Category: ECoGSS 2018

Thank you!

Hello Everyone,

We wanted to thank everyone from our Department who came out to support our very first Environmental Conservation Graduate Student Symposium (ECoGSS) on Jan 26-27. We had a total of 108 people come for the first day of the symposium. To kick off the day, we had an inspiring keynote presentation given by Dr. Chris Neill, which was followed by a mix of panel discussions, lightning talks, and traditional talks by the graduate students. Near the end of the day, we had 9 special guests (legislators and federal and state agency directors) introduce themselves and interact with students and faculty. For the second day, we had 42 people, and we concluded our Symposium with a potluck and award ceremony. This was an impressive turnout! All of our invited guests were also genuinely excited to be there and impressed with the talks and panels put on by the students.

Congrats again to our first and second place winners!

First Places:
Mariela Garcia Arrendondo, Traditional Talk: Rhizogenic weathering impacts on deep soil carbon
Grace Casselberry, Traditional Talk: Exploring temporal changes in the spatial use of a Caribbean marine protected area by four shark species
Donovan Drummey, Lightning Talk: Estimating American marten density in New Hampshire
Evan Kuras, Traditional Talk: Connecting to nature in and out of school
George LoCascio, Traditional Talk: Plant sperm kills parasite in bumblebee guts

Second Places:
Tierney Bosci, Lighting Talk: A breakeven point: The costs and benefits of planting street trees
Bia Dias, Traditional Talk: A marine ecosystem perspective of the anadromous forage fish role
Lian Guo, Traditional Talk: Measuring otolith growth to infer river herring physiology
Benjamin Padilla, Traditional Talk: Is there a general decision framework for quantifying urbanization gradients?
Kate McClellan Press, Traditional Talk: Response of juvenile lemon sharks, Negaprion brevirostris, to electric fields produced by an experimental submarine power cable across a tidal creek, Eleuthera, The Bahamas

With ECoGSS event we successfully accomplished the following goals:

  1. Encourage student-faculty and student-student collaborations and camaraderie in the ECo Department
  2. Provide a setting for graduate students to practice their speaking skills for professional conferences and enable students to receive feedback from peers and faculty
  3. Showcase the diversity of research in the ECo Department (ECo, IMS, OEB and MS graduate programs)
Again thank you for being part of making this first ECoGSS a SUCCESS!
The ECoGSS Committee
 

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