Save the date!  The Student Wildlife Research Symposium will be April 1, 2027 at Deer Creek State Park Lodge and Conference Center in Conjunction with the Environmental Education Council of Ohio 60th Anniversary Annual Conference

Agenda from the 2026 Student Wildlife Research Symposium can be found here. 

You can also visit the Division of Wildlife site for more information on the SWRS. 

Call for Proposals for the 2027 SWRS is now open!  Click here for the online form.  The pdf can be downloaded here. 

Please send questions regarding the proposal form to: Abby Ditomassi, Wildlife Education Coordinator,

Email: outdoor.education@dnr.ohio.gov; Phone: 1-800-WILDLIFE (945-3543)

Sponsored by the ODNR-Division of Wildlife and the Environmental Education Council of Ohio

If you would like to be a sponsor of this event, please reach out to Brenda Metcalf at director@eeco-online.org.  You can also download this flyer on our sponsorship levels.

If you would like to have display space at this event, please download this application form. 

Are you a teacher currently conducting research related to wildlife and/or wildlife habitats with middle and/or high school students? Are you a middle or high school student involved in wildlife-related research? Would you be interested in presenting your research to an audience of fellow student researchers, biologists, and wildlife management agencies? Then we want you!

The Annual Ohio Student Wildlife Research Symposium is a place to present your research in a professional and supportive environment. You can choose to present as a paper session or a poster session. Paper sessions are 25-minute sessions in front of an audience. Poster sessions are in a group with other poster presenters.

We know there are a lot of great research projects out there and we want to hear more about them. We hope to see you there! 

To sponsor this event please contact Brenda Metcalf at director@eeco-online.org

Thank you to our 2026 Sponsors!