POSTER HALL 2: Climate, Environment, and Ecology 2024
Kira Miller
Chytridiomycosis is a cutaneous amphibian disease caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which has resulted in amphibian declines worldwide.
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Macall Hock
Arctic ecosystems play a crucial role in global carbon cycling, storing a significant proportion of the world’s soil carbon pool.
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B Hope Hauptman
1,2,3-Tricholoropropane (TCP) is an impurity common in nematicides applied to agricultural soils from the 1940s to the 1980s. Evidence from animal studies indicates that TCP is a probable human carcinogen.
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Amanda Donaldson
Understanding how much water leaves hillslopes as evapotranspiration (i.e. evaporation and plant water use) is important for predicting water storage and movement within hillslopes.
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Meredith Lutz
Social networks are important selective forces in primates’ environments and are known to exhibit structural changes based on ecological factors.
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Suzanne Lipton
I conduct my research on pasturelands of California’s Central Coast, where ranchers are interested in enhancing and preserving dung beetle communities because of the many ecosystem services they provide.
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Jonathan Aguinaga
Mixed-species groups are common in nature, but why they are so widespread remains unclear.
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Jackie Galvez
Artificial damming of freshwater rivers influences many aspects of stream ecology.
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Mallory Harris
Anthropogenic climate change is increasing the likelihood and intensity of extreme weather events
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Mariah Angel Cuyson
Lyme disease, caused by the pathogenic spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and vectored by the tick species Ixodes pacificus on the West Coast, is one of the most commonly reported tick-borne diseases in the United States
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Anne Beulke
I’m use genetic and genomic tools to understand the variation in migration patterns in steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. These fish have a migration from freshwater to the ocean.
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Alice Truong
In my study, I examined the effects that an orally administered ospA vaccine would have on the acquisition and transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi.
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Berenice Baca-Ceballos
Asteroid sea stars in the cryptic species complex Leptasterias use a remarkable mode of brood-fostering.
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Sarah King
The lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, host microbial communities that grow into 3D structures, such as pinnacles, in the absence of physical or biologic perturbations.
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