OK NSF EPSCoR 2018 Annual State Conference: Presentations & Abstracts

 
Conference Proceedings

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

Speaker Presentations

• Vulnerabilities and Resilience Across Oklahoma: A Summary of Findings From a Multi-Year, Socio-Ecological Assessment of Climate Change Threats to Communities in Four Watersheds in Oklahoma
  Jack Friedman, Research Scientist, Center for Applied Social Research, OU
  Mike Stanton, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Applied Social Research, OU

• An Overview of Sociological Contributions to the Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR Project
  Duane Gill, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, & Director, Center for the Study of Disasters & Extreme Events, OSU 

• Connecting Earth and Sky: Using Cultural Models to Understand and Communicate
  Benjamin Gray, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Sociology, OSU

• Extreme Weather Preparedness in Oklahoma: An Empirical Test of Social Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity
  Joseph Holler, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geography, Middlebury College

• The Oklahoma M-SISNet: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going 
  Hank Jenkins-Smith, Professor, Politcal Science; Co-Director, Center for Risk & Crisis Management, OU 
  Joe Ripberger, Deputy Director for Research, Center for Risk & Crisis Management, OU
  Carol Silva, Professor, Political Science; Director, Center for Risk & Crisis Management, OU

• Building Oklahoma’s Ability to Explore and Understand the Social and Ecological Impacts of Management and Policy Decisions
  Peter Kedron, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geography, OSU

• Perceptions of Academic and Government Expert Groups in Watershed Management: A Case of the Cimarron River Watershed, Oklahoma, USA 
  Gehendra Kharel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management, OSU

• The Kiamichi Envision Model: Results and Utility
  Ron Miller, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, OSU

• Progress and Prospects for Soil Moisture Monitoring and Applications in Oklahoma and Beyond
  Tyson Ochsner, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Plant & Soil Sciences, OSU

• Woody Plant Dynamics in Fragmented Grasslands of the Southern Great Plains, USA
  Rheinhardt Scholtz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management, OSU  

• Landscapes as Moderators of Thermal Conditions: Implications for Ecological Patterns and Processes 
  Evan Tanner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management, OSU

• NSF EPSCoR Update
  Tim VanReken, Program Director, National Science Foundation

• Understanding Long-term Juniper Forest Encroachment into Grasslands in Oklahoma and the Consequences on Local Climate, Primary Production, and Evapotranspiration
  Jie Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Microbiology & Plant Biology, OU

• 2017 Cameron University Engineering and Applied Mathematics Summer Academy: Student Enrichment and Engagement by the Engineering Design Process
  Sheila Youngblood, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Physics & Engineering, CU

• Impacts of Weather Variability on Soil Moisture and Groundwater in Oklahoma: Interactive Geospatial Analysis and Decision-Support Tools
  Jadwiga Ziolkowska, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Sustainability, OU         

Poster Session

1. Transcriptomic Signatures Reveal Biomarkers for Understanding Amphibian Stress
   Presenter: Timothy Clay, TU
2. Resistance, Resilience, and Sensitivity of Gross Primary Production of Forests and Grasslands to Drought in the Ouachita Highlands of Oklahoma, USA
   Presenter: Russell Doughty, OU
3. Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Severe Weather: Determining Sampling Scales
   Presenter: Benjamin Hemingway, OSU
4. Life History Shifts and Distributional Patterns of Aquatic Isopods
   Presenter: Alex Hess, TU
5. CLOUD-MAP: Collaboration Leading Operational UAS Development for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
   Presenter: Jamey Jacob, OSU
6. Examining Hazard Vulnerability in Oklahoma Using Components of the Social Vulnerability Index
   Presenter: Lindsay King, OSU
7. Analyzing the Evolution of Winter Storm Environments
   Presenter: Emily Lenhardt, OU
8. Making Hard-to-Access Water Data in Oklahoma Readily Available to the Public
   Presenter: Shana Mashburn, OU
9. Back to the Future: Using Tree Rings from the 1950s to Predict Present-Day Tree Mortality in the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma
   Presenter: Kaitlyn McNiel, OSU
10. Importance of Environmental Weather Monitoring for Emergency Management in Oklahoma
    Presenter: Dolly Na-Yemeh, OU
11. The Economics of Perennial Summer Dormant Tall Fescue and Annual Wheat Forage Grazing Systems in the Southern Great Plains in Relation to Climate Variation
    Presenter: Narayan Nyaupane, NRI
12. Infrasound from May 11, 2017, Tornado in Perkins, Oklahoma
    Presenter: Christopher Petrin, OSU
13. From Produced Water to Fresh Water: Energy’s Perspective
    Presenter: Khaled Sallam, OSU
14. Improving the Quality and Reliability of the Oklahoma Rainfall Archive
    Presenter: Monique Sellers, OK Mesonet
15. Does Anisohydric Behavior/Traits Assist Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus Virginiana) to Successfully Encroach into the Cross Timbers?
    Presenter: Patricia Torquato, OSU
16. The Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Open Surface Water Bodies in CONUS During 1984-2016
    Presenter: Zhenhua Zou, OU

Photos from the conference may be viewed on our Flickr Page.

Presentation File(s): 

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