Friday, February 29, 2008
8:45 am—5:30 pm
Bowers Auditorium in Sage Hall
205 Prospect Street

8:45 am Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome, Dr. Gaboury Benoit
9:15 am Environmental Quality and Management Panel

• Katrina Jessoe Improved Source, Improved Quality?: Demand for Clean Drinking Water in Rural India
• Keita Ebisu Modeling PM 2.5 Effects on Hospital Admissions
• Heather Clark Mercury contamination in the Quinnipiac River
  watershed and Wharton Brook
• Weslynne Ashton Measuring the costs, benefits and significance of Industrial Symbiosis initiatives

10:30 am Break
10:45 am Ecology Panel

• Daniel Piotto Forest succession after swidden cultivation in the
  Atlantic forest of southern Bahia, Brazil
• Brandon Barton The effects of simulated climate warming on
  grasshopper foraging behavior
• Manja Holland Landscape development and amphibian disease
• Holly Jones Evaluating ecosystem recovery following invasive
  species removal

12 noon Lunch
1:15 pm Economics and Policy Panel

• Juliana Wang Costly Blackouts: Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages
• Sara Smiley Smith Rapid Technological Innovation and Sustainability
• Yaniv Stopnitzky Beyond 2015: Assessing the Economic Sustainability of the Millennium Development Goal to Halve Poverty
• Graeme Auld Reversal of Fortune: How Early Decisions Alter the Logic of Market‐based Authority

2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Biogeochemistry and Water Panel

• Diana Karwan Movement of Suspended Sediment in Streams of Forested Watersheds
• Maura Bozeman How does net biogenic carbon flux respond to dissolved organic matter loading across a eutrophic gradient?
• Jason Rauch Quantification of Earth’s Global Ag, Al, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Zn Cycles
• Becca Barnes Dual isotope analyses indicate efficient processing of atmospheric nitrate by forested watersheds in the northeastern U.S.

4:00 pm Break
4:30 pm Keynote Address, Dr. Shahid Naeem
“Is sustainable development feasible in an age of mass extinction?”
5:30 pm Reception, Sponsored by the F&ES Office of Alumni/ae Affairs