The symposium was held February 15, 2019.
First Name | Last Name | Department | Title | Author(s) |
Chelsea | Ackroyd | Geography | Estimating changing snow water resources over the Himalaya from remote sensing at the weekly scale | Chelsea Ackroyd, McKenzie Skiles, Joachim Meyer, Cedric David, and the NASA-JPL/ICIMOD SERVIR Team |
Anwar | Alsanea | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Utah Lake Eutrophication: Algae blooms and the role of Sediment-Water Column Interactions | Anwar Alsanea, Hanyan Li, and Ramesh Goel. |
Emerson | Arehart | Biology | Modeling Sustainable Harvesting Strategies for the Wild Edible Mushroom Boletus loyo | Emerson Arehart, Bryn Dentinger |
Vanessa | Bailey | Geography | Modeling vegetation distribution and carbon sequestration in the Pacific Northwest | Vanessa Bailey, Simon Brewer |
Kate | Baustian | Geography | Distribution of Wet Snow In Western Washington Mapped with Synthetic Aperture Radar Data | Kate Baustian, Summer Rupper, Rick Forster, McKenzie Skiles |
Jeremiah | Bernau | Geology & Geophysics | Utilizing surface textures to understand change dynamics at the Bonneville Salt Flats | Bernau,Jeremiah; Wetterlin, Lily; and Bowen, Brenda |
Brian | Blaylock | Atmospheric Sciences | High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model Statistics on the Open Science Grid | Brian Blaylock, John Horel |
Jim | Blevins | Anthropology | Prehistoric, Historic, and Contemporary Exploitation of Red Abalone Along the Northern California Coast | James K. Blevins |
Pamela | Bogust | Metallurgical Engineering | Recycling of Metals from Photovoltaic Panels | Pamela Bogust |
Benjamin | Breeden | Geology & Geophysics | Contextualizing the Rise of Dinosaurs in North America: A Chemostratigraphic Investigation of the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary Interval in Northeastern Arizona | Benjamin Breeden |
Cedar | Briem | Geography | Sediment Core Analysis at Staley Spring | Cedar Briem |
Devon | Cantwell | Political Science | Exploring Alternative Frameworks for Global Cooperation on Human Security | Devon Cantwell |
Dong-ah | Choi | City & Metropolitan Planning | Mapping and Measuring the Urban-Wildland Juxtaposition | Dong-ah Choi, Ph.D. Student Sarah Jack Hinners, Assistant Professor Jeff Rose, Assistant Professor Keunhyun Park, Ph.D. Candidate |
Mike | Christensen | City & Metropolitan Planning | An Intrastate Passenger Rail System for Utah Using Existing Union Pacific Tracks | Mike Christensen |
Gemma | Clark | Civil & Environmental Engineering | The Effect of Nanomaterials on E. coli Growth | Gemma Clark, Jennifer Weidhaas, Ramesh Goel |
Casey | Clifford | Environmental Humanities Graduate Program | Breathing Through Masks | Casey, Clifford |
Kevin | Craft | Atmospheric Sciences | Improved Land Surface Parameters for the Bonneville Salt Flats | Kevin Craft |
Sunayna | Dasgupta | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Urban Agriculture Using Grey Water-Effect of Engineered Nanoparticles | Sunayna Dasgupta, Aiswarya Rani Pappu and Ramesh Goel |
Ruan | de Lange | Parks, Recreation & Tourism | The Best of the Best: Understanding sustainable tourism through WTTC Tourism for Tomorrow Award Finalists |
Kelly Bricker Ruan de Lange |
Riley | Finnegan | Geology & Geophysics | Helicopter-induced resonance of Two Bridges, Bryce Canyon National Park | Riley Finnegan, Jeff Moore, Paul Geimer |
Dale | Forrister | Biology | Pest pressure rather than resource competition drives negative density dependence in the tree genus Inga (Fabaceae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama | Dale L. Forrister, Maria Jose Endara, Thomas A. Kursar and Phyllis D. Coley |
Christopher | Foster | Atmospheric Sciences | Constraining Emissions of Methane in Utah’s Uintah Basin with Ground-based Concentration Observations and a Time-Reversed Lagrangian Transport Model (STILT) | Christopher Foster, Erik Crosman, Lacey Holland, Derek Mallia, Ben Fasoli, Ryan Bares, John Horel, John Lin |
Logan | Frederick | Geology & Geophysics | Source Identification for particle-bound metals in the San Juan River System | Frederick, Logan; Fernandez, Diego; Cerling, Thure, and Johnson, William |
Andrew | Gelderloos | Geology & Geophysics | Quantifying the Interaction between Climate and Landscape on Water Resources | Andrew Gelderloos, William Anderegg, Rachel S. Gabor, D. Kip Solomon, Courtenay Strong, Paul D. Brooks |
Ian | Glenn | Atmospheric Sciences | Cold pool organization and the merging of convective updrafts in a Large Eddy Simulation | Ian Glenn, Steven Krueger |
Austin | Green | Biology | Evaluating Camera-Trap Survey Design in the Central Wasatch Mountains | Austin Green, Mark Chynoweth, Cagan Sekercioglu |
Myrna | Groomer | Geography | Paleoecological reconstruction of ancient Lake Bonneville through sediment analysis | Myrna Groomer |
Nipun | Gunawardena | Mechanical Engineering | A Low-Cost Instrumentation Deployment for Environmental Monitoring During KASCADE 2017 | Nipun Gunawardena, Eric Pardyjak, Pierre Rubin, Pierre Durand, Thierry Hedde, Florian Dupuy, Anup Khadka |
Vedansh | Gupta | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Management of Dissolved Methane in Anaerobic Effluents | Vedansh Gupta, Ramesh Goel |
Carly | Hansen | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Monitoring Water Quality and Bank Vegetation of the Jordan River using Low-Cost UAV | Carly Hansen, Casey Duncan, Sam Chesebrough, David Wheatley |
Shruti | Hegde | Chemical Engineering | Household Indoor Particulate Matter (PM) Measurement Using a Network of Low-Cost Sensors | Shruti Hegde, Kerry Kelly |
Josh | Heyer | Geography | A Paleoenvironmental Record from an Oxbow Lake near the Dolores and Colorado Rivers Confluence, Utah | Josh Heyer Dr. Andrea Brunelle Dr. Simon Brewer Dr. Bérangère Leys Dr. Mitchell Power Dr. Zachary Lundeen |
Nolan | Ingersoll | Mechanical Engineering | Electrochemical Cell Fabrication for in situ µNMR Analysis | Nolan Ingersoll |
Eric | Johnson | Geography | Sensitivity of Glacier Mass Balance Estimates to the Selection of WRF Cloud Microphysics Parameterization in the Indus River Watershed | Eric Johnson, Summer Rupper, Jim Steenburgh, Court Strong, Adam Kochanski |
Kaylee | Jones | Geography | Paleoecological Reconstructions of the Bonneville Basin Using Sediment Archives from Desert Springs Near Dugway Proving Ground, UT. | Kaylee Jones |
Ahmed | Karimi | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Microbial Contamination in Surface water and Tracking | Ahmed Karimi, Ramesh Goel |
Kamaljeet | Kaur | Chemical Engineering | Toxicity of Combustion Derived Particle on Lung Cells: Comparison Mass vs. Particle Number Doses | K. Kaur, R. Mohammadpour, I.C. Jaramillo, H. Ghandehari, K. Kelly |
Durban | Keeler | Geography | Spatiotemporal trends in snow accumulation across West Antarctic Divide from radar and shallow firn cores | Durban G. Keeler, Summer Rupper, Richard R. Forster, Clément Miége, Simon Brewer Lora Koenig |
Evan | Kipnis | Geology & Geophysics | Evaporite mineral resources and landscape change: 57 years at the Bonneville Salt Flats | Evan L. Kipnis, Brenda B. Bowen, Jessie Pechmann |
Qwynne | Lackey | Parks, Recreation & Tourism | Theodore Roosevelt National Park Community Engagement Study: Initial Findings on Trans-boundary Current Relationships and Collaboration Opportunities | N. Qwynne Lackey, Ruan de Lange, Leah Joyner |
Brooke | Larsen | Environmental Humanities Graduate Program | Layers Exposed: Climate Justice on the Colorado Plateau | Brooke Larsen |
Seungyub | Lee | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Water Distribution System Pipe Replacement Cycle Determination using Triple Top Line based Sustainability Metrics | Seungyub Lee and Steven Burian |
Jory | Lerback | Geology & Geophysics | A Geochemical and Anthropological Approach to Studying Springs in the Bonneville Basin | Jory Lerback |
Hanyan | Li | Civil & Environmental Engineering | All about cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in Utah Lake | Hanyan Li, Ramesh Goel |
Ke | Li | Geology & Geophysics | Deposition Dynamics of Rod-shaped Colloids during Transport in Porous Media | Ke Li, Huilian Ma |
Henry | Lilly | Parks, Recreation & Tourism | Dimensions of outdoor recreational use in an urban-proximate protected area: City: Demographic Trends and Spatiotemporal Projections of Creek Canyon, Salt Lake City, Utah | Henry Lilly, Jeff Rose |
Jewell | Lund | Geography | Glacier and snow hydrology investigation in the Upper Indus Basin using Synthetic Aperture Radar | Jewell Lund Richard R Forster Summer B Rupper |
Cody | Lutz | City & Metropolitan Planning | Collaborative Planning in the Zion National Park Region | Cody Lutz |
Torrey | Lyons | City & Metropolitan Planning | An Assessment of Social Equity in Transit Service in Salt Lake County: Developing a new methodology for quantifying social equity promotion through transit service | Torrey Lyons |
Kate | Magargal | Anthropology | The Ecology of Cooking with Firewood | Kate Magargal |
Meaghan | McKasy | Communication | Comparative Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Climate Change | Meaghan McKasy, Jessica Pechmann, Vanessa Bailey, Julia Howe |
Farshad | Mohammadi | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Coordinated Operation of Power Generation and Water Desalination | Farshad Mohammadi, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani |
Travis | Morrison | Mechanical Engineering | Development of a New Methodology for Computing Surface Sensible Heat Fluxes using Thermal Imagery | Travis J. Morrison, Marc Calaf, Harindra J.S. Fernando, Timothy Price, & Eric Pardyjak |
Marianne | Newell | Geography | Study of Utah’s Climate History by Analysis of Lake Cores Collected from Lake Bonneville Sites | Marianne Newell, Kaylee Jones, Andrea Brunelle |
Emily | Nicolosi | Geography | Geographies of Grassroots Innovations for Sustainability | Emily Nicolosi, Richard Medina |
Nadia | Nishu | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Comparison of Centralized and Distributed Water Supply Infrastructure for Small Communities |
Nadia Nishu, Steven Burian, Christine Pomeroy |
Konstantinos | Oikonomou | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Optimal Coordination of Water Distribution Energy Flexibility with Power Systems Operation |
Konstantinos Oikonomou, Masood Parvania |
Matthew | Olson | Geography | Topographic forcing and related uncertainties on glacier surface energy balance in High Mountain Asia | Matthew Olson, Summer Rupper, David Shean |
James | Owen | Law | Multiparty Negotiation Simulations: Oil & Gas Development Project | James Owen, Michele Straube |
Sallahuddin | Panhwar | Metallurgical Engineering | Synthesis of l-Cysteine Capped Silver Nanoparticles in Acidic Media at Room Temperature and Detailed Characterization |
Sallahuddin Panhwar, Syeda Sara Hassan, Rasool Bux Mahar, Krista Carlson |
Keunhyun | Park | City & Metropolitan Planning | Not Parking Lots But Parks: The Impact of Urban Parks on Sustainable Travel Behavior in Station Areas | Keunhyun Park, Guang Tian, Reid Ewing |
Ashley | Parker | Anthropology | When is a horse not a horse? It depends on your local ecology. | Ashley K. Parker, Lisa Johnson, Kate E. Magargal, Marianna di Paolo, and Brian F. Codding |
Alexei | Perelet | Mechanical Engineering | Investigating scintillometer source areas | Alexei Perelet Helen Ward Eric Pardyjak |
Ross | Petersen | Atmospheric Sciences | Experimental Study of Turbulent Flow Inlet System Performance | Ross Petersen, Gannet Hallar, Igor Novosselov, Ian McCubbin, Doug Lowenthal, John Ogren, Riley Gorder, and Rick Purcell |
Jordan | Pieper | Architecture | Aging in Place, Life-Space Mobility Tool | JordanPieper |
Aditi | Podder | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Implementation of Circular Economy in Solid Waste Management | Aditi Podder, Ramesh Goel |
Emily | Post | Anthropology | Gender Bias in Reputation Access | Emily Post, Alexa Sime, Shane Macfarlan |
Saraswati | Poudel Acharya | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Environmental Occurrences of Herbicide Safeners Benoxacor and Furilazole | Saraswati Poudel Acharya; Jennifer Weidhaas |
David | Proffitt | City & Metropolitan Planning | Can Transportation Planning Put Greenhouse Gas Reduction in the Express Lane? Evidence from California’s SB 375 and Oregon’s SB 1059 | David Proffitt |
Khalid | Rashid | Chemical Engineering | Dynamic Simulation and Control of a solar/Natural Gas Hybrid Power Plant | Khalid Rashid, Kody Powell |
Anna | Rasmuson | Geology & Geophysics | Influence of surface roughness on microbial transport | Anna Rasmuson, Eddy Pazmino,Shoeleh Assemi, William Johnson |
Grant | Rea-Downing | Geology & Geophysics | Spatial Distribution of Particulate Matter on Pine Needles from North Campus Drive, University of Utah: Developing a Magnetic Proxy for Air Quality | Courtney Wagner, Geology and Geophysics; Brendon Quirk, Geology and Geophysics |
Marian | Rice | Political Science | Caffeine Demonstrates Anthropogenic E. coli: Drives Policy Change | Marian L. Rice, PhD Candidate |
Collin | Riley | Geography | Seasonal and Intraseasonal Precipitation Variability in High Mountain Asia | Collin Riley |
Yuanrui | Sang | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Economic Benefit Comparison of D-FACTS and FACTS in Transmission Networks with Uncertainties | Yuanrui Sang, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani |
Pratibha | Sapkota | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Nutrient removal by vegetation of semi-arid Bioretention | Pratibha Sapkota,Christine Pomeroy |
Tofigh | Sayahi | Chemical Engineering | Laboratory and Field Evaluation of the PlanTower PMS low-cost air quality sensors | Tofigh Sayahi, Kerry E. Kelly. |
Derek | Schriner | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Flood Hydrograph Creation Using Web Services for Data Retrieval | Matt Chaney, Derek Schriner |
Warren | Scott | Geography | Using remote sensing to detect the Greenland perennial firn aquifer | Warren Scott, Rick Forster |
Avery | Smith | Chemical Engineering | Fault Detection in Energy Systems To Provide Environmental and Economical Security | Avery Smith |
Robert B. | Sowby | Civil & Environmental Engineering | High-Resolution Energy Intensity Modeling to Improve Water Distribution System Performance | Robert B. Sowby, Steven J. Burian |
Brooke | Stanislawski | Mechanical Engineering | Numerical simulation of the interaction between large solar panel arrays and the Atmospheric Boundary Layer | Brooke Stanislawski, Gerard Cortina, Raul B. Cal, Marc Calaf |
Ian | Summers | Communication | The Revolution that Never Was? Rhetorical Enactments of the Oppressed Rural Frontiersman at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge |
Ian Summers |
Pratiti | Tagore | City & Metropolitan Planning | Determining safety score of a community: Effect of crimes, crashes and built environment | Pratiti Tagore |
Nicole | Torosin | Anthropology | The evolution of TLR7 and TLR8 in yellow fever virus endemic areas | Nicole Torosin, Leslie A. Knapp |
Jacob | Tuttle | Chemical Engineering | Coal Combustion Optimization and Improved Power Plant Performance Using Machine Learning | Jacob Tuttle Mark Rutherford M.Eng Kody Powell Ph.D. |
Amarachi | Umunnakwe | Electrical & Computer Engineering | High-Level Integration of Electric Vehicles and Associated Harmoics | Amarachi Umunnakwe |
Robert | Underwood | Materials Science & Engineering | Optimizing Synthesis Conditions for Metal-Organic Framework-Derived Carbon Anodes for Sodium-Ion Battery Applications | Nolan Ingersoll, Robert Underwood |
Kenneth | Vernon | Anthropology | HUMAN PLANT USE IN RED BUTTE CANYON | Kenneth B. Vernon |
Jonathan | Wagner | Geography | Modeling stream discharge in the Tuolumne River Basin using broadband albedo and snow depth standard deviation from ASO data, 2013-2016 |
Jonathan Wagner McKenzie Skiles |
Ryan | Williams | Civil & Environmental Engineering | The Impact of Metal Nanoparticle Contamination on the Inactivation of Wastewater Bacteriophages | Williams, Ryan |
Emily | Willis-Sylvester | Political Science | MAKING CITIES COOL AGAIN: HEAT WAVE MITIGATION STRATEGIES IN HAZARD MITIGATION PLANS FROM SIX US STATES |
Emily Willis-Sylvester |
Kurt | Wilson | Anthropology | The Marginal Value of Inequality | Kurt Wilson |
Blanca | Yagüe | Anthropology | BUG Farms: an urban CSA in Salt Lake City, Utah. A case study. | Yagüe, Blanca. Joyner, Leah. |