Poster Session and Student Competition Awards

Poster Session

The symposium’s poster session was held Tuesday at the same time and in the same room as the evening reception. It was a lively and well-attended gathering that showcased 60 posters including 38 students from University of Florida, University of Central Florida, and West Virginia University.

Poster abstracts can be viewed by clicking at these poster-session themes:

• Agricultural/Silvicultural Water

  Charles Barrett	Inter-Agency partnerships: What makes them work, what makes them challenging, and what is your role as an Extension professional
  Andre Luiz Biscaia Ribeiro Da Silva	Spatial and temporal distribution of soil N under four irrigation systems as function of N fertilizer rate and timing of application in potatoes
  Xiangju Fu	Using sprinkler irrigation to save water for Florida`s potato production
  Sandra Guzmán	Modeling Nutrient Leaching at Farm Scale: A Comparison of Hydrological and Crop Models
  Kira Hansen	Compact Bed Geometries for Fresh Produce: Environmental Footprint, Disease, and Economics
  Fei He	Economic Analysis of Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Rates for North Florida Carrot
  Anna Osiecka	Effects of fertilization and pine straw removal from slash pine plantations on the concentration of ammonium and nitrate-nitrite nitrogen in soil solution
  Sagarika Rath	Comparison of SWAT and DSSAT predictions of BMP effectiveness to reduce field scale Nitrogen leaching
  Maryada Shrestha	Contrasting water use efficiency and export for two different pine management systems
  Rajendra Sishodia	Ranchland Water Retention Effects on Flows and Nutrient Loads in the Northern Everglades
  Patricia Spellman	The efficacy of different gridded climate datasets in simulating hydrological output the Santa Fe River basin, northern Florida
  Patricia Spellman	Developing a new regional skew for the Suwannee River basin, northern Florida.
  Kathleen Vazquez	A Mechanistic Bacterial Transport Model to Inform Food Safety Management of Agricultural Pond Water
  Maria Vrachioli	Water' s Contribution to Agricultural Productivity under Spatial Adjustments
  Wei Yang	Simulating longer-term performance of cover crops on water drainage and nitrogen cycling in corn and soybean rotation with RZWQM2

• Climate Change/Hydrology

  Savanna Barry	Characterizing blue carbon stocks in Thalassia testudinum meadows subjected to different long-term phosphorus supplies: a lignin biomarker approach
  Savanna Barry	Evidence and Effects of Climate Change in Florida's Nature Coast
  Seungwoo Chang	Comparison of dynamic versus statistical downscaling of the CCSM4 General Circulation Model predictions for simulating hydrologic response in the Tampa Bay Region.
  Trey Crouch	Comparing Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activity effects on Madeira River Watershed Hydrosedimentology
  Amy Langston	Modeling the Effects of Climate Change and Predation on Northward Expansion of Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) into Temperate Salt Marsh
  Misti Sharp	Economic Damages Associated with Water Related Natural Disasters
  Mohsen Tootoonchi	Evaluating proxies for seawater in sea level rise and climate change research

• Coastal Waters

  Hailey Johnson	A Numerical Study to Quantify the Stability of Cuspate Features on Sandy Coastlines in Response to Evolving Wave and Storm Climates
  Duhui Lee	Measuring the equity of beach access for people with disabilities: A case study of Duval county
  Nesmar Mora	Green Remediation Alternative
  Kimberly Prince	Red drum ontogenetic shifts in prey network structure drives persistent organic pollutant accumulation.

• Human Water Needs/Use

  Christa Court	Water-Energy Prototype Model for the NEMS Platform: Thermoelectric Water Demand and its Implications for Regional Electricity Markets
  Elham Erfanian	Long-term debt in water utilities: Does ownership matters? Evidence of West Virginian’s Utilities
  Jennifer Jackson	Coagulation of Proteins Using Chitosan for Drinking Water Treatment Applications
  Suman Jumani	Reach and catchment-scale impacts of small hydropower projects in a tropical biodiversity hotspot
  Tatiana Konstantis	Characterization of waste water samples from Mexico Beach Florida
  Nargiza Ludgate	Gender roles in household water resource management in water-scarce countries: Does greywater treatment technology empower rural women in Jordan

• Stream/River Dynamics

  Lauren DeVito	Quantifying spatial and temporal variations in metabolism within and across stream order in a North Central Florida River network
  Lily Kirk	Benthic Light Availability Improves Predictions of Riverine Primary Production
  Enrique Orozco-Lopez	Concepts, Theories and Models of Macropore Flow Through Riparian Vadose Zone.
  Nathan Reaver	Swept Away: Interactions between hydrology and primary producers in Florida Springs
  Nathan Reaver	Quantifying and Predicting Three-Dimensional Heterogeneity in Transient Storage Using Roving Profiling
  Peter Sucsy	Mechanistic Modeling for Water Resources Management of the St. Johns River, FL
  Qianyan Wu	Valuing the Recreation Benefits of Springs in Florida

• Water Quality - Water Management

  Damian Adams	Water Resource Protection at the Ballot Box: Understanding Voter Preferences and Behavior
  Maite De Maria	Nephrotoxic effects of glyphosate and Rodeo ® through water exposure on largemouth bass
  Andressa Freitas	Variable Consequences of Converting Biosolids to Biochar: Implications for Water Quality
  Victoria Hoge	Developing a Biosolids Database for Watershed Modeling Efforts
  Lauren Holian	Viruses Can’t Take the Heat
  Lisa Krimsky	Capitalizing on local capacity to develop a statewide volunteer water monitoring program.
  Siti Jariani Mohd Jani	Rainy Season Nitrogen Transport in Urban Residential Stormwater Runoff
  Gary Qiu	Reduction of Adverse Effects of Tritium in Water

• Wetlands

  Ali Al-Quraishi	Reducing the Accumulated Salt Concentration by Changing the Water Hydrodynamic of the Western Al-Hammar Marsh.
  Joshua Epstein	Drivers of Community Composition and Water Quality in North Central Florida Freshwater Wetlands
  Kevin Henson	The Effects Of Forest Management On The Hydrology Of Isolated Wetlands In North Central Florida Pine Flatwoods.
  Xinhu Li	Comparison of characteristic salt crust soils and no crust soils: implications for the effect of flooding on salinization in hyper-arid floodplains
  Miles Medina	Diagnosing drivers of environmental noncompliance in constructed treatment wetlands: A nonlinear dynamics approach
  Marco Pazmiño-Hernandez	Design and evaluation of a link-node hydrological model to study the spatiotemporal impacts of an interbasin water transfer in the Tempisque-Bebedero watershed, Costa Rica
  Carlos Quintero	Seasonal Carbon Fluxes in a Patterned Karst Wetland and Implications of Hydrology on Basin Expansion in Big Cypress National Preserve
  Katherine Stahlhut	The Desmids of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
  Elliott White Jr.	Hurricane Impacts on Coastal Baldcypress Swamps are Storm Dependent and Temporally and Spatially Variable

Student Competition Awards

The 38 students with posters competed for $1,000 awards to attend a professional conference to present their research work. Sponsors who generously provided these awards were the Carl. S. Swisher Foundation, American Water Resources Association, Manasota Peace River Regional Water Supply Authority, and Gainesville Regional Utilities.

Each of the 38 student posters was judged by 3 independent judges, who scored each poster according to standard objective criteria. The top-scoring posters stood out because they showed that the student’s research work was original and significant, with large potential for impact. The winning posters exhibited advanced techniques showing a high level of knowledge of the subject. As well, the student’s oral presentation to the judges showed that they have a good grasp of the subject. Finally, the 4 winning posters were creative, visually interesting, and of a highly professional caliber.

The 4 winners were: