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2005 SES Student Research Symposium

December 16, 2005
MBL Lillie Auditorium


Time: Speaker and Topic:

8:20 AM
Introduction

8:30 AM Kate Fiedler, Dickinson College (C. Neill advisor) - "Topography and succession of scrub oak on Martha’s Vineyard"

8:45 AM Laura Nagel, Allegheny College (C. Neill advisor) - "Soil properties of Martha’s Vineyard grassland restoration sites"

9:00 AM Jen Peters, Bard College (C. Neill advisor) - "Water budget model of Martha’s Vineyard forest and grasslands"

9:15 AM Cara Machacek, Colorado College (J. Hobbie/H. Drossman, advisors) - "Interactions between mycorrhizae and plants in the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant"

9:30 AM Courtney Shannon, Colorado College (G. Shaver, advisor) - "Carbon chemistry of cedar, maple and pine bogs"

10:00 AM Ellen Herbert, Kenyon College (G. Shaver, advisor) - "Carbon quality and carbon cycling in contrasting forest soils"

Break

10:45 AM Will Longo, Haverford College (G. Shaver, advisor) - "Benthic organic matter quality in eelgrass beds"

11:00 AM Adam Akullian, Brown University (A. Giblin, advisor) - "Tracing eelgrass loss in estuarine sediments"

11:15 AM Katie Harrold, Middlebury College (A. Giblin, advisor) – "Long-term heavy metal retention in Great Sippewissett Marsh"

11:30 AM Natalie Levy, University of California, Berkeley (L. Deegan, advisor) - "The effects of nutrient load on habitat structure and feeding behavior of mummichogs"

11:45 AM Nicole Travis, Brown University (L. Deegan, advisor) - "The effects of nutrient load on habitat structure and feeding behavior of grass shrimp, Paleomonetes pugio"

Luncheon Break

1:30 PM Hilary Smith, Ripon College (J. Vallino, advisor) - "Effects of nutrients and allochthonous organic matter on microbial communities and metabolism in microcosms"

1:45 PM Sabrina Moreau, Hampshire College (J. Vallino, advisor) - "Influence of a carbon-rich permeable reactive NITREX ® barrier on groundwater flow paths and dissolved nitrogen and carbon concentrations"

2:00 PM Jen Reimer, Clark University (J. Vallino, advisor) - "Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in flow-through microcosms of NITREX ® reactive media"

2:15 PM Rowan Spivey, Haverford College (K. Foreman, advisor) - "Nitrogen loading and attenuation in the West Falmouth watershed"

2:30 PM Craig McGowan, Brown University (K. Foreman, advisor) - "Sediment metabolism and N-cycling in West Falmouth Harbor sediments"

2:45 PM Jeff Walker, Cornell University (K. Foreman/R. Howarth, advisor) - "Whole ecosystem metabolism of West Falmouth Harbor"
 
Post-seminar refreshments and awards (Lillie Lobby)


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