STUDENT SHOWCASE
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023: 2:00pm – 4:30pm
Location: CSU Lory Student Center, Ballroom D (venue and parking information link)
Tuesday March 21, 2022
Location |
Session |
Time |
Presenter |
Title |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:20 PM |
Reid Maynard |
Is Local Food More Sustainable? Comparing Local Food Production to Conventional Centralized Agriculture in the Contiguous United States Through Life Cycle Assessment |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:25 PM |
Andrea Loudenback |
Mad for Manure: How Precision Management of Nutrient Flows Can Mitigate Environmental Impacts of Manuresheds |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:30 PM |
Curtis Kline |
GMO-Free Territories and the Defense of Traditional Seed Systems |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:35 PM |
Karen Gupta |
The Relationship Between Portable Toilets in Construction and Sustainability Metrics |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:40 PM |
Laura Supple |
Participatory models of regenerative urban infrastructures as complex adaptive social-ecological-technological systems |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:45 PM |
Cibi Vishnu Chinnasamy |
Urban Scaling Patterns in Municipal Water Uses |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:50 PM |
Marin Wiltse |
Comprehensive characterization of oil-field produced water treated by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes for potential reuse in agriculture |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
2:55 PM |
Lucas Roy |
A Climate-Centered Analysis of Historical Australian Streamflow and Population Density From 1980-2019 |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
3:00 PM |
Dixie Poteet |
Past, Present, and Potential Future Flows of a Non-Perennial Stream |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (A) |
3:05 PM |
Joseph Bindner |
Predicting Soil Texture Using 1-D Convolutional Neural Networks based on Field Hyperspectral Images |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
3:30 PM |
Brianna Corsi |
Morpho-dynamic Processes in the Bernalillo Reach of the Middle Rio Grande |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
3:35 PM |
Tristen Anderson |
Middle Rio Grande Montaño Reach: Morphodynamic Processes and Silvery Minnow Habitat |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
3:40 PM |
Chelsey Radobenko |
Middle Rio Grande River Hydraulic Modeling: A comparison between 1D and 2D hydraulic modeling and the impacts to quantifying Silvery Minnow Habitat in the Bernalillo Reach of the Middle Rio Grande River. |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
3:45 PM |
Helen Flynn |
A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Correlation Between Snow Water Equivalent and Baseflow in Colorado |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
3:50 PM |
Alexis Foster |
A Social-Climatological Study of Snow and Winter Weather Perspectives |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
3:55 PM |
Abdullah Al Fatta |
Assessing Aquifer Properties and Groundwater Storage Change in the San Luis Valley, Colorado from In-Situ and InSAR Data |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
4:00 PM |
Cavin Alderfer |
Analyzing Trends in Groundwater Storage and in Salt and Nutrient Concentrations in Surface Water and Groundwater Bodies in the United States from 1920-2020 |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
4:05 PM |
Mickey Means-Brous |
Geomorphic influences on salmonid recolonization in a Colorado post-fire environment |
LSC Ballroom D |
Showcase (B) |
4:10 PM |
Phoebe White |
Evaluation of sub-hourly Quantitative Precipitation Estimates in Colorado’s mountains using machine learning |
Science in 4-minutes or less!
The Student Showcase will feature 4-minute ‘lightning talks’, bite-sized bits of science that showcase the essence of your research. Though it can be more challenging to deliver an impactful lightning talk than a 20-minute presentation, this important scientific communication skill can engage an audience in a wide variety of topics in a short amount of time. For more information please download the Student Showcase Guidebook!
Students are tasked with presenting an engaging snap-shot of their research, prepared for both academic and non-academic audiences. These “big-picture” presentations should discuss real-world applications, advice, and future research directions.
Audience
Hydrology Days evaluators include BOTH traditional academic researchers and non-academic audiences (e.g., consultants/private industry, municipalities/utilities, government, and non-profit organizations working across the Food-Energy-Water sector).
- Focus on these four questions: What was the motivation for conducting your research? What did you do? What did you or do you expect to find? Why does it matter (real-world implications or advice)?
Lightning Tips
Make sure to download the Student Showcase Guidebook which provides helpful information about the intentions, audience and additional resources to preparing your presentation!
Check out this 18-minute workshop for more tips: https://academicaffairs.oregonstate.edu/research/lightning-talk
Here are a few recommendations from the Nature Career Guide published on June 23, 2021:
Start strong. In the first few sentences, the audience should know why they need to pay attention. You have a fraction of your allotted minutes to establish credibility.
Tell a story. Whether a talk is one minute long or 20, it should be framed by a basic narrative. Start with a research question and follow up with experimental methods and results: the credibility that you established at the outset will build, and the audience can actually learn something.
Pace yourself. It’s normal to speak quickly when the clock is ticking, but that isn’t the best way to convey complicated scientific concepts. Don’t try to fit in more words per minute; instead, find words and images that really matter.
Keep slides simple. Some lightning speakers try to cram many concepts into each slide, but that’s a mistake. Images should be as economical as words, holding just enough information to make important points without visual overload.
Practice. Don’t follow a script, but you should practice your talk enough to know where you’re going and how long it takes to get there.
Powerpoint Templates
Participants must adhere to the following guidelines:
- Contestants must have a NAME slide – place this slide BEFORE your content slide
- Prepare slide in 16:9 aspect ratio
- Slides must be uploaded to the corresponding folder no later than 5pm Sunday March 19, 2023 (you will NOT be allowed to upload your slides right before you present!)
- Google folders to upload presentations: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1feEWWwpXCCBxtuPvUjb6qOnL340K4SZl?usp=share_link
Though not required, students may consider using the templates below to organize their presentations. While there is no limit to the number of slides you may present during your 4-minutes, please keep your slides simple and follow the tips provided in the Student Showcase Guidebook!
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Slide templates in MS Powerpoint
- Slide templates in Adobe PDF
Abstract Template
All presentations are to be accompanied by an abstract for publication in the conference proceedings. The format should follow the template and instructions here:
- Abstract template in Microsoft Word format
- Abstract template in Adobe PDF format
Prizes
Cash prizes will be awarded to the top-scoring student presentations. In addition, select presenters will be featured in a special issue of Colorado Water; the publication produced by the Colorado Water Center devoted to highlighting water research and activities at CSU and throughout Colorado. Check out the most recent Special Hydrology Days Issue of Colorado Water!
Depending on the number of participants, cash prizes may be awarded in multiple categories (i.e., there may be more than one round of awards):
- First Place = $500
- Second Place = $250
- Third Place = $100
Eligibility
Those interested in entering the competition must adhere to posted deadlines, register and submit an abstract (select “Student Showcase (lightning talk)”) to finalize their participation.
- Students are defined as those enrolled at an accredited university in an Undergraduate, Masters, or PhD program
- Students must submit a properly formatted abstract by March 3, 2023
- Students are required to present their work in the assigned session
- Register for the conference as a student by March 6, 2023
Selected competitors will be contacted to confirm participation in the Student Showcase in March.