Welcome to this year’s PRI Lightning Symposium!
40 Lightning Talks
5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each. Ready? Go!
38 Posters
Agenda
9:00 am — Welcome
9:10 am — Introduction and ground rules
Lightning Talks
9:15 am — Session 1
Jason Bried | INHS | Exploring species co-occurrence and metacommunity assembly in homogeneous environments |
Jason Zhang | ISWS | Using IECM model to assess climate change impacts on water use for thermoelectric power plants |
Kendall Taft | ISGS | Geologic features observed on ISGS CarbonSAFE Illinois Basin seismic data |
Auriel Fournier | INHS | Forbes Biological Station: 130 years of wetlands and river research |
Emily Guske | ISTC | Community engagement for technical projects: Identifying collaborative opportunities with the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center |
John Lambert | ISAS | Illinois’ archaeological record in danger: Upland soil erosion and the Illinois Climate Change Modeling Initiative (ICCMI) |
Suneeti Jog | INHS | The “full species list” fallacy in Floristic Quality Assessment |
10:00 am — Break
10:15 am — Session 2
Scott Elrick | ISGS | PRI-UIUC Collections: The Phillips Coal Ball Collection – The world’s largest archive of Pennsylvanian age ecosystem and climate time capsules |
John Kirchgesner | INHS | IL Hunt Map & OMLP |
Michael Lansdell | ISAS | Archaeology on the Shifting Silt: The Dupo Interchange Project |
Brenda Molano-Flores | INHS | Updating conservation status ranks for threatened, endangered, and vulnerable plants in Illinois |
Kip Stevenson | ISWS | Twenty years of the ISWS Vibrocoring program |
Tamira Brennan | ISAS | For all Illinoisans, Forever |
Jeremy Tiemann | INHS | A non-science genetics talk – exploring the genetic diversity of an endangered fish and why it matters |
11:00 am — Break
11:15 am — Session 3
Camden Arnold | ISWS | Mapping the Disproportionate Risk of Flooding in Socially Vulnerable Communities in Illinois |
T.J. Benson | INHS | Pesticides and Plant Damage in Illinois Natural Areas |
Kisa Mwakanyamale-Gilkie | ISGS | Mapping Aquifers from the AIR: A New Way to Study the Mahomet Aquifer |
Caitlin Bloomer | INHS | Combining Museum Collections and Predictive Modeling to Survey a Cryptic Taxon |
Michael Aiuvalasit | ISAS | Microscopy for archaeology: ISAS at the forefront of innovation |
Jennie Atkins | ISWS | Inversion Monitoring at Illinois Climate Network Stations |
Dmitry Mozzherin | INHS | Global Names: A local index with a global reach |
11:50 am – 1:15 pm — Lunch
1:15 pm — Session 4
John Scott | ISTC | Plastic Pollution – Small Size, Big Problems |
Matthew Yoder | INHS | A hub within a hub: Taxon Works and the Species File Group within the PRI |
Sara Pfannkuche | ISAS | Held in Trust: Donated Artifact Collections at ISAS |
Tara Hohoff | INHS | The Illinois Bat Conservation Program, where we’ve been and where we are headed |
Audra Noyes | ISGS | Hydrologic and Water-Quality Characterization of Potential Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly Larval Habitat at Spring Lake Forest Preserve |
Erin Bauer | ISWS | Monitoring of Eight Sub-Watersheds as part of Illinois’ Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program highlights benefits of long-term monitoring |
Jason Buckley | INHS | Illinois Learn to Hunt: A Data-Driven Approach to Hunter R3 |
2:00 pm — Break
2:15 pm — Session 5
Michael Smith | ISAS | Preservation and Material Culture |
Valeria Trivellone | INHS | Emerging Infectious Plant Diseases and the DAMA protocol: An Opportunity for One Health initiative |
Trent Ford | ISWS | Building a More Drought-Resilient Urban Forest Ecosystem |
Deborah Paul | INHS | Realizing the Impact of Knowing Who |
Geoff Pociask | ISGS | Form and Function of Wetlands in the Illinois Landscape |
Elizabeth Watts Malouchos | ISAS | ISAS Collaborative Research Engagement: Working with Descendant Communities |
Dusty Swedberg | INHS | A Resurvey of the Crayfishes of Illinois |
3:00 pm — Break
3:15 pm — Session 6
Donna Willette | ISGS | Subsurface Hydrogen Storage in a Sandstone Brine Aquifer |
Michael Spear | INHS | Large vessel traffic impacts water quality and the fish community of the Illinois Waterway |
Andrew White | ISAS | Estimating the Impact of Climate-Driven Migration on Precontact Archaeological Sites in Illinois |
Milton Tan | INHS | Biodiversity Genomics |
Michael Krasowski | ISWS | 30-year Collaboration Between the Imperial Valley Water Authority and Illinois State Water Survey |
3:40 pm — Closing Remarks
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm — Poster Session
Poster presenter | Survey | # | Poster title |
Georgia Abrams | ISAS | 1 | Public Archaeology in the Mirror: An Updated Model at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey |
Yury Roskov | INHS | 2 | The Catalogue of Life project at INHS, PRI |
Joy Scrogum | ISTC | 3 | The ISTC Technical Assistance Program (TAP): Addressing a Society in Transition |
Lily Hart | INHS | 4 | A Century of Illinois Hover Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): museum and citizen science data reveal recent range expansions, contractions, and species of potential conservation significance |
Emily Winfield | ISWS | 5 | Comparison of Sediment Yields in Illinois CREP-Monitored Subwatersheds |
Jean Mengelkoch | INHS | 6 | Bat Rabies in Illinois: 2002-2022 |
Alleen Betzenhauser | ISAS | 7 | Investigating Stumpware: Evidence for Nixtamalization in the American Bottom (900–1100 CE) |
Yaghoob Lasemi | ISGS | 8 | Multiple paleokarst events in the Cambrian Potosi Dolomite |
Vanessa DeShambo | ISTC | 9 | Advanced characterization of antimicrobial resistance in current wastewater systems and developing opportunities for improved mitigation with novel treatment processes. |
Eric Walberg | INHS | 10 | Funding the Future: Duck Stamp Purchases Among Non-Hunters |
Martin Pentrak | ISGS | 11 | Alteration of clay minerals in complex acidic environments. |
Lee Green | ISTC | 12 | PFAS: A Love Affair That Never Ends |
Mary Hynes | ISAS | 13 | When Should an Object be Considered an Artifact? |
Anastasia Rahlin | INHS | 14 | Using Point of Care devices to assess Marsh and Sedge Wren food limitation |
Yongqi Lu | ISGS | 15 | Catalytic Removal of Residual Oxygen from Pressurized Oxy-Combustion Gas Streams for CO2 Capture |
Erin Huggett | ISTC | 16 | Using Novel Designer Biochar to Remove and Destroy Forever Chemicals (PFAS) Using Hydrothermal Treatment |
Kimberly Schaefer | ISAS | 17 | Preserved Textiles and Cordage in Illinois |
Geoffrey Ower | INHS | 18 | How data is standardized and assembled into the Catalogue of Life to help index scientific names and natural history knowledge |
Eliah Zaborowski | ISTC | 19 | Waste Plastic Pyrolysis to Obtain Fuel and Feedstock Oils |
Milton Tan | INHS | 20 | RAD Sequencing case studies: Inexpensive Genomics for Studying Populations and Beyond |
Feyza Kazanc Ozerinc | ISGS | 21 | Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Environmental Assessments of CO2 Utilization for the Co-Production of Value-Added Calcium Carbonate and Fertilizer Products |
Bryan Maxwell | ISTC | 22 | Decarbonization of municipal wastewater treatment using novel cloth filter anaerobic membrane bioreactor |
Zohreh Askari | ISGS | 23 | Reservoir characterization of Ironton and Galesville Sandstones, north-central Illinois |
Devin Mannix | ISWS | 24 | Managed aquifer recharge in Illinois – a case for water resilience |
Sudipta Ramola | ISTC | 25 | Use of machine learning to design biochar for pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) removal |
Julie Nieset | INHS | 26 | Developing statewide wetland restoration potential mapping that reflects variations in watershed characteristics |
Yong Cao | INHS | 27 | Modeling species diversity in streams: comparing five machine learning algorithms for accuracy and inference |
Elizabeth Spitzer | ISGS | 28 | Capturing the Total Impact of Storm Events on Lake Michigan Beaches Using Aerial Drones and Ground Penetrating Radar |
Peg Gronemeyer (on behalf of Dhananjay Pandey) |
INHS | 29 | From data to discovery: INHS in the cloud era |
Jocelyn Karsk | INHS | 30 | Bat Roosts in Bridges: Assessing Illinois Bridges for Bat Use |
Sophie Circenis | ISTC | 31 | Bioreactor-Biochar (B2) to Capture and Recycle Excess Nutrients from Tile Drainage System |
Ed Price | INHS | 32 | Agricultural Chemicals in Illinois Natural Areas |
Andres Prada | ISTC | 33 | Microplastics in the terrestrial environment |
Craig A Miller | INHS | 34 | Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Leopold’s Land Ethic to Combat Gulf Hypoxia. |
Nicolette Sheffield | ISGS | 35 | Hydrology, carbon storage, and water and soil quality in wetlands along the Lake Michigan shore in Illinois |
Grace Wilken | ISTC | 36 | Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Algae Cultivation System with Synergistic Integration of Flue Gas and Wastewater |
Jessica Monson | ISGS | 37 | Chloride migration off roadways into adjacent floodplain wetlands |
Cecilia Cullen | ISWS | 38 | Insights on the drivers of chloride accumulation and variability in groundwater from a weekly dataset collected from community wells in northeast Illinois |
Acknowledgments
PRI Lightning Symposium Committee
- Keith Carr, ISGS
- Cecilia Cullen, ISWS
- Tiffany Jolley, OED
- Laura Keefer, ISWS
- Momcilo Markus, ISWS
- Jameson Mori, INHS
- Jeremy Tiemann, INHS
- Andrew White, ISAS
- Sarah Wells, OED
Welcome Remarks
Praveen Kumar, Executive Director, PRI
Graphic Design
Danielle Ruffatto, OED
Video Recording, IT Support
Chad Hankins, PRI
Web Support
Jennifer Davis, OED