Presentations

A list of abstracts for all the oral presentations can be found here. Some posters have been uploaded online and can be viewed by clicking the title. 

Name Presentation Title Department
Luke Groff Sediment communities are major contributors to metabolism in temperate seagrass (Zostera marina) meadows Environmental Sciences
Heather Christensen A demographic-specific framework for assessing flood hazard and vulnerability in Norfolk, VA Environmental Sciences
Ginny Henderson Characterizing the vertical wind profile at a forested site in complex terrain Environmental Sciences
Willow Lovecky Temporal Variation of Trap Nest Community Composition in Boyce, Virginia Environmental Sciences
Rebecca Weinstein Evaluating Differences in Environmental Conditions Supporting Isolated Deep Convection vs Organized Mesoscale Convective Systems Environmental Sciences
Declan McQuinn Effect of Nutrient Enrichment and Disturbance on Flowering Phenology Environmental Sciences
Wayne Dawson III Drivers of Photosynthetic Physiology Revealed by Long-term Continuous Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements Environmental Sciences
Zohair Boz Al Asaal Testosterone increases the prevalence of helminth and coccidian parasites in wild brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) Biology
Anjuri Kakkar Evaluating the Impact of Wildfire Events and Smoke Exposure on Nursing Homes Psychology
Yuhao Ren DMFS: Differentiable Modeling for Frozen Soil Thermodynamic Characteristics Civil & Environmental Engineering
Yiting Fan Species-Specific Structural Complexity Reveals Strategies for Light and Water Use in Deciduous Forest Environmental Sciences
Caroline Smith Examining Trait Variation Between Marine Macroalgae Species Environmental Sciences
Hanne Borstlap Understanding the Two-Way Relationship Between People and Shallow Groundwater on the Eastern Shore of Virginia Environmental Sciences
Stephanie Petrovick Effects of vegetation removal and nutrient addition on plant community-seed bank relationships in a mid-Atlantic early successional ecosystem Environmental Sciences
Chattan Haselden Hazardous concentrations of anthropogenic arsenic, cadmium, and lead in road dust across seven eastern U.S. cities Environmental Sciences
Farshad Hesamfar Septic System Malfunction Risk Prediction in Virginia’s Eastern Shore Using Machine Learning and Groundwater–Soil Indicators Civil & Environmental Engineering
Sophia Wood Characterizing the modulating effects of basin geometry and water level on Mars fan-shaped deposits Environmental Sciences
Tara Udani Spatiotemporal dynamics of juvenile blue crab populations in seagrass nursery habitats Environmental Sciences
Maghogho Odanibe Satellite observations of ammonia inequalities associated with concentrated animal feeding operations in Maryland and Delaware Environmental Sciences
Jack Boyle The Power of Science: UVA Environmental Law Clinic Environmental Sciences
Lucas Raymond Quantifying the impact of anthropogenic activity on vulnerable wetlands under projected land use change Environmental Sciences
Jessee Steele Deep Learning on High Resolution Imagery Reveals Extensive Tree Mortality Across Colorado Environmental Sciences
Grace Coleman Explainable AI for modelling ground temperature dynamics in a High Arctic community Mathematics/Computer Science
Zeyu Xia PyTorchFire: A GPU-Accelerated Wildfire Simulator with Differentiable Cellular Automata Computer Science
Christopher Oxley Salinity gradients influence biogeographic patterns of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) tidal positions in Texas, USA Environmental Sciences
Ziqi Gao Towards a neighborhood scale, community accessible model of air quality Environmental Sciences
Shenyi (Elsie) Liu Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Forest Resilience Change across the North American Coastal Plain Environmental Sciences
Sixuan Zhang Novel satellite observation and model constraints on trends in neighborhood-level air quality over two decades Environmental Sciences
Phoebe Hall Foot Prints, Hoof Prints, and Stream Water Impacts at UVA’s Morven Sustainability Lab Environmental Sciences
Meara Tolentino Capturing the Variability of DOC from Extreme Precipitation Events in a Marsh-adjacent Coastal System using Satellite Remote Sensing Environmental Sciences
Pinky Rani Sarkar County level analysis of the potential carbon, water, and air quality benefits of afforestation in Virginia Environmental Sciences
Andrew Luksik Remote sensing assessment of vegetation and snow dynamics under infrastructure pressure in Arctic tundra Environmental Sciences
Nafisa Ahmed Can Virginia Reach Net-Zero with Near-Term Carbon Dioxide Removal? A County-Level Assessment of Land, Water, Energy, and Cost Constraints Civil & Environmental Engineering