GSS 2017

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

April 7th, 2017

8:30 am - 4:30 pm - Keynote & oral presentations at the Straughn Center

5:00 - 7:00 pm - Poster session at First Mag

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SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

8:30-9:00 Registration and Snacks

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-10:15 Session 1:

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

5 - 7 pm

Awards ceremony will also occur during this time.

  • Tracey Ritchie. “Increasing Teacher Self-Efficacy in Systems Thinking Through Professional Development.” (Advisor: Dr. Martha Monroe)
  • Cassandra Ward. “Understanding Visitors’ Attitudes and Preferences to Better Integrate Recreation into Wildland-urban Interface Conservation Areas.” (Advisor: Dr. Taylor Stein)
  • Le’a Dawes-Vaeth. “Analyzing Public Participation in Tree Giveaways: Urban Forestry Planning and Policy with a Special Emphasis on Environmental Justice.” (Advisor: Dr. Alison Adams)

10:15-10:30 Break 1

10:30-11:30 Session 2:

  • Beatriz Lopez Gutierrez. “Effects of land cover and use on water quality in the Osa Peninsula and the Golfito region, Costa Rica.”
  • Paul Decker. “Catchment Hydrology and Solute Export Response in a Low-Relief Landscape.”
  • YinTse Huang. “Survey of Geosmithia Species in the Southeast United States.”

11:30-11:45 Break 2

11:45-12:30 Keynote Speakers: Dr. Eben Broadbent & Dr. Jason Vogel

12:30-1:45 Lunch

1:45-2:45 Session 3:

  • Anne Saville. “Seeking Justice: Environmental Justice, Lupus, and Lake Apopka.” (Advisor: Dr. Alison Adams)
  • David Hanson. “Exploring the Drivers of Remittance payments amongst Caribbean-origin College students and Recent alumni.” (Advisor: Dr. Alison Adams)
  • Ramesh Paudyal. “Role of activity of participation, knowledge, and ecological information on recreationists’ perceptions of prescribed burning and visit satisfaction.” (Advisor: Dr. Taylor Stein)

2:45-3:00 Break 3

3:00-4:00 Session 4:

  • Sarah Graves. “Testing the relationship between canopy reflectance and tree growth for canopy trees in North Central Florida.”
  • Hermudananto. “Analysis of Corrective Action Requests from Forest Stewardship Council Audits of Natural Forest Management in Indonesia.”
  • Paulo Moreno and Sebastian Palmas. “Compatible Individual and Stand Growth Modeling on Nothofagus Forests in Southern Chile.”

4:00-4:15 Closing Remarks

UPDATES

April 5th, 2017

Program published

March 25th, 2017

Call for GSS volunteers (sign up here)

March 16th, 2017

Call for Faculty of the Year nominations - due March 23rd!

Update poster session time

March 13th

Abstract deadline extended to March 20th

Feb 27th

First call for abstracts

Registration open (register here)