ED14A:
ASLO Multicultural Program Student Symposium for Undergraduate and Beginning Graduate Students IV Posters


Session ID#: 7367

Session Description:
This session is sponsored by the ASLO Multicultural Program. It provides undergraduate and beginning graduate students an opportunity to present their work in an oral session with a friendly and supportive audience. Any student attending the conference who has not before presented in the student symposium or in a regular oral session may submit their abstract for this session. Thus the session is open to all students that meet this criterion, regardless of their affiliation with the Multicultural Program. We look forward to a diverse mix of students from all backgrounds and interests.
Primary Chair:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Chairs:  Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Moderators:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Detection and characterization of submesoscale eddies off the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico (93944)
Luis Pomales, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Julio M Morell, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System, Mayaguez, PR, United States
 
Using color as a proxy for symbiont density to assess health in the facultatively symbiotic northern coral, Astrangia poculata (93945)
Rody Seballos, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, United States; University of Massachusetts Boston, School For The Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Elizabeth M Burmester, Boston University, Department of Biology and Marine Biology Program, Boston, MA, United States; New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, United States and Randi Rotjan, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States; University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
 
Nitrogen fixation rates associated with the invasive macroalgae Sargassum horneri around Catalina Island, CA (93946)
Amanda DeLiberto, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, United States
 
The Preferred Habitat of Dichocoenia stokesi (93947)
Matz Indergard, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, United States and Kristi Foster, Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands
 
Does the globally invasive marine angiosperm, Halophila stipulacea, have high genetic diversity or unique mutations? (93941)
Kelcie Chiquillo1, Lucia Campese1, Paul H Barber2 and Demian Willette3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Loyola Marymount University, Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Numerical modeling of the hydrodynamics of the Northeastern Corridor Reserve in Puerto Rico (93938)
Gabriela Salgado-Domínguez, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus, Civil Engineering, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Miguel Canals, UPRM Center for Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Mayaguez, PR, United States
 
Ocean Acidification Differentially Affects the Photosynthesis of Key New England Macrophytes (88370)
Evangeline Fachon1,2, Jeremiah Marley Ets-Hokin2, Emily M Donham2 and Nichole Price2, (1)Northeastern University, College of Science, Biology Department, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
 
Tank cultivation of the red algae Palmaria mollis: Effects of nutrients on growth rate, biochemical quality, and epiphytic growth (94602)
David Ben, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Christopher J Langdon, Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Newport, OR, United States
 
Heterologous Expression of Gene of Interest Using the Marine Protozoan Perkinsus marinus (90564)
Emma Rose Cold, Utah Valley University, Biotechnology, Ore,, UT, United States; Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Intern, Boothbay, ME, United States
 
Data Mining to Chart the Arctic: Analysis of Approaches to Incorporate Outside Source Data into NOAA Office of Coast Survey Workflow (87173)
Valerie Rennoll, American University, DC, United States
 
Adult Uca spp. (fiddler crab) Chemical Cue Presence and Effect on Molting Rate of Uca spp. Megalopae into Juveniles (92605)
Emily Waddell, Gettysburg College, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, PA, United States
 
Models for U.S Fish Stock Assessment (93095)
Kenya Bynes, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
 
In situ Oceanographic LiDAR as a Tool for Retrieving and Characterizing Particle Distributions in the Ocean (91256)
Adrien Flouros, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Richard Carl Zimmerman, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheic Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, Brian Collister, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth, & Atmospheic Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States and Victoria J Hill, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
 
A Comparison of Growth and Survival of Aquacultured Juvenile Florida Pompano fed Fishmeal and Plant-Based Diets (90571)
Danielle Budden, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Verification of Band Pair Counts on Vertebral Centra of Atlantic Stingrays (90214)
Amanda Nicole Tumminelli, Old Dominon University