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Axiomatic Foundations Of Mathematics, Ryan Melton

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Texas Black Bears, Alexandria Bryant

Undergraduate Research Conference

One way to promote conservation efforts in an area is to bring awareness of the connections our society has with the animal that is under threat. Black Bears were once abundant throughout Texas, but through hunting and habitat loss, the bears had been eliminated from Texas by the 1950s. The placing of the Louisiana subspecies as threatened under The Federal Endangered Species Act in 1922 allowed populations to recover in Louisiana, and there have been several sightings in East Texas since. The face of Texas has been forever altered byt the presence of black bears. From the forests of East …

Keynote 2: The Alberta Oil Sands — Wrestling Bitumen Out Of The Wild North, David Rudolph

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Athabasca Oil Sand Reserve:

- Oil sands are contained within the Cretaceous McMurray Formation. (149,000 km2)

- 2.5 trillion barrels of extractable oil (~ 25 % of Canada Crude Oil Production)

- Surface mineable deposits cover 2,800 km2

- 450 billion L of process water used annually

- Currently over 130 km2 of tailings ponds (largest man-made structures in the world)

Panel Discussion Presentation: Everything Is Connected — Why Mexico’S Problems Are Everyone’S Problems On The Colorado River, And The Other Way Around, Bret C. Birdsong

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Perspectives

Colorado River Compact:

Allocates water among Upper Basin and Lower Basin
- 7.5 maf for each basin
- Extra 1 maf for lower basin

Supplies Mexico first from surplus above total apportionment to upper an lower basins
- If surplus insufficient to supply Mexico, then Mexico’s share supplied equally by upper and lower basins

Upper division states “shall not cause” flow to lower basin to be less than 75 maf in 10 years

Panel Discussion Presentation: Consequences Of Global Climate Change For Water Quality And Community Sustainability Along The U.S.-Mexico Trans-Border Region, Jorge Duran Encalada

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Perspectives

Case Studies of Reynosa/McAllen and Laredo/Nuevo Laredo:

- Water availability and quality in Reynosa/McAllen and Laredo/Nuevo Laredo

- Water Consumption

- Socioeconomic Conditions

- Water Quality Scenarios

- Conclusions & Recommendations

Panel Discussion Presentation: Mexico-U.S. Transboundary Perspectives, Sally Spener

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Perspectives

IBWC Mission:

The International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, is responsible for applying the boundary and water treaties between the two countries and settling differences that arise in their application.

- 1944 Water Treaty

- Colorado River Issues

- Colorado Water Minutes

Panel Discussion Presentation: The Colorado River — Operation And Current Conditions, Lorri Gray-Lee

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Perspectives

The Colorado River: Operation and Current Conditions

- Overview of Basin
- Overview of the Interim Guidelines
- Current and Projected System Conditions

Panel Discussion Presentation: U.S. – Mexico Transboundary Perspectives, Martin J. Pasqualetti

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Perspectives

Principal Question: What are the implications of the energy/ water nexus at the US/Mexico border?

1. Water Supply and Demand

2. Water Costs of Electricity

3. Virtual Water Transfers

4. Renewable Energy Resources

5. Solar/Water nexus at the US/Mexico Border

Panel Discussion Presentation: Regional Politics, International Dreams, Kathryn Furlong

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Canada Transboundary Perspective

The Main Idea:

What are the drivers of hydro-electric development? What are the influences of domestic politics? In what ways are they international?

Panel Discussion Presentation: Columbia River Treaty, Kelvin Ketchum

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Canada Transboundary Perspectives

Slide titles:

- Columbia River Treaty – the setting

- What does the Treaty Do?

- Social & Environmental Costs of the Treaty in Canada

- Treaty benefits and term

- Treaty priorities for water usage

- Example of Flood Control Curves

- Actual Treaty operations

- Supplemental operating agreements

- Treaty Implementation

- Reasons for Treaty Success

Panel Discussion Presentation: Thoughts On Energy/Water Nexus – Energy Technologies, California Case, Terry Surles

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Canada Transboundary Perspectives

Energy/Security/Water Problem Confluence:

There remains a critical need to make the best use possible of indigenous
national resources
- Water in the Southwest
- Energy resources in the region and nation

International energy resource competition will require effective development and use of national resources
- Geothermal, solar, wind, coal, uranium

Changing climate can produce "winners" as well as "losers" — requires an
understanding of past climate events and the impact on cultures
- Northern countries may benefit: Canada, Russia
- Temperate countries may suffer due to loss of cropland and increase of
tropical diseases and …

Panel Discussion Presentation: Canada-U.S. Transboundary Perspectives, David Rudolph

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

Panel Discussion: U.S.-Canada Transboundary Perspectives

Longest international border in the world: 8,890km, over 3,000km are water!

- Major transboundary river systems (Columbia, Red River)

- 1997 Red River Flood

- Strategies for future power and water needs

- Canadian resource-based economy

Keynote 1: Energy And Water In The Western And Texas Interconnects, Vincent Tidwell

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

- Estimated Freshwater Withdrawals by Sector: 349 BGD

- U.S. Freshwater Consumption: 100 BGD

- Water for Energy, Energy for Water: Energy and power production requires water; Water production, processing, distribution, and end-use requires energy

Event Program, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

North American Energy Water Nexus Roundtable

The North American Energy-Water Nexus roundtable was held April 1, 2011, to promote the discussion of how energy and water issues converge in addressing international relations. The roundtable focused on water issues specific to the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders, including stakeholder-driven solutions for water policies and water technologies. The event was co-sponsored by the UNLV Urban Sustainability Initiative; Desert Research Institute; the Canadian Consulate of Los Angeles; and the government of Ontario, Canada.

Poster Session, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Fate of Stable Isotope Label During Predation of 15N-Tagged Wild-Type Escherichia coli by Protozoa, Ashley Barton and Alan Fryar, Dept Earth and Environmental Sciences, UK
• Cane Run Watershed Assessment and Restoration – Phase One Accomplishments, Amanda Gumbert and others, UK Cooperative Extension Service
• Improving Water Quality: Riparian Edge versus River Channel, Renee Kirtman and Kristy Hopfensperger, Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University
• Microscopic Population Dynamics and their Relationships to the Activated Sludge Process in a 30 MGD Wastewater Treatment Plant, Maria Lundin and David Price, LFUCG Division of Water Quality
• Southern Region Down-Well Camera Project, Glynn …

Session 2d, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Water Quality Credit Trading Feasibilities for Kentucky, Marie Pelton and others, Dept of Agricultural Economics, UK
• Participation in Agricultural Governmental Cost Share Programs in the Kentucky River Watershed in the Context of Water Quality Trading, Pedro Fernandes da Costa and others, Dept of Agricultural Economics, UK
• Point Source Polluters in the Kentucky River Watershed and the Potential for Water Quality Trading, Ron Childress and others, Dept of Agricultural Economics, UK
• Nonpoint Source Abatement Costs in the Kentucky River Watershed, Zheng Liu and others, Dept of Agricultural Economics, UK

Session 2c, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Comparing the Kentucky Phosphorus Index with the P Loss Calculated with a Process-Based Model, Carl Bolster, USDA-ARS, AWMRU, Bowling Green, KY
• Kentucky Nutrient Criteria Development and Reduction Strategy, Clark Dorman, Water Quality Branch, KY DOW
• Genotypic Diversity of Escherichia coli Isolates from Environmental Sources and the Influence on Transport Behavior, Kimberly Cook and others, USDA-ARS, AWMRU, Bowling Green, KY
• A Multiparameter Approach for the Identification of Leaking and Overflowing Sanitary Sewers in the Wolf Run Watershed, Tricia Coakley and Gail Brion, Depts of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Civil Engineering, UK

Session 2b, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Building Support for Protecting and Restoring Plain, Frumpy, Dowdy Streams, Barry Tonning, Tetra Tech, Mt. Sterling, KY
• Monitoring Water Quality in Hinkston Creek: Providing Information for Action, Brian Reeder and April Haight, Center for Environmental Education, Morehead State University
• The Story of the Hinkston Creek Watershed Data, Gregory Sousa and others, Tetra Tech
• Implementation of Watershed Based Plans in the Dix River Watershed, Caroline Walz and Malissa McAlister, OSM/VISTA Dix River Watershed Coordinator and KWRRI

Session 2a, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Pollutant Removal Effectiveness of the McConnell Springs Stormwater Quality Wetland Pond and the Gainesway Pond Retrofit Project, Lexington, KY, David Price and Susan Plueger, LFUCG Division of Water
• Combined Sewer Separation: A Constructed Wetland Approach, Jonathan Nieman, CDP Engineers Inc., Lexington, KY
• Water Quality Retrofit Basin Selection Process in Louisville Kentucky, Eric Senn, Land Design and Development, Louisville KY
• Live Green Lexington: Water Partner Program, Darcy Everett and Joanna Isaacs, Bluegrass PRIDE

Session 1d, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• The Carboxylic Acid-Bound Iodine Layer – Towards an Anti- Fouling Coating for Water Sensors and Water Treatment Facilities, Lingbo Lu and Yuguang Cai, Dept of Chemistry, UK
• Aqueous Arsenic Removal by Thiol-Containing Filtration Columns, Partha Jana and David Atwood, Dept of Chemistry, UK
• Green Construction in an Urban Landscape, Elizabeth Bullock and others, CDP Engineers, Lexington, KY
• Developing a Storm Water Management Plan in the Jackson Ditch Watershed, City of Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, Erman Caudill, Stantec Consulting Services, Inc., Lexington, KY

Session 1c, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Bush Honeysuckle Induced Aquatic Hypoxia, Stephanie Hayes and Richard Durtsche, Dept of Biological Sciences, NKU
• A Laboratory Scale, Continuous Flow Bioreactor for the Removal of Manganese in Water Supplies, Michael Snyder and Y.T. Wang, Dept of Civil Engineering, UK
• Flood Impact Due to Dam Failure: An Assessment of Current Studies and the Appropriateness of the Methodologies Applied to the Dix Dam, Allen Cantrell and Scott Yost, Dept of Civil Engineering, UK
• Development of a Comprehensive Sediment Transport Method in First Order Watersheds with Contour Coal Mining, Darren Martin and Jimmy Fox, Dept of Civil Engineering, UK

Session 1b, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Land-Use, Stream Channel Dynamics, and Macroinvertebrate Community Responses: A Northern Kentucky Case Study, Bob Hawley and others, Sustainable Streams, LLC
• Kentucky LiDAR Meets NAIP Multispectral Imagery: Toward Data Fusion in the Assessment of Watershed Change, Demetrio Zourarakis, Kentucky Div of Geographic Information, Frankfort
• Seasonal Variation in Water Quality and Dissolved Methane of Barren River Lake, John Loughrin and Carl Bolster, USDA-ARS, AWMRU, Bowling Green, KY
• Water Quality Investigation in the Eastern Kentucky Coalfields, Lisa Underwood and Lisa Hicks, USACE and KY DOW

Session 1a, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Pilot Study to Integrate Existing Karst Flow Data for Kentucky in the National Hydrography Dataset Created by the U.S. Geological Survey, Rob Blair and others, KY DOW
• An Evaluation of Physical and Chemical Discharge Parameters from a Spring that Drains the Epikarst, David Jackson, Groundwater Section, KY DOW
• Characterizing Health Risks in Privately Supplied Drinking Water Due to Agricultural Practices in Rural Western Kentucky, Leading to an Intervention Study, Karen Card and E. Glynn Beck, Dept of Epidemiology and KGS, UK
• Aqueous Geochemistry of a CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery Project in the Sugar Creek Oil Field, Hopkins County, …

Proceedings Of 2011 Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

This conference was planned and conducted as part of the state water resources research annual program with the support and collaboration of the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, under Grant Agreement Number 06HQGR0087.

The views and conclusions contained in this document and presented at the symposium are those of the abstract authors and presenters and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government or other symposium organizers and sponsors.

Social Media For Social Good, Charlie Harris

Fair Trade Universities' National Convergence

No abstract provided.

Imo Social & Fair Trade Programme, Laura Johnson

Fair Trade Universities' National Convergence

No abstract provided.

The State Of The Fair Trade Movement, Jeff Goldman, Executive Director

Fair Trade Universities' National Convergence

No abstract provided.

University Scholar Series: Marc D'Alarcao, Marc D'Alarcao

University Scholar Series

Synthetic Organic Chemistry to Shed Light on Type II Diabetes and Cancer

On March 16, 2011 Marc d'Alarcao spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Gerry Selter at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Marc d'Alarcao is a Professor in the Chemistry Department at SJSU. In this seminar, he gives a progress report on his work aimed at developing and synthesizing new compounds that are designed to take advantage of this metabolic difference. His hope is that these compounds will be selectively toxic to cancer cells and may provide a new strategy for treating this major threat …

Georgia Knowledge Repository: Potential For The State, Marlee Givens

Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers

A presentation on the Georgia Knowledge Repository, a search engine of Georgia-based institutional repositories.

More information at http://www.library.gatech.edu/gkr/

Underfunded And Understaffed: A Ground-Level View Of Ir Creation In Difficult Times, John Davison

Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers

A discussion of the creation of OhioLINK, the institutional repository system for the Ohio University system.

More information at http://drc.ohiolink.edu/