2008 Annual Review of Research Presentations

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Session 1 (8:50 a.m. to 10:05 a.m.)

Session 2 (10:25 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.)

Session 3 (1:25 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.)

Session 4 (3 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.)

Posters

Session 1

Small to large scale issues in plant water use (pdf)
Tom Hinckley
Professor, College of Forest Resources
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Scale matters: Salmon habitat restoration and social complexity in the Skagit Valley (pdf)
Sara Breslow
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
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Spices in Puget Sound and in Seattle's sewage effluent
Rick Keil
Associate Professor, School of Oceanography
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Session 2

Plume soup: How a dash of river water affects Washington’s coastal ecosystem
Alex Horner-Devine
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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An integrated assessment of the impacts of climate change on Washington State (pdf)
Marketa McGuire Elsner
Research Scientist, Climate Impacts Group
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A closer look at the law of water pollution (pdf)
William Rodgers, Jr.
Professor, School of Law
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Dirt: The erosion of civilizations (pdf)
David Montgomery
Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Director, Quaternary Research Center
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Session 3

Lakes on the edge: Consequences of shoreline urbanization in the Pacific Northwest (pdf)
Tessa Francis
Graduate Student, Department of Biology and School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
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Environmental flows for rivers: Theory, progress, and applications (pdf)
Robert Naiman
Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
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Differences in West Coast watersheds and the streams they create (pdf)
Derek Booth
Affiliate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Senior Geologist/President, Stillwater Sciences
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Session 4

It’s about time! Natural and unnatural selection on migration and spawning in Pacific salmon (pdf)
Tom Quinn
Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
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Application of a land surface model for drought monitoring and prediction in Washington State (pdf)
Shraddhanand Shukla
Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Seeing the forest through the leaves: Quantifying forest structure & forest ecosystem services with LiDAR (pdf)
L. Monika Moskal
Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources
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Posters

Colorado River sensitivity to climate change
Tazebe Beyene, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Satellites, swamp gas, and Siberia: Using models and remote sensing to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from Siberian bogs
Ted Bohn, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Drought and model consensus: Reconstructing and monitoring drought in the US with multiple models
Ted Bohn, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Developing a framework for testing distributed hydrologic models at the hillslope scale
Nicoleta Cristea, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

An investigation into seasonal patterns of sediment transport along Point White, Bainbridge Island
Greg Curtiss, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Optimized flood control in the Columbia river basin for a global warming scenario
Se-Yeun Lee, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Environmental flows: Tools for ecologically sustainable water management in Washington
Cathy Reidy Liermann, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Modeling the effects of topographic shading on snow-fed runoff with warmer temperatures
Frederic Lott, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Potential change agents of observed changes in the Arctic Rivers discharge trends
Amy Tan, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Connecting climate forecast information and drought predictions to water resource management: opportunities and challenges in the state of Washington
Julie Vano, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Environmental factors governing amphibian reproduction in stormwater ponds in King County, Washington
Amy Yahnke, Graduate Student, College of Forest Resources