2010 – 2011 Activities

27^th Annual Chapter Meeting

Restoring and Protecting Watersheds: Graduate and Undergraduate Research Symposium

September 29 – 30, 2010, John S. Wright Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Attendance:  49 registrants from four states

Workshop:

Ambient Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria Development: Then and Now

Instructors: Greg Smith and Craig Voros, Great Lakes Environmental Center, Columbus, OH

Student Platform Presentations:

• Kelly Amundsen, Cleveland State University, “A Remote Sensing Method of Riparian Vegetation Mapping in the Lower Colorado River Watershed”
• Heather Gall, Purdue University, “Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Export of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds from Agricultural Fields under Various Manure Application Practices”
• Allison Veach, Ball State University, “Temporal variation of pharmaceuticals in an urban and agriculturally influenced stream”

Student Interactive Poster Presentations:

• Michael Brandenburg, Ball State University, “Chronic effects of nanosilver on Physa growth and reproduction”
• J. Brown, Ball State University, “The influence of triclosan on growth and behavior of the freshwater snail, Physa acuta”
• Patrick Ferguson, Ball State University, “Abundance of pharmaceuticals in near-shore habitats of Lake Michigan”
• Max Koran, Cleveland State University, “Late Holocene Climate Variability from Eolian Sediments in Relict San Luis Lakes”
• Jessica K. Leet, Purdue University, “Impacts of Land-Applied Wastes from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations on Fish Communities”
• Kevin E. Leet, Purdue University, “Mercury concentrations in Larus dominicanus and Larus pipixcan Gulls collected from Talcahuano, Chile”
• Solange S. Lewis, Purdue University, “The Transcriptomic Response to Zinc Toxicity in Fathead Minnow Larvae”
• Suman Maity, Purdue University, “Using Metabolomics to Explore the Causes of Diporeia spp. Declines in the Great Lakes”
• Sam Peterson, Purdue University, “Gene expression alterations induced by developmental exposure to lead (Pb) in zebrafish embryos”
• Jamie Quellos, Cleveland State University, “A Preliminary Analysis of Phosphorus Concentrations in the Cuyahoga River”
• Nick Reising, Ball State University, “The influence of copper, lead, and iron on stream sediment nitrification”
• D. R. Robbins, Purdue University, “Toxicity of Tungsten and Cobalt Mixtures in Embryonic Zebrafish”
• Matthew Stensberg, Purdue University, “Real-time, physiological sensing with Daphnia magna embryos to differentiate the effects of silver and nanosilver”
• K. G. Van Zant, Ball State University, “Effect of pharmaceuticals on microbial respiration and production”
• Gregory Weber, Purdue University, “Early developmental exposure to the herbicide atrazine results in enrichment of gene expression alterations associated with neuroendocrine development and carcinogenesis”
• J. Zhang, Purdue University, “Morphologic Study of Lead (Pb) Exposure on Neurodevelopment in the Embryonic Zebrafish Brain”

Student Awards:

• Best Platform (Marian Vinegar Award): Kelly Amundsen
• Best Poster: Suman Maity

Chapter Officers

            President:  Timothy Rice, St. Joseph’s College

            Past President:  Katrina Leigh, ENVIRON International Corporation

            President Elect:  Becky Braeutigam, BHE Environmental, Inc.

            Secretary/Treasurer:  Angela Schmidt, United States Army Corps of Engineers

Board Members

            Dan Peterson, United States Environmental Protection Agency

            Jen Lyndall, ENVIRON International Corporation

            Katie Coady, Dow Chemical Company

            Mike Homsher, University of Findlay

            Melody Bernot, Ball State University

            Joe Schubauer-Berigan, United States Environmental Protection Agency

            Jennifer Wiebusch, Cleveland State University (student representative)

Membership (2010 – 2011)

Regular memberships:  88

Student memberships:  10