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| 8:50 AM |
Introductory remarks |
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| 9:00 AM |
Marshall Moore, Brown University – Reconstructing Variability in Biogeochemical Cycling and Microbial Community Structure from Sediment Cores in Siders, Oyster and Salt Ponds in Falmouth, MA. |
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| 9:15 AM |
MaryAnn Tekverk, Haverford College – Biogeochemistry of Groundwater at the Seepage Face down-gradient from NITREXTM Permeable Reactive Barriers in Waquoit Bay, MA. |
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| 9:30 AM |
Kenly Hiller, Connecticut College – Effects of Anoxic Groundwater from a NITREXTM Permeable Reactive Barrier on Benthic Flora and Fauna at the Seepage Face in Waquoit Bay, MA. |
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| 9:45 AM |
Chelsea Baldino, Northwestern University – Copper, Chromium and Arsenic in the Marine Environment: Are They Biologically Available and Do They Bioaccumulate? |
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| 10:00 AM |
Monica Stegman, Haverford College – Effect of Different Anti-Fouling Paints on the Structure and Function of Fouling Communities. |
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| 10:15 AM |
Coffee Break
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| 10:45 AM |
Sarah Shay, Lawrence University – Changes in Ericoid Mycorrhizal Communities in a Chronosequence of Managed and Abandoned Cranberry Bogs. |
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| 11:00 AM |
Carolyn Harris, Bates College – How Ecological Restoration Affects Food Webs and Animal Communities in Cranberry Bogs on Cape Cod. |
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| 11:15 AM |
Nathan Setter, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry – Non-lethal, Indirect Chemical, Trophic and Behavioral Effects of Mummichogs Predators on Grass Shrimp. |
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| 11:30 AM |
Elizabeth Gomez, Brown University – Effects of an errant burrowing polychaete, Nereis, and Nutrient Enrichment on Benthic Respiration and Biogeochemical Fluxes from Marine Sediments. |
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| 11:45 AM |
Pam Moriarty, Kenyon College – Biodiversity, Nutrient Enrichment and Ecosystem Funtion: The Effect of Melampus bidentata, Orchestia grillus and Philoscia Vittata Detritivores on Litter Decomposition in Salt Marshes. |
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| 12:00 Noon |
Luncheon
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| 1:30 PM |
Haruka Fujimaki, Mt. Holyoke College – Phenology Effects of Different Temperature Regimes on Carbon Storage in Same-Species Oak Trees on Martha’s Vineyard, MA. |
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| 1:45 PM |
Ayala Ben-Chaim, Mt. Holyoke College – Consequences of Nitrogen Fertilization on Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from Phragmites australis in a temperate Forest and Wetland. |
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| 2:00 PM |
Amy Cantor, Colby College – The Legacy Effect of Wastewater Irrigation in a Terrestrial Ecosystem: How Nitrogen and Water Additions Change Microbial Processes and Tree Structure. |
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| 2:15 PM |
Christine Kobyljanec, Mt. Holyoke College – Can Microbial Fuel Cells Indicate Differences in Soil Degradability Among Heated, Tilled and Organically enriched Soils. |
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Masaru Nobu, Carleton College – Temperature Mediated Changes in Soil Microbial Ecology and Fungal Exoenzymatic Decomposition of Recalcitrant Soil Organic Matter in Soils from Heated Plots at the Harvard Forest LTER. |
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| 2:45 PM |
Lauren Shoemaker, Colorado College – Do Plant Communities Maximize Photosynthesis by Optimizing Nitrogen Distribution through the Plant Canopy? |
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| 3:00 PM |
Ken Foreman, SES Program Director - Semester Retrospective |
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There will be a refreshments and a celebratory
awards ceremony after the symposium.
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