Session Overview

Join us for an engaging poster session showcasing innovative research across marine and environmental sciences. Our presenters will share their groundbreaking work through visual presentations, fostering direct interaction and in-depth discussions with attendees.

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Session Presenters

1. D'Karia Bascom: Habitat Structural Complexity Influences Anti-predatory Behavior of the Herbivorous Reef Fish, Acanthurus nigrofuscus

2. Natalia Santos Silva: Today There Is A Party And Lots Of People in the Hall: Epitoquia de Laeonereis cf. acuta in the Rio Pardo estuary

3. Aline Silva: What Is The Effect Of Nutrient Enrichment Associated With Increased Temperature On Siderastrea stellata Colonies At Different Health Stages?

4. Jahlen Pinelo: eDNA as a tool to assess biodiversity in sediment samples associated with oyster restoration in the Hampton River

5. Taylor Walker: Quantifying Decadal Scale Shifts in Key Coral Reef Symbiont Assemblages

6. Gabriella Akpah Yeboah: The Impact of Ocean Acidification on the Growth and Shell Integrity of Crassostrea tulipa in West African Estuaries

7. Jordan James Bond: Mussels Enhance Digestive Enzyme Activity in Preparation for Stressful Fluctuating Environments

8. Mariam Hamzat: Key Trends in Agroforestry Resilience to Hurricanes: What Should We Be Researching?

9. Samara Suzi Moura Cunha: Evaluation of Sport Fishers' Perception Regarding Catch and Release Techniques in the Rondônia Region

10. Elizia Montenegro: The filogeography of Compsura heterura Eigenmann 1915 (Characiformes: Cheirodontinae) in Two Neotropical Ecoregions

11. Angela Jones: Fine Scale Morphological Variation of the Aboral and Oral Surface Endoskeleton of Hybridizing Asterias Species in New England and Potential Consequences

12. Beija Gore: Pond to Polymer: Environmental Impact of Tire Wear Particles: A Study in Lithobates catesbeianus Tadpoles Accumulation and Depuration

13. Silvana Siqueira: Where the Bubbles Descend: Uncovering the Amphipod Sanctuary of the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago

14. Makeda Mills: The Microbial Diversity of Corals Affected by Treated Wastewater in the Kahekili Beach Area

15. Zuri Murph: Using eDNA as an Investigative Tool for Natural and Artificial Oyster Reefs in the Hampton River

16. Megan Mitchell: Exploring Soil Microbial Evolution to Experimental Soil Warming and Freeze-Thaw Cycle Events

17. Sacha Medjo-Akono: Plant Growth and Local Adaptation Response to Automobile Nitrogen Pollution in the Los Angeles Basin

18. Maya Wilson Brown: Population structure of Capsella bursa-pastoris in the United States of America

19. Anisa Sellers: The Influence of Close Proximity to Human Activity on Chromis Viridis Antipredator Behavior

20. Ariella Chukwuma: Fish Fries & Fishing for Food: Cultural Traditions among African Americans on the Southeastern Coast of North Carolina

21. Theresa Oehmke: Quantifying Mass Transfer Rates in Uniformly Dissolving, Freely Moving, Inertial Particles For Chemotaxis Applications

22. Jaiane Nascimento da Silva: Tourism In Protected Areas: Impacts On Coastal-Marine Environments

23. McKenzie Zapata: Assessing Impacts of Trawling on Species and Habitats Within Biscayne Bay, Florida

24. Mychala Snead: Bacteria, We Can See Your Halo: Analysis of Chitinase Genes in Bacteria Collected from the Skin of Four Amphibian Species in Virginia

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