ELISA diagnostics – Erin Kelley, University of Tennessee
Molecular investigation into an immunogenic Parelaphostrongylus tenuis (brain worm) antigen for serology across geographic ranges – Jessie Richards, University of Tennessee
Surveillance optimization project for chronic wasting disease (SOP4CWD) – Brenda Hanley, Cornell University
Review of important parasitic diseases of moose and what samples to collect for testing – Richard Gerhold, University of Tennessee
Standardizing moose health information – Jen Grauer, SUNY – ESF
Session 4: Tribal Research
White hot moose: Applications of aircraft with thermal infrared camera for moose monitoring and research – Amanda McGraw, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Combining technology and field work to identify and evaluate moose use of mineral licks, potential ecological traps – Anna Weesies, Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Michigan moose research collaborative – Erin Johnston, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Applied Indigenous-led moose research leading to wildlife management practices and broad-scale legislative policy development to restore moose – Seth Moore, Grand Portage Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa
Session 5: Estimation and Monitoring Techniques (Part 2)
Evolving moose monitoring in a harvested, resource-limited system – Samantha Bundick, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Integrating historical aerial surveys and harvest data into statistical population reconstruction for long-term moose abundance estimation – Sergey Berg, University of St. Thomas
Modeling harvest scenarios for the northeastern Minnesota moose population – Ron Moen, University of Minnesota – Duluth
Session 6: Population Limiting Factors
We’ve reduced hunting, so where are the moose? Investigating factors limiting moose populations in a harvest-restricted region of Ontario – Nick Luymes, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Brain rut: rex-specific rut effects on moose habitat selection and movement in northern Ontario – Alexander Bezzina, Trent University
Variation in wolf predation on moose in Ontario: Insight into predatory limitations on moose populations – Dani Freund, Trent University
Nutrition, predation, and parasitism as drivers of moose population dynamics in Montana – Nick DeCesare, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Management considerations of moose life-history characteristics in Colorado, USA – Eric Bergman, Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Moose in New York – Jeremy Hurst, NYSDEC
