26th Annual Doctoral Conference
February 19th, 2010
Burke Auditorium
Kroon Hall
195 Prospect St.
8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast/Sign-in for presenters
9:15 - 9:30 am Welcome (Prof. David Skelly) and Introduction
Science of Carbon
9: 30 - 9:45 am Gabriela Doria: Declining atmospheric CO2 during the late Middle Eocene Climatic Transition (adviser: Sir Peter Crane)
9:45 - 10:00 am Xin Zhang: Characterizing CO2, CH4, and N20 fluxes in a landscape dominated by soybean and corn (adviser: Prof. Xuhui Lee )
10:00 - 10:15 am Yong Zhao: High frequency monitoring of DIC, DCOM, PCO2, O2, and Chi_a exchange between a salt marsh and Long Island Sound (adviser: Prof. Peter Raymond)
10:15 - 10:30 am Ashley Keiser: One of these things is not like the other: Examining functional equivalence across soil microbial communities (adviser: Prof. Mark Bradford)
10:30 - 10:45 am Coffee Break
Society and Institutions
10:45 - 11:00 am BinBin Jiang: Utilizing the concept of urban metabolism to understand communities (adviser: Profs. .Marian Chertow, Alex Felson, Karen Seto)
11:00 - 11:15 am Lauren Baker: Indigenous tensions with oil exploration in the Peruvian Amazon (adviser: Profs. Michael Dove, Robert Bailis)
11:15- 11:30 am Angel Hsu: Using remote sensing to inform environmental decision-making (adviser: Prof. Dan Esty)
11:30 - 11:45 am Catherine Piccard: Conserving Tanzania's wildlife: What is the policy problem? (adviser: Profs. William Burch, Susan Clark)
11:45 - 12:00 pm Sara Smiley Smith: Harnessing decision making to improve institutional sustainability: Examining change in university settings (adviser: Profs. John Wargo, Julie Newman, Garry Brewer)
12:00 - 1:15 pm Lunch
Materials and Resources
1:15 - 1:30 pm Jason Rauch: The human impact on global metal cycles (adviser: Prof. Thomas Graedel)
1:30 - 1:45 pm Keita Ebisu: The association between developed land use and infants' wheeze (adviser: Dr. Michelle Bell)
1:30 - 1:45 pm Jooyoung Park: Wastes as resources: the management of and cooperation for coal combustion by-products utilization (adviser: Prof. Marian Chertow)
2:00 - 2:15 pm Luisa Cortesi: Drinking water in floods: an anthropological perspective in rural Bihar, India (adviser: Profs. M.Dove, K.Shivaramakrishnan)
2:15 - 2:30 pm Coffee Break
Human-Ecological Systems
2:30 - 2:45 pm Mary Rogalski: Contributing to the next generation of biological indicators (adviser: Prof. David Skelly )
2:45 - 3:00 pm Adrian Cerezo: The relation between extreme individual carbon footprints and early childhood development quality (adviser: Prof. Stephen Kellertl)
3:00 - 3:15 pm Steve Brady: The influence of roads on wetland amphibians (adviser: Prof. David Skelly)
3:15 - 3:30 pm Alvaro Redondo Brenes: Effects of land-use change on bird species conservation in a biological corridor, Costa Rica (adviser: Profs. Florencia Montagnini, Chad Oliver )
3:30 - 3:45 pm Elaine Hooper: Effect of forest fragmentation on forest regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon (adviser: Profs. Thomas Graedel, Pierre Legendre)
4:00 - 5:00 pm Keynote speaker: Prof. Nalini Nadkarni
5:00 - 6:00 pm Reception (Knobloch Center) and TGIF
