Events from 2025
Optimizing Light Spectrum to Upscale Grow-Out of Coral Recruits for Restoration, * Liam A. Abrams, Nicole Fogarty, Hannah Koch, Keri O'Neil, and Joana Figueiredo
A Stingray’s Preferred Menu: A Wide Selection of Small Invertebrates, * Shelby Boyles, Jessica Schieber, and George Duncan
Break, Symposium Break
Break, Symposium Break
Break, Symposium Break
Break, Symposium Break
Stable Isotopes and Heavy Metals as Trophic Discriminators among Southeast Alaska Gray Wolves and Northern Sea Otters, Miranda Brohman
Answers in a Drop of Water: eDNA and its Application in Marine and Freshwater Conservation, Susana Caballero Gaitan
A New Threat? Investigating Unusual Lesions on the Florida Keys’ Largest Corals, Arelys Chaparro
Artificial Intelligence Meets Quantum, Raul Coto Cabrera
Differences in Secondary Consumer Behavioral Responses to Predators on Natural and Artificial Reefs in South Florida, Lauren E. Dalton
Spatial and Thermal Trends in Stony Coral Endosymbiont Identity Along the Southeast Florida Reef Tract, * Delaney Deinlein and Joshua S. Feingold
Caribbean Gorgonian Coral-Zooxanthellae Network: Establishing Critical Symbiotic Relationships in an Uncertain Climate, * Brady Estrada and Timothy Swain
Predicting Demography From Species Traits: Larval Development Time and its Sensitivity to Warming Depend on Egg Size in Corals, Joana Figueiredo
Characterization of Potential Marine Microbial Degraders of PHA using Phade Straws, * Emma Rose Gellman, Kirk Dotson, Kyle Pisano, and Jose V. Lopez
Thermal Tolerance Across Depth-Segregated Orbicella Corals, * Matias Gomez-Corrales Ph.D., Tómas López-Londoño PhD, Naomi Huntley M.S., Manuel Olmeda-Saldaña M.S., Francisco González M.S., Willow Dunster B.S., Ernesto Weil Ph.D., Roberto Iglesias-Prieto Ph.D., and Carlos Prada Ph.D.
Endoparasite Community of the Invasive Grey-Headed Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus), Alexia Hilber
Keynote: Master of the House? Emerging Insights on the Cell Biology and Ecology of Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualisms, Todd C. LaJeunesse
Octocoral Microbiome: Towards an Understanding of Octocoral-Bacteria Interactions on Florida’s Coral Reefs, * Ronen Liberman and Jose Victor Lopez
Various -omics Tools Reveal the Versatility of Cyanobacterial Bloom Formers in the Lake Okeechobee Watershed, * Jose V. Lopez, Lauren E. Krausfeldt, Paisley Samuel, Robert Smith, Barry Rosen, and Hidetoshi Urakawa
Identification of Crustose Coralline Algae Species in Florida and Their Ability to Induce Coral Larval Settlement in Florida of Caribbean Corals, Danielle Macias
Coral Physiological Response to Deoxygenated Seawater, Jennifer E. Mallon
Genomic Assessment of Ancestry and Natural History in a Captive Tiger Living in New York City Projects, * Steven O'Brien, George Duncan, Henry Jones, and Shu-Jin Luo
Introductions, HCAS Graduate Science Research Symposium Organizing Committee
Lunch, SGA & Organizing Committee
Lunch, SGA & Organizing Committee
Prize Announcements, SGA & Organizing Committee
In Memoriam: Professor Charles Messing (1948-2023), Symposium Organizing Committee
Representation of Populations in Human Oral Microbiome Research, Andrew T. Ozga
Fostering Conservation Through Shark Tourism: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Impact, Elizabeth C. Saraf
Parasite surveys of Hypanus sabinus and H. say hosts in the Indian River Lagoon Estuary, * Sarah Sargent, David Kerstetter, and Christopher Blanar
Concluding Banquet, HCAS SGA
Regional Differences in the Effects of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and Antibiotic Treatments on the Fecundity of Orbicella faveolata in Florida, * Reagan Sharkey, Hannah Mazurek, Abigail Renegar, Cheryl Woodley, Greta Aeby, Karen Neely, Gareth Williams, and Brian Walker
Elemental Mimicry in Seal Teeth Reveal More Than You Realize, Ally E. Sheehan
To the Deep End and Beyond: Deep-Pelagic Research in the NSU Oceanic Ecology Lab, Tracey Sutton
Asymptotic Matrix Behaviors and Iterative Algorithms, Tin-Yau Tam
Estimated Carbon Flux of Argyropelecus aculeatus within the Gulf of Mexico, Sidney R. Trimble
Sharks in the Parks: Use of MPAs by Silky Sharks, Carcharhinus falciformis, in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, *Jeremy Vaudo, Pelayo Salinas de Leon, Ryan Logan, Jenifer Suarez-Moncada, Bradley Wetherbee, and Mahmood Shivji
Regional Survivorship, Predation and Growth of Outplanted Fragments from Resilient Orbicella Faveolata in Southeast Florida, Alex S. Wagner
Pacific Pit Stops: Leveraging Genomics to Understand Scalloped Hammerhead Aggregations in the Galapagos Islands, Geoffrey Walker
Experimental Core Healing in Orbicella faveolata as an Indicator of Colony Health, * Alexander G. Wheeler, Reagan Sharkey, Hunter Noren, Cheryl M. Woodley, Abigail Renegar, and Brian K. Walker
Keynote: Bioluminescence And Beyond: Milestones And Missions, Edie Widder
Temporal Effects of Recurrent Disturbances on Coral Traits in the Southern Persian Gulf, * Samara Zinman, John A. Burt, Nicholas P. Jones, Jeneen Hadj-Hammou, Bernard Riegl, and Andrew Bauman
Comparative Life-History Strategies of Two Sympatric Stingray Species From the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Jordan M. Zulli
Events from 2024
Extensions of Algebraic Frames, Papiya Bhattacharjee
Extensions of Algebraic Frames, Papiya Bhattacharjee
Newton's Electromagnetic Bucket, Angelina Georg
Optimal Control of Coefficients for the Second Order Parabolic Free Boundary Problems, Ali Hagverdiyev
Fibonacci Numbers and Symmetry in Tai-Chi Motions, Matthew He
Preservative Splitting Numerical Schemes for Solving a Variable Coefficient Quenching Problem, Julienne Kabre
Group Representations & Quantum Theory, Vehbi Paksoy
Majorization Polytopes, Fuzhen Zhang
Events from 2023
1324-Avoiding (0,1)-Matrices, Megan Bennett
What Our Policies Say: Inclusive Language Practices for Syllabi Writing, Melissa Bianchi, Juliette Kitchens, Adele Leon, Claire Luttkewitte, and Star Vanguri
Excursions in Vector Calculus, Diego Castano
The Heisenberg Lie Algebra and its role in the Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator, Angelina Georg
The Heisenberg Lie Algebra and its role in the Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator, Angelina Georg
IN EULER’S FOOTSTEPS: THE ENDURING APPEAL OF SPECIAL FUNCTIONS AND SPECIAL PROBLEMS, Lubomir Markov
Mean Value Theorems for Analytic Functions, Lubomir Markov
Irreducible representations of sl(2,C), Della Medovoy
Irreducible representations of sl(2,C), Della Medovoy
Lie Algebras and Lie Groups, Nhi Nguyen
Lie Algebras and Lie Groups, Nhi Nguyen
Coastal Circulation in a Western Boundary Current Using Gliders and a Wirewalker, Alfredo Quezada, Alexander Soloviev, John Kluge, Geoffrey Morrison, Terry Thompson, and Brian Ettinger
Sea Spray Generation Function Due to Shear-Induced Instabilities of the Air-Sea Interface Under Tropical Cyclone Conditions, Alexander Soloviev and Breanna Vanderplow
Eigenvalue and Singular Value Inequalities via Extreme Principles, Fuzhen Zhang
Submissions from 2022
Substantiation and Validation of the Benefits of CUREs in STEM using a Combination of Self-Reported Gains and Alignment with Learning Objectives, Monica Aguiar, Luzcarime Saco Vertiz, Mina Ghali, Rachel Keating, Ane Mashiach, Rajin Persaud, Kayla Rubalsky, Akshata Sastry, Irene Stepensky, Trisha Sudhakar, Santanu De, and Arthur Sikora
A Spatial Assessment of Impacts to the Flats Fishery by Recreational Boating in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Kristin Anderson
One iteration for the second boundary condition for the nonlinear one dimensional Monge-Ampere equation, Gerard Awanou
Do habitat degradation and chemical alarm cues alter the escape behavior of a schooling coral reef fish?, Monica D. Bacchus
Parasites of raptorial birds of South Florida, Vanessa R. Blanchard, Christopher A. Blanar, and David W. Kerstetter
Abundance, Site Fidelity, and Association Patterns of Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off the Coast of Southeast Florida, Graysen D. Boehning, Barbara Brunnick, Stefan Harzen, Lauren Nadler, and Amy Hirons
On the Linear Independence of Finite Gabor and Wavelet Systems, Abdelkrim Bourouihiya
Spatio-Temporal Symbiont Mosaics Influence on SCTLD Susceptibility in Orbicella faveolata, Samantha F. Buckley, Brian K. Walker, Caroline Dennison, and Andrew Baker
The Effect of Fluorinated Substitution of Meso Phenyl Porphyrins on Porphyrin Basicity, Harsh Chheda, Rushi Patel, Maria Ballester Ph.D., and Victor Castro Ph.D.
The Effect of Fluorinated Substitution of Meso Phenyl Porphyrins on Porphyrin Basicity, Harsh Chheda, Rushi Patel, Maria Ballester, and Victor Castro
Evaluation of Nearshore Carbonate Chemistry Within Major Navigational Inlets of the Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area, Harrison Davis
Comparative study of homocoupling reactions to create 2,2’-bipyridine adducts, Ethan DePry, Hoa Le, and Beatrix Aukszi
Heroines in Literature and Film, Aileen M. Farrar
Seeing and Observing: Care and the Medical Humanities, Aileen M. Farrar
Silence: Women’s Narratives of Illness and the Haiku, Aileen M. Farrar
TikTok Tourette’s: Social Media & Patient Narratives, Aileen M. Farrar
What Comes Next?, Aileen M. Farrar
Conference Conventions & Etiquette: Redux, Aileen M. Farrar and Marlisa Santos
Periodic Spatial Disturbances Alter the Expression of Quorum Sensing Virulence Factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Laura García-Diéguez
Sewage-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in South Florida, Eben Gering
Distance and Interpersonal Analysis on Learning Progression of Undergraduate Students Enrolled in Biochemistry, Mina Ghali, Kayla Rubalsky, Irene Stepensky, Santanu De, and Arthur Sikora
NSU Marine Turtle Tracking: What we know so far about the post-nesting movements of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtles nesting in Broward County, FL, Glenn D. Goodwin and Derek A. Burkholder
Investigating the specific phosphorylation sites of the human mineralocorticoid receptor using phospho-mapping, Valentina Guidi, Beatrix Aukszi, and Anastasios Lymperopoulos
Banquet, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA
Coffee Break, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA
Coffee Break, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA
Coffee Break, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA
Lunch, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA
Lunch, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA
Morning Coffee, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA
Morning Coffee, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography SGA
How Prey Defense Patterns Predator-Prey Distributions, Evan Haskell
Evaluating the Effect of Symbiodiniaceae on the Survival, Acquisition, and Growth of Newly Settled Corals of Three Caribbean Species, Michael B. Hood