OK NSF EPSCoR 2015 Annual State Conference: Presentations, Abstracts & Posters

CONFERENCE MATERIALS: 
PROCEEDINGS, PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS & ABSTRACTS

Conference Proceedings

• Complete Conference Booklet
• Agenda
• Speaker Bios
• Poster Presenter List with Abstracts

 
Speaker Presentations

• “A Socio-Ecological Approach to Planning for Climate Change”
  Dawn Jourdan, Assoc. Professor & Director, Division of Regional & City Planning, OU

• "Introduction to the Watershed Websites"
  
  Emma Kuster, Program Coordinator, Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR
  Ron Miller, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, OSU

• "Informatics: Tiger, the Interactive Graphical Environment for Research" 
  Evan Linde, Research Cyberinfrastructure Analyst, OSU

• “Linking Land Use & Management, Water Resources & Human Wellbeing in Oklahoma City”
  Heather McCarthy, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Plant Biology, OU

• "Downscaled Climate Data: What is Available and How to Use it"
  Renee McPherson, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Sustainability, OU

• "EPSCoR Outreach Highlights"
  Grant Spotlight Video #1, Grant Spotlight Video #2
  Gina Miller, Outreach Coordinator, Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR

• “A Modeling Framework for Coupled Natural-Human Systems”
  Rachata Muneepeerakul, Assoc. Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of Florida

• "OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative: OneOCII"
  Henry Neeman, Director, OSCER; Asst. VP for IT-Research Strategy Advisor, OU
  Dana Brunson, Asst. VP for Research Cyberinfrastructure; Director, High Performance

• "Adaptation to Climate Variability: The Role of the USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub"
  Jean Steiner, Supervisory Soil Scientist, Grazinglands Research Laboratory, USDA

• “Development of Lidar Derived Products for Oklahoma Researchers”
  Mike Treglia, Research Associate, Dept. of Biological Science, TU

• “NSF EPSCoR Update & Upcoming Funding Opportunities”
  Tim VanReken, Program Director, National Science Foundation

• “Topology of Coupled Human & Natural Systems”
  Duncan Wilson, Research Scientist, South Central Climate Science Center, OU

• “Vulnerability & Resiliency of Wetlands under Changing Climate in the Cimarron River Basin of Oklahoma”
  Chris Zou, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU

 
Poster Presentations

1. Presenter: Rajen Bajgain
   Assessing Summer Drought Over Oklahoma Mesonet Sites with the MODIS Land Surface Water Index
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2. Presenter: Jingnuo Dong
   An Approach to Revealing Meso-scale Spatial Patterns of Soil Moisture
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3. Presenter: Jon Giddens
   Urban Forest Health and Mortality in the Oklahoma City Metro Region
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4. Presenter: Chih-Yu Lai
   Spatial Interpolation for Temperature and Precipitation in Oklahoma Weather, Society and Government Survey
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5. Presenter: Miriam Laytner
   “All That’s Left Are Memories”: Lake Sardis and the Reconstruction of Memories Regarding Water, Wetlands...

6. Presenter: Jason Patton
   Towards a High Resolution Soil Moisture Map of Oklahoma
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7. Presenter: Yuanwei Qin
   Oklahoma Map of Forest Cover at 30-m Spatial Resolution in 2010

8. Presenter: Renato Rahal
   Streamflow Responses to Sea Surface Temperature Variations Across Oklahoma
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9. Presenter: Michael Stanton
   The Kiamichi Watershed
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10. Presenter: Mike Treglia
    Does Habitat Stability Promote the Loss of a Complex Life Cycle Stage in a Stream-Associated Salamander

11. Presenter: Mike Treglia 
    Modeling the Current and Future Distributions of Juniper Spp. Across the Continental United States

12. Presenter: Tony VanWinkle
    Ethnographic Research in the Upper Washita Watershed
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13. Presenter: Jie Wang
    Mapping Red Cedar in Oklahoma from 1984 to 2010

14. Not Presented

15. Presenter: Justin Alexander
    Assessing Reservoir Operations and the Assoc. Changes in Water Quality on the Persistence of Stream Fishes

16. Presenter: Brannon Daniels
    Declining Water Conditions and Recreation Demand at Oklahoma Reservoirs
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17. Presenter: Holly Enlow
    Simulating Reach-Scale Sediment Reduction from Stream Stabilization (Fort Cobb Reservoir Watershed)
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18. Presenter: Xijia Han
    Statistical Modeling for Spatio-Temporal Soil Moisture Data in Oklahoma
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19. Presenter: Leon Hounnou
    Modeling Least Cost Selection of Best Management Practices to Reduce Soil Erosion (Fort Cobb Watershed)
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20. Presenter: Whitney Lisenbee
    Evaluation of Field Jet Erosion Tests and WEPP-predicted Erodibility Parameters in Forests and Grasslands
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21. Not Presented

22. Presenter: Yao Zhang
    Gross Primary Production in Oklahoma from 2000 to 2014
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23. Presenter: Jesus Zubillaga
    Value of Environmental Monitoring Information in Oklahoma Agriculture: A Research Perspective
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24. Presenter: Benjamin Davis
    Analyzing Changes in Urban Areas Using Landscape Pattern Metrics
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25. Presenter: Toni Klemm
    Improving Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Oklahoma Winter Wheat Farmers
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26. Presenter: Daniel Logue
    Detection Estimates and Habitat Occupancy of Two Pelagic Broadcast Spawning Cyprinids
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27. Presenter: Ronald Miller
    Drought-Influenced Low-Flow Non-Exceedance Plots for Selected USGS Gauges in Oklahoma
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28. Presenter: Bharat Sharma Acharya
    Temporal Variability in Water Level in a Tallgrass Prairie and Juniper Woodland

29. Presenter: Claude Buerger
    The LandSHIFT Model: Use and Applications in Oklahoma
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Photos from the conference can be accessed via our Flickr Page.  

Presentation File(s): 

2015_OK_NSF_EPSCoR_State_Conference_Proceedings.pdf