Watershed Studies Institute - 12th Annual Research Symposium

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Watershed Studies Institute

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Oral Presentation

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Watershed Studies Institute - 12th Annual Research Symposium

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Spring Scholars Week

Murray State University

Schedule:

9:25 Welcome – Dr. Howard Whiteman, WSI Director

9:30 John Hewlett* – Biological Sciences

Assessing the Influence of Stress and Behavior on Susceptibility to and Recovery from Snake Fungal Disease in the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).

9:45 Emma Fehlker Campbell* – Biological Sciences

Understanding Relationships Between Stress, Snake Fungal Disease, and Parasitism in Wild Cottonmouth Snake Populations 10:00 Sydney Abbott – Earth and Environmental Science

Linking Field Observations and Satellite Data to Assess the Impacts of Environmental Controls on Water Use Efficiency for the State of Kentucky

10:15 Cassidy Hill* – Mathematics and Statistics

Application of Optimal Control Theory to a Malarial Model

10:30 Emily Hoard* – Dept. of Mathematics, Oregon State University

Identifying Key Nodes in Food Webs Via Graph Theory

10:45 Megan Zerger* – Biological Sciences

Morph- and sex-specific differences in corticosterone of the Arizona tiger salamander, Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum.

11:00 Karissa Coffield* – Biological Sciences/Watershed Science

Adaptive Plasticity of Coloration in Response to Environmental Change

11:15 Kyler Rogers* – Biological Sciences

Parasitism of Necoconcephalus katydids by the parasitoid fly Ormia lineifrons

11:30 Kevin Takashita-Bynum* – Earth and Environmental Sciences/Watershed Science Gary Stinchcomb – EES/WSI Marie White – University of Memphis Madeline Beasley – EES Michael Rogers – Southern Connecticut State University Sileshi Semaw – Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana

Reconstructing the Dynamic Middle to Late Pleistocene Hominin Environments of Gona, Ethiopia: A Fossil Soil-based Study

11:45 Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session Chair: Dr. Michael Flinn 1:00 – 4:00 P. M.

1:10 Reconvene

1:15 Brandon Preston – Biological Sciences Natural History eMuseum

1:30 Daniel Schoenberg* – Biological Sciences

Kentucky Wolf Spiders Save Big with this Life Insurance Loophole

1:45 Carson Madigan* – Biological Sciences Assessing Mammal Use of a Forested Watershed Impacted by Overbrowsing of Deer in Northeastern Pennsylvania

2:00 Jacob Pease – Biological Sciences

Analysis of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Occurrence and Ecology in Kentucky’s Federal Lands

WRP Symposium

2:15 Tyler Befus – Biological Sciences/Watershed Science

Restored Wetlands of West Kentucky and Nitrogen Sequestering Potential

2:30 Christy Soldo – Biological Sciences/Watershed Science Quantity Over Quality: Identifying New Macroinvertebrate Community Metrics for Improved Wetland Monitoring

2:45 Lucas Zuklic – Biological Sciences/Watershed Science

Effects of Wetland Restoration on Fish Communities in Western Kentucky

3:00 John Connock – Biological Sciences/Watershed Science

Preliminary Assessment of Herpetofauna Communities in Restored Wetlands in Western Kentucky

3:15 Clay Bliznick – Biological Sciences Assessing Factors Driving Avian Diversity in Bottomland Hardwood Forest Restoration Sites

3:30 Dr. Kinga Hill – Biological Sciences and WSI Wildlife Communities Respond Differently to Hydrologic Restoration of Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes

Individual presentation materials available at: https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/scholarsweek/Spring2021/Watershed/

Spring Scholars Week 2021 Event

Watershed Studies Institute Symposium