Poster Session and Student Competition Awards

Poster Session

A Poster session and reception was held on Tuesday 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 72 posters including 60 students who competed in a Best Student Poster competition. See all poster abstracts by topic area by clicking on the topic area below.

• Impacts of changing drivers on water resources

  Alice Alonso	Unintended Consequences of Engineered Water Systems: Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamic of hydrological interactions between a human-transformed NW Costa Rican watershed and the downstream degraded Palo Verde Ramsar wetland
  Thomas Arnold	Evaluating shifts and sources of organic matter input to Lake Harris, Florida, USA.
  Marliz Arteaga	Hydroelectricity development in the Amazon: clean energy option in a climate change scenario?
  Seungwoo Chang	Quantifying the relative uncertainties in future rainfall, temperature and evapotranspiration projections across the USA using CMIP5
  Stacia Davis	Improving the model for evaluating the efficacy of weather-based irrigation controllers
  John Ezell	Impacts of lowering aquifer heads on surface water-groundwater interactions: A study of spring reversals and their impact on aquifer water quality
  Kaitlyn Flower	Spatial and temporal variability of bromide-to-chloride ratio in coastal groundwater: Literature review and field data
  Katie Glodzik	Saltwater intrusion impacts to coastal wetland topography and soil organic matter
  Uriah Gravois	Analysis of long term tide gauge records in Florida.
  Bobby Hensley	Profile "smearing" and its effect on inferring nutrient removal pathways and kinetics
  Syewoon Hwang	Assessing the future change of precipitation and reference evapotranspiration over Florida using ranked CMIP5 model ensemble
  Nathan Johnson	SJRWMD development of regional water shortage management responses and recommended phased response methods
  Chanyut Kalakan	Dimensionless Analysis for Investigation of Saltwater Intrusion and Recirculation of Seawater
  Mitra Khadka	Quantifying hyporheic exchange in a karst stream using 222Rn and its implication for carbon and nitrogen fluxes
  Yogesh Khare	A multi-criteria trajectory-based parameter sampling strategy for the screening type sensitivity analysis method of elementary effects
  Greg Kiker	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Florida’s Vulnerability To Sea Level Rise
  Geraldine Klarenberg	A spatial and temporal analysis of the relationship between vegetation and hydrology in an area subject to Inter-Oceanic Highway road paving in the SW Amazon
  Jerome Maleski	Wavelet analysis of hydrological variables and predictors in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint and Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basins.
  Rafael Muñoz-Carpena	A simplified approach for simulating changes in beach habitat due to the combined effects of long-term sea level rise, storm erosion, and nourishment
  Natalie Nelson	Blooms in the Bay: Modeling spatiotemporal chlorophyll-a dynamics exhibiting high inter-annual variability
  Tanh Nguyen	An approach for evaluation and screening of measured data for wetland hydrologic model
  Rachel Nifong	Does the stoichiometry of ecosystem metabolism reflect plant species stoichiometry and composition?
  Anna Normand	Comparison of organic matter composition from shifting vegetation communities due to increased inundation of a subarctic mire in Abisko, Sweden
  Sabrina Parra	Fortnightly variations in turbulent kinetic energy at a buoyant jet submarine groundwater discharge in a fringing reef lagoon
  Debjani Sihi	Inclusion of maintenance respiration alters temperature response in microbial soil organic matter decomposition model for wetlands
  Akeapot Srifa	Time-series analyses of relationships between zooplankton biomass and possible controlling environmental factors in a subtropical, nutrient-rich river
  Kelsie Timpe	Assessing the effects of hydroelectric dam design on watershed hydrology and ecosystem services in the Amazon
  Karen Vyverberg	Evaluating the Potential for Rapid Sea Level Oscillations in Response to Sustained Global Warming

• Managing water for people and the environment

  Mace Bauer	Implementation of Advanced Irrigation Management on North Florida Farms
  Mackenzie Boyer	Big Data Indicates Big Irrigation Potential of Florida-Friendly Landscapes
  Charles Crones	Hydroelectric Dams in the Amazon: Direct and Indirect Socio-Cultural Impacts on Local Communities
  Jing Hu	Influence of flooding and draining cycles on greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands

• Water security: the water-energy-food nexus

  Annie Couch	Growth, Yield, and Nitrogen Accumulation by Sesame (Sesamum indicumL.) grown in North Central Florida.
  Anne Elise Creamer	Biochar as a Low Cost Carbon Dioxide Capture Material
  Nathan Holt	Developing water and nutrient efficient bed geometries for raised bed, plastic mulch crop production systems using a vadose zone model.
  Kelly Landry	Non-linear isotherm modeling of pharmaceutical removal in synthetic urine by ion-exchange resins
  Harmanpreet Sidhu	Human Health Risks from Dislodged Residues of Endocrine Disruptors from Turf Irrigated with Reclaimed Water.

• Water quality protection and treatment

  Adib Amini	Sustainable Energy and Nutrient Recovery from Swine Waste: A Life Cycle Environmental Impact and Cost Assessment
  Savanna Barry	Morphological characteristics and patterns of biomass allocation of Thalassia testudinum in relation to nutrient regimes off Florida’s Gulf Coast
  Amy Brown	A comparison of the impact of diffuse and point source recharge on surface and groundwater quality
  Andrea Cumming	Evaluation of Coagulation and Adsorptive Treatment Technologies for Phosphorus Removal from the Middle St. Johns River Basin
  Biswanath Dari	Model Parameters from Soil Test Data for Input into Phosphorus-loss Predictive Models
  Wesley Henson	Examining Denitrification in the Upper Floridan Aquifer near Point and Non-point Sources
  Laibin Huang	The effects of soil properties on soil seed-spore bank germination in Pearl River Estuary, China
  Mohammad Huq	Relationship between the geomorphic features and spatial arsenic distribution patterns in part of Meghna Floodplain, Bangladesh
  Stephanie Ishii	Urine source separation at the University of Florida: Assessing impacts and student support from a life cycle perspective
  Alexis Johnson	The Effect of Variable Hyporheic Exchange on Nitrate Removal in Florida Springs: A Smart Tracer Approach
  Veronica Llaneza	Surface modified nanoparticles as potential solution to the complex problems facing our nation’s water resources
  Jiexuan Luo	Nitrogen Loadings from Different Land Uses at University of Florida Determined by High-Resolution in situ Nitrate Sensors
  Elise Morrison	The response of microbial communities to nutrient enrichment in the Florida Everglades
  Akua Oppong-Anane	Towards a Geochemical Approach to Preventing Groundwater Pollution via Landfill Imposed Reductive Dissolution of Vadose Soil Iron Oxide Minerals
  Darina Palacio	Stream Restoration in Florida
  Brian Pearson	Influence of mulch type and depth on stormwater runoff and leachate from simulated landscape soil boxes
  Rishi Prasad	Role of nitrogen budgets in evaluating nitrogen leaching from potato production in sandy soil: A model based approach to improve nitrogen management in Suwanee River Basin
  Courtney Reijo	Opening the Benthos Box: Assessing stream response to reduced nitrate concentrations
  Alexandra Rozin	Exploring in situ optical sensors for the measurement of nitrate
  Asmita Shukla	Role of Agricultural Detention Areas in Phosphorous Retention: Sink or Source?
  Christine Valcarce	Regression Modeling of PAC Performance
  Grant Weinkam	Sustainable phosphorus management in land applied reclaimed water scenarios
  Erin White	Bio-partitioning Tracer Technique for the Estimation of Microbial Biomass Effects on the Transport of Partitioning Solutes in Groundwater
  Raina Zantout	Water Systems Management and Diarrheal Incidence during the Monsoon Season in India

• Science, stakeholders and decision-making

  Chandra Bowden	The relationship between perceived government influence and water preservation behaviors of Floridian residents
  E. Vanessa Campoverde	Educating Environmental Horticulture Producers about Water Quality and Conservation Impacts on Plant Production
  Jamie Cohen	Composting and its Benefits: Achieving Practice Change Through Education to Reduce Nutrient Loads and Increase Agriculture BMP Usage.
  Eva Contreras Arribas	Process and network complexity: evaluation of land use change and ecological services through an actor-based model in the Southwest Amazon Region
  Darby Holtzhower	A decision support system to optimize wastewater treatment in the built environment
  Amy Langston	Integrating science into comprehensive planning for sea level rise adaptation in rural coastal communities
  Lara Miller	Watershed Education for Elected Officials, Resource Managers, and Concerned Citizens
  Emily Ott	Qualitative Social Research for Communicating Water Conservation
  Caroline Roper	Understanding the public: Utilizing perceptions to change water conservation behaviors
  Katie Stofer	Visualizing Data for Stakeholders From Varying Backgrounds
  Julia Wester	Psychological and Social Factors Associated with Wastewater Reuse Emotional Distress in the United States

Student Competition Awards

60 students from six universities presented their work and competed for three prizes of $1000 to fund travel to conferences to present their work. We recruited 68 volunteer judges to talk with students that had similar research interests to review and score the posters. Three head judges made the final decisions for winners and honorable mentions, listed below.




Stacia Davis
Improving the model for evaluating the efficacy of weather-based irrigation controllers

Wesley Henson
Examining Denitrification in the Upper Floridan Aquifer near Point and Non-point Sources

Jing Hu
Influence of flooding and draining cycles on greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands

Akeapot Srifa
Time-series analyses of relationships between zooplankton biomass and possible controlling environmental factors in a subtropical, nutrient-rich river

Courtney Reijo
Opening the Benthos Box: Assessing stream response to reduced nitrate concentrations