257 Environmental Geoscience II

Oral Session
General Discipline Sessions
Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 310BE

Presiding:
Curtis Hollabaugh and Timothy Green
1:30 PM
Measuring Thermal Properties on Mars: Relaxation of Requirements for Transient Heated Needle Measurements of Material Thermal Properties
Douglas Cobos, Decagon Devices; Gaylon Campbell, Decagon Devices; Colin Campbell, Decagon Devices
1:45 PM
Long-Term Drought Solutions in Georgia: Well Fields and Drinking Water Reservoirs
Curtis L. Hollabaugh, University of West Georgia; Randa R. Harris, University of West Georgia
2:00 PM
Understanding Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Perturbations and Secular Changes Using Sediment Cores
David Long, Michigan State University; Matthew J. Parsons, Michigan State University; Catherine Yansa, Michigan State University; Colleen McLean, Michigan State University; Ryan Vannier, Michigan State University
2:15 PM
Water and Wastewater Management in Rural Costa Rica
Adam G. Clapp, Baylor University; Joe C. Yelderman Jr, Baylor University; Brian Scheffe
2:45 PM
Porosity Loss in Subsurface -Flow Treatment Wetlands
Tina Potterton, Baylor University; Joe C. Yelderman Jr, Baylor University; Margaret Forbes, Baylor University
3:00 PM
Break
3:15 PM
Thecamoebians (testate amoebae) as Proxies of Ecosystem Health in Oil Sands Lakes and Wetlands
Lisa Ann Neville, Brock University; Francine M.G. McCarthy, Brock University; Michael D. MacKinnon, Syncrude Canada Ltd; Patricia Marlowe, Golder Associates Ltd
3:30 PM
Storm Water Turbidity Control by Flow Energy Dissipation and Chemical Treatment in Stilling Basins
Ajay Bhardwaj, North Carolina State University; Richard McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
3:45 PM
Spatial Features, Scaling and Simulation in Semi-Arid Agricultural Terrain
Timothy Green, USDA-ARS; Liwang Ma, USDA-ARS; Robert H. Erskine, USDA-ARS
4:00 PM
Geochemical Characterization of Beaver Reservoir Sediments Containing Drinking Water Treatment Residuals
Jason A. Patton, Arkansas Tech University; Stephen K. Boss, Univ of Arkansas