11th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium
March 28 - 29, 2008














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Symposium Schedule

Friday, March 28th

2:00 - 4:00 PM - Registration in Forest Resources atrium. Pick up your name tag, ECSS T-shirt, and an abstract book.

4:00 PM - KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Dr. Patrick Hatcher, "The combined application of solid/liquid-state 2D NMR techniques and Fourier transform ion cyclotron mass spectrometry (with electrospray ionization) for unraveling the chemical composition of natural organic matter." - 112 Forest Resources

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Poster Sessions #1 and #2 with buffet dinner - Forest Resources Atrium
click here for poster session schedule - presenters should be at their poster during their assigned session


Saturday, March 29th  

8:30 AM - Breakfast - 105 Forest Resources

9:15 AM - Opening Remarks - 112 Forest Resources

9:30 AM - 3:30 PM - Oral sessions - 112 Forest Resources
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Biology and Molecular Biology
9:30 Bryn Kimball Isotopic, Microscopic, and Spectroscopic Evidence that Microbial Cells Remove Copper from Solution at Low pH
9:45 Heidi Albrecht Ecological, environmental, and physiological controls on hopane distributions in Acidithiobacillus sp. and biofilms in the Frasassi cave system, Italy
10:00 Pauline Wanjugi Environmental Factors Affecting Growth of Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria in Acid Mine Drainage in Northern PA
10:15 Aaron Regberg Determining Rates of Dissimilatory Iron Reduction from Changes in Fluid Conductivity
10:30 Christopher Ross Fire history and precipitation impact soil respiration rates in southwest ponderosa pine forests
10:45 Carolyn Lubner A Hybrid Biological/Organic Half-cell for Hydrogen Production
11:00 Coffee Break
Agricultural Soil Science and Geochemistry
11:15 Ashlee Dere Field and laboratory measurements of nitrogen sequestration in mine spoils amended with poultry manure and paper mill sludge
11:30 Deepak Jaiswal Phosphorus Saturation of Surface Soils after Long Term Wastewater Irrigation
11:45 Andrew Wall Assessing controls on abiotic copper isotope fractionation using time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction
12:00 Daniel Hummer Nucleation, growth, and phase transformation of titanium oxides in hydrothermal solution
12:15 Maria Cazorla MO3PS: Measurement of Ozone Production Sensor
12:30 Michael Davis In Situ Studies of Quartz and Forsterite Dissolution
12:45 Katya Bazilevskaya Crystallization and phase transformation of co-precipitated Fe-Al hydroxide nanoparticles: combined infrared and XRD studies
1:00 Lunch 105 Forest Resources
Environmental Engineering and Ecology
2:00 Yi Zuo An Exoelectrogenic Bacterium Ochrobactrum anthropi YZ-1 Isolated Using a U-tube Microbial Fuel Cell
2:15 Douglas Call Renewable hydrogen production using a membrane-free microbial electrolysis cell (MEC)
2:30 Jennifer McElhoe Qualitative Analysis of Multiple Dehalococcoides Strains throughout the Course of Chitin-Enhanced TCE Dechlorination
2:45 Andrew Scanlan Alterations in Diatom Biodiversity Reflects Changing Land-use Among Mid-Atlantic Streams
3:00 Heng Li Predicting Deposit Formation from Impaired Water Use in Power Plant Cooling Systems
3:15 Ming-Kai Hsieh Corrosion and Corrosion Inhibition in Power Plant Cooling Systems Using Impaired as Alternative Makeup Sources


3:30 PM - Keynote Address, Dr. Patrick Hatcher, "Reactivity of environmentally generated quinones with natural organic matter and human cells" - 112 Forest Resources

4:30 PM - Awards Ceremony - Forest Resources 112