2009 Poster Presentations

Please be sure to attend the Poster Session on Thursday evening at 3:30 p.m. for the judges and 5:30 p.m. for everyone in the Mezzanine where about 25 posters will be presented.

To encourage student participation, TN Section AWRA awards two student posters with a certificate for their university. If you are not affiliated with a university or a student poster presenter and would like to be a judge, please send email to Mike Bradley

Information for Poster Presenters: The poster session will be limited to 20 student posters and 10 professional posters due to space limitations. Selection of poster presentations will be based on the quality and content of the abstracts. Posters should be mounted on poster board no larger than 3’x 5’. All posters must be displayed by 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 16. Presenters of student posters are required to give a brief synopsis (5 minutes or less) of their poster to the Poster Judges during the 3:30 p.m. session and at the Poster Session at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 16. An award for the best student poster will be presented at the annual TN Chapter Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16.

Student Posters:

“Assessment of Ground-Water Leakage through the Upper Claiborne Confining Unit to the Memphis Aquifer in the Allen Well Field, Memphis, Tennessee” Elizabeth Bradshaw

“Applying Geospatial Soil Survey Data to Estimate Stormwater Trapping Efficiencies of West Tenness Filter Strips” Christopher Bridges

“Using Chemographs to Characterize a Karst Spring in Nashville, TN” Carlton Cobb

"Maintenance Water Quality Structures and Illustrating Water Quality Testing to Undergraduate Students" S. Hovis

“Beaver Wetland Improves Stormwater Runoff in Nashville, TN” Jameka Johnson; Brandon Cobb

"Analysis of Organic Contamination by Coal Mining and Asphalt Production" Jo Meagan Mansfield

“Use of Independant Gamma Distribution to Describe Tracer Break-through Curves” Marquan Martin

“Use of Dynamic Systems Modeling to Conceptualize the Progression of Acidic Deposition to Stream Chemistry in Streams of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park” Lee Mauney

“A Detailed Investigation on the Exchange of Ground-Water and Surface Water in a Sand Bottom Stream in West Tennessee” Ryan Pickett

“Solubility and Biodegradation of Et-85 in Groundwater” Loreal Spear

“Helping Rural Communities in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala with Low Cost Sources of Clean Drinking Water” Adam Teg

Professional Posters:

"Impervious Area Analysis for the Harpeth River Watershed Based on Analysis of 1997 and 2007 Ortho Photos and Local Parcel Maps and Compared to Cumberland Region Tomorrow's 2001 Growth Projections for 2020" Michael Cain and Joel Peters

"Evaluation of CADDIS Stressor Analysis for Tennessee--Progress, and Request for Your Input" John Harwood and Bonnie Newby

"Factors Affecting Occurrence and Distribution of Selected Contaminants in Ground Water in the Valley and Ridge Aquifers, Eastern United States, 1993- 2002" Gregory C. Johnson, Tammy M. Zimmerman, Bruce D. Lindsey, and Eliza Gross