U21B:
Student Engagement to Enhance Development eLightning Session I

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Session ID#: 29925

Session Description:
Each year, AGU Sections and Focus Groups recognize the top 3-5% of student presenters through the Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA). This session brings together the 2016 awardees for a series of lightning talks on their research. Invited presenters will provide high level research talks that convey their objective, methods, and results in a manner understandable by the general AGU audience. An increasingly necessary skill in science is communication with broad audiences. This session showcases effective communication from emerging scientists on research topics from a wide array of content areas.
Primary Convener:  Kelly Klima, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States
Convener:  Leslie Marasco, American Geophysical Union, Talent Pool, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Kelly Klima, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States and Leslie Marasco, American Geophysical Union, Talent Pool, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Leslie Marasco, American Geophysical Union, Talent Pool, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Importance of Anthropogenic Aerosols for Climate Prediction: a Study on East Asian Sulfate Aerosols (Invited) (220302)
Rachel Elizabeth Bartlett, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM and Massimo A Bollasina, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Atmospheric Rivers across Multi-scales of the Hydrologic cycle (Invited) (232188)
Huancui Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Commonalities and Differences in Flood-Generating Processes across the US (Invited) (276998)
Xiuyuan Li and Tara J. Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Hydropower in the Southeast: Balancing Lakeview and Production Optimization (Invited) (270419)
Johanna Engstrom, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States; University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Physical responses of volcanic soils to land-use intensity in tropical headwater catchments of central Veracruz, Mexico (Invited) (276601)
Nathaniel Thomas Looker1, Randy Kolka2, Heidi Asbjornsen3, Lyssette Munoz-Villers4, Perla Ortiz Colin5, León Rodrigo Gómez Aguilar5 and Aspen Brook Ward6, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (2)U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Mexico City, Mexico, (5)Instituto de Ecologia, Ecologia Funcional, Xalapa, Mexico, (6)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, MN, United States
Transitioning Groundwater from an Extractive Resource to a Managed Water Storage Resource: Geology and Recharge in Sedimentary Basins (Invited) (225491)
Stephen Maples, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Graham E Fogg, Univ California Davis, Davis, United States, Reed M Maxwell, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Yunjie Liu, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Identifying ecological “sweet spots” underlying cyanobacteria functional group dynamics from long-term observations using a statistical machine learning approach (Invited) (232140)
Natalie Nelson, North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, Prof. Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Ph.D., University of Florida (Visiting Professor at Public University of Navarra, Spain), Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States and Edward J Phlips, University of Florida, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, United States
Using StorAge Selection Functions to Improve Simulation of Groundwater Nitrate Lag Times in the SWAT Modeling Framework. (Invited) (299938)
Daniel C Wilusz1, Daniel R Fuka2, Christina Cho3, William P Ball4,5, Zach M Easton2 and Ciaran J Harman6, (1)Dewberry, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Balitmore, MD, United States, (4)Chesapeake Research Consortium, Edgewater, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Geography and Environmental Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Further Interpretation of the Relationship between Faunal Community and Seafloor Geology at Southern Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin: Exploring Machine Learning (Invited) (282801)
Katharine Bigham1, Deborah S Kelley2, Aaron Marburg3 and John R Delaney1, (1)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, (2)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Effects of Tropical Islands on the Diurnal Cycle of Convection and its Influence on the MJO Propagation over the Maritime Continent (Invited) (289069)
Ajda Savarin, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Shuyi S Chen, University of Washington, Atmospheric Science, Seattle, WA, United States

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