You are
cordially invited to attend the
2012 Senior Thesis Poster Session
Thursday, April 19, 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 4:30-5:00 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 titles1
- Vandersall, Abbey:
The Effect of Weight Loss and Gain on the Mode of Delivery of
Labeled Xenobiotics to Tissues
- Wilson,
Britney: Exploring the Causes of Asthma: The
Effects of Obesity on Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Mice Models
- Ndikumana,
Eric: Correlation Between Urinary Arsenic
Reduction and Socioeconomics in Bangladesh Communities
- Stanimirova, Radost:
Organic Carbon Transport through Holocene and Pleistocene Sediment in
Southeast Asia: Implications for Arsenic Mobilization
- Lyon,
Sarah: Natural Organic Carbon Drives Microbial
Reduction and Subsequent
Arsenic Release into Groundwater in Shahrasti,
Bangladesh
- Eddy,
Celia: Surface Wave Amplitude Anomalies in the
Western United States
- Wessbecher,
Andrew C.: Faulting of the Downgoing Oceanic Plate
in the Alaska Subduction Zone
- Tremblay,
Marissa: Late Miocene Tilting of the Resting
Spring Range, California, with Implications for Models of
Crustal Extension
- Garvin,
Samantha: An Examination of Habitat Quality in
Urban Parks: Cavity Nester Abundance and Relationship to Tree
Regeneration Rates in the Bronx Zoo
- Pilowsky,
Julia: Comparing Male and Female Song in a
Cooperatively Breeding Starling
- Villalba,
Martha: Assessing Populations of Painted
Turtles (Chrysemyspicta)
in Ponds at Black Rock Forest
- Bailey,
Nathan: Intratree Vertical Variation in Fruit
Density and Intragroup Contest Competition in Blue Monkeys
- Pollack,
Lea: Kin Biased Dispersal and the Formation
of Kin Substructure in the Cooperatively Breeding Bird, Lamprotornissuperbus
- Dean,
Caitlin: Relationship Between Acacia Ant
Aggressiveness and Superb Starling (Lamprotornissuperbus)
Nest Site Choice
- Schwartz,
Allie: Carbon Accumulation Rates in Alaskan
Arctic and Sub-Arctic Peatlands
- Pendergast,
Greg: Temperature Response of Leaf
Respiration Influenced by Emerging Canopy Dynamics in Arctic
Shrub Species
- D’Angelo,
Heather: What Impact Does Oil Palm Agriculture
Have on Soil Microbial Communities?
- Yang,
Nina: Analysis of Microbial Function in Soils
from Rainforests and Oil Palm Plantations in Pasoh, Malaysia
- Hyson,
Sophie: Effects of Green Roof Age and Design on
Plant and Invertebrate Communities
- Rohrer,
Rebecca: Plant Colonization Ecology on New York
City Green Roofs
- Anderman,
Tal Lee: Assessing Tradeoffs for Human Wellbeing
and Agro-Diversity of Smallholder Cash Crop Production
- Sorensen,
Emily: From the Field to the Community:
Estimating Nitrogen Gas Emission from Fertilizer Use on a
Village Scale
- Hollarsmith,
Jordan: Recruitment Success of Staghorn Coral (Acroporacervicornis)
in Reef Restoration
- Resetarits,
Emlyn: Toxic Pseudo-Nitzschia species on
Georges Bank
- Henry,
Candise: An Assessment of the Transuranic
Releases from Fukushima Dai-ichi into the Marine Environment
- Phan,
Susan: Impact of Natural Oil Seeps on
Phytoplankton in the Gulf of Mexico
- Nelson,
Todd: Establishing a Platinum Group Element
(PGE) Method of Sediment Chronology to Trace New York Harbor’s
Industrial Past: 1910-1982
- Jurburg,
Stephanie: Decomposition of a Bioplastic by Common
Fungal Enzymes
- Timberlake,
Thomas: Water and War: A Geospatial Exploration
of Point Source Water Access in Conflict and Post-conflict
Liberia
- Hristidis,
Vasilis: Analyzing the Stock Price Impact of
Corporate Sustainability
- Simone,
Emily: The Impact of Ecosystem Service
Dependence on Equity Market Valuations
- Stahmer,
Erin: The Impact of Hurricane Irene:
Analyzing the Social and Capital Asset Vulnerability of the
Northeast United States Through the Creation and Testing of
Flood Vulnerability Indices
- Solomon,
David: Refinement of a Support Vector Machine
Regression Model for Forecasting Commercial Building Energy
Loads: A Use-Phase Approach to Building Energy Efficiency
- Stimola,
Maureen: A Comparison of Heat and Cold Tolerance
Among Closely Related Anolis
lizards From Different Thermal Environments
- Griswold,
Bailey: Development of Gas Chromatograph
Analysis of SF5CF3 and SF6 and Carbon Sequestration
in Iceland
- Salcedo-Watson,Camille:
Effects of the Invasive Fungus Amanita
muscaria on the Native Ectomycorrhizal Diversity
of Mountain Beech Roots
- Macias,
Miguel: Thermal Sensitivity of the
Photosynthetic Apparatus of QuercusRuba
Along a Rural to Urban Transect
The poster
session is being hosted by:
Environmental Science,
Barnard College,
Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Columbia
University,
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B),
Columbia University,
The Earth Institute at Columbia University