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2009 SES Student Independent Research Symposium

December 18, 2009
MBL Lillie Auditorium

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Time: Speaker and Topic:

8:50 AM Introductory remarks

9:00 AM Marshall Moore, Brown University – Reconstructing Variability in Biogeochemical Cycling and Microbial Community Structure from Sediment Cores in Siders, Oyster and Salt Ponds in Falmouth, MA.

9:15 AM MaryAnn Tekverk, Haverford College – Biogeochemistry of Groundwater at the Seepage Face down-gradient from NITREXTM Permeable Reactive Barriers in Waquoit Bay, MA.

9:30 AM Kenly Hiller, Connecticut College – Effects of Anoxic Groundwater from a NITREXTM Permeable Reactive Barrier on Benthic Flora and Fauna at the Seepage Face in Waquoit Bay, MA.

9:45 AM Chelsea Baldino, Northwestern University – Copper, Chromium and Arsenic in the Marine Environment: Are They Biologically Available and Do They Bioaccumulate?

10:00 AM Monica Stegman, Haverford College – Effect of Different Anti-Fouling Paints on the Structure and Function of Fouling Communities.

10:15 AM
Coffee Break

10:45 AM Sarah Shay, Lawrence University – Changes in Ericoid Mycorrhizal Communities in a Chronosequence of Managed and Abandoned Cranberry Bogs.

11:00 AM Carolyn Harris, Bates College – How Ecological Restoration Affects Food Webs and Animal Communities in Cranberry Bogs on Cape Cod.

11:15 AM Nathan Setter, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry – Non-lethal, Indirect Chemical, Trophic and Behavioral Effects of Mummichogs Predators on Grass Shrimp.

11:30 AM Elizabeth Gomez, Brown University – Effects of an errant burrowing polychaete, Nereis, and Nutrient Enrichment on Benthic Respiration and Biogeochemical Fluxes from Marine Sediments.

11:45 AM Pam Moriarty, Kenyon College – Biodiversity, Nutrient Enrichment and Ecosystem Funtion: The Effect of Melampus bidentata, Orchestia grillus and Philoscia Vittata Detritivores on Litter Decomposition in Salt Marshes.

12:00 Noon
Luncheon

1:30 PM Haruka Fujimaki, Mt. Holyoke College – Phenology Effects of Different Temperature Regimes on Carbon Storage in Same-Species Oak Trees on Martha’s Vineyard, MA.

1:45 PM Ayala Ben-Chaim, Mt. Holyoke College – Consequences of Nitrogen Fertilization on Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from Phragmites australis in a temperate Forest and Wetland.

2:00 PM Amy Cantor, Colby College – The Legacy Effect of Wastewater Irrigation in a Terrestrial Ecosystem: How Nitrogen and Water Additions Change Microbial Processes and Tree Structure.

2:15 PM Christine Kobyljanec, Mt. Holyoke College – Can Microbial Fuel Cells Indicate Differences in Soil Degradability Among Heated, Tilled and Organically enriched Soils.

2:30 PM Masaru Nobu, Carleton College – Temperature Mediated Changes in Soil Microbial Ecology and Fungal Exoenzymatic Decomposition of Recalcitrant Soil Organic Matter in Soils from Heated Plots at the Harvard Forest LTER.

2:45 PM Lauren Shoemaker, Colorado College – Do Plant Communities Maximize Photosynthesis by Optimizing Nitrogen Distribution through the Plant Canopy?

3:00 PM Ken Foreman, SES Program Director - Semester Retrospective

There will be a refreshments and a celebratory
awards ceremony after the symposium.

 

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