The Rubenstein School's 32nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium took place on Friday, October 9, 2015. This year's Symposium, once again coordinated by Carolyn Goodwin Kueffner, Graduate Program Student Services Specialist, featured the research of ten of our second-year Master’s students in oral presentations.
New this year, nine PhD candidates presented their research in an all-day poster session attended by members of the Rubenstein School Board of Advisors.
A special thanks to graduate students Ariana Cano for moderating the oral presentation session, Emma Sass for providing technical assistance, and Shelby Perry and Sam Talbot for photographing the event.
The Symposium concluded with the traditional community reception.
Oral Presentations
Alison Adams Thirty Years of Forest Conversion in the Northeast: Historical Patterns, Carbon Storage Impacts and Future Projections
Hana Aronowitz Investigating Cryptic Speciation among Allopatric Populations of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)
Marcella Dent The Facilitative Role of Government and Science Communication in a Collaborative Conservation Network
Nathan Fry The Ala Archa Ecological Leadership Project: Evaluating the Efficacy of Outdoor Education in Operationalizing Ecology and Conservation in the Kyrgyz Republic
Aviva Gottesman Regeneration Responses to Management for Old-Growth Characteristics in Northern Hardwood-Conifer Forests
Jessica Griffen Connecting Guests to the Landscape at Kripalu: Ecological Inventory, Interpretation and Education
Choki Gyeltshen Fire Risks in Bhutan's Blue Pine Forests: Anticipating and Adapting to Climate Change
Carrie Kozel Can Early Feeding in Lake Trout Fry Ameliorate Thiamine Deficiency?
Alexandra Millar The Functionality of Metaphor Use in Motivating Behavioral Responses
Sam Talbot Wildlife Habitat Linkages Surrounding Lake George and Southern Lake Champlain
Poster Presentations
Cathleen Balantic Machine Learning Methods for Acoustic Monitoring and Wildlife Occupancy Modeling
Lindsay Barbieri Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Vermont: Assessing the Impacts of Field Management Strategies and Environmental Conditions
David Gudex-Cross A Novel Approach to Mapping Forest Cover: Coupling Spectral Unmixing and Object-based Classification of Multitemporal Landsat TM Imagery across the Northern Forest
Alexandra Kosiba Comparative Growth of Five Northern Hardwood and Montane Tree Species Reveal Differing Trends and Responses to Weather and Deposition
Brian O’Malley Reconsidering Assumptions about Diel Vertical Migration Using an Omnivorous Macroinvertebrate
Sarah Pears Forest Regeneration and Biodiversity Following Wind Disturbance and Salvage Harvest in Northern Mixed Deciduous Forests
Elizabeth E. Perry Cityscape Connections: Assessing the Relationships among Urban Populations and National Park Service Parks, Partnerships, and Programs
Eduardo Rodriguez A Socio-Ecological Analysis of Salvage Logging in Vermont: Landowner Motivations, Forest Succession Modeling, and Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs
Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez Understanding Sediment Sourcing and Erosion Controls from 10Be Measurements in Fluvial Sediments from Yunnan, China