Vermont EPSCoR Annual State Meeting
March 11th, 2010
Hilton Hotel - Burlington, VT
 
Water Systems and Land Use Interactions

We invite you to join us for the 2010 Vermont National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (VT NSF EPSCoR) Annual Conference. Each year, the VT EPSCoR program hosts a state-wide meeting to highlight our accomplishments. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Stuart Kauffman, one of the world's most eminent scientists - a founder of the field of complex systems science, pioneer of biocomplexity research, and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow as our keynote speaker.
 

The Conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel, on the waterfront, in Burlington, VT

 

• Keynote Speaker:
  • Dr. Stuart Kauffman - Interview
    Presentation title: "Coevolution to the Edge of Chaos"
  
   
  
• NSF Leadership:
• Dr. Henry Blount
• Dr. Thomas Russell
• Dr. Jennifer Schopf

 

• Additional Information:
• Participants
• Conference Agenda
• Registration
• Poster session information
• Lodging information and directions
• Post Conference Survey
• Questions? email epscor@uvm.edu

 

• Presentations:
• Complex Systems Modeling of Lake and Watershed Dynamics
  Mary Watzin, Dean UVM RSENR and CSYS Group Leader
  Maggie Eppstein, CEMS, and CSYS Faculty Member
  Joshua Bongard, CEMS and CSYS Faculty Member

 

• Streams Project
  Liza Ray, Coordinator
  Declan McCabe Faculty Leader Saint Michael's College

 

• Sustainable Energy Economy: Land Use Impacts on the Watershed
  Britt Holmen, Associate Professor, CEE, CEMS
  Judith Van Houten, Vermont EPSCoR Director
  Heather Darby, Extension Assistant Professor
  Giuseppe Petrucci, Associate Professor Chemistry
  Mary Watzin, Dean, RSENR

 

• Private Sector Symposium: Water, Energy and More
  • Working EPSCoR into your R&D Strategy
    Jeffery Sprenger, Microbrightfield, Inc.
  • Evaluation of FTIR Spectroscopy for Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Molecular Characterization
    Ken Puzey, QuantaSpec Inc.
  • Antibodies and Immunoassays to Blue Green Algae
    Bill Church, Green Mountain Antibodies, Inc.

 

• Graduate Student Symposium: Complex Systems Modeling of Lake Champlain and it's Watershed
  • Estimating Total Suspended Sediment Loads from Simple Hydrologic Metrics
    Karim Chachikly
  • Using a Complex Systems Tool to Link Geomorphic and Habitat Assessments in the Lake Champlain Basin
    Bree Mathon
  • Exploring Controls on Cyanotoxin Production in Lake Champlain Using a Complex Systems Tool
    Andrea Pearce
  • Population Dynamics of Toxic Algal Blooms in Lake Champlain
    Ted Hart
  • Geomorphology and Biodiveristy
    Nilanjan Lodh
  • Ensemble Methods for Cyanobacteria Bloom Prediction
    Zhenyu Lu
  • Estimating Sediment and Solute Surface Wash-off in a Small Mixed Land Use Watershed
    Joel Nipper
  • Structure Detection: Finding Hierarchies in Enormous Networks
    Eitan A. Pechenick
  • Multiscale Modeling Investigation of the Interrelationship between Bacterial Growth Attached to Soil Particles and Change in Permeability of Soil
    Ganesh Oka