You are cordially
invited to attend the
2010 Senior Thesis Poster Session
Thursday, April 22, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
in the lower level Event Oval (LL100), Diana Center, Barnard College
Walk through the gate at Broadway
& 117th St and walk toward the new orange building on
your right. After entering the building, take the stairs one flight down
(see Barnard
Campus map).
One
minute
presentations
from
4:30-5:10
pm
will
be
followed
by
poster
presentations
and
a
reception
until 6:30 pm.
If you have any
questions,
please contact Catherine at ccook@barnard.edu (212 854 5618).
Presenters
&
Poster
titles
- Sara del Fierro: The influence of
drag transect arrangements for Ixodes
scapularis ticks on infection
prevalence estimates of Lyme disease
- Yoanna Pumpalova:
Drug-resistance in P. falciparum:
From
proteins
to policy
- Kara Fields: Possible gender
discrepancy in radiation cataract susceptibility
- Tara McAlexander:
Influence of urban street noise on neighborhood crime: a pilot study
- Emily Blanchard: Asthma
in East Harlem: A study of environmental control practices
- Anna Law: Rising concerns
over impact of fine particulate matter pollution on mortality in
Nairobi, Kenya
- Tomás Díaz:
Source-tracking fecal contamination of pond and shallow well water in
Matlab, Bangladesh using F+RNA coliphages
- Talia Arbit: Testing for
Bacteriophages in surface and ground water in Bara Haldia, Bangadesh
- Kimberly Wu: Developing a filtering
method for radioactive carbon analysis of microbial DNA and
PLFA in Bangladesh groundwater
- Misheal Artani:
Development of a field kit to measure urinary arsenic and potential
socio-cultural factors affecting use of the kit in Bangladesh
- Kamini Doobay: The use of oxalic
acid to mobilize arsenic from contaminated aquifer solids from
Vineland, New Jersey
- Sara Goshorn: The Gulf
of
Carpentaria impact: A possible cause for the 536 AD climate downturn
- Holly Menten-Weil: 137Cs
dating
of Tien Shan ice cores, Central Asia
- Elena Steponaitis:
Refining deglacial chronology in the Great Basin:
14
C
dating
and
stable
isotope
analyses
of
ostracodes
from
the
Wilson Creek formation,
Mono Lake, California
- Cleo Chou: Macrofossil
evidence for middle to late Holocene vegetation shifts at Iona Island
Marsh, Hudson Valley, NY
- Irena Ossola: Modeling
the effects of precipitation on microbial activity in the active layer
of permafrost
- Darren McKee: Climate forcing of
interannual variability in Weddell Sea bottom water
- Susan Clark: Hydrographic evidence
for enhanced mixing in fracture zone canyons
- Drew Abeyta:
Analysis of climatological and hydrological variables in the assessment
of historical and future drought in Rockland County, New York
- Sarah Schuldenfrei: Age and
chemical composition of the cretaceous wells of the Negev Region, and
management options for Sinai and the Negev
- Alexandra Murata: Sulfur
hexafluoride and sodium fluorescein as tracers to characterize flow
and
transport through a basaltic aquifer in Iceland targeted for CO2
sequestration
- Megan McNally: Evaluating
the heating efficiency and cost effectiveness of installing an open
hydronic heating system with concrete radiators
- David Roche: Mitigating
the urban heat island in a metropolitan area through public
infrastructure reform
- Acadia Roher: Survey,
mapping, and recommendations for site management of the Williams Woods
Nature Preserve in the Arkansas Ozarks
- Maxine Paul: Quantifying
biome specific relationships of vegetation indices and monsoon event
responses
- Jennifer Blaha:
Influences of environmental enrichment on behavior of captive African
Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) at
the Bronx Zoo
- Laura Diefenbach: The influence of
natural events and hunting on a small White-tail Deer population
- Skyler
Shatkin: Assessing
the relationship among food availability, personality, and metabolic
rate in the Kluane Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus
hudsonicus)
- Eiren
Jacobson: Irregular
song sharing between humpback whales of Madagascar and Gabon: Variable
demographic exchange between populations in the southern hemisphere
- Courtney Douds: Using American
Kestrel behavior and nest box orientation and support structure to
predict nest box success
- Kaitlyn Gaynor:
Anti-predator and social monitoring functions of vigilance behavior in
Blue Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis)
- Amanda Schweitzer: The effect of
temperature on the development of a critically endangered neotropical
frog, Hyloxalus vertebralis
- George Baison: The role
of ecological characteristics in soil-transmitted helminth (STH)
prevalence
- Noé Kinet:
Analyzing ways of species classification for the coral symbionts
Symbiodinium using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and
molecular phylogeny from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA
sequences
- Aimee Kemp: The effects
of the invasive shrub Berberis
thunbergii on salamander populations and
leaf litter communities in northeastern deciduous forests
- Laura Seidman: Monitoring biomass in
the Tanzanian Miombo Woodlands using satellite imagery
- Samantha Roberts: Root trait
variation among species in basal angiosperm and seed plant clades
- Jessica S. Guo:
Functional acclimation of the herbaceous understory community to canopy
gaps: patterns of co-gradient variation
- Tiffany Sanchez: Toenail samples as
an Indicator of drinking water manganese exposure in
Bangladeshi children
- Samuel
Thomas:
Diurnal
changes in light-use characteristics reveal adequate photoprotection of
sun leaves of red mangrove
- Heather
Greaves: The role
of leaf carbon exchange in Arctic shrub expansion
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The poster
session is being hosted by:
Environmental
Science,
Barnard
College,
Earth and Environmental Science (DEES), Columbia
University,
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B),
Columbia University,
The Earth Institute at Columbia University,
and the Office of the Provost, Barnard College.