Eco-IGERT Second Annual Retreat 

Friday, May 4th - Saturday, 5th, 2007  Peavy Lodge Corvallis, OR

 Student and Faculty Presentations:

Optimization of Noisy, Expensive Experiments:
applications to cyanobacterial hydrogen production
Liz Burrows - Bioengineering, Paul Strauss, Weng-Keen Wong, Xiaoli Fern - Computer Science

Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Mathematics
Geoff Hosack, Phil Rossignol - Fisheries and Wildlife

A National Collaborative Study of Nutrient Spiraling
in Streams and Effects of Land Use
Stan Gregory, Dan Sobota - Fisheries and Wildlife Developing an Analytical Model for Landscape Carbon Stores
Mark Harmon - Forestry; Enrique Thomann - Mathematics

Visualization of the HJ Andrews Watershed 1
Matthew Clothier - Computer Science

LPL GUESS: a hybrid approach to vegetation modeling
Janine Rice - Geography; Sarah Shafer - USGS Research Scientist

The Thermostat Hypothesis and Coral Reefs
John Henry - Statistics

Emerging Trends in Ecosystem Informatics
Julia Jones - Geography ;Tom Dietterich - Computer Science;
Ed Waymire - Mathematics
Description: Ecosystem Informatics Panel Discussion

   Keynote Speaker:

 Dr. Denise Lach
 Associate Professor
 Department of Sociology
 Oregon State University

More about Denise Lach    

 

External Advisory Board members in attendance:

  Dr. Jason Dunham, Aquatic Ecologist USGS, FRESC Corvallis Research Group

Dr. David Hiebeler  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics University of Maine-Orano

Dr. Deana Pennington, Research Assistant Professor, LTER

 

Dr. Pauline van den Driessche Mathematics and Statistics University of Victoria

Dr. Weng-Keen Wong , Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, OSU  

Except from External Advisory Board report review:

"We found the retreat to be well-organized and informative. The students who presented posters and oral presentations did an excellent job overall. In future years we would like to see more of the projects or ideas presented at the annual symposium, as recommended in the 2006 program review. While our window into the EI IGERT program is small and based on this retreat, we were able to learn much about the program and had a good opportunity to learn about its many successes. In our view this program has confronted challenging problems in interdisciplinary science and has produced some very interesting results. Here we report on a list of suggestions for potentially improving EI IGERT while acknowledging up front that the program is well on track. We have organized this under 10 major themes, some of which may overlap to varying degrees."