2023 Winners Gallery
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AWARD WINNERS
Poster Competition
Human & Environment Interactions
Caitlin Niven / Forestry & Environmental Resources / PhD
“The Impact of Climate Change on E.coli along Fecal Transmission Pathways in Rural Bangladesh”
Jaelle Davita van de Velde / Parks, Recreation, & Tourism Management / Master’s
“WEATHERING THE STORM? HOW PLACE ATTACHMENT, SOCIAL COHESION, AND RISK PERCEPTIONS ARE INFLUENCING RECOVERY DECISIONS IN COASTAL COMMUNITIES.”
Management & Policies
Alexander Yoshizumi / Center for Geospatial Analytics / PhD
“A Tool for Assessing Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Resilience across Emergency Evacuation Scenarios”
Natural Systems
Morgan Arteman / Forestry & Environmental Resources / PhD
“Seedling photosynthetic response of six co-occurring species across gap edge light gradient”
Maccoy Kerrigan / Forestry & Environmental Resources / Master’s
“Ecosystems in Transition: An Assessment of Plant Community Change and Carbon Stores in Pond Pine Pocosins in Coastal North Carolina”
Sustainability & Sustainable Bioeconomy
John Sanders / Forest Biomaterials / PhD
“Using Solvatochromism to Predict the Biomass Pretreatment Performance of Deep Eutectic Solvents”
3MT Competition
1st Place – Lauren Gonzalez
“Bridging the Gap Between Silviculture and Integrated Pest Management of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid”
2nd Place – Catherine Lerose
“Political Identity Affects Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management in a post-COVID World”
3rd Place – Henry Ssembatya
“The Dual Impacts of Space Heating Electrification and Climate Change on Seasonal Peaking and Reliability of the Texas Power Grid”
Event Schedule
12:00pm – Lunch for participants & helpers (boxed lunches provided for those who ordered)
12:45pm – Opening remarks by Dean Myron Floyd
1:00 – 3pm – Poster session (light refreshments)
3:00 – 3:15pm – Break
3:15 – 3:40pm – 3MT Round #1
3:40 – 3:45pm – Break
3:45 – 4:10pm – 3MT Round #2
4:10 – 4:15pm – Break
4:15 – 4:40pm – 3MT Round #3
4:40 – 5:00pm – Break
5:00 – 5:30pm – Award Presentation (Ice Cream Social)
This year’s event is sponsored by the CNR Research Office. It will showcase and celebrate the outstanding research, teaching, and extension of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and their faculty advisers or mentors in the Departments of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Forest Biomaterials, and Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, and the Center for Geospatial Analytics, in the College of Natural Resources at NC State University.