You are
cordially invited to attend the
2016 Senior Thesis Poster
Session
Thursday, April 21, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
lower level Event Oval (LL100), Diana Center, Barnard
College
30 seconds summaries from
4:30-5:00 pm will be followed by poster presentations and a
reception until 6:30 pm.
Enter Barnard 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).
The poster
session is being hosted by:
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Environmental Science, Barnard College
Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Columbia
University
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B),
Columbia University
Columbia Program in Sustainable Development
Presenters
& Poster titles
- Bartnick, Emma: Biomass of Black Birch Trees in Black
Rock Forest, Cornwall, New York
- Sonaike, Adefunke: Differences in Leaf Pigments,
Nutrients, and Physiology Among Five Species of Deciduous Trees
throughout the Growing Season
- Wasmuth, Marissa: Effects of Different Road Types on
Breeding Bird Populations in a Northeastern Deciduous Forest
- Minich, Taylor: Recognition of Paternal Kin Selection
in Blue Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis)
- West, Leigh: Baboon Response to Leopard Predation
Threat
- Bao, Karen: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Shifting
Baselines, and Conservation of Fijian Mollusks
- Zahn, Marie: “Everything we do, it’s cedar”: First
Nation and Ecosystem-Based Foresters’ Relationships and
Practices with Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata) in Coastal
British Columbia
- Burns, Jordan: The Environmental Forms of the Religious
Life | The Religious Forms of the Environmental Life
- Huseby, Alexis: Sustainable Investment: Analyzing
Corporate Actions Versus Words
- Barr, Kathryn: Exploring how New York City Elementary
School Students Think About School Lunch
- Strokopytova, Valentina: The Role of Gender on Nepal's
Natural Disaster Recovery and Preparedness
- Corley, Alison: Characterizing the Lacustrine Sediments
in the Lower Wilson Creek Formation of Mono Basin, CA
- Vasquez, Neida: Comparison of Mono Lake Sediments
Recording the Hilina Pali Excursion
- Goldschmitz, Chason: Reutilization of Microsediment
Samples for Multiple Spectrometer Analyses
- Case, Parker: Water Vapor in Large
Volcanic Eruptions
- Wiles, Zachary: Magma Characteristics of the 1964 and
1991 Eruptions of Westdahl Volcano, Alaska
- Cohen, Hannah Jane: Mapping the Surface Morphology of
Iceland’s Holuhraun Lava Flow Using Structure From Motion
Software and PLY/DEM/Orthomosaic Models
- Corry-Saavedra, Kate: Quantifying Dispersed Tephra in
Marine Sediments: A Pilot Study from IODP Expedition 350
- Park, Jiwoon: Dust Flux in the Subantarctic South
Pacific during the Last Ice Age
- Swann, Jason: Has atmospheric CO2 decreased
over the last eleven million years?
- Farrell, Kayla: Uptake of Inorganic Particulate Iron by
Pennate Diatoms
- Salazar E., Andrés: Spatial Distributions of Trichodesmium
Clades in the South Pacific Ocean
- de Wolff, Daisy: Analysis of Nitrate Concentrations in
Water Using Field Kits and Smartphone Camera Technology
- Gonzalez, Ana Camila: The Role of Organic Phosphorus in
Microbial Phosphorus Cycling
- Lee, JeeMin: Effects of Canine Urine
on Urban Soil Microbial Communities
- Tao, Rachel: Ecosystem Services From New York Green
Roofs: Differences in Water-use Between Plant Species
- Nagy, Claudia: Assessing the Efficacy of New York
City’s Water Protection Program: An Analysis of Perceptions and
Practice
- Boxer, Joelle: Suboptimal Access to Low Arsenic, Deep
Tube Wells in Araihazar, Bangladesh
- Saber, Fadwa: Arsenic Concentration in Cooked and
Uncooked Rice in Araihazar, Bangladesh
- Barsa Barsa : Relationship Between Climate Variability
and Rice Yields in Aerosol affected Central-Eastern India
- Ayoub, Hadil: The Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing on
Groundwater Quality in Pennsylvania and an Evaluation of Methods
- Harrus, Rachel: CO2 Emission Reduction via Carbon
Nanofiber Replacement of Aluminum, Steel, and Cement
- Flusser, Read: Carbon-Neutral Bamboo Biofuel
- Hooks, Allison: Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Hudson River
Marshes
- Jaycox, Adrian: Temperature and Precipitation's Impact
on California Water Resources and Drought
- Todorovic, Miljan Nikola : El Niño, Groundwater and
Agriculture in California 1950 – 2015
- LoPresti, Anna: Spatial Variations in
Evapotranspiration Sensitivity Across the African Continent
- Kim, Grace: Socioeconomic Status as a Determinant of
Child Asthma Health Outcomes in New York City
- Abdel-Qader, Faisal: Assessing the Role of Camel Trade
in the Ecological Transmission of the Middle East Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
- Reddy, Avinash: Co-evolution of Genes Involved in
Erythropoiesis
- Seto, Melissa: Mortality due to High Ozone, PM2.5,
and Temperature Levels During the Summer 2012 Heat Wave Across
the Eastern U.S.
- Cai, Fayme: Areas and Seasons of High Lead Density and
Toxicity in Neighborhoods Across New York City: the Feral Pigeon
as a Bioindicator
- Claman, Maia: The Effect of Wildfires in Determining
Species Persistence in Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Pacific
Northwest
- Harrington, Dev: Leaf Litterfall Effects on Soil
Nutrient Heterogeneity in a Puerto Rican Dry Forest
- Kahn, Daniella: Estimating Tick Survivorship in Two
Contrasting Environments
- Kim, Joohee: Reconstruction of the North Atlantic
end-member of the thermohaline circulation across the
mid-Pleistocene Transition
- McKeon, Mallory: The Implications of Shark Ecotourism
on Fish Abundance and Diversity in Marine Protected Areas in
Fiji
- Shen, Christa: The Potential for Photosynthetic
Optimization in Varying Light Environments in the Arctic Tundra
- Sihn, Hein: The Effects of Nest Density and Behavioral
Interactions on the Nesting Success of the Piping Plovers and
American Oystercatchers
- Snyder, Julia: Faulting Along the Blanco Fracture
Zone: Evidence for Spatially Distributed Slow Slip?
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