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Best Professional Paper

2009 Lee Holt (AGFC) Discovery and distribution of the Northern Snakehead Channa argus in eastern Arkansas
2008 Cliff Hutt (UAPB) Harvestable hybrid striped bass stocking in an urban fishing program: Fishing success, angler acceptance, and influence on pond prey communities
2007 Frank Leone (AGFC) Arkansas River sauger population evaluation
2006    
2005 Steve Lochmann (UAPB) Variability in egg characteristics among female white bass Morone chrysops and the relationship between egg volume an dyolk sac fry length of sunshine bass
2004 Not Available  
2003 Jeff Williams (AGFC) Angling Effort and Success During a Three Year Creel Survey of an Ozark Tailwater Trout Fishery.
2002 Name Not Available Contact Joe Stoeckel
2001 Billy Justus (USGS) Black bass populations as an indicator of water quality in streams of the lower Mississippi River.
2000 Darrell Bowman (AGFC) "Angler Regulation Awareness and Harvest on a Contaminated River Fishery: Results of the 1997 Shenandoah River System Creel Survey"
1999 Ed Pert (UAPB) "Use of Hydraulic Habitat Data Collected at Multiple Spatial Scales for Evaluating the Use of Micro-Scale Habitat Data"
1998 Not available  
1997 Tom Bly (AGFC) "Seasonal Migration and Annual Exploitation of Walleye in Greers Ferry, Arkansas as Determined by a Tag Reward Study" co-authored by Carl Perrin.
1996 Kurt J. Maier (University of Memphis) "The Recovery of a Stream Fishery Subsequent to Mine Remediation" 
1995 Not available  
1994 Not available  
1993 Dr. James E. Johnson (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville) "Food Habitats, Dispersal, Growth, and Contribution of Stocked Channel Catfish in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas" co-authored by Gary L. Siegwarth.
1993 Dr. William J. Matthews (University of Oklahoma) "Effects of Timber Harvest on Stream Fish Assemblages in the Ouachita National Forest, Southwest Arkansas" co-authored by Frances P. Gelwick, Betty G. Cochran, and Larry Toothacre.
1992 Not available  
1991 Not available  
1990 Brian K. Wagner (AGFC) "The Negative Binomial Distribution to Characterize Angler Harvest in Smallmouth Bass Fisheries" co-authored by D. J. Orth.

Best Graduate Student Paper

2009 Nick Carmean (ATU)  Spatial and temporal implications of day versus night electrofishing in a large floodplain river ecosystem 
2008 Lael Will (UAPB)   Fish assemblages on gravel bars in the Arkansas River 
2007 Nate Harris  (UAPB) Growth and condition indices for a native Puerto Rico fish, bigmouth sleeper Gobiomorus dormitor 
2006    
2005 Ignacio Masson (UAPB) New hatchery methods for fathead minnows.
2004 Not Available  
2003 Chris Green (UAPB) Toxicity of Isopropyl Methylphosphonic Acid to Eggs of Golden Shiner and Channel Catfish.
2002 Name Not Available Contact Joe Stoeckel
2001 Dan Dauwalter (UAPB) The sampling effort required to characterize fish communities in Arkansas' wadeable Ozark Highland streams
2000 Camille Flinders (University of Central Arkansas) "Habitat Partitioning by a Lotic Crayfish Community of the Ozark Plateau with Emphasis on the Imperiled Mammoth Spring Crayfish" co-authored by Dan Magoulick
1999 Lindsey Lewis  
1998 Danielle R. Painter (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville) "Factors Influencing Brown Trout Reproductive Success in Ozark Tailwater Rivers" co-authored by Thomas J. Kwak
1997 Danielle R. Painter (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville) "Identifying Factors Leading to Viable Trout Reproductive Success in Arkansas Tailwater Habitat" co-authored by Thomas J. Kwak.
1996 J. Zack Brown
(University of Arkansas at Fayetteville)
"Population Dynamics of Ozark Cavefish in Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge"
1995 Not available  
1994 Not available  
1993 Jody Paul Walters (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville) "Microhabitat Use by Smallmouth Bass in the Buffalo River, Arkansas"
   
(none awarded prior to 1993)

Best Undergraduate Student Paper

2009 Calvin Fisher (UAPB) Propagation and rearing methods for yellowcheek darter Etheostoma moorei 
2008 Sarah Pavan (UCA) Temporal patterns of development in southern brook lamprey ichthyomyzon gagei in Cadron Creek, Arkansas 
2007 Brandon Peoples (ATU) Fluctuations in Zebra Mussel Densities and associated limnological conditions in Lake Dardanelle, Arkansas 
2006    
2005 Tate Wentz (ATU) Comparison of Time Efficiency of Age and Growth Methods for catfish.
2004 Not Available  
2003 Carrie Cavenaugh (ASU) Genetic Relationships of the Rock Basses as Determined by Mitochondrial DNA analysis
2002 Not Available See Joe Stoeckel
2001 Chao Mwatela Use of relative abundance and condition to predict survival of hybrid striped bass fingerlings
2000 Laura Hudson (Arkansas Tech University) "Some Life History Aspects of the River Shiner in the Arkansas River, Crawford County, Arkansas" co-authored by Thomas Buchanan
1999 Shaun Hodges (Arkansas Tech University) Smallmouth Bass Movements in Crooked Creek during low Stream flow in Summer co-authored by Charles J. Gagen, and Mark L. Oliver
1998 Not available  
1997 Jason W. Phillips (Arkansas Tech University) "Population Dynamics and Some Preliminary Effects of Zebra Mussels in Lake Dardanelle" co-authored by C. J. Gagen and J. Stoeckel.
1996 Ginny Boyd (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville) "Swimming Performance and Behavior of Golden Shiner, Notemigonus chrysoleucas, while Schooling" co-authored by Glenn Parsons.
1995 Not available  
1994 Not available  
1993 Baker Holden (UAPB) "Effect of Feeding Frequency and Feeding Rate on Golden Shiner Yields" co-authored by Martha Rowsan and Nathan Stone.
   
(None awarded prior to 1993)
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