CREST Scholars Meeting

Lindy Boggs Conference Center
University of New Orleans

March 7, 2008

Participants

Agenda
 
800 am - Poster Set-up
 
900 am - Welcome to UNO - Dr. Joe King, Dean, College of Sciences
 
Overview of CREST - Doug Daigle, Interim Director
 
Presentations - 915-1200
 
University of New Orleans
 
Thomas Lorenz: How have cichlids disrupted the condition and food web positions of native fishes?
 
Chad Ellinwood: Do hurricane-generated wash-over corridors at the Chandeleur Islands impact local fish interactions?
 
Tulane University
 
Juan Gonzalez, Interplay of eustasy, isostasy, and tectonism in coastal Louisiana
 
Kevin Caillouet, Modeling trophic interactions of aquatic mosquito predators in the Barataria Basin
 
Loyola University
 
Randy Englert, Genetics of invasive Phragmites within the Delta
 
Rachel Nuwer, Primary productivity in herbaceous wetland communities - literature review since 1985.  (poster only)
 
University of Southern Mississippi
 
Alix Guidry, Faunal composition and food web dynamics in natural versus constructed intertidal oyster reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico: a partnership approach to sustainable restoration
 
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
 
Boone Larson, Analysis of uncertainties involved with model forecasting of salinity and nutrients in a coastal estuarine system
 
Sharmila Pathikonda, Modeling interactions between native and invasive plants in hurricane-impacted coastal wetlands
 
Shannon Martin, Assessing the likely impacts of coastal restoration, water diversions, and sea level rise on reproduction in coastal marsh fishes
 
LUNCH - 12 Noon
 
Lunch time speaker: Dr. Bob Thomas, Chair, Department of Environmental Communication, Loyola University
 
Presentations - 1pm-330pm
 
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
 
Kevin Purcell, Evaluating the impacts of river diversions on the genetic structure and demography of coastal marsh fishes
 
Southeastern Louisiana University
 
Dr. Gary Shafer, “Hurricane Demetra” project
 
Chris Lundberg, The impact of tertiary sewage effluent on bald cypress growth rates
 
Nicholls State University
 
Matt Benoit, Evaluating different ecotypes of Spartina alterniflora used in coastal restoration
 
Jeremy Dunn, Effects of phosphate enrichment on the reef coral Acropora formosa
 
Allyse Ferrara, (Heather Dyer), Seasonal fish assemblages of Bayou Lafourche upstream and downstream of the Thibodaux weir
 
Olivia Smith, Preliminary assessment of reproductive potential of spotted gar Lepisosteus occulatus in the Upper Barataria Estuary
 
Louisiana State University
 
Barry Aronhime, Comparison of food web dynamics in estuarine and coastal Louisiana oyster reefs
 
Gerald George, Movements of Black Drum on natural and artificial substrata
 
Fugui Wang, Utilization of satellite imagery for determination of spatiotemporal salinity distribution in Lake Pontchartrain