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2025 Southeast Deer Study Group

12:00pm EST

Poster Set-Up Chesapeake EFG Conference Registration Desk Open PrefunctionLeslie Pelch

2:00pm EST

Southeast Deer Partnership Steering Committee Meeting (Invite Only) Choptank

3:00pm EST

Southeast Deer Study Group Committee Meeting (Invite Only) Choptank

5:00pm EST

Dinner on Your Own On Your Own

6:00pm EST

Welcome Reception Chesapeake EFG

7:00am EST

Continental Breakfast Chesapeake EFG Conference Registration Desk Open Prefunction

8:00am EST

Welcome and Introduction Chesapeake ABCDPat Emory • Brian Eyler • Gino D'Angelo • Jonathan Trudeau

8:30am EST

Plenary Session 1: Deer Health and Disease: Tales from the Southeast Chesapeake ABCDMark Ruder

9:00am EST

Plenary Session 2: Tackling New Health Challenges Deer Managers Face in the Northeast Chesapeake ABCDKrysten Schuler

9:30am EST

Plenary Panel Discussion Chesapeake ABCDSam Millman • Jonathan Trudeau • Krysten Schuler • Mark Ruder

10:00am EST

Break Chesapeake EFG

10:20am EST

Navigating Urbanization: Effects of Anthropogenic Features on White-tailed Deer Movement Chesapeake ABCDMikiah Carver-McGinn

10:40am EST

The biomechanical processes of deer jumping: a quantitative approach to deer crossing vertical barriers Chesapeake ABCDGeorge Goto

11:00am EST

Deer, Disease, and Urban Landscapes: SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance and Findings Chesapeake ABCDCarson Coriell

11:20am EST

Lunch on Your Own On Your Own

1:20pm EST

Harvest susceptibility of white-tailed deer across an urbanization gradient Chesapeake ABCDJared Lamb

1:40pm EST

Fecal DNA reveals declining deer density as urbanization increases Chesapeake ABCDNathan Hostetter

2:00pm EST

Understanding drivers of recruitment of white-tailed deer in South Texas Chesapeake ABCDKevin Lovasik

2:20pm EST

Thermal Drones for White-tailed Deer Management Chesapeake ABCDKevin Gerena

2:40pm EST

Break Chesapeake EFG

3:00pm EST

National Trends in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Budgets, Surveillance, Results Wait Time, and Replacement Tags Chesapeake ABCDBen Westfall

3:20pm EST

CREATING A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE Chesapeake ABCDSonja Christensen

3:40pm EST

White-tailed Deer Scavenging Community in a CWD-Endemic Region and Considerations for Prion Movement Chesapeake ABCDMarcelo Jorge

4:00pm EST

Novel Approaches to CWD Surveillance and Management: The Intersection of RT-QuIC Diagnostics and Epidemiological Modeling Chesapeake ABCDPeter Larsen

4:20pm EST

Optimizing Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance: An agent-based modeling approach for captive deer facilities Chesapeake ABCDLauren Wakefield

4:40pm EST

Population Dynamics of White-Tailed Deer in a Chronic Wasting Disease Endemic Area in Arkansas Chesapeake ABCDHeather Gaya

6:30pm EST

Poster Session and Sponsor Social Chesapeake EFG

7:30pm EST

Shoot From the Hip: CWD Management Philosophies: Are We On the Same Page? Chesapeake ABCD

7:00am EST

Continental Breakfast Chesapeake EFG

8:00am EST

DMAP Revitalization in Arkansas: Helping Put the Hunt Back in Hunters! Chesapeake ABCDJeremy Brown

8:20am EST

The Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) in Mississippi Works Chesapeake ABCDPierce Young

8:40am EST

From Both Sides of the Fence: Kentucky’s CWD Response Plan Implementation Chesapeake ABCDJoe McDermott

9:00am EST

Huntable Lands: What Drives Landowner Decisions on Hunting Access Chesapeake ABCDApril Boggs Pope

9:20am EST

Identifying the Motivations and Barriers of Landowners to Participating in Targeted Removal to Manage Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Missouri Chesapeake ABCDJason Isabelle

9:40am EST

Break Chesapeake EFG

10:00am EST

Is Deer Hunting Over Bait Fair Chase? A Commentary. Chesapeake ABCDMatt Knox

10:20am EST

Banning Baiting and Supplemental Feed by an Industrial Timberland Owner to Reduce Chronic Wasting Disease Risk Factors Chesapeake ABCDJeremy Meares

10:40am EST

Can Hinge-Cutting Create the Dream Bedding Area for Deer? Chesapeake ABCDThomas Rovery

11:00am EST

Landowners’ Willingness to Accept Targeted Removals and Financial Incentives: Implications for Chronic Wasting Disease Spread Chesapeake ABCDRachel Correia

11:20am EST

Lunch on Your Own On Your Own

1:20pm EST

White-tailed deer are unlikely a reservoir for SARS-CoV-2 in west Tennessee, despite multiple exposure events Chesapeake ABCDMark Wilber

1:40pm EST

Current Biosecurity Practices in the Handling and Sampling of Cervids: A Cross-Sectional Study Chesapeake ABCDTiffany Wolf

2:00pm EST

T. gondii prevalence and impact on survival in white-tailed deer in southern Texas Chesapeake ABCDKendall Bancroft

2:20pm EST

The photoluminescence of white-tailed deer signposts Chesapeake ABCDDaniel DeRose-Broeckert

2:40pm EST

May the force (of infection) be with you: Model-based assessments of Chronic Wasting Disease management strategies Chesapeake ABCDAniruddha Belsare

3:00pm EST

Break Chesapeake EFG

3:20pm EST

Automation of Distance Measurement and Enhanced Detection, Classification, Recognition, and Identification (DCRI) for Wildlife Monitoring Using Depth Chesapeake ABCDJoseph Porter

3:40pm EST

Stress Indicators with Deer Capture in a High Prevalence CWD Area Chesapeake ABCDLisa Muller

4:00pm EST

Influence of climate, landscape, and forage availability on deer morphology across the eastern US Chesapeake ABCDMark Turner

4:20pm EST

Doe Better: Addressing the National Decline in Antlerless Harvest Chesapeake ABCDMatthew Ross

4:40pm EST

Increasing Awareness of the Benefits of Deer Hunters and Hunting in the Southeast Chesapeake ABCDKip Adams

5:00pm EST

SEDSG Technical Committee Business Meeting (Invite Only) Choptank

6:00pm EST

Pre-Awards Dinner Social Chesapeake EFG

6:30pm EST

SEDSG Awards Dinner Chesapeake ABCD

7:00am EST

Coffee and Pastries Prefunction

8:00am EST

Joint SECWG & NEDTC Meeting (Invite Only) Chesapeake EFG