Syposium Spotlight Shines on CC&E Research
April 18, 2024
Graduate Oral Presentation Symposium winner Anissa Hyde
BATON ROUGE - CC&E celebrated the semester with a look at student research yesterday, with a program of graduate student oral presentations and undergraduate poster presentations.
The winner of the Oral Presentation Symposium was Anissa Hyde, a Masters student in the Department of Environmental Sciences, who spoke on “Building A Complex Socio-Ecological Dataset: Data Wrangling Strategies and Challenges for Climate-Induced Migration.”
Second place went to Mischa Schultz of the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, or DOCS, for her presentation on "Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) life history in the northern Gulf of Mexico" and third prize went to Daoyang Bao, also of DOCS, for "Quantifying Compound and Nonlinear Effects of Hurricane-induced Flooding using a Coupled Hydrological-Ocean Model."
The winner of the Undergraduate Poster Presentation Symposium was Patricia Thibodeaux, with her poster entitled, “Comparing arthropod and plant communities across natural and created brackish marshes in coastal Louisiana.”
Second place went to Jonathan Russell for his poster, "A Machine-Learning Approach to Forecasting Gulf Of Mexico Tropical Cyclone Activity" and third place went to James Anderson, for "Hurricanes and Harmful Algal Blooms: Assessing the Legacy Phosphorus Role in Linking These Events."
“Congratulations to our winners and to all participants in the graduate and undergraduate symposiums,” said CC&E Associate Dean of Academics Sibel Bargu Ates. “Communication is essential for scientists. We must be able to conduct good research, and then share the knowledge we’ve created, and the impact it may have, with the world. The presentations we saw today demonstrated just how well our students have mastered these crucial skills.”
Topics in both presentations ranged from 2016 Baton Rouge floods to the modeling of phytoplankton to the detection of chemicals in fish liver.
A complete list of participants and topics is below.
| Graduate Student Presenter | Presentation Title |
|---|---|
| Daoyang Bao | Quantifying Compound and Nonlinear Effects of Hurricane-induced Flooding using a Coupled Hydrological-Ocean Model |
| Mischa Schultz | Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) life history in the northern Gulf of Mexico |
| Arnab Paul | Satellite-derived chlorophyll and phytoplankton size classes using MODIS- Aqua in the northern Gulf of Mexico |
| Jessica Stephens | Examination of the effects of ultraviolet radiation on the toxicity of an array of pesticides, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and pharmaceuticals via in-vitro bioassays |
| Ogooluwa Adeagbo | Detangling the Elevated Sea-surface pCO 2 in a River-Dominated Continental Shelf Using a High-Resolution Regional Ocean Mode |
| Le Zhang | Quantify Hurricane-induced Disruption to Coastal Carbon System Using a Coupled Physical-biogeochemical Carbon Model |
| Anissa Hyde | Flood Exposure and Insurance Coverage in Coastal Areas at a Neighborhood Scale |
| Samuel Zapp | Tidal dissipation morphodynamic feedback triggers the loss of microtidal marshes |
| Yixuan Wang | A Numerical Investigation of Compound Flooding during Hurricane Ida using a Dynamically Coupled Hydrological-Ocean Mode |
| Undergraduate Presenter | Poster Title |
|---|---|
| Jayden Morgan | Multi-Scale Case Study Analysis of August 2016 Flood |
| Luca Roth | Effects of Patch Size and Avian Community Composition on Amazonian Rainforest Soundscapes |
| Bridget Seghers | Developing Correction Models for the Effect of Lipid Content on Stable Isotope Values in Invasive Silver Carp Tissues |
| Christopher M Lowrey-Dufour | Exploring Variations in Environmental Toxicity through EROD |
| Riley Jenkins | Microbial Processes in Confined and Unconfined Dredge Material Created Wetlands |
| Madison Liotta | Dredging impacts on the Environment Inside and Outside a Borrow Area for Coastal Restoration. |
| Dakota Sievers | Regenerating or Ghost Forest? A.E. LeBlanc Woods Natural Area |
| James Anderson | Hurricanes and Harmful Algal Blooms: Assessing the Legacy Phosphorus Role in Linking These Events |
| Nonnie E Cook | Enabling Predictive Toxicology Assessments to Determine Whether Pollution is Contributing to the Decline of Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico and Beyond |
| Noah Flaherty | Analyzing wave heights in a coastal river delta |
| Johnathan Russell | A Machine-Learning Approach to Forecasting Gulf Of Mexico Tropical Cyclone Activity |