Student Presentation Awards
A huge congratulations to all of our student awardees! And a heartfelt thank you to all of our sponsors; Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries, Audobon Outdoor Club, Gulf Reach, Harte Research Institute & Coastal Conservation Association, and Jesse Gilbert
Habitat Conservation
1st Place: Rebecca Davis
“Birds in the cacao: Examining how agroforests provide habitat for tropical birds”
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2nd Place: Allison Weber
“Fine-scale genetic population assessment of eastern oysters for aquaculture, fisheries management, and restoration”
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3rd Place: Bria Marty
“Flora and function: A multi-taxa assessment of the Ingleside Sandsheet pond habitat to inform and support conservation”
Coastal Conservation
1st Place: Anya Ocampos
“Prescription pharmaceuticals detected in dolphin blubber”
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2nd Place: Jacqueline Nicolay
“Prevalence of Vibrio in sea spray aerosols during a Saharan dust storm”
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3rd Place: Collin Kerr
“An image analysis technique to improve understanding of sedimentation effects on seagrass-epiphyte interactions”
Engineering & Computer Science
1st Place: Syed Izzat Ullah
“Enhancing coastal surveying, safety, and efficiency through motion planning for teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)”
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2nd Place: Jennifer Mondragon
“Circles of trust: A voice-based authorization scheme for securing IoT smart homes”
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3rd Place: Julie Romano
“Oysters and opportunities: Creating algorithms and data visualizations for 3D shell characterizations”
Short Oral Presentation
1st Place: Maxwell Portmann
“Catastrophic freeze-disturbance effects on biomass allocation of Avicennia germinans on the Texas Gulf Coast”
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2nd Place: Angelina Weigand
“The evaluation of Salicornia bigelovii for nitrate remediation in the culture of Sciaenops ocellatus”
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3rd Place: Dhruti Joshi
“Augment Reality CoastGuard: Assisting coastal resilience through human-autonomous systems interaction”
Long Oral Presentation
1st Place: David Armstrong
“High CO2 stress on coral reefs – insights into species-specific responses and microenvironmental fluxes”
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2nd Place: EvaLynn Jundt
“Diurnal and seasonal variability of seawater carbonate chemistry in a remote sanctuary: Insights from autonomous sensors”
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3rd Place: Ashutosh Mishra
“Emulating bridge deck aeroelastic forces under forced vibrations via generative neural networks”
Undergraduate Poster
1st Place: Keenan Larriviere
“Limpet shells more resistant to thermal stress on more thermally stressful shores”
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2nd Place: Darian Paul
“Developing a molecular assay to genetically differentiate between scalloped hammerhead, Sphyrna lewini, and Carolina hammerhead, Sphyrna gilberti”
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3rd Place: Mare Rich
“The effects of the pandemic and community management on the abundance of Hawaiian limpets”
Graduate Poster
1st Place: Kevin Labrador
“Mitochondrial genome of the blackspot snapper, Lutjanus fulviflamma (Perciformes: Lutjanidae), and notes on its phylogeny”