The Thalassic Society presents:
The 5th Annual Student Symposium
Oral Presentations
Student Services Building (SSB), Room 208/218
| Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30-09:00 | Welcome | Coffee, Tea, and Muffins (SSB 219) |
| 09:00-09:15 | Andy Canion | Rates and Pathways of Inorganic Nitrogen Removal in Arctic (Svalbard) Sediments |
| 09:15-09:30 | Liz Corbett | Partitioning peat respiration with stable carbon isotopes |
| 09:30-09:45 | Amanda Tazaz | Traditional biogenic methane boundaries extended in hypersaline ponds |
| 09:45-10:00 | Puja Jarosta | Probing the denitrifying microbial community in uranium-contaminated subsurface environments with multi-faceted molecular- and cultivation-based approaches |
| 10:00-10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Erin Easton | Developing primers for DNA-sequence analysis of harpacticoid copepods |
| 10:30-10:45 | Kristina Welch | Microalgae to Biofuels: Algal growth optimization in treated municipal wastewater effluent |
| 10:45-11:00 | Mike Santema | Contribution of the microphytobenthos to oxygen oscillation in the water column |
| 11:00-11:15 | Eric Mortenson | Flow and mixing in the near coastal Northern Gulf of Mexico |
| 11:15-11:30 | Jay Hooper | Dissipation processes in the tongue of the ocean |
| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00-13:15 | Stacie Blair | Testing the sequence stratigraphic model - new applications of calcareous nannofossils in sequence stratigraphy |
| 13:15-13:30 | Darrel Tremaine | Trace Elements in Modern Cave Calcite: Wet/Dry Calibrations for Paleoclimate Investigations |
| 13:30-13:45 | Nishanth Krishnamurthy | Rainfall deposition of mercury and other trace elements to the Northern Gulf of Mexico |
| 13:45-14:00 | John Rolison | Pre-concentration of mercury in rain and atmospheric samples for isotopic analysis using MC-ICPMS |
| 14:00-14:15 | Break | |
| 14:15-14:30 | Hui Wang | A study on quality control for the AIRS total ozone data within typhoon Sinlaku (2008) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Benjamin Schenkel | Fidelity of Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Structure within Reanalyses |
| 14:45-15:00 | Heng Dai | Uncertainty assessment with GUI for numerical modeling of dune and backshore evolution under sea-level rise scenarios |
| 15:00-15:15 | Jennifer Coor | Development of a mid- to late-holocene chronology of major storms for the northeastern Gulf of Mexico coast |
Poster Presentations
Student Services Building (SSB), Room 203
3:30pm - 6:30pm
3:30pm - 6:30pm
| Presenter | Title |
|---|---|
| Ashley Stroman | Rendition of the Atlantic Warm Pool in Reanalyses |
| Austin Todd | Circulation dynamics and larval transport mechanisms in the Florida Big Bend Region |
| Claire Smith | Microalgae to Biofuel: Investigating the role of microbes in waste water derived algal cultivation system |
| Stacie Blair | Astronomical calibration and paleoecology of calcareous nannofossils across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary from the equatorial Pacific Ocean (ODP Leg 199, Site 1218) |
| Joel Scott | An Intercomparison of Numerically-Modeled Flux Data and Satellite-Derived SeaFlux Data for Warm-Core Seclusions |
| Jiyoung Paeng | Cycling of thermogenic DOM in the peatland of Minnesota, USA |
| Marie Peterson | A biostratigraphic study of jurassic sediments from the Dniepr-Donets Basin in the northern Ukraine |
| Lindsay Chipman | Oxygen optodes as fast sensors for eddy correlation measurements in aquatic systems |
| Danny Goddard | Separation of Metal Binding Ligands from Dissolved Organic Matter |
| Becky Hunniford | The effect of marine cold-air outbreaks on the upper ocean heat content of the Gulf of Mexico |
| Benton Farmer | Surface heat flux formulations and their impact on ocean SSTs |
| Lauren Moeller | Sea Breeze Variations in Florida |
| James Nelson | Does Fin Flux Stack Up?: Comparison of fish mediated nutrient flux to passive nutrient sources in the N.E. Gulf of Mexico |
| Suzanne Hodgkins | Determination of methane production mechanisms in contrasting peatland types in arctic Sweden: Research plan and preliminary data |
