Conference Schedule April 9, 2015 12:00 PM: COFFEE 12:30-12:35 PM Welcome Address: Introduction by Karl Kreutz, Professor, Climate Change Institute, and School of Earth and Climate Sciences. SESSION 1 – IGERT Introduction of IGERT Program: Jasmine Saros, Associate Director, Climate Change Institute, Program Director, Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change IGERT, Professor, School of Biology & Ecology 12:35-12:45 PM: Specialist Avifaunal Collapse In Northeastern Tidal Marshes 12:45-12:47 PM: Questions & Transition Maureen Correll 12:47-12:57 PM: Spatio-Temporal Variability Of Suitable Habitat For American Lobster (Homarus Americanus) In Long Island Sound 12:57-12:59 PM: Questions & Transition Kisei R. Tanaka 12:59-1:09 PM: Release Of Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops) In Glacial Outflows And Mitigating Their Effect On Downstream Communities 1:09-1:11 PM: Questions & Transition Kimberley Rain Miner 1:11-1:21 PM: Modeling The Shoaling Of The Hypoxic Boundary In The Central And Southern Current Region 1:21-1:23 PM: Questions & Transition Alice Ren 1:23-1:33 PM: Eco-Evolutionary Responses Of Spatially Structured Species Experiencing Climatic Changes 1:33-1:35 PM: Questions & Transition Jared J. Homola 1:35-1:45 PM: Abrupt Climate Change Effects On Lake Level And Diatom Habitat Modeling Of Southwest Greenland Lakes 1:45-1:47 PM: Questions & Transition Rachel A. Dicker 1:47-1:57 PM: Currents Of The Past: Archaeological Evidence For Past Changes In Fish Ecology In The Gulf Of Maine - Update 1:57-1:59 PM: Questions & Transition A. Sky Heller 1:59-2:09 PM: Linking Environmental Conditions To Spatio-Temporal Variability In The Distribution And Growth Of Sea Scallops Placopecten Magellanicus In The Gulf Of Maine 2:09-2:11 PM: Questions & Transition Michael P. Torre 2:11-2:21 PM: How Resource Availability Affects Diatom Response To Warming In The Great Lakes 2:21-2:23 PM: Questions & Transition Amy Kireta 2:23-2:33 PM: Institutional Responses To Climate Change And The Reproduction Of Social Vulnerability In Hampton Roads, Virginia 2:33-2:35 PM: Questions & Transition Jamie A. R. Haverkamp 2:35-2:45 PM: Shrinking Bison: A Story Of Body Size Adaptation To Abrupt Climate Change And Adaptation To Modern Bison Production 2:45-2:47 PM: Questions & Transition Jeff M. Martin 2:47-2:57 PM: Assessing The Vulnerability Of Maine’s Drinking Water Resources To Extreme Precipitation Events 2:57-2:59 PM: Questions & Transition Kate A. Warner 3:00-3:15 PM: SHORT BREAK WITH REFRESHMENTS SESSION 2 3:15-3:25 PM: Providing Marine Harvesters With Tools To Handle A Rapidly Changing Ocean 3:25-3:27 PM: Questions & Transition Samuel L. Belknap III 3:27-3:37 PM: Changes In Iceberg Size Distribution In Disko Bay, West Greenland 3:37-3:39 PM: Questions & Transition Jessica Scheick 3:39-3:49 PM: Environmental Records From The Tupungatito Ice Core (Central Chilean Andes) 3:49-3:51 PM: Questions & Transition Mariusz Potocki 3:51-4:01 PM: Interactive Exploration Of Time Lines From Ice Core Data Sets 4:01-4:03 PM: Questions & Transition Sudarshan S. Chawathe 4:03-4:13 PM: Sub-Seasonal Reconstruction Of An Ice Core Recorded Abrupt Climate Change 84.6 ka Transition 4:13-4:15 PM: Questions & Transition Skylar A. Haines 4:15-4:25 PM: Erosion And Migrating Shell Middens On Machias Bay 4:25-4:27 PM: Questions & Transition Kendra D. Bird 4:27-4:37 PM: Latitudinal Trends In Saltmarsh Sparrow (Ammodramus Caudacutus) Fecundity 4:37-4:39 PM: Questions & Transition Katharine J. Ruskin 4:39-4:49 PM: A Whole Lake Thermal Experiment In A West Greenland Lake 4:49-4:51 PM: Questions & Transition Jasmine E. Saros 4:51-5:01 PM: Termination 1 Glacier Fluctuations In Mackenzie Stream Valley, New Zealand 5:01-5:03 PM: Questions & Transition Colin W. Dowey 5:03-5:13 PM: A Mouse’s Eye View Of Rancho La Brea: Assessing Millennial-Scale Community Stability Using Highly-Resolved Mammal And Vegetation Food Webs 5:13-5:15 PM: Questions & Transition Jacquelyn Gill 5:15-5:17 PM: A Vernal Transition On The Move In Terrestrial Ecosystems In Maine 5:17-5:19 PM: Questions & Transition Ivan J. Fernandez 5:19-5:21 PM: Micromorphology Of An Archaic Period House Floor 5:21-5:23 PM: Questions & Transition Brian S. Robinson 5:30-6:00 PM: BUFFET DINNER -- CASH BAR (please feel free to get a plate and continue to eat during presentations) SESSION 3 6:00-6:10 PM: Biogeochemical Patterns In Lakes Across Southwestern Greenland 6:10-6:12 PM: Questions & Transition Robert M. Northington 6:12-6:22 PM: Maritime Adaptation And Cultural Boundaries In Frenchman Bay, Maine 6:22-6:24 PM: Questions & Transition Chris Sockalexis 6:24-6:34 PM: Developing An Ultra- High-Resolution Record Of The Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition From The RICE Ice Core (Roosevelt Island, Antarctica) 6:34-6:36 PM: Questions & Transition Elena Korotkikh 6:36-6:46 PM: Test Using UAV Gathered Imagery To Measure Supraglacial Lake Depths 6:46-6:48 PM: Questions & Transition Benjamin W. Partan 6:48-6:58 PM: Recent Trends In Jordan Pond: The Impact Of Changing Clarity And Epilimnion Thickness On Phytoplankton Community Dynamics 6:58-7:00 PM: Questions & Transition Nora Theodore April 10, 2015 7:30 AM: COFFEE & LIGHT BREAKFAST SESSION 4 8:00-8:10 AM: Using Agent-Based Models To Understand The Impacts Of Weather Patterns On Songbird Migration Across The Atlantic Flyway 8:10-8:12 AM: Questions & Transition Jennifer McCabe 8:12-8:22 AM: Using Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) For Agent-Based Bird Migration And Landscape Anisotropy Modeling 8:22-8:24 AM: Questions & Transition Bipush Osti 8:24-8:34 AM: Deciphering The Mechanisms Behind Climate-Driven Changes In The Relative Abundances Of The Diatom Cyclotella 8:34-8:36 AM: Questions & Transition Heera I. Malik 8:36-8:46 AM: Testing For Biotic Feedbacks In Tidal-Marsh Community Stability In The Face Of SeaLevel Rise 8:46-8:48 AM: Questions & Transition Laura Garey 8:48-8:58 AM: Examining The Relationship Between Surface Albedo And Glacier Mass Balance In The Central Alaska Range 8:58-9:00 AM: Questions & Transition Timothy P. Godaire 9:00-9:10 AM: Can Seed Dispersal Traits Keep Trees From Reaching Equilibrium With Climate? 9:10-9:12 AM: Questions & Transition Benjamin J. Seliger 9:12-9:22 AM: Reconstructing Late Holocene Seawater Temperatures In The Gulf Of Maine Using Arctica Islandica Oxygen Isotopic Composition 9:22-9:24 AM: Questions & Transition Nina M. Whitney 9:24-9:34 AM: Glacier Change Over The Last Century, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia 9:34-9:36 AM: Questions & Transition Levan G. Tielidze 9:36-9:46 AM: ICD2: An Ice Core Dating Software Tool 9:46-9:48 AM: Questions & Transition Mark Royer 9:48-9:58 AM: Visible Tephra In The RICE Ice Core 9:58-10:00 AM: Questions & Transition Donna A. Kalteyer 10:00-10:10 AM: Implications Of Heterogeneous Strain Weakening Of Bedrock Underlying The Highly Active Glacio-Tectonic System Of Coastal Alaska 10:10-10:12 AM: Questions & Transition Annie Boucher 10:15-10:30 AM: SHORT BREAK WITH REFRESHMENTS SESSION 5 10:30-10:40 AM: Los Morteros: Early Monumentality And Environmental Change In The Chao Valley, North Coast Of Peru 10:40-10:42 AM: Questions & Transition Ana Cecilia Mauricio 10:42-10:52 AM: Bacterial Digestive Enzyme Activitiesnutrient Limitation In Arctic Lakes Of Southwest Greenland 10:52-10:54 AM: Questions & Transition Benjamin Burpee 10:54-11:04 AM: Climate Change In The Falkland Islands: A New Paleoclimate Proxy? 11:04-11:06 AM: Questions & Transition Dulcinea V. Groff 11:06-11:16 AM: Determining Surface And Basal Crevasse Extent Across The Mcmurdo Shear Zone Through GPS And GPR Surveys 11:16-11:18 AM: Questions & Transition Lynn Kaluzienski 11:18-11:28 AM: Urban Transformation And Landscape Change At The Nadin Archaeological Site, Croatia 11:28-11:30 AM: Questions & Transition Gregory Zaro 11:30-11:40 AM: Recent Changes In The Northeastern Sector Of The Greenland Ice Sheet 11:40-11:42 AM: Questions & Transition Gordon S. Hamilton 11:42-11:44 AM: Iceberg Melting In Two Greenland Glacial Fjords 11:44-11:46 AM: Questions & Transition Ellyn M. Enderlin 11:46-11:48AM: Geophysical Reconnaissance To Expand Ice Core Hydroclimate Reconstructions In The Northeast Pacific 11:48-11:50 AM: Questions & Transition Karl Kreutz PICTURES BEFORE WE BREAK FOR LUNCH – GROUP PHOTO – PHOTO OF GUEST SPEAKERS 12:00-12:30 PM: BUFFET LUNCH SESSION 6 INVITED UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ALUMNI LECTURES 12:30-1:15 PM: Bonnie Newsom, Member, Penobscot Nation & President, Nutalket Consulting; PhD candidate, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst (MS, Quaternary Studies, UMaine, 1999). Pots Along The Penobscot: An Archaeological Case Study Exploring Human Agency, Identity, and Technological Choice 1:15-2:00 PM: Alan Wanamaker, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University (PhD Earth Sciences, UMaine, 2007). A Millennium Long Reconstruction of Hydroclimate from Portugal (Iberian Peninsula) Derived from Speleothems: Implications on the Pervasiveness of the North Atlantic Oscillation during Medieval Times 2:00-2:15 PM: SHORT BREAK WITH REFRESHMENTS DAVE CLAYTON SMITH LECTURE 2:15-3:00 PM: Kirk Maasch, Professor, School of Earth & Climate Science and the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America: A Long Lost Document of a Revolution in 19th Century Geological Theory 3:00-3:30 PM: AWARDS AND AWARD PICTURES -- Closing Remarks