Poster Information

Poster Session on Wednesday (4/9) at 6:00 pm

Below are the topics that will be presented at this year's symposium during our poster session. Be sure to come out and support these students, see their posters, and listen to them present their work. 

Schools Represented:

• East Tennessee State University (ETSU)
• Tennessee Technological University (TTU)
• University of Memphis (UofM)  
• University of  Tennessee Knoxville (UTK)
•  Vanderbilt University (Vandy)    

UNDERGRADUATE:

• Analysis of Lag Time in Cummins Falls Flash Flooding (Kyle Kigar, TTU)
• Hurricane Helene Post-Disaster Analysis of Tennessee Flooding: Estimating Peak Discharge and Comparison with FEMA Flood Zones (Maggie Uehling, TTU)

GRADUATE:

• Simulation of Cascade Dam Breaches in Scott County, TN using HEC-RAS (Priyanka Bajracharya, TTU)
• Hurricane Floodwater Quality: The Whens, Wheres, and Whys (Sophia Fandino, UTK)
• Spatial and Temporal Water Quality of the Calfkiller River: Effects on Bluemask Darter Reintroduction (Seth Haston, TTU)
• Flood Impacts of Urban Growth: Evaluating Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes Using Random Forest Model in the Tri-Cities, Tennessee (Rezaul Bari Ishan, ETSU)
• Evaluating Flood Hazard and Stormwater Management of an Underserved Community in Tennessee (Jemima Obeng, TTU)
• Hydraulic Performance of Bridge-end Deck Drainage (Serox Sukupayo, UofM)
• Understanding Seasonal and Diel Carbon and Oxygen Dynamics in an Oligotrophic Freshwater Lake (Mahir Tajwar, Vandy)
• Algal community shifts and cyanobacterial blooms in large rivers are more likely to occur at extreme light and temperature conditions (Dalton Tryba, TTU)
• Electrochemical Decontamination in Petroleum Produced Water with High Hardness/Salinity (Chenyang Wang, UTK)
• Delineation and validation of site-specific irrigation management zones using highly correlated variables in soybean cultivation (Shuhua Xie, UTK)

DOCTORAL STUDENTS / CANDIDATES:

• Response of Corbicula fluminea Microbiomes to Cyanotoxin Exposure (Champagne Cunningham, UofM)
• Machine Learning-Based Identification of Crop Types in West Tennessee Using Satellite Data (Mbood Farhadi Machekposhti, UTK)
• Mapping Watershed Pollution Environmental Justice Scenarios Using 303d list (Justin Medley, TTU)
• Optimizing the Minimum Operating Level in Large Storage Reservoirs: Case Study of Mugu Karnali Storage Hydroelectric Project in Nepal (Khem Raj Regmi, UofM)
• Development of Low-Cost Systems for Measuring the Selected Hydrologic Parameters (Voguri Swathi, UTK)
• Refining the Firmicutes-to-Bacteroidetes Ratio as a Stability Indicator in Anaerobic Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes (Xinghan Zhao, UTK)

Presenters, please be sure to attend the Poster Session on Wednesday at 6:00 pm! 

Awards will be presented on Thursday Night at the business meeting.  

INFORMATION FOR POSTER PRESENTERS

Poster presentations are an opportunity for students, from high school to doctoral candidates, to get involved and show some of the work that they have been doing.

DETAILS FOR PRESENTERS: 

· The selection of poster presentations will be based on the quality and content of the abstracts submitted

· Poster must include an abstract and should be no larger than 30"x40"

· Poster boards and easels will be provided at the registration desk and must be returned after the session

· Presenters must be present during the poster session on April 9th from 6:00-8:00 pm and be prepared to give a brief synopsis to the poster judges

JUDGING: Posters will be judged by 3 to 5 professionals from various backgrounds. They are given scores for each of the following categories: Abstract, presentation of the material, the technical content of the poster, topic originality, and format/style.

AWARDS  Awards and certificates are given to the best student posters in these categories: High School, Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctoral Candidates.  Symposium attendees will also vote for a “People’s Choice Poster Award”.  Awards will be presented at the Tennessee Section Annual Business Meeting  Thursday evening.

NOTE: If you are not affiliated with a university or a student poster presenter and would like to be a judge, please send an email to Andrea Ludwig or  Daniel Saint.