Agenda

  1. 35th Research Conference - Day One

      Thursday, April 11, 2019

    1. 5:00pm  Burke Auditorium
      Opening Remarks
      Speaker
      Os Schmitz
      Senior Associate Dean of Research, Director of Doctoral Studies
      Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology
      Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
    2. 5:15pm  Burke Auditorium
      Opening Keynote
      The Perils and Promise of Data Science for Environmental Scholarship
      Keynote Speaker
      Dawn Wright
      Chief Scientist
      Environmental Systems Research Institute
      Affiliated Professor of Geography and Oceanography
      College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
    3. 6:15pm  The Knob
      Poster Session and Opening Reception
      Posters
      Evolutionary responses to climate change in a northeastern forest
      Systems Thinking: A Pathway to Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes through an Ecological Worldview
      Landslide-displacement and wellbeing in Banjarnegara, Indonesia
      Change in Air Pollution Exposure and Related Health Impact under Climate Change in U.S. Urban Centers
      The Influence of Green Space on the Short-term Effects of Particulate Matter on Hospitalization in the U.S.
      The Coupled Cycling of Dissolved Iron and Dissolved Organic Matter in the Connecticut River
      Legacies of co-occurring plant invaders on soil nutrient availability in temperate hardwood forests
  2. The 35th FES Research Conference - Day Two

      Friday, April 12, 2019

    1. 8:30am  The Knob
      Breakfast and Registration
    2. 9:15am  Burke Auditorium
      Welcome Remarks
      Speaker
      Indy Burke
      Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean
      Professor of Ecosystem Ecology
      Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
    3. Morning Session I
      1. 9:30am  Burke Auditorium
        Panel: Presentations and Discussion
        Low Carbon Energy: Production and Use
        Moderator
        Edgar Hertwich
        Professor of Industrial Sustainability
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Energy Transitions in Amazonian Ecuador
        Drivers of residential energy consumption in the US and options for GHG reductions (To retrofit or to demolish and rebuild?)
        The Value of Renewables: Observational and Experimental Evidence from the United States
      2. 9:30am  Kroon 319
        Oral Presentations
        Water Quality and Quantity
        Chair
        Jim Saiers
        Clifton R. Musser Professor of Hydrology
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Quantifying Water Demands and Assessing Impacts of Changes in Water Availability on Wildlife in Laikipia County, Kenya
        Prevalence of Surfactants in Effluent from Advanced Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
        Investigating Trends in Groundwater Chemistry with Intensification of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
      3. 9:30am  Kroon 321
        Oral Presentations
        Plants I: Form & Function
        Chair
        Santiago Trueba
        Postdoctoral Associate
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        The spatial distribution of chlorophyll in leaves
        Grapevine xylem network organization could influence on disease’s tolerance.
        Untangling the Red Maple Paradox: Regeneration and morphological plasticity of Acer rubrum
      4. 9:30am  Kroon G01
        Oral Presentations
        Stakeholder Perspective in Environmental Problem-Solving
        Chair
        Michelle Downey
        Program Director
        Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative
        Presentations
        Stakeholder Perspectives on Ecotourism in Post-Crisis Cuba and Puerto Rico
        Environmental change and indigeneity through the eyes of smallholder banana farmers
        What Happens When the Money Runs Out? Conceptions of 'success' among donors, NGO workers and residents in water purification stations in Egyptian oases
    4. 10:20am
      The Knob - 3rd Floor, Kroon Hall
      Break
    5. Morning Session II
      1. 10:40am  Burke Auditorium
        Panel: Presentations and Discussion
        Mitigating Disasters Using Remote Sensing
        Moderator
        Dawn Wright
        Chief Scientist
        Environmental Systems Research Institute
        Affiliated Professor of Geography and Oceanography
        College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
        Presentations
        Wildfires and Human (Im)mobilities in the Western United States
        Vulnerability of households to flooding and landslides in Uttarakhand, India
        Mapping Burned Area in Nepal Using Time Series of Landsat Images
      2. 10:40am  Kroon 319
        Oral Presentations
        Challenges in the Urban Environment
        Chair
        Reid Lifset
        Associate Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program
        Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Industrial Ecology
        Presentations
        Changes in Dissolved Organic Matter Composition across an Urbanization Gradient in the Connecticut River Watershed during Baseflow and Stormflow
        Development of MSW management infrastructure in China: Progress, patterns, and projections
        Norms, Networks, and Meat Consumption in India
      3. 10:40am  Kroon 321
        Oral Presentations
        Plants II: Ecosystems and Ecology
        Chair
        Simon Queenborough
        Director
        Tropical Resources Institute
        Presentations
        Allometric modeling of Wyoming big sagebrush biomass
        Changes in tree species composition and structure across an elevation gradient in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
        Restoring tropical forests on surface mine spoils in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
      4. 10:40am  Kroon G01
        Oral Presentations
        Access & Environmental Justice
        Chair
        Thomas Easley
        Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Disparities in Surrounding Greenness by Immigrant Proportion
        Tropical peatland: the constant repurposing of imagination
        Understanding the New Diaspora in the Climate Era: A Case Study of Displaced Puerto Rican Women in New Haven, CT.
    6. Midday Break: Lunch and Salons
      1. 11:30am  The Knob
        Lunch Service
      2. 12:00pm  Kroon 319
        Q&A with Dr. Dawn Wright
        Salon I
        Special Guest
        Dawn Wright
        Chief Scientist
        Environmental Systems Research Institute
        Affiliated Professor of Geography and Oceanography
        College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
        Moderator
        Karen Seto
        Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
      3. 12:00pm  Kroon 321
        Q&A with Dr. Jane Zelikova
        Salon II
        Special Guest
        Jane Zelikova
        Co-Founder
        500 Women Scientists, Hey Girl Productions, LUCA Media Collective
        Research Scientist
        Department of Botany, University of Wyoming
        Moderator
        Lisa Fernandez
        Associate Director
        Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
    7. Afternoon Session I
      1. 1:10pm  Burke Auditorium
        Panel: Presentations and Discussion
        Political Ecologies of Change in Myanmar & Vietnam
        Moderator
        Wen Zhou
        Doctoral Candidate
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Labor Migration, Forest Conservation, and the Production of Precarity in Highland Vietnam.
        Transnational Masterplans in Myanmar's Borderlands: Extractive Development along China's “Belt and Road”
        “Holes emerging in all the forests:” Swidden, betel nut, and the repurposing of environmental myths in Myanmar
      2. 1:10pm  Kroon 319
        Oral Presentations
        Toxics and Human Health
        Chair
        Barbara Reck
        Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Towards Sustainable Water Treatment: Development of Multifunctional and Selective Adsorbents
        Immobilization of lysozyme for use as a green preservative alternative for cosmetics
        Microbiome as a Mechanism in Understanding Allergies & Asthma Diagnoses
      3. 1:10pm  Kroon 321
        Oral Presentations
        Coexistence in Natural Communities
        Chair
        Simon Queenborough
        Director
        Tropical Resources Institute
        Presentations
        Coexistence of Leaf Habits in Tropical Forests
        Environmental gradients and temporal fruiting dynamics drive niche differentiation in pine-oak forest in Oaxaca, Mexico
        Dinner in the Devil's Garden: Herbivory, Symbiosis, and a Bewitching Exception to the Stunning Biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest
      4. 1:10pm  Kroon G01
        Oral Presentations
        History and Politics of Food System Sustainability
        Chair
        Yixian Sun
        Postdoctoral Fellow
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        How Values Shape Food Systems: The Impact of New Englanders on Agriculture in Hawaii
        Tactics of Diversion: Corporate Power and the Politics of Food Waste
        Who wants my half eaten sandwich?- Food in the sharing economy
    8. Afternoon Session II
      1. 2:10pm  Kroon G01
        Oral Presentations
        Methods for Understanding Land Use Change
        Chair
        Minna Brown
        Director of Academic Affairs
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Rendering Land Degraded: Forest Imaginaries, Conceptual Dissensus, and the Logic of Land Restoration Commitments
        Climate Impact of Irrigation Agriculture in an Artificial Oasis in Northwest China
        Big data: a new way to understand urban land use change
      2. 2:10pm  Kroon 321
        Oral Presentations
        Conflicts with Cats: Human-Wildlife Interactions in Africa
        Chair
        Liza Comita
        Assistant Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Humans and the Environment: Exploring Human-Wildlife Conflict through social and ecological costs in the Makgadikgadi region of Botswana
        Appraisal of the Compensation Scheme for Human-Wildlife Conflict in Kenya
        Mapping social and decision processes of large carnivore reintroductions in South Africa protected reserves
      3. 2:10pm  Kroon 319
        Oral Presentations
        Reshaping the Global Automotive Industry
        Chair
        Annise Dobson
        Postdoctoral Research Associate
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        More for less: Deep decarbonization of US light-duty vehicles is possible at lower cost
        A material flow analysis of lithium in the US and the world
        The Emissions Effects of Electric Vehicles Under Carbon Policy
      4. 2:10pm  Burke Auditorium
        5 Minute Oral Presentations
        Flash Talks
        Chair
        Sara Smiley Smith
        Assistant Dean of Research and Sustainability
        Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
        Presentations
        Hydrologic controls on pCO2 and CO2 efflux in US streams and rivers
        Herbivore personality and plasticity in trophic interactions
        Impact of Land Use and Forest Management Practices on Mesocarnivore Occupancy in the Yale Myers Forest
        Evaluation of nest habitat, site preferences and architecture of the critically endangered White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis) in Bhutan
        Manufacturing Tradition: Materials, Methods and Change amongst Gamelan Makers of Central Java
        Climate Change Uncertainty, and Learning
    9. 3:00pm  The Knob
      Afternoon Break
    10. 3:30pm  Burke Auditorium
      Science talks using only the ten hundred most used words
      Faculty UpGoer5
      Chair
      Robert Buchkowski
      Postdoctoral Associate
      Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
      UpGoer5 Faculty Presenters
      Liza Comita
      Assistant Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology
      Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
      Amity Doolittle
      Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist
      Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
      Os Schmitz
      Senior Associate Dean of Research, Director of Doctoral Studies
      Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology
      Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
      Presentations
      How baby tree death allows for many types of trees to live together in warm, wet places
      Words Matter
      Animals making animals afraid controls the turn around of matter to make the world green
    11. 4:00pm  Burke Auditorium
      Closing Keynote
      Living at the Intersection of Climate Science and Action
      Keynote Speaker
      Jane Zelikova
      Co-Founder
      500 Women Scientists, Hey Girl Productions, LUCA Media Collective
      Research Scientist
      Department of Botany, University of Wyoming
    12. 5:30pm  Peabody Museum Great Hall
      Awards Ceremony and Reception