Eco-IGERT Fourth Annual Retreat
Friday, May 15th- Saturday, May 16th, 2009 Memorial Union OSU
Student and Faculty Presentations:
External Advisory Board Talks
Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Pauline van den Driessche
Insect Population Dynamics: Applications in Agroecology and Conservation Biology
Dr. John Banks
Food Webs in River Networks
Dr. Mary Power
Optimizing for Conservation: Probability Density Estimation,
Power in Voting systems and Network Flow
Dr. Steven Phillips
Student Talks
Critical Domain Size in Stream Networks
Torrey Johnson, athematics
Exchange Controls on Stream Nitrogen
Jay Zarnetske, Water Resources
How old is old? Sediment transit time distribution sensitivity to radiocarbon inbuilt age
Terry Frueh, Water Resources
Timber and Carbon Sequestration Prices
Uran Chu, Statistics
Tensor Field Visualization and Analysis with applications in Climatology
Jonathan Palacios
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Phil Mote,
Director, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Professor, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences , Oregon State
University.
EAB Members Present
Dr. Pauline van den Driessche, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics University of Victoria, BC
Dr. John Banks, Environmental Science Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington, WA
Dr. Mary Power, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkely, CA
Dr. Steven Phillips, AT&T Labs Florham Park, NJ
Dr. Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez, Dept. of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, ID
Except from External Advisory Board report review:
"The OSU Ecosystem Informatics IGERT Program’s first term has been extremely successful. Students are enthusiastic, extremely articulate and able to present theircutting edge research in a context that captures a broad interdisciplinary audience.Student posters and oral presentations at our retreat were first rate, publicationswere professional and published in diverse highly rated peer reviewed journals.Publication list is impressive in productivity and breadth of fields represented. Students were overall pleased and enthusiastic about program. They feel (and demonstrate) that they have learned to communicate clearly across disciplines, bothwithin and outside their IGERT community. They show creativity and synergismsderived from IGERT interactions and collaborations. Even in their second year,students are well on their way to becoming extremely well qualified for academicand NGO positions, and taking on complex environmental and societal problems.There is a growing need for Ph.D.s with the expertise to confront, interpret, andcommunicate the massive torrents of environmental data pouring in from advancedmapping, sensing, and tracing technologies.The cohorts of students fledging from the OSU Ecoinformatics IGERT will make a very significant contribution to filling this need, nationally and internationally"
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