Session Format: Poster presentations

Session Description: 

We welcome all poster abstracts that relate to the Symposium theme.

Posters (Abstracts):

  1. Cecily N. Steppe, Trevor Chun: A preliminary study of the effects of anthropogenic noise and environmental factors on Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau) boat-whistle calls
  2. Jeffrey Cornwell: Nutrient Mitigation Oysters:  Advances and Suggestions for the Future
  3. Katherine H. Philipp, Mara F. Walters, Lauren S. Gregg, Meghan E. Capps, Amanda Chesler-Poole, Jessica M. Small, Bongkeun Song: Investigating microbial drivers of oyster larvae production in a research hatchery
  4. Alexandra Bijak, Mark Brush, Emily Rivest, Christopher Patrick: Clam addition impacts on seagrass sediment carbon content are highly variable across a Ruppia-Zostera mixed meadow
  5. William F. Schroer: Microbial community response and phytoplankton bloom dynamics during disruption of aeration in a eutrophic estuary
  6. Jeffery Jiao, Haoyu Chen: Physiological Plasticity and Halotolerance of Auxenochlorella protothecoides AS-1 Under Varying Trophic Modes and Salinity Stress
  7. Cheyenne Smith, Megan K. Schall, Kristina M. Gutchess, Heather L. Walsh, Geoffrey D. Smith, Timothy A. Wertz, Brandon Keplinger, John Mullican, Justin B. Greer, Tyler Wagner, Stephanie Gordon, Patricia M. Mazik, and Vicki S. Blazer: Bayesian Modeling Translates Fish Health, Contaminant, and Hydrologic Data into Chesapeake Bay Smallmouth Bass Management Insights
  8. Yufeng Jia: An alternative to synthetic fertilizer: Biofertilizer established with microalgae and soil bacteria for environmental sustainability and enhanced plant growth
  9. Abigail Sindelar, Alyssa Bucci, Peter Bernhardt, Margaret Mulholland: Examining Tidal Floodwaters as a Public Health Concern and Source of Nutrient Loading
  10. Henry Kibuye, Tamie Veith, Heather Preisendanz: Influence of Concentrated Flow Pathways on Nutrients and Pesticides Transport in Riparian Buffers
  11. Casey L. S. Hodgkins, Jeremy M. Testa, Allison D. Dreiss, Walter R. Boynton:  Synthesizing the Patapsco River Estuary: From Nutrient Reductions to Wastewater Treatment Failures.
  12. Matt Robinson, Kelly Somers, Water Division, EPA Mid-Atlantic Region: Updates from the Chesapeake Bay Program Plastic Pollution Action Team
  13. Tejaswini Ronur Praful, Meredith Evans Seeley, Margaret Mulholland: Assessing ‘Microplastide’ – Microplastics riding the tide, during King Tide flooding event in Norfolk, Virginia
  14. Kaleea Korunka: A Pilot Investigation of Microplastics and Tire Wear Particles in Virginia’s Elizabeth River
  15. Damien Taylor, Richard Zimmerman, Victoria Hill, Brooke Landry: Investigating the 2023 dieback of SAV in the Gunpowder River, Maryland
  16. Ashley B. Dann: Freshwater Salinization Impacts the Quality and Decomposition of Dissolved Organic Matter in Streams of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
  17. Allison Welch: Growing Chesapeake Bay Tidal Trends with Participatory Science Data
  18. Megan Ladds, Margaret Mulholland: Integration of Imaging FlowCytobot into Chesapeake Bay Program monitoring cruises
  19. Greg Silsbe, Emily Brownlee, Xiaoxu Guo, Catherine Wazniak: Phytoplankton Image Classification: Overview and application to Chesapeake Bay Imaging Flow Cytobot Data
  20. Ollie Gilchrest: Monitoring suspended sediment concentrations in the tidally influenced James River using high-frequency satellite imagery
  21. Marina Metes, Kristina Hopkins, Nathaniel Rosenbloom, Nicholas Santoro: Remote Mapping and Assessment of Stormwater Storage in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
  23. Jessie Turner, Fei Da, Molly Mitchell: Unintended consequences within the trajectory of recovery: Examples from the Chesapeake Bay
  24. Meredith Lemke: Visualizing and Strengthening Networks with Mapping
  25. Matthew Baker: The geomorphic signature of urbanizing landscapes
  26. Leonardo Pecora, Dr. Matthew Baker: Automated extraction of stream geomorphic metrics using digital data in the Gunpowder-Patapsco
  27. Kachapond Chettanawanit, Qubin Qin: Relative Effects of Freshwater Flushing and Wind Forcing on Freshwater Age in a Large Lagoonal Estuary
  28. Jian Shen, Julia A. Teixeira, and Qubin Qin: Development of A Coupled High-Resolution Dynamic and Particle Tracking Model to Assess Cumulative Impacts of Surface Water Intakes on Ichthyoplankton in Virginia Tributaries
  29. Meng Xia, Long Jiang, Haoran Liu, Seyedeh Fardis Pourreza Ahmadi, Yiyang Xu, Bishnupriya Sahoo, Sakib Bin Rafi, Adnan Khairullah, Sreelakshmi Sreenivasan: The Integrated Atmospheric-Physical-biochemical-Groundwater Modeling System for the Chesapeake Bay
  30. Sakib Bin Rafi, Meng Xia: Linking Lagrangian Transport Pathways to Seasonal Environmental Exposure in Chesapeake Bay
  31. Cassia Pianca, Piero Mazzini, David Parrish, Ryan Walter, Erin Shields, Willy Reay and Carl Friedrichs: Marine heatwaves in the York River Estuary: Spatial coherence and thermal exposure across a Chesapeake Bay tributary
  32. Nathan P. Shunk, Piero L. F. Mazzini; Ryan K. Walter; Pierre St-Laurent; Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs: The Importance of Subsurface Temperature Monitoring: Vertical Structure of Marine Heatwaves in Chesapeake Bay
  33. Pierre St-Laurent, J.L. Wilkin, M.A.M. Friedrichs: A data-assimilative model forecast of biogeochemistry for the Mid-Atlantic Bight: Doppio-BGC
  34. Zhengui Wang, Yinglong J. Zhang, Jian Shen: Development of Machine Learning based inundation model in Chesapeake Bay
  35. Kelly O. Maloney, Benjamin P. Gressler, Lindsey J. Boyle, Alexander H. Kiser: Long-term predictive modeling of stream biological condition indicates wide-spread changes within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, U.S.A.
  36. Leonardo Bruni, William Nardin, Giulia Franchi, Matthew Houser: Eco-Morphodynamic Response and Sediment Budget Analysis of Coastal Maryland: A 50-Year Numerical Simulation of Marsh Migration and Cropland Inundation
  37. Evelyn Page, Tejaswini Ronur Praful, Peter Bernhardt, Margaret Mulholland: Investigation of Nutrient Release under Turbulent Shear – Driven Sediment Resuspension Processes
  38. Maryam Rishehri: Comparative Analysis of Simulated Subsurface Flow Paths and Residence Time Patterns in Urban Piedmont Watersheds
  39. Mary McWilliams: Assessment of stream chemistry of storms from newly deployed high-frequency sensors at Baltimore Ecosystem Study field sites
  40. Trevor Bateman, Dr. Jeffrey White, Dr. Stuart Brorson, and Dr. François Tur: Low-cost turbidity sensor prototype demonstration.