ED31F:
Undergraduate Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean, and Space Science Research and Outreach Showcase Posters

Session ID#: 1714

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chair:  Aisha R. Morris, U.S. National Science Foundation, Geosciences Directorate, Alexandria, United States
Primary Convener:  Aisha R. Morris, U.S. National Science Foundation, Geosciences Directorate, Alexandria, United States
Co-Convener:  Pranoti M. Asher, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lee Phillips, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Geology, Greensboro, NC, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
ED31F-3462
Characteristics of Coronal Mass Ejections (25267)
Ariane Katrina Marchese, Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, NY, United States, Famim Talukder, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Taran Tulsee, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY, United States
 
ED31F-3463
An Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Project (USIP) to Develop New Instrument Technology to Study the Auroral Ionosphere and Stratospheric Ozone Layer Using Ultralight Balloon Payloads (31524)
Rachel Gamblin1, Erika Marrero1, Edgar A Bering III1, Barry Leffer1, Bonnie Dunbar1, Hamza Ahmad1, Daniel Canales1, Chris Bias1, John Cao1, Megan Pina1, Arian Ehteshami1, Daniel Hermosillo1, Abdul Siddiqui1, Diego Guala1 and UltraLight Mission, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
ED31F-3464
Evaluating the Effects of Clouds on Solar and Longwave Radiation From Moored Buoys in the North Pacific (27155)
Kelly Balmes, University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Meghan F Cronin, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
 
ED31F-3465
Calibration of a Cavity Ring Down Spectrometry and Nephelometry Setup for Measuring Aerosol Optical Properties (30113)
Isabel D Colon-Bernal, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Chemistry, Cidra, PR, United States
 
ED31F-3466
Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Dust Bowl (18021)
Evan James Cazavilan, SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, United States and Eric M Leibensperger, SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Center for Earth and Environmental Science, Plattsburgh, NY, United States
 
ED31F-3467
Physicochemical evolution of Saharan mineral dust aerosol during the transport over the North Atlantic Ocean (31772)
Karimar Ledesma Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Vernon R Morris, Arizona State University, Associate Dean, New College ASU West, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
ED31F-3468
A Comparison of Mass-Based Emission Factors from Laboratory Combustion of Boreal and Sub-Tropical Peat (25001)
Joseph Knue1, Reddy L. N. Yatavelli1, L-W Antony Antony Chen1, Vera Samburova2, Madhu S Gyawali1, Adam Watts1, Rajan K Chakrabarty1, Hans Moosmuller1, Xiaoliang Wang3, Barbara Zielinska1, Judith C. Chow1, John G Watson1 and Ana Tsibart4, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute Reno, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Moscow State Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia
 
ED31F-3469
Analysis of El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomena’s Effect on the Gross Domestic Product of Western Pacific Nations (23035)
Matthew O'Connell1,2, Akilah Lewis3 and Daniel Mezzafonte1, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Commack High School, Commack, New York, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
ED31F-3470
Development of the Southern Ocean Climate Model Atlas (31588)
Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jessica Rudd, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Paul J Goodman, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
 
ED31F-3471
Planetary Boundary Layer Dynamics over Reno, Nevada in Summer (13646)
Addison Liming1, Benjamin Sumlin2, Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar2, Heather Holmes2 and William P Arnott2, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States
 
ED31F-3472
Understanding the 2013 Boulder Flood: Assessing Extreme Precipitation Events and Future Climates in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) (19364)
Ryan Adams, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA, United States and Richard B Neale, NCAR, Boulder, United States
 
ED31F-3473
The Physical and Biochemical Alteration of the Platte River by Phragmites australis, an Invasive Species of Wetland Grass (23448)
Rachel C Mohr1, Russell Krueger1, Laura Triplett1, Tal Michal2 and Karin M Kettenring3, (1)Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, United States, (2)Aix Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 03, France, (3)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
ED31F-3474
Linking nutrient enrichment, sediment erodibility and biofilms (26073)
Brianne Conrad1, Ryan Mahon1 and Sarah Lawson Sojka2, (1)Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA, United States, (2)Randolph College, Lynchburg, United States
 
ED31F-3475
A Detailed Study of Debris Flow Source Areas in the Northern Colorado Front Range. (10516)
Ashlyann Arana-Morales, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States, Rex L Baum, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States and Jonathan Godt, USGS, Natural Hazards Mission Area, Golden, United States
 
ED31F-3476
Classification of Slope Collapse and Deposition after Typhoons in Chenyulan Watershed, Taiwan (31967)
Yuan-Jung Chen and Chuphan Chompuchan, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
 
ED31F-3477
Quantifying the Rate of Surface Soil Drying Following Precipitation Events Using PBO H2o Soil Moisture Time Series (9627)
Ann Marie Prue, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI, United States
 
ED31F-3478
Analysis of Atmospheric Delays and Asymmetric Positioning Errors in GPS (22667)
Kathryn Materna, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States and Thomas Herring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
ED31F-3479
A Sedimentological Multi-Proxy Study of Late Holocene Climate Change in Southern Patagonia (13683)
Emma Carolina Hutchinson, Sverre L Leroy and Robert B Dunbar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
ED31F-3480
Establishment of a Riparian Buffer Strip for Alleviating Lake Eutrophication in Eastern China (30439)
Michael Kennedy, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States, Kozma Naka, Alabama A & M University, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Normal, AL, United States and Yongbo Wu, Nanjing Forestry University, Forest Resources and Environment, Nanjing, China
 
ED31F-3481
Elucidating the effects of dam restoration on hydrologic patterns in streams and tributaries (19405)
Molly R Cain, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Tess A Russo, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Andrew L Neal, University of Arizona, State College, PA, United States
 
ED31F-3482
THE ROLE OF STRUCTURE AND STRATIGRAPHY ON GROUNDWATER/SURFACE-WATER INTERACTIONS IN A GAINING REACH OF THE EL RITO WATERSHED (30148)
Noah Sebastian Stewart-Maddox1, Amber Degon2, Elizabeth Tysor1, Jake Swanson2, Jordan Howard2, Marty D Frisbee3, John L Wilson4 and Brent D Newman5, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Georgia Southern University, Geology and Geography, Statesboro, GA, United States, (3)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, United States
 
ED31F-3483
Testing a community water supply well located near a stream for susceptibility to stream contamination and low-flows. (30317)
Elizabeth H Tysor1, Jake Swanson2, Noah Sebastian Stewart-Maddox3, Amber Degon2, Jordan Howard2, Lani Tsinnajinnie1, Marty D Frisbee4,5, John L Wilson6 and Brent D Newman7, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Georgia Southern University, Geology and Geography, Statesboro, GA, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (6)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, United States
 
ED31F-3484
Subsurface Structure of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: An Application of Geophysics (27878)
Gerardo Vallejo1, Brynn Loryn Galindo1, Valerie Carranza2, Carlos Gomez3, Kameron Ortiz4, Joel G Castro4, Christian Falzone5, Jonathan Alexander Guandique5, Erica Emry6, Susan Jane Webb7 and Andrew Nyblade8, (1)California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, United States, (2)Los Angeles Valley College, North Hollywood, CA, United States, (3)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (4)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (5)Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (7)University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, (8)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
ED31F-3485
Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Upper Ocean in the Drake Passage (31812)
Matthew Hurley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States and Matthew R Mazloff, SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
ED31F-3486
Revisiting Antarctic Circumpolar Current Transport Estimates (23079)
Lauren Ann Sommers, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, Kathleen A Donohue, Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, United States and Kellen Rosburg, Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
ED31F-3487
Assessing ocean vertical mixing schemes for the study of climate change (19558)
Armando McNeil Howard1,2, Fari Lindo1, Jovian Fells3, Vijay Tulsee1, Ye Cheng4 and Vittorio Canuto4, (1)Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Turbulence Group, New York, NY, United States, (3)Medgar Evers College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
 
ED31F-3488
CHANGES IN THE ISOTOPIC VALUE OF SEDIMENTARY NITROGEN AT CALIFORNIA MARGIN SITE 1010: A RECORD OF DENITRIFICATION CHANGES OVER THE LAST FIVE MILLION YEARS (30506)
Jessica Pu-Yu Jin, Fabian C Batista and Ana Christina Ravelo, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
ED31F-3489
Toward Radiocarbon Measurement of Individual Amino Acids in Marine Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM): Δ14C Blank Quantification for an HPLC Purification Method. (30509)
Amy Lynn Bour, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Taylor Broek, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences Department, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Brett D Walker, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States and Matthew D McCarthy, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
 
ED31F-3490
Determining the Location and Magnitude of Basin and Range and Laramide Faulting, Southern Nevada (17053)
Chelsea Elizabeth Brundrett1, Melissa A Lamb1 and Sue Beard2, (1)University of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN, United States, (2)USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
ED31F-3491
Variable Water Concentrations in the Asthenospheric and Lithospheric Mantle Underneath the Eastern United States (16577)
Brendan Soles1, Greg W Brennan1, Elizabeth A Johnson2, Sarah E Mazza3 and Esteban Gazel4, (1)James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, (2)James Madison University, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, (3)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
 
ED31F-3492
Microlite Characterization of Basaltic Pumice from Two Plinian Eruptions of Chikurachki Volcano (24044)
Amalys Pena, Chance Dylan Jones, Tammy Danner, Elizabeth N Orange and Lindsay Ann Szramek, Austin Peay State University, Department of Geosciences, Indian Mound, TN, United States
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