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2024 Annual Meeting Student Poster Session

During our 2024 Annual Meeting, we hosted a dynamic poster session that provided a unique platform for both undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research. Students had the opportunity to present their posters during morning and afternoon poster sessions as well as during lunch. ​


​Poster Presentations
Number ​​Name
​Campus
Faculty Advisor
​Title
1
Alexandra Brown​

Bakersfield
Dr. Rae McNeish
Microplastic seasonal variation in coastal shellfish and sediments linked with estuary protection status and watershed anthropogenic development
​​2

Jami Ruiz
Bakersfield
Dr. Jeroen Gillard
Unraveling the Morphological and Physiological Impact of an Autotoxin Produced by Asparagine Deamination in the Model Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum
​3

​Nils Boberg
​Channel Islands
​Dr. Geoff Dilly​
Differential gene expression of mussels exposed to microplastics and BaP​
4

​Monica Esqueda
​East Bay
​Dr. Emilio Grande
​Coupled high-frequency sensor network deployed in SF Estuary to quantify nutrient transport in sub-surface hydrologic interactions between coastal tides and watersheds
5
Tabitha Martinez
Fullerton
Dr. Jennifer Burnaford
Animal care, enrichment, and aquaculture
6
Vivian Sieu
Fullerton
Dr. Jennifer Burnaford
Effects of low tide temperature on interactions between a predator and its mobile prey​
7

Shriyas Timbadia
Fullerton
Dr. Danielle Zacherl
Effects of sedimentation on Olympia oysters, Ostrea lurida
​8
Ivanna Arrizon Elizarraras
Long Beach
Dr. Douglas Pace
Chillin’ with urchins: how temperature influences larval development in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
9
​Dylan Baldiviezo
Long Beach
Dr. Benjamin Perlman
Stingray tail kinematics
10
​​Noah Benasfre
Long Beach
Dr. Sherry Palacios
Feast-fast lifestyle: physiological effects of daily foraging flexibility in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus)​
11
Wesley Chen
Long Beach
Dr. Siavash Ahrar 
Microfluidics for hydrodynamics of ciliated larvae
​12
Jasmin Dudley
Long Beach
Dr. Ben Perlman
 Watch your step: stingray sting prevention
13
Anisa Morgan & Alba  Romero
Long B​​each
Dr. Douglas Pace
Investigating temperature-driven variations in food-induced plasticity of Pacific sand dollar larvae, Dendraster excentricus
14
Fabiana Paredes
Long Beach
Dr. Michael Carlson
A genomic exploration into dsRNA viruses in the Southern California coast: a polony approach
15
Leon Rubarts
Long Beach
Dr. Benjamin Perlman
If the shoe fits: strike response of the round stingray (Urobatis halleri) to different human foot sizes
​16

​Angelo Spinosa
Long Beach
Dr. Bruno Pernet
White abalone recovery project
17

Sophia  Diaz 
Los Angeles
Dr. Elizabeth Torres
Comparative metabarcoding analysis of ostracod crustacean guts: insight into speciation
​18

​Anne Hansen
Monterey Bay
Dr. Sherry Palacios
Shining a light: measuring light absorption and irradiance through eelgrass meadows
19
Denise Berg & Marlene Lopez
Northridge
Dr. Priya Ganguli  & Dr. Scott Hauswirth
The effects of oil seeps on Southern California watersheds
20

Matthew Kim
Pomona
Dr. Jeremy Claisse​
Relationships among remotely-sensed habitat features and fish assemblage structure on artificial reefs in Santa Monica Bay
21

Casey Pua
Pomona
Dr. Jeremy Claisse
Explaining planktivore and predator density on Southern California artificial reefs by quantifying habitat characteristics
​22
Natalie Shubin
PomonaDr. Jeremy Claisse
Quantifying remotely-sensed habitat characteristics on artificial reefs in Southern California 
​23

Desiree Thomas
Sacramento
Dr. Ron Coleman
Predicting the weight of a coastal California fish
24
Anthony Donahue

San Francisco
Dr. Michelle Jungbluth
Larval fish diets as indicators of food web dynamics in tidal wetland restoration
​25

​Lili Pruett
​San Francisco
​Dr. Jonathon Stillman
​Transgenerational plasticity as a mechanism of thermal adaptation in Petrolisthes cinctipes
26

​Noah Kolander
​San José
​Dr. Maya deVries
​Toxo tales: exploring the behavior, morphology, and larval stage of the sea urchin Toxopneustes roseus
27

​Jasmine Cassidy
​San Luis Obispo
​N/A
Tracking shoreline adaptation projects related to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area​
28

​Mackenzie  Davidson 
​San Luis Obispo
​Dr. Heather Liwanag 
​Seal of approval: decoding decades of Northern elephant seal population trends at the Piedras Blancas breeding colony
29

​Madison Hinz

​San Marcos​
​Dr. Darcy Taniguchi 
​Examining the abundance and growth and grazing mortality rates of autotrophic plankton off of southern California 
30

​Marisa Mendoza
​San Marcos​
​Dr. Elinne Becket
​Taxonomic profiles of nearshore microbial communities associated with water and plastic marine substrates
31
​Imaan Sahid
​San Marcos​
​Dr. Darcy Taniguchi
​Utilizing chlorophyll to monitor local planktonic communities and epifluorescence microscopy to examine plankton and determine jellyfish infection
32
​Gavynn Strasshofer
​Stanislaus​
​Dr. Horacio FerrizMonitoring the final approaches of a tsunami with high-frequency radar


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