15th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium
The Pennsylvania State University
March 30 - 31, 2012
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HINT: Use your browser's built-in "find" function to find your name. Hit "Ctrl+F", enter your name, and hit "Enter". Keynote SpeakersDr. Jizhong Zhou Presidential Professor of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma From Community Structure to Functions: Metagenomics Technologies, Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives Dr. Anne M. Thompson Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University Observing Atmospheric Chemical and Dynamical Processes through the Lens of Ozone Posters: Fri March 30 (Alphabetical by last name)Nikolai Balashov M&C1: Poster Session 1, Meteorology and Chemistry Is There ENSO Signal in Mixed Layer Ozone at Highveld in South Africa? Rachel Brimmer CS&G3: Poster Session 1, Crop and Soil Sciences Associating the Impacts of Land Use on Stable Soil Aggregate Distributions with Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Stacey Bryant UG5: Poster Session 2, Undergraduate New insights into the biogeochemistry of atmospheric methane over the last 11,000 years. Norrisca Charles UG3: Poster Session 1, Undergraduate Alternative Fuels: Investigation of Ammonia Borane Hydroylsis David Doughty M&C2: Poster Session 1, Meteorology and Chemistry Influences of volatile organic compounds on the air quality at Beltsville, MD during July 2011 Denise Finney CS&G1: Poster Session 1, Crop and Soil Sciences Nitrate dynamics in organic cropping systems Clare Flynn M&C3: Poster Session 1, Meteorology and Chemistry Correlation analysis of column-density data with surface mixing ratios for O3 and NO2 during DISCOVER-AQ Greg Garner M&C4: Poster Session 1, Meteorology and Chemistry Evaluation of Air Quality Model Performance during the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign Justin George EE&E1: Poster Session 1, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Volatiles associated with entomopathogenic fungal spores attract female Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes Adam Haavisto UG7: Poster Session 2, Undergraduate Characterization of High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) Amorphous Metallic Coatings Via Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Electron Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) Hannah Halliday M&C5: Poster Session 1, Meteorology and Chemistry VOC Species and Emission Types for Select Days at Beltsville and Edgewood MD in July of 2011 Marta Hatzell EE&E11: Poster Session 2, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Increasing energy recoveries from MFC/MEC coupled systems Andrew Hunt CS&G4: Poster Session 2, Crop and Soil Sciences Effect of Organic Amendments and Switchgrass Cultivation On Carbon Sequestration In Reclaimed Mine Soil. Hiroyuki Kashima EE&E2: Poster Session 1, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Metabolic shift of Geobacter metallireducens between anode reduction and nitrate reduction in a microbial electrolysis cell Dane Kelsey EE&E3: Poster Session 1, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Producing Sustainable Duckweed Biomass from Ecological Wastewater Treatment Systems Michael Kilmer UG1: Poster Session 1, Undergraduate Fracking fluid in natural gas extraction: What happens to acetaldehyde that is left deep in the earth? Yuliya Labko UG4: Poster Session 1, Undergraduate Effect of varying Alliaria petiolata populations on myrosinase and sinigrin concentration in soil Lauren Leidel UG2: Poster Session 1, Undergraduate Shale weathering on slopes across a latitudinal climosequence Yinfei Li CS&G2: Poster Session 1, Crop and Soil Sciences The effects of relative humidity on infection, fungal colonization and conidiation of Magnaporthe orzyae on perennial ryegrass turf Yan Liu CS&G5: Poster Session 2, Environmental Engineering CO2-brine-clay reactions during carbon sequestration Lauren McPhillips CS&G6: Poster Session 2, Biological and Environmental Engineering Teasing out hydrologic and biogeochemical controls on riparian denitrification Alyssa Moore EE&E6: Poster Session 1, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Constraining Social-Cost Estimates of Particulate Matter Impacts using PMCAMx Simulations Mayra Oyola M&C6: Poster Session 2, Meteorology and Chemistry Analysis of the Inter-hemispheric Tropospheric Vertical Distribution of Ozone Over the Atlantic Ocean: Assessing the Ozone Paradox During the 2011 Aerosols and Ocean Science Expedition (AEROSE-VII) Megan Payne M&C7: Poster Session 2, Meteorology and Chemistry A Meteorological Synopsis of Aerosol contributions and Air Masses History in Beltsville, MD Andra Reed M&C8: Poster Session 2, Meteorology and Chemistry Comparison of Satellite and Ground-based Measurements of Total Column Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide from Edgewood, Maryland in July 2011 Lijiao Ren EE&E4: Poster Session 1, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Increased current density and self assembled porous structure on cathode in Microbial Electrolysis Cell by ferric hydroxide addition Sheila Saia EE&E5: Poster Session 1, Environmental Engineering and Ecology A Web-Based BMP Tool for Minimizing Herbicide Transport in Agricultural Watersheds Michael Shreve EE&E7: Poster Session 2, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Production of extracellular enzymes and removal of 17 beta-estradiol using white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor grown in batch microcosms containing wastewater treatment plant effluent. Ryan Stauffer M&C9: Poster Session 2, Meteorology and Chemistry Bay Breeze Impact on Surface Ozone at Edgewood, MD Daniel Tomaso M&C10: Poster Session 2, Meteorology and Chemistry A Hydrographic Climatology for Coastal Waters of the Eastern United States Kathy Trinh UG6: Poster Session 2, Undergraduate Blank vs. Solubility Corrections for Chromatographic Measurements of Atmospheric Methane Bin Wei EE&E12: Poster Session 2, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Electrochemical analysis of separators used in single-chamber, air-cathode microbial fuel cells Julie Weitzman CS&G7: Poster Session 2, Crop and Soil Sciences Nitrogen Cycling in a Landscape Rich in Legacy Sediments Fei Yang EE&E8: Poster Session 2, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Electricity generation from fermentation solution of primary sludge using air-cathode microbial fuel cells Matthew Yates EE&E10: Poster Session 2, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Pre-enrichment with Geobacter sulfurreducens to enhance the performance of microbial electrolysis cells Yi Zhao EE&E9: Poster Session 2, Environmental Engineering and Ecology Study of Baseline Current in Microbial Electrolysis Cells Oral Presentations: Sat March 31 (Alphabetical by last name)Amrita Bhattacharyya 11:15 - 11:30: Environmental Sciences Iron Speciation in Redox Stratified Peat Soils Megan Carter 1:45 - 2:00: Meteorology and Climate Soils as a record of long-term anthropogenic metal inputs in Marietta, Ohio Roland Cusick 12:45 - 1:00: Environmental Sciences Energy Capture from Thermolytic Solutions in Microbial Reverse-Electrodialysis Cells Ashlee Dere 2:00 - 2:15: Meteorology and Climate Shale weathering in the Hafren Forest, Wales Khadouja Haraouaka 9:10 - 9:25: Environmental Chemistry Experimental investigation of Ca isotopic fractionation during abiotic gypsum precipitation: Context for identifying biological isotopic signatures Elizabeth Herndon 9:40 - 9:55: Environmental Chemistry Influence of vegetation on Mn mobilization from soil components Rupesh Kariyat 11:30 - 11:45: Environmental Sciences Inbreeding alters volatile signalling phenotypes and influences tri-trophic interactions in horsenettle (Solanum carolinense L.) Lance Larson 9:55 - 10:10: Environmental Chemistry Comparison of field and laboratory low-pH Fe(II) oxidation rates: Implications for long-term passive treatment Clayton Magill 2:15 - 2:30: Meteorology and Climate High-resolution reconstruction of early human habitats at FLK Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, using lipid biomarker and isotope signatures. Elizabeth Michael 9:25 - 9:40: Environmental Chemistry The Nanocomposite Synthesis and Characterization of Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) for Photovoltaic Applications Nathan Nalevanko 11:45 - 12:00: Environmental Sciences Grand Challenges of Controlling Dioxin Emissions from Residential Waste Burning Claudia Rojas 10:10 - 10:25: Environmental Chemistry Extractable iron fractions in acid mine drainage precipitates following reclamation with successional plants Carla Rosenfeld 2:30 - 2:45: Meteorology and Climate Heavy metal contamination in soils: Role of soil solids on metal mobility Kevin Sanchez 2:45 - 3:00: Meteorology and Climate Ozone and aerosol distribution in the atmospheric surface layer of a semi-urban environment Heather Tollerud 3:00 - 3:15: Meteorology and Climate The impact of climate and composition on playa surface roughness William Wang 10:25 - 10:40: Environmental Chemistry Electronic Structure of Stacking Faults in Mg James Webber 10:40 - 10:55: Environmental Chemistry Chemical Status of Water Quality in Headwater Streams in National Parks of the Mid-Atlantic USA Marisol Williams 12:00 - 12:15: Environmental Sciences The Effects of Wood Based Biochar Amendments on Lettuce and Radish Plant Germination and Growth Rates Tiffany Yesavage 3:15 - 3:30: Meteorology and Climate Mineral Weathering and Microbial Community Composition at a Mars Analog Site Zehra Zaybak 12:15 - 12:30: Environmental Sciences Methods for Start-up of CO2-Fixing and Biofuel Producing Biocathodes in Bioelectrochemical Systems Fang Zhang 12:30 - 12:45: Environmental Sciences Novel anti-flooding and anti-biofouling cathodes constructed using poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) binder for microbial fuel cells |
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