The annual Environment and Sustainability Research Symposium features research projects from students from across campus. 2019 featured presentations from students in 14 different departments.
| Last Name | First Name | Department | Poster title | Author(s) | ||
| Ackroyd | Chelsea | Geography | Spatial and temporal snow cover distribution in the Himalaya using MODSCAG | Chelsea Ackroyd, McKenzie Skiles, Joachim Meyer, and Karl Rittger | ||
| Angizeh | Farhad | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Stochastic Scheduling of Onsite Solar Power Generation for Large Customers | Farhad Angizeh, Masood Parvania | ||
| Arfan | Muhammad | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Flow Variability of the Indus River | Muhammad Arfan, Dr. Ghulam Nabi, | ||
| Baker | Kensey | Parks, Recreation & Tourism | Sustainable trail use along the Wasatch Front: Indicators and thresholds for outdoor recreation crowding | Kensey Baker Chris Zajchowski Jeff Rose |
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| Banerjee | Debolina | City & Metropolitan Planning | Perceptions of a Wicked Problem: Situation Assessment of Water Quality Issues in The Jordan River Watershed | Debolina Banerjee, Dr. Sarah Hinners, Dr. Brett Clark | ||
| Berg | Elizabeth | Geology & Geophysics | Seismic Imaging of the Bonneville Salt Flats | Elizabeth Berg, Fan-Chi Lin, Amir Allam, Jeremiah Bernau, Evan Kipnis, Brenda Bowen, Santiago Rabade | ||
| Bernau | Jeremiah | Geology & Geophysics | Evaporation rates across a Flooding-Evaporation-Desiccation cycle at the Bonneville Salt Flats | Jeremiah Bernau, Brenda Bowen, Alexei Pere | ||
| Blair | Hailey | Biology | Identification of Banded Empidonax Flycatchers using DNA Barcoding | Hailey Blair, Cagan Sekercioglu | ||
| Blevins | James | Anthropology | Sustainable Intertidal Resource Use: Developing Modern Baselines to Explain Prehistoric Human Impacts | James K Blevins | ||
| Breckenridge | Zak | Environmental Humanities Graduate Program | The University of Utah's College of Engineering: Excavation and Disanthropic History | Zak Breckenridge | ||
| Brussel | Thomas | Geography | Estimating the modern functional diversity gradient from pollen data | Thomas Brussel, Simon Brewer, Andrea Brunelle, Mitchell J. Power | ||
| Cox | Mazie | Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program | Paleoclimate reconstruction of fire history in Range Creek Canyon | Mazie Cox, Benjamin Marconi, Andrea Brunelle | ||
| DeMarco | Angelina | Anthropology | Social Networks and Health Outcomes in Rapòn, Haiti | Angelina L. DeMarco | ||
| Flores | Aaron | Geography | Disparities in Health Impacts and Access to Care among Houston Area Residents After Hurricane Harvey | Aaron B. Flores, Timothy W. Collins, Sara E. Grineski (University of Utah), Jayajit Chakraborty (University of Texas at El Paso) | ||
| Ghaemi | Zahra | Mechanical Engineering | How greenhouse gas emissions change toward metrics at urban and nation scale. | Zahra Ghaemi, Amanda D. Smith | ||
| Graves | Quinn | Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program | Reconstructing the paleoecology of climate and vegetation change from a ciénega on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico | Quinn Graves, Jennifer Watt, Andrea Brunelle, Brett Clark | ||
| Green | Austin | Biology | Where the Wild Things are: Wildlife Conservation through Community Science and Camera Traps | Austin Green, Mary Pendergast, Allison Jones, Lisa Thompson, Lewis Kogan, Cagan Sekercioglu | ||
| Hartley | Jordin | Geography | Reconstructing a Fire Record and Vegetation History Record for a Whitebark Pine Site in the Western United States | Jordin Hartley, Jennifer Watt | ||
| Heyer | Joshua | Geography | Challenges and Issues Constructing an Age-Depth Model from an Oxbow Lake in eastern Utah | Josh Heyer, Andrea Brunelle, Zachary Lundeen, Tammy Rittenour, Bérangère Leys, Mitchell Power | ||
| Jamal | Rubayat | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Assessing microbiological water quality in drinking water distribution system in Hyderabad, Pakistan | Rubayat Jamal | ||
| Johnson | Ryan | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Declining Great Salt Lake Environmental Health: Identifying Historical Watershed Consumption as a Function of Urbanization and Variable Winter Precipitation | Ryan Johnson, Steven Burian | ||
| Jones | Kaylee | Geography | Camels Back Cave and Simpson Spring, Utah: A case study for linking archaeological and paleoecological histories in the Bonneville Basin. | Kaylee Jones, Andrea Brunelle, Isaac Hart, Jenni DeGraffenried, Rachel Quist | ||
| Joyner | Leah | Parks, Recreation & Tourism | Reframing Agritourism Towards Indigenous Perspectives | Joyner, Leah., Yagüe, Blanca. | ||
| Keeler | Durban | Geography | Estimates of annual surface mass balance from radar for the West Antarctic Divide using the Probabilistic Automated Isochrone Picking Routine | Durban Keeler, Summer Rupper, Richard Forster, Clem Miege, Lora Koenig | ||
| khanzada | Rafia | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Development of monitoring method for zinc toxicity by thiosulfate-oxidizing bacteria (TOB) bioassay | Rafia Khanzada, Naveed Ahmed Qambrani | ||
| Khatami | Roohallah | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Continuous-time Stochastic Modeling and Estimation of Electricity Load | Roohallah Khatami, Masood Parvania, Pramod Khargonekar, Akil Narayan | ||
| Krueger | Joey | Geography | Examining the Influence of Tropical Pacific Sea-Surface Temperatures on Annual Surface Mass Balance in West Antarctica | Joey Krueger, Summer Rupper, Court Strong | ||
| Lackey | N. Qwynne | Parks, Recreation & Tourism | “Now is Not the Time to Take a Breather”: U.S. Federal Land Management Agency Professionals’ Perceptions at the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 | N. Qwynne Lackey, G. David McNay, Chris Zajchowski | ||
| Lee | Seungyub | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Redundancy Quantification of Water Distribution System using Time-dependent Graph Theory | Seungyub Lee, Steve Burian | ||
| Legorburu | Gabriel | Mechanical Engineering | Multi-Objective Optimization - Waste Heat Recovery Systems in Food Processing | Gabriel Legorburu | ||
| Levine | Zacharia | City & Metropolitan Planning | Discovering Gateway and Natural Amenity Region (GNAR) Communities in the Western US | Zacharia Levine | ||
| Li | Ke | Geology & Geophysics | Rotation Dynamics of Rod-shaped Colloids with Surface Charge Heterogeneity | Ke Li Huilian Ma |
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| Li | Jiada | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Explore the Potential of Fuzzy Logic Control Algorithm to Mitigate Flooding in Sugar House Drianage System | Jiada Li, Steven Burian, Carlos Oroza | ||
| Magargal | Kate | Anthropology | How firewood access structures settlement patterns | Kate Magargal | ||
| Mailloux | Savannah | Geography | Mapping Vitality in Utah's Salt Lake County | Savannah Mailloux, Monisha Pasupathi, Timothy Collins | ||
| Marconi | Benjamin | Geography | Exploring Coupled Human-Natural Relationships: Mutli-Proxy Geochemical Evidence of Depositional Heterogeneity in Cherry Meadows, Range Creek Canyon | Benjamin Marconi | ||
| Margairaz | Fabien | Mechanical Engineering | Effect of the land surface thermal patchiness on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer through a quantification of the dispersive fluxes | Fabien Margairaz, Eric Pardyjak, Marc Calaf | ||
| Maric | Emina | Mechanical Engineering | Stability Effects on the Evolution of Very Large Scale Motions as the Atmospheric Surface Layer Transitions through Neutral Thermal Stability | Emina Maric, Meredith Metzger | ||
| Meyer | Joachim | Geography | Assessing Structure from Motion snow surface elevations over Senator Beck Basin, CO | Joachim Meyer, S. McKenzie Skiles | ||
| Mohammadi | Farshad | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Coordinated Scheduling of Power Generation and Water Desalination Units | Farshad Mohammadi; Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani |
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| Morrison | Travis | Mechanical Engineering | Measuring spatiotemporal albedo: An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) equipped with a low-cost albedo measurement package | Travis Morrison, Greg Torkelson, Marc Calaf, Eric Pardyjak | ||
| Newell | Marianne | Geography | A 2,000-4,000 yr. BP Analysis of Sediment Cores from the Bonneville Basin | NEWELL, M.; BRUNELLE, A.; HART, I.; DEGRAFFENRIED, J. | ||
| Nicolosi | Emily | Geography | Add to the Map! Evaluating Digitally-Mediated Participatory Mapping for Grassroots Sustainabilities | Emily Nicolosi, Jim French, Richard Medina | ||
| O'Brien | Kaedan | Anthropology | EARLY PLEISTOCENE GRASSLAND DYNAMICS AT EAST TURKANA: SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS OF MESIC- AND XERIC-ADAPTED UNGULATES AND NEW INSIGHTS INTO NICHE PREFERENCES OF EURYGNATHOHIPPUS AND KOLPOCHOERUS |
Kaedan O’Brien, David B. Patterson, Kayla Allen, Maryse D. Biernat, David R. Braun, Amanda "Billie" Guerrero, Amanda McGrosky, Felipe Torres, and J. Tyler Faith | ||
| Oikonomou | Konstantinos | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Deliverable Energy Flexibility Scheduling for Active Distribution Networks |
Konstantinos Oikonomou, Masood Parvania, Member, and Roohallah Khatami | ||
| Olsen | McKinley | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Pathogen Monitoring and Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Secondary Water in Cache Valley, UT | McKinley Olsen, Jennifer Weidhaas | ||
| Olson | Matthew | Geography | Spatial and temporal changes in radiative forcing on glaciers in High Mountain Asia | Matthew Olson, Summer Rupper, McKenzie Skiles | ||
| Pinegar | Haruka | Metallurgical Engineering | Recovery of Valuable Materials from End-Of-Life Lithium Ion Batteries for Recycling | Haruka Pinegar, York Smith | ||
| Plewe | Kaden | Mechanical Engineering | Modeling Temporal Variation in Externalities Related to Electricity Purchases in Buildings | Kaden Plewe, Amanda D. Smith | ||
| Podder | Aditi | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Nitrogen Management in Treatment of Complicated Urban Waste-streams | Aditi Podder, Ramesh Goel | ||
| Post | Emily | Anthropology | The State of Social Support in a Community Impacted by Hurricane Maria 1 Year Later | Emily Post | ||
| Rafique | Ahmed | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Evaluation of Reservoir Operation Alterations to Improve Water Supply, Hydropower Generation, and Flood Control Performance of Tarbela Dam | Ahmed Rafique, Steven Burian, Erfan Goharian | ||
| Rea-Downing | Grant | Geology & Geophysics | Further Development of the Magnetization of Evergreen Needles as a Proxy for Air Quality in Salt Lake City | Grant Rea-Downing, Peter Lippert, Brendon Quirk, Courtney Wagner | ||
| Rice | Marian | Political Science | The Energy-Water Nexus: Energy Extraction in the Uinta Basin | Marian L. Rice, Ph.D. Candidate | ||
| Riley | Collin | Geography | Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation Events in High Mountain Asia as Inferred from High Resolution Regional Climate Modeling | Collin Riley, Summer Rupper, William J Steenburgh, Courtenay Strong, Adam Kochanski | ||
| Rubio | Ricardo | Sociology | Unequal exposure to cancer-causing hazardous air pollutants based on ancestry in the United States | Ricardo Rubio, Sara Grineski, Timothy Collins, and Danielle X. Morales | ||
| Sahulka | Sierra | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Characterization, Disinfection Kinetics, and Gene Expression of Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens in Response to Chlorination | Sierra Quinn Sahulka, Dr. Ramesh Goel | ||
| Sonani | Jiya | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Assessment of copper toxicity in water using thiosulfate-oxidizing bacteria (TOB) bioassay | Jiya Sonani, Naveed Ahmed Qambrani | ||
| Stanislawski | Brooke | Mechanical Engineering | Aiming to enhance efficiency of utility-scale solar farms through large-eddy simulations | Brooke Stanislawski, Marc Calaf, Raul Cal | ||
| Tagore | Pratiti | City & Metropolitan Planning | What matters in neighborhood safety? - A study of four Salt Lake City neighborhoods | Pratiti Tagore; Sarah Jack Hinners; Paul Larrabee Wason; Carly Feikes Lansche | ||
| Terry | Ben | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Modeling Hydrologic Performance of Bioretention for Cold Climates in SWMM |
Benjamin Terry | ||
| Thomas | Jermy | Mechanical Engineering | Pilot Study on how indoor environmental and physiological variables affect human thermal comfort | Jermy Thomas, Amanda D. Smith | ||
| Torosin | Nicole | Anthropology | The evolution of TLR7 and TLR8 in YFV endemic areas | Nicole Torosin, Leslie A. Knapp, Patrice Corneli | ||
| Tran | Dana | Civil & Environmental Engineering | ION EXCHANGE OF NTO WASTEWATER | Dana Tran, Saraswati Poudel Acharya, Jennifer Weidhaas | ||
| Tremble | Keaton | Biology | The role of symbiotic soil fungi in aspen herbivore defense | Keaton Tremble, Bryn Dentinger | ||
| Tysor | Deborah | Parks, Recreation & Tourism | Modeling the Influence of Air Quality on Visitor Behavior: U.S. Federal Land Management Professionals’ Perceptions | Tysor, D., Zajchowski, C., Brownlee, M., & Rose, J. | ||
| Vernon | Kenneth | Anthropology | Red Butte Research Natural Area: A Rich Legacy of Human Activity | Kenneth B. Vernon, Kate E. Magargal, L. Brock James, Savanna Agardy, Tom Flanigan, and Brian F. Codding | ||
| Wagner | Courtney | Geology & Geophysics | Magnetofossil, Magnetic Particle, and Microfossil Assemblages in a Subtropical Coastal Environment: Environmental Change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum | Courtney Wagner, Peter Lippert, Peter Stassen, Robert Speijer, Ellen Thomas | ||
| Wilson | Kurt | Anthropology | The Marginal Utility of Inequality | Kurt Wilson Brian Codding |
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| Yagüe | Blanca | Anthropology | Urban Food Justice: BUG Farms Urban CSA & the Glendale Neighborhood | Blanca Yagüe and Leah Joyner | ||
| Yaworsky | Peter | Anthropology | Archaeological Potential of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument | Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Brian F. Codding. |