Graduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Environmental Science and Ecology showcased their research at the 51st Annual Fall Scientific Paper Session of the Rochester Academy of Science. Students are advised by Katie Amatangelo, Rachel Schultz, Andie Graham, and Jacques Rinchard.
Oral Presentations:
- Jack Gall: Tracing hatchery origin and lake diet of New York’s Lake Erie tributary steelhead
- Caleb Geister: Evaluating prey species’ nutritional quality as a potential driver of thiamine deficiency in lake trout: a comparative study of Lake Ontario and Lake Superior
- Kendalyn Town: Modeling the richness and abundance of non-native vegetation in Great Lakes coastal wetlands
- Jonathan Truscott: Evaluating thiamine deficiency as a potential driver of recruitment failure in Great Lakes lake whitefish
Poster Presentations:
- Conner Berger: Comparing lipid and fatty acid signatures of wild and domesticated cisco
- Zane Fermon: Quantifying the impact of thiamine deficiency on steelhead trout embryo swimming behavior
- Owen Hazard: Optimizing thiamine treatment timing to enhance steelhead trout egg viability
- Jayde Langan: Mapping multiflora rose infected with rose rosette disease within Monroe County
- Justin Montione: Demographics of Pogonia ophioglossoides (Rose pogonia) and Platanthera blephariglottis (White fringed orchid) in Zurich Bog
- Kimberly Ryniec: Changes in vegetation over twenty years in a wetland complex, implications for orchid populations in Zurich Bog
- Dylan Stoddart: Comparing community assemblages and abundances of aquatic macroinvertebrate between two sampling techniques: Surber sampler and Hester Dendy
- Maddox Tonner: Physiological responses of larval sea lamprey to density and food availability: Insights from fatty acid analysis