GREAT LAKES RESEARCH CONSORTIUM
19th Annual Student Faculty Conference 2009
Schedule

Friday Program
12:00-1:00: Registration
1:00-3:20: Plenary Session: Wind Energy and the Great Lakes Baker 148
Panelists: Bruce Bailey, President of AWS TrueWind
Dereth Glance, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Keith Lott, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife
Ken Visser, Associate Professor at Clarkson University
3:30-3:40: Refreshment Break
3:40-5:20: Concurrent Sessions 1A, 1B
5:30-6:00: Special Sessions
6:00-7:00: Poster Session and Reception
7:00: Banquet and auction

Session 1A, Areas of Concern Research Baker 145
3:40: Introduction to the Areas of Concern Special Session
Michael R. Twiss

4:00: Microbial Source Tracking of Escherichia coli in Lake Erie
Thomas, Marie & Sara Stark; Richard Boheen, Jonathan Sanford and W. Theodore Lee (Faculty Advisor)

4:20: Wild deer as potential vectors of manure pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in the Northern Adirondack Region of New York State
Shaffer, Carrie and Shane Rogers

4:40: Eutrophication and Undesirable Algae in the Massena Area of Concern, St. Lawrence River: A study supporting New York State’s Commitment to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Kring, Stefanie and Michael R. Twiss

5:00: Plankton Health in the Massena Area of Concern, St. Lawrence River
Lockwood , Hilary and Michael R. Twiss

Session 1B, Limnology Baker 146
3:40: Barotrauma may be more common and more dangerous than you originally thought.
Gokey, J.J., Schreer, J.F., and Deghett, V.J

4:00: Genetic Divergence and Longitudinal Variation of Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu)
Populations in Lakes Erie and its Tributaries
Sard ,Nick; Cassidy Hahn, Dr. Timothy Strakosh, Don Einhouse

4:20: Evaluation of the quality of landlocked Atlantic Salmon eggs
Snyder, Blake, Rinchard, J., Accardi, C. and E. Grant

Saturday Program
8:30-9:00: Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:40: Concurrent Sessions 2A, 2B, 2C
10:40-11:00: Break
11:00-12:00: Concurrent Sessions 3A, 3B
12:00: Luncheon and Awards Announcement

Session 2A, Modeling Baker 145
9:00: An Increased Potential For The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (Ldcm) To Contribute To Water Resource Assessment
Gerace, Aaron; John Schott

9:20: Modeling the Response of Hydrology and Water Quality to Climate Change at the Huntington Wildlife Forest (HWF) in the Adirondack Mountains, New York using a Biogeochemical Model (PnETBGC)
Pourmokhtarian , Afshin; Charles T. Driscoll, John L. Campbell

9:40: Relating Small-Footprint Waveform Lidar Data to Plot-level Woody and Herbaceous Biomass for Improved Land Degradation Assessment.
Wu, Jiaying, J.A.N. van Aardt, G.P. Asner, R. Mathieu, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin , D. Knapp, K. Wessels, B.F.N. Erasmus, I. Smit

Session 2B, Limnology Baker 146
9:00: Effects of alewife and round goby on yellow perch reproductive performance
Accardi, Christina; Rinchard J., and Czesny S.

9:20: Distribution, density and potential impacts of freshwater exotic mytilid Limnoperna fortunei
Karatayev, Vadim; Alexander Karatayev, Lyubov Burlakova, and Demetrio Boltovskoy

9:40: Assessing the swimming performance of the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus Pallas 1814) and its implications for upstream migration in tributary streams and rivers
Rupprecht ,Shannon (Dr. Christopher Pennuto)

Session 2C, Engineering Baker 148
9:00: Evaluation of Fresh Water Fouling Films Formed During Germicidal-Ultraviolet Water Purification
Ayling, Katherine; Anne Meyer, Robert Baier

9:20: Feasibility to reuse recycled bedding sand in dairy farm
Zhang, Ying, Advisor: Stefan Grimberg

Session 3A, Chemistry Baker 145
11:00: Application of Continuous Monitoring in the Lake Ontario Nearshore
Nutrient Survey
Pavlac, M.M.; T.T. Smith, S.P. Thomas, and G.L. Boyer

11:20 The fate and persistence of cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial toxins in lake sediment
Zastepa, Arthur and Frances Pick

11:40 Analysis of PCDD/F and WHO Coplanar PCBs in Great Lakes Fish
Valentin, Lori; Alexandra Orchard, Michael Milligan

Session 3B, Limnology Baker 146
11:00 Effects of Experience on Predator Avoidance Behavior of Crayfish
Dong, Nini (Advisor: Christopher Pennuto)
11:20: Temperature and nutrients influence interrannual variability of phytoplankton succession in
Oneida Lake, NY
Andrew Siefert and Edward Mills (advisor)
11:40 Invasive European Frogbit: Its Distribution And Possible Control Stragtegies
Bin Zhu, Meredith E. Eppers, Bryan P. Harris, and Lars G. Rudstam