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Presentations (* dentontes graduate student participant)

  • Richards, S. and *M. Campbell. 2006.  PAH exposure assessment of small mammals inhabiting Chattanooga Creek.  Chattanooga Creek Environmental Research and Community Action Conference. Alton Park and Piney Woods Environmental Health and Justice Collaborative. Sep 22nd, 2006.Chattanooga, TN.
  • Kindelberger, S.*, J. Conley*, S. Richards, S. Symes.  Quantitation of Trace Level Pharmaceuticals in the Tennessee River Valley using  UPLC-Tandem Mass Spectrometry.  Presented at The 58th Southeast/62nd Southwest Regional Meeting of American Chemical Society. November 1-4, 2006. Augusta, GA
  • Sapp, J.*, T. Wilson, S. Richards, K. Johnson.  Chlorinated insecticides, PCBs, and PBDEs in plasma collected from riverine turtles of the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, TN.  Abstracts of the 2006 Society of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists.  November 5-9, 2006.  Montreal, Quebec.
  • Conley, J*, Kindelberger, S.*, Symes, S., Richards, S. Rapid Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method For The Determination Of Pharmaceuticals In Aquatic Matrices. Abstracts of the 2006 Society of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists.  November 5-9, 2006.  Montreal, Quebec.
  • Campbell, M.*,  Hussa. E.*, Johnson, K., Lin, Z., Morris, C. *, Richards,S.  Exposure Assessment Using Small Mammals as Surrogates for Human Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Metals. Abstracts of the 2006 Society of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists.  November 5-9, 2006.  Montreal, Quebec.
  • Campbell, M.* and S. Richards.  Exposure assessment using small mammals as surrogates for human exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Bat Diversity Network and Sixteenth Colloquium on Conservation of Mammals in the Southeastern United States. February 16-17th, 2006.  Chattanooga, TN
  • Cookson, N.* and M. Schorr.  2006.  Landscape influences on fish assemblages in a Ridge and Valley stream in Tennessee. The 67th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
  • Huskins, S.* and J. Shaw. 2006. Preliminary Flora of the North Chickamauga Creek Gorge and Adjacent Areas, Hamilton County, TN. Poster Presentation at Tennessee Academy of Sciences, Clarksville, TN.
  • Miller, R.*, J. Shaw, A. Carroll. 2007. GIS Applications of a Dynamic, Online Herbarium Dataset. Presented (R. Miller) at 2007 ASB Annual Conference, Columbia, SC.
  • Miller, R.* and A. Carroll. 2007. GIS Applications of a Dynamic, Online Herbarium Dataset. Presented (R. Miller) at 2007 Tennessee Geographic Information Council (TNGIC) Annual Conference, Chattanooga, TN.
  • Miller, R.*, J. Shaw, A. Carroll. 2007. UTC Graduate Research and Scholars Day.
  • Miller, R.* and J. Shaw. 2006. Development and Applications of Georeferenced Herbarium Data. Presented at Tennessee Academy of Sciences annual meeting in Clarkesville, TN. First Place: Botany Student Oral Presentation
  • Miller, R.* and J. Shaw. 2006. Development and Applications of Georeferenced Herbarium Data. Presented at 13th Annual Geospatial Information Technology Association professional conference in Marietta, GA. Award for outstanding oral presentation
  • Miller, R.* and J. Shaw. 2006. Development and Applications of Georeferenced Herbarium Data. Presented at project meeting for UTC/UTK/Appalachian State University/NBII/SERNEC joint conference in Knoxville, TN.
  • Bennett, P.*, S. Hales*, R. Huggins*, L. Hutchings*, D. Seder*, and H. G. Spratt, Jr. 2006. Mineralization of the herbicide metolachlor by microbes in urban and rural streams.  Abstracts of Ann. meeting, Assoc. SE Biologists, Gatlinburg, TN (Southeastern Biology 53:177-178).
  • Campbell, M.*, I. Howlett*, J. Nihill*, J. Slack*, P. Thornton*, and H. G. Spratt, Jr. 2006.  The effects of prior exposure and biostimulation on the mineralization of naphthalene from two wetland sites in southeastern Tennessee.  Abstracts of Ann. meeting, Assoc. SE Biologists, Gatlinburg, TN (Southeastern Biology 53:178).
  • Wells, M.J.M., J.C. Tucker, and *M. Belka, Chemometric study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils of the Chattanooga Creek Floodplain.  231st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlanta, GA.
  • Jagger, M.*, and T.P. Wilson.  2006.  Asian Turtle Ethics: An Analysis of the Religious, Ethical, Cultural and Ecological Factors Influencing the Current Decline in Asian Turtle Populations. Joint Annual Meeting of the IUCN Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. 
  • Manis, C.*, and T.P. Wilson.  2006  Ecological Aspects of a Turtle Assemblage in the Tennessee River.  Joint Annual Meeting of the IUCN Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group.
  • Minton, R.*, Wilson, T.P., and C. Manis*.  2006.  An Analysis of Trap Captures on a Riverine Turtle Assemblage in Tennessee.  Joint Annual Meeting of the IUCN Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. 
  • Moss, S.L.*, Wilson, T.P., Keller, J.M., and S. Richards.  2006.  Levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in plasma from two species of riverine turtle.  Joint Annual Meeting of the IUCN Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group.
  • Wilson, T.P., Manis C.*, Minton, R.*, Moss, S.*, and D. Collins.  2006.  Using Turtles to Promote a Grassroots Environmental Education Program in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.  Joint Annual Meeting of the IUCN Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. 
  • Keller, J.M., Carlson, B.*, Swarthout, R.*, Alava, J.J.*, Moss, S.*, Steward, K.*, Aleska, K.*, Wilson, T.P., and J.R. Kucklick. 2007. PBDE Concentrations and Congener Profiles among Different Turtle Species, Locations, and Sample Types. 2007. Fourth International Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants, Amsterdam, The Netherlands April 24-27, 2007.

UTC Graduate Student Research and Scholars Day 2007

  • Meagan Binkley: “Natural Chestnut-Chinkapin Hybrids are Confounding Breeding Efforts in the Southeast: a DNA Sequence-Based inquiry into putative hybrid populations”
  • Justin M. Conley: “Pharmaceutical Concentrations in the Tennessee River”
  • Jessica Leet: “Assessment of Effects Associated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Exposure in South Chattanooga, Tennessee”
  • Ben Miles: “The Cumberland Trail: An Assessment of the Potential Ecological Value of Tennessee’s New Linear Park”
  • Ryan Miller: “The Development and GIS Applications of a Dynamic Online Herbarium Dataset”
  • Stacy Huskins: “A Preliminary Flora of the North Chickamauga Gorge” [poster presentation]
  • Melea R. Langley: “The Effect of Habitat and Nest Height on Nest Predation” [poster presentation]
  • Jennifer Sexton: “Analysis of Carbon Emissions in Chattanooga and Proposed Reduction Strategies” [poster presentation]