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
| Friday, February 2 | ||||
| 9:30-10:15 | Breakfast | |||
| 10:15-10:30 | Dr. John Gittleman | Welcoming remarks from the Dean | ||
| Session I Moderator: Carly Phillips | ||||
| 10:30-10:45 | Deven Gokhale | If you get all tangled up, just Tango on… If not, Likelihood-based Statistical Inference should do it! | ||
| 10:45-11:00 | Jeffrey Beauvais | Interactions of Anthropogenic and Natural Disturbances on Genetic Diversity in a Clonal Salt Marsh Plant
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| 11:00-11:15 | Richard G. Bauer | Spatial Patterns of Male American Alligators Alligator mississippiensis on a Developed Georgia Barrier Island | ||
| 11:15-11:30 | Matthew Hale | Linking Historical Exposures to Modern-day Signaling: Dioxin and the American Alligator | ||
| 11:30-11:45 | Michelle Evans | Mosquito communities across a city | ||
| 11:45-1:00 | Lunch | |||
| Session II, Moderator: Zach Butler | ||||
| 1:00-1:15 | Cecilia Sanchez | What drives relationships between body condition and parasite infection in wildlife? A review and meta-analysis | ||
| 1:15-1:30 | Anya Brown | Your history affects your future: variation in response of corals to vermetid gastropods | ||
| 1:30-1:45 | Darren Fraser
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Relative Proportion of Marsh vs Terrestrial Food Sources in the Diets of a Common Terrestrial Mesopredator the North American Raccoon Procyon lotor | ||
| 1:45-2:00 | Jessica Chappell | Vulnerability of migratory shrimp to the interaction of drought and water extraction in Puerto Rico: The importance of examining temporal dynamics | ||
| 2:00-2:15 | Break | |||
| Session III, Moderator: Katie Brownson | ||||
| 2:15-2:30 | Kaylee Arnold | A Multi-scale Study of the Gut Microbiota of a Chagas Disease Vector | ||
| 2:30-2:45 | Ania Majewska | Effects of Gardens on Pollinators. A review and a meta-analysis
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| 2:45-3:00 | Reni Kaul | Noise-induced catastrophic change in ecology | ||
| 3:00-3:15 | Claire Teitelbaum | Moving with pathogens: migratory behavior predicts greater parasite diversity in ungulates | ||
| 3:15-3:30 | Dana Carpenter | Has Long-term Fire Exclusion Reduced the Resiliency of Southern Appalachian Forests to Wildfire? | ||
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| Rapid Fire Session I, Moderator: Megan Hopson | ||||
| 4:00-4:30 | Dessa Dunn | Effects of Goat Herbivory on Growth and Survival of White Oak Quercus alba Seedlings in Driftmier Woods | ||
| Ed Stowe | Assessing Fish Population Trends from 1996 to 2016 in the Conasauga and Etowah Rivers, GA | |||
| Kelly Petersen | Do restoration practices maintain adaptive potential in reintroduced plant populations? | |||
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| Rapid Fire Session II, Moderator: Kaylee Arnold | ||||
| 4:30-5:00 | Samantha Bock | Characterizing variation in nesting thermal dynamics of the American alligator and consequences for reproductive development | ||
| Robbie Richards | Predators and the Parasites in their Prey: Macroecology of a Tri-trophic Interaction | |||
| David Vasquez Jr. | A cross-scale approach to identify key individuals responsible for the transmission and persistence of a devastating wildlife pathogen | |||
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Poster Session |
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| Saturday, February 3 | |||
| noon-1:45 | Meet in Ecology to travel to lunch | ||
| Session IV, Moderator: Claire Teitelbaum | |||
| 1:45-2:00 | Carolyn Cummins | ‘Fast food’ for stream consumers? Investigating the effects of temperature and nutrients on the fates of carbon in streams | |
| 2:00-2:15 | Maura P. Dudley | Is Rhododendron maximum a Foundation Species in Southern Appalachian Riparian Forests? | |
| 2:15-2:30 | Lance Paden | Use of Modified GPS Loggers to Monitor Resident and Translocated Gopher Tortoises Gopherus polyphemus in Southeastern Georgia | |
| 2:30-2:45 | Katie Mascovich | Comparing the Impacts of High- and Low-Interaction Education Programs on People’s Knowledge and Behaviors | |
| 2:45-3:00 | Rachel Smith | Shifting Ranges and Interactions: How Does Saltmarsh Wrack Affect Mangrove Establishment and Development? | |
| 3:00-3:15 | Rebecca Atkins | Patterns in consumer-resource interaction strength depend on biological spatial scale | |
| 3:15-3:30 | Coffee Break | 3:15-3:30 | |
| Rapid Fire Session III, Moderator: Kelsey Solomon & Emily Johnson | |||
| 4:00-4:30 | Dessa Dunn | Effects of Goat Herbivory on Growth and Survival of White Oak Quercus alba Seedlings in Driftmier Woods | |
| 3:30-4:30 | Keysa Rosas | How conversion to palm plantations affects resource subsidies between streams and riparian areas | |
| Zachary Butler | Documenting the Commensal Diversity of Armadillo Burrows | ||
| Ashley LaVere | If You Give a Creep a Camera | ||
| Kelsey J. Solomon | What are the effects of removing riparian rhododendron on stream algal communities of the southern Appalachians? | ||
| Denzell Cross | Disturbance, Functional Trait Diversity, and Ecosystem Processes in Animal Communities | ||
| Q & A | |||
| 4:30-4:45 | Break | ||
| Keynote Address | |||
| 4:45-5:00 | Dr. Seth Wenger | Introduction | |
| 5:00-6:00 | David Walters | From rocks to spiders: Geologic controls on trace metals affect aquatic-riparian linkages in Rocky Mountain streams
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| 6:00 -8:00 | Dinner | ||