2023 Student Posters
Thank you to each of our student poster submitters. This year included lots of great posters! Thank you to the student poster judges for providing your time and attention.
Undergraduate Student Poster Submissions
Winner: Avery Mohn - Microplastics within Fluvial Sediment: Quantifying Abundance, Characterizing Sources, and Understanding Drivers; Mohn Poster
Runner up: Kyle Kohman - Automatic Gully Mapping Using Generative Adversarial Network; Kohman Poster
Additional Submissions:
Eresay Alcantar-Velasquez - Nitrate contamination in groundwater from private wells in south-central Kansas; Alcantar-Velasquez Poster
Elizabeth Appel - Troubled Waters: Redlined Communities and Present-Day Flooding; Appel Poster
Marleigh Hutchinson - The Closed Loop Approach for Environmental Health: Resources Recovery from Agricultural Waste Streams; Hutchinson Poster
Alexi Sommerville - Characterizing Dissolved Organic Matter in Non-Perennial Streams; Sommerville Poster
Graduate Student Poster Submissions
Winner: Shiseido Robinson - Synthesis and Additive Manufacturing of Titanium Carbide (Ti3C2Tx) Mxene Electrochemical Sensors for 4-Nitorphenols; Robinson Poster
Runner up: Camden Hatley - Event-Scale Nitrate Transport Dynamics in the Kansas River Basin; Hatley Poster
Additional Submissions:
Christa Anhold - Impacts of Woody Encroachment On The Fate Of Soil CO2 In Grassland Watersheds; Anhold Poster
Oladipo Bolade - Quantifying Event-scale Streambank Erosion Using Planet Labs Satellite Imagery; Bolade Poster
Kehinde Bosikun - Spatiotemporal analysis of summer extreme temperature events in the State of Kansas; Bosikun Poster
Connor Brown - Flow Variability Drives Changes in the Oxygen Regime of Non-Perennial Prairie Stream; Brown Poster
Kyle Cappotto - Water Injection Dredging and Human-Induced Turbidity Currents as an Alternative Strategy for Reservoir Sedimentation Management; Cappotto Poster
Christopher Carter - The Public Health Burden of West Nile Virus and Drought in the Colorado River Basin; Carter Poster
Colton Chapman - Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Water Allocations in Kansas; Chapman Poster
Shreya Catterjee - Exploring Temporal Trends of Nitrate Export in the Eastern Kansas River Basin; Catterjee Poster
Sarah Flynn - Spatial Variability of Dissolved Organic Matter in the South Fork of King's Creek; Flynn Poster
Megan Hamersky - Herbal Medicine for Sick Ponds: Are Native Aquatic Macrophytes a Cheap and Easy Way to Mitigate HABS?; Hamersky Poster
Kelechi Igwe - Growing More With Less: Smart Irrigation For A Sustainable Future in Western Kansas; Igwe Poster
Wayne Ndlovu - Sensitivity Analysis and Performance Evaluation of the AquaCrop-OS Model for Corn Yield and Irrigation in Northwestern Kansas; Ndlovu Poster
Victor Oladoja - Network Analysis Revealed Extreme Rainfall Patterns in Kansas; Oladoja Poster
Luqman Olawale - Algal Bloom Prediction Using Recurrent Neural Networks; Olawale Poster
Ikenna Onyekwelu - Beyond Water Stress: Modeling Future Maize Productivity in the Eastern Kansas River Basin; Onyekwelu Poster
Sindhu Palla - Long-Term Impact (1981-2018) of Climate on Alfalfa Production in Kansas: Feature Selection Approach; Palla Poster
Aayush Pandit - Forecasting the Tipping Points of Hypereutrophic Lake Conditions Under Changing Climate and Land Use Scenarios; Pandit Poster
Sudipti Parajuli - Quantification of Soil Water Evaporation Using Heat Pulse Sensors; Parajuli Poster
Abigal Percich - Sediment Fingerprinting to Assess Sources of Erosion in Urbanizing Johnson County; Percich Poster
Mahbubur Rahman - Irrigation water use and crop yield prediction using AquaCrop_OSPy model and OpenET Data; Rahman Poster
Sarah Raugewitz - Cover Crop Effects on Peak Flow and Total Volume for Edge-of-Field Runoff; Raugewitz Poster
Bre Rivera Waterman - How has rapid corn-belt expansion impacted stream nutrients & suspended sediments; Waterman Poster
Emma Russin - Meta-analysis of resilience and equity-based literature of drinking water distribution systems; Russin Poster
Tamjid Us Sakib - Phosphorus Sorption Dynamics in Soil as Influenced by Cover Crop Species and Phosphorus Input; Sakib Poster
Jessica Schaeffer - Analysis of Crisis Response Communication by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tuttle Creek Lake during the Flooding Crisis of 2019; Schaeffer Poster
Jorge Serrano - Effect of redcedar revetments on streambank stabilization in McConnell Airforce Base, Wichita, KS; Serrano Poster
Grant Verhulst - Identifying and Forecasting CyanoHABs in Marion Reservoir; Verhulst Poster