Category: GSS

Here is the Zoom Link (Meeting ID: 917 3821 1238, Passcode: 674466). You will need to be registered via this link.

Friday, February 5

Welcoming Remarks

10:00-10:15

Dean John Gittleman, Jeffrey Beauvais, Nate Tomczyk

Session I (Moderator: Rebecca Atkins)

10:15-10:30	Claire Teitelbaum	Urbanization and habitat specialization interact to drive infection outcomes for mobile wildlife
10:30-10:45	Laura Naslund	The effects of ecosystem modification and network position on contaminant fluxes from a mountaintop mining-impacted river network
10:45-11:00	Amy A. Briggs	Local vs. site-level effects of algae on coral microbial communities
11:00-11:15	William White	Dams and fried green tomatoes: Natural history and sense of place in conservation decisions

Session II (Moderator: Rebecca Atkins)

11:30-11:45	Kelsey J. Solomon	Small decreases in total canopy cover can significantly affect algal communities in southern Appalachian headwater streams
11:45-12:00	Robert L. Richards	The macro-ecology of predator-prey-parasite interactions
12:00-12:15	Kyle Connelly	Getting pumped: Spatial, temporal, and economic drivers of septic tank maintenance intervals in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia

12:15–2:00

Lunch

Graduate student lunch with Dr. Ethell Vereen

Rapid Fire Session I (Moderator: TJ Odom)

2:00-2:35	Daniel C. Suh	Patterns in host abundance, species richness, and species evenness reveal amphibian communities highly susceptible to Ranavirus
	Christopher R. Smaga	Effects of precocious estrogen on alligator ovarian development
	Carolyn Cummins	Where will carbon go when it enters warmer streams? A test of temperature effects on shredder physiology
	Ashley Ballew	Monarch butterflies: Diet and infection
	Q&A

Session III (Moderator: TJ Odom)

3:00-3:15	Doreen Chaussadas	Impacts of bio-loggers’ weight on their carrier: is 5% of the body mass an acceptable charge to put on a birds’ back?
3:15-3:30	Kristen J. Zemaitis	Ecotoxicology and diet of the American alligator as a function of ontogenetic shift and prey selection
3:30-3:45	Anna R. Willoughby	Tourist-provided resources impact park wildlife and their parasite communities

Poster Session
4:00 – 5:30 Virtual Poster Session (Zoom link)
Breakout Room 1:  
Corinna Hazelrig – Batrachochytriunm dendrobatidis prevalence throughout amphibian species and life stages of varying skin keratin richness

Christopher Brandon – Walking while parasitized: Effects of a nematode parasite on locomotion activity of horned passalus beetles

Breakout Room 2:
Caroline Aikins – Inferring diet of ringtails (Bassariscus astutus) from latrines in human-impacted park habitats

Mikey Fager – Tipping streams: Does increased temperature change the balance of carbon and nutrients in food resources?

Amelia Foley – Plastic in the urban environment: An exploratory study of microplastics in the Athens, GA community

Breakout Room 3:
Will Ellis – How parasites influence ecosystems: Studying the varied effects of a trematode parasite on its environment

Jessica Mitchell – Assessing the response of aquatic detritivore insects to experimental warming

Niki Gajjar – Morphological root traits and phylogenetic signals in Southern Africa trees and grasses

Saturday, February 6

Session IV (Moderator: Carolyn Cummins)

10:00-10:15	Laura V. Kojima	Assessing the consumption risk of American alligators on the Savannah River Site
10:15-10:30	Jeffrey Beauvais	Demographic drivers of coastal water access in South Carolina
10:30-10:45	Kate Sabey	Antibiotic treatment alters gut microbiota plasticity in a wild mammal

Rapid Fire Session II (Moderator: Carolyn Cummins)

11:00-11:40	Emily M. Bertucci	Intrinsic and extrinsic factors interact during development to influence telomere dynamics in a long-lived apex predator
	Anna Y. Baynes	Fish habitat preference with changes in flow pattern in the Conasauga River, GA
	Cece Working	Host and environment predict nematode development across temperatures
	Corinne M Sweeney	Radiocesium transfer between aquatic and terrestrial environments
	Q & A

Keynote Address

12:00-12:10	Dr. Erin Lipp	Introduction
12:10-1:10	Dr. Ethell Vereen Jr.	Life in Flowing Water

The annual Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) will take place January 31 – February 1, 2020. This symposium is organized by OSE graduate students to showcase research happening within the department. It includes an undergraduate poster session, rapid talks, and full-length talks.

Each year features a keynote presentation by an Odum alumni. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Rebeca de Jesús Crespo, Phd, ’15, currently an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University.

Please look at the program for the full schedule of events.

Photos from GSS 2019:

 

The 2019 Odum School of Ecology Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) was held on January 25 and 26, 2019. The keynote speaker was Virginia Schutte, Ph.D. ’14. Photos to come soon!  The full program is available here.

About Dr. Schutte: Virginia Schutte is an award-winning science communicator who has both a PhD from the Odum School of Ecology and 5 years of extremely broad science media experience. She has worked with Springer Nature to deliver training workshops and run their digital scientific networking website; she created her own blog for publishing audio, video, and written articles; and she has been pioneering new institution-based science communication techniques since founding the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium’s Science Media Program in May 2017.

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The Odum School of Ecology’s 2018 Graduate Student Symposium was a success, with over 40 talks and posters presented. Thanks to everyone who helped plan, support, and attend the event!

The next GSS will be held on February 2 and 3, 2018.  The 2018 keynote speaker will be David Walters (M.S. CESD ’97, Ph.D. Ecology ‘02), who is a Research Ecologist at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. A PDF version of the full schedule is available here.

See a PDF version of the 2018 GSS announcement here.

Daniel Becker (Ph.D. ’17) gives a talk at GSS 2017

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The program for GSS 2017 scheduled for January 27th and 28th now available!