Poster Session and Student Competition Awards

Poster Session

A Poster session and reception was held on Wednesday evening. It was an interactive social time with drinks and appetizers to get people talking and discussing the interesting research, art and outreach work related to water. The evening showcased 83 posters including 67 students who competed in a Best Student Poster competition. See all poster abstracts by topic area by clicking on the topic area below.

• Efficacy of nutrient source control strategies

  Alejandro Bolques	Application of a bioretention/rain garden system to mitigate irrigation runoff from a container plant nursery production bed
  Runbin Duan	Long-Term Nitrate-Nitrogen Trends in Groundwater and Soil at a Dairy Farm in the Suwannee River Basin
  Jinghua Fan	Effects of Different Soil and Water Treatments with Reclaimed Water Irrigation on Growth of Turfgrass
  Rajendra Gautam	Is St. Augustine grass Environment Friendly From Nitrate Leaching Perspective?
  Aparna Gazula	The Blue Dye Doesn’t Lie: On Farm Demonstration of Water Movement in Plastic Mulched Beds.
  Zhixuan Qin	Evaluation of Nutrient Leaching from Simulated Residential Mixed Landscapes
  Donald Rainey	Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Green Industries Best Management Practices (FFL/GI-BMP)
  Joel Reyes-Cabrera	Drip Irrigation as an Alternative Strategy to Increase Water Saving for Potato Production in Northeast Florida.

• Governance Approaches to Nutrient Management

  Susanna Blair	Outstanding Florida Waters: Water Quality Analyses
  Hollie Hall	Outstanding Florida Waters: Water Quality Analyses
  Matthew Lenhardt	Balancing Florida’s agricultural future with the proposed numeric nutrient criteria water quality standards
  Rachel Pawlitz	Beyond Uncertainty: Designing Tools for Adaptive Water Governance
  Yilin Zhuang	A System Dynamics Approach to Municipal Water and Energy Resources Management in Hillsborough County

• Hydroecology

  Joseph Delesantro	The Effects of Hydrologic Mean Condition and Variation on Wetland Structure and Function
  Dina Liebowitz	Experimental Evidence of Environmentally Mediated Top-Down Control of Algal Proliferation in Florida’s Springs
  Mary Szafraniec	Light Availability in Florida Spring Ecosystems
  Jing Yuan	Detecting Pattern and Pattern Loss in the Everglades Ridge and Slough Landscape

• Hydrology

  Subodh Acharya	Estimation of Evapotranspiration from Diurnal Water Table Fluctuation Using a new Expression for Drainable Porosity
  Wesley Henson	Evaluating the Effects of Horizontal Spatial Discretization on Interflow in the Soil Zone Using the Richards and Groundwater Flow Equations
  Fnu Vibhava	Effect of Geologic Heterogeneity on River-Aquifer Interactions: Lesson Learned From the Application of an Integrated Surface-Subsurface Model in a Complex Karst Watershed
  Adam Watts	Does a Hydrologic “Switch” Affect Microclimate in Wetland Forest Patches?

• Innovative biological, physical, and chemical nutrient reduction and recovery technologies

  Veronica Aponte	A Novel Physical-Chemical-Biological Treatment Process for Swine Wastes
  Jehangir Bhadha	Evaluating the role of Aquatic Vegetation on Phosphorus Loads in the Everglades Agricultural Area
  Rupesh Bhomia	Accretion and Storage of Phosphorus in Recently Accreted Soils (RAS) in the Stormwater Treatment Areas (STAs) of the Everglades Basin
  Nichelle Demorest	Providing for natural bio-filtering processes in an existing stormwater detention basin
  Yu Qiao	Ozone Pre-Treatment to Enhance Anaerobic Degradation of Refractory Landfill Leachate Organics.
  Hugo Sindelar	Evaluating Advanced Oxidation Processes for the Transformation of Organic Phosphorus into Biologically Labile Compounds
  Rahul Tripathi	Polyacrylamide Grafted Hydrogel Balls of Sodium Alginate-Psyllium for Water Restoration
  Ying Yao	Adsorption of Sulfamethoxazole on Biochar and its Impact on Reclaimed Water Irrigation

• Nutrient dynamics and enrichment impacts in aquatic ecosystems

  Michelle Amit	Syntrophic Acetate-Oxidizing Bacteria along a Nutrient Gradient in the Florida Everglades
  Hee-Sung Bae	Nitrogen Fixation along a Nutrient Gradient in the Florida Everglades: Distribution and Concentrations of Nifh Genotypes and Nitrogenase Activities
  Amy Brown	The Impact of River Water Intrusion on Nutrient and Trace Metal Concentrations in the Floridan Aquifer System at Madison Blue Spring, Florida
  Debolina Chakraborty	Phosphorus Dynamics in the Kissimmee River Sediment and Floodplain Soils
  Reyna Colli-Dula	Understanding of Benzene and Trichloroethylene Effects in Largemouth Bass Using Microarrays
  Kenneth Gioeli	Hydrilla IPM RAMP- Starting a Statewide Project
  Robert Hensley	New Methods for Estimating Riverine N Removal Rates
  Jing Hu	Hydrological and Biogeochemical Controls on the Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Production and Consumption in Subtropical Isolated Wetlands
  Jin Jin	The Influence of DOM and Microbial Processes on Arsenic Release from Karst during ASR Operations in the Floridan Aquifer
  Marie Kurz	Influence of Autotrophic Assimilation on Diel Elemental Cycling in a Spring-Fed River
  Xiaolin Liao	Seasonal patterns of periphyton nitrogen fixation in seasonally-flooded calcareous wetlands of the Florida Everglades
  Courtney Reijo	Characterization of Nutrient Kinetics in a Spring-Fed North Florida Stream
  John Roberts	Denitrification Potential within Riparian Zones of Urban Impacted Forests in the Tampa Bay Watershed
  Ignacio Rodriguez-Jorquera	LINKAGES BETWEEN POLLUTANTS AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN FISH EXPOSED TO URBAN EFFLUENTS.
  Adrienne Smith	Influence of Initial Soil Nutrients and Seedbank on Ruellia Simplex Control and Resulting Native Species Establishment
  Christine VanZomeren	Comparison of Extracellular Enzyme Activities in an Everglades Stormwater Treatment Area

• Social, behavioral, and economic aspects of nutrient management

  Serhat Asci	Costs, Returns, and Nitrogen Application Decisions in Florida Potato Production
  Daniela Chevasco	Can Fertilization in Pine Straw Production Threaten Water Quality?
  Dianne Jacobson	Volunteer Mobile Irrigation Lab ...Model lab for SWFWD
  BobbiJo Jarvis	Educating certified property managers of landscape management practices that influence water quality
  Emily Ott	Social Research for Water Conservation: Solutions for a Water-Wise Future
  Daniel Penniman	Cost Analysis of Low Impact Development Stormwater Treatment Methods in Florida
  Annemarie Post	Community efforts to improve water flow and filtration through natural area restoration
  Lloyd Singleton	Florida-Friendly stormwater ponds

• Understanding natural, anthropogenic and legacy sources of nutrients

  Michael Andreu	The Ecosystem Services from Forests of the Tampa Bay Watershed Building a Collaborative Research and Extension Program
  Biswanath Dari	Soil Phosphorus Dynamics in a Dairy Farm during a Seven-year Period
  Nicole Dobbs	Interactive Tool for Simulating Water and Nutrient Management in a Virtual Turfgrasss System
  Rebecca Hellmuth	Use of Drainage Lysimeters to Quantify Leaching for a Nitrogen Mass Budget
  Katherine Helms	Urban Watershed Project
  Daniel Irick	Distribution of Soil Phosphorus Forms in Everglades Tree Islands
  Jennifer Mitchell	The Influence of Stormwater Pond Substrate on Surface Water Phosphorus Dynamics across Alachua County
  Darina Palacio	Water Resource Management Challenges in Florida: Geospatial Assessment of Stream Impairment
  Rishi Prasad	Nitrogen Budgeting and Cycling for an Integrated Farm: A Step towards Improved Nitrogen Management in the Suwannee River Watershed
  Bryce Van Dam	Soil subsidence in a impacted Florida wetland
  Danielle Watts	Carbon Accounting and Alternative Peat Accretion Equilibria in the Ridge Slough Everglades

• Water and Climate

  Syewoon Hwang	Hydrologic Importance of Spatial Variability in Statistically Downscaled Precipitation Predictions from Global Circulation Models for West-Central Florida
  Yogesh Khare	Global Sensitivity Analysis of a Drought Index Model – ‘Agricultural Reference Index for Drought (ARID)’
  Jerome Maleski	Climate Trends in ACF-ACT River Basins
  Robert Rooney	Implementation of Analog Forecast Technique In Tampa Bay Waters Operational Hydraulic Models
  Di Tian	Evaluation of reference evapotranspiration forecast analogs in Southeastern United States

• Water Treatment and Aquatic Chemistry

  Katrina Indarawis	Combined Ion Exchange Pretreatment to Reduce Membrane Fouling: Understanding Fundamental Chemistry During Ion Exchange Reactions
  Stephanie Ishii	Behavior of Reoccurring PARAFAC Components in Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter in Natural and Engineered Systems: A Critical Review
  Niloufar Mirsaeid Ghazi	Study on the Degradation of Nitrobenzene Utilizing Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation Process and the UV/ Hydrogen Peroxide Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP)
  Christopher Rokicki	Does Inorganic Fouling Limit the Uses of Ecologically Friendly Anion Exchange?
  Lei Wu	Experimental Analysis of Colloid Capture by a Cylindrical Collector in Laminar Overland Flow

• Water Conservation and Use

  Mackenzie Boyer	Do Florida Friendly Landscaping Homes Reduce Irrigation?
  Seth Byrd	Optimizing Irrigation of Florida Potato
  Stacia Davis	Finding the Right Customer: Will Smart Irrigation Controllers Increase Irrigation?
  Kenneth Friedman	Data Validation Methodologies for Water Audits in Florida
  Dakshina Murthy Kadiyala	Study of Spatial Water Requirement of Rice under Various Crop Establishment Methods Using GIS and Crop Models
  Kristine Kiser	“Effect” - An artist’s message to save local springs
  Miguel Morales	Analysis of Non-Residential Urban Water Use Through Water Billing and Property Appraiser Databases
  Bishow Poudel	A Study on Root Morphological and Physiological Characteristics of Warm Season Turf Grass Species for Their Field Drought Performancee
  Joshua Thompson	The Use of Primed Acclimation and Reduced Tillage to Increase Water Use Efficiency in Peanut and Cotton Production Systems
  Maria Zamora Re	Optimizing Water Use for Frost Protection

Student Competition Awards

64 students from five universities presented their work and competed for three prizes of $1000 to fund travel to conferences to present their work. We recruited 72 volunteer judges to talk with students that had similar research interests to review and score the posters. Four head judges made the final decisions for winners and honorable mentions, listed below.




Lei Wu, University of Florida, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Experimental Analysis of Colloid Capture by a Cylindrical Collector in Laminar Overland Flow

Robert Hensley, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation
New Methods for Estimating Riverine N Removal Rates

Joseph Delesantro, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation
The Effects of Hydrologic Mean Condition and Variation on Wetland Structure and Function

Subodh Acharya, University of Florida, Department of Soil and Water Science
Estimation of Evapotranspiration from Diurnal Water Table Fluctuation Using a new Expression for Drainable Porosity