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  • Using 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing and quantitative PCR (qPCR) to Evaluate Microbial Community and Pathogen Dynamics in Acropora cervicornis Corals

    Creator:
    Patel, Shalvi H.
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    Coral reefs are diverse ecosystems and serve many purposes including preventing erosion on coastlines and acting as a source of food, income, and culture. Acropora cervicornis, a staghorn coral, has faced a significant 80-89% decline in the Caribbean, attributed to a poorly-characterized epizootic, White Band Disease (WBD). Previous studies showed...
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    :_____________________________________________________ Rebecca Vega Thurber Coral reefs are diverse ecosystems and serve many

  • Identifying a Ranking of Plant Preferences for a Pollinator

    Creator:
    Krishna Kumaran, Sneha
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    Pollinators are an integral part of agriculture and the ecosystem. However, due to changing land use, populations of wild pollinators are decreasing and plant distributions are changing all around the world. To understand how plant-pollinator networks will adapt over time, we would like to understand how pollinators choose flowers to...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Rebecca Hutchinson Pollinators are an integral part of agriculture and the

  • Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe

    Creator:
    Barone, Tessa C.
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    Shows, books, and media are constantly negotiating power with their fans. Who decides what is canon? To whom does the story belong?? The answer has traditionally been in favor of producers. However, in the age of the internet, fans now hold considerably more power than they ever have before, and...
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    :_____________________________________________________ Rebecca Olson Shows, books, and media are constantly negotiating power with their fans

  • Mythical anatomy of dragons

    Creator:
    Coughlin, Emma
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    I researched depictions of dragons in several works of modern literature to conceptualize what a dragon looks like and how they generally function in popular media. From there, I researched several key characteristics of dragons to see how they work with science’s current understanding. I looked into size and scaling,...
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    :_____________________________________________________ Rebecca Olson I researched depictions of dragons in several works of modern literature to

  • A validity study for the kaizen event kick-off survey

    Creator:
    Mitchell, Rebecca M.
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    This study was conducted to support a research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of the NSF research project was to determine how to design kaizen events that result in both short term and long term performance improvements. One of the tools developed to evaluate the...
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    . ________________________________________________________________________ Rebecca M. Mitchell, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my mentor, Dr. Toni L. Doolen

  • Shifts in Microbial Communities Based Upon Transect Habitat

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    Greydanus, Logan
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    Coral reef health has been in severe decline around the globe in the past several decades, in many cases due to direct human impact. Human action, such as overfishing, habitat destruction and nutrient loading, has caused coral coverage to drop to record lows, threatening the future of these critically important...
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    Abstract Approved: Rebecca Vega-Thurber Coral reef health has been in severe decline around the

  • Using TEM to Evaluate the Importance of the Microbiome and Virome Between Fire Corals and Scleractinian Corals

    Creator:
    Duke, William C.
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    As important ecological cornerstones, coral reefs face threats from a myriad of sources, such as global climate change, and importantly, disease, the latter often as a result of microbial pathogens. An understudied group of major corals, fire corals, and their even less understood microbiome present an opportunity to learn more...
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    :_____________________________________________________ Rebecca Vega Thurber As important ecological cornerstones, coral reefs face threats

  • How competitive are iconic competitors? Testing resource partitioning in Great Basin chipmunks

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    Ormand, Elora J.
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    Competitive exclusion is a key concept in ecology describing the exclusion of one species by another from access to a limited resource. Competitive interactions between chipmunk species in the Great Basin, documented by James Brown in 1970, are often used as a textbook example of competitive exclusion. Whether competitive interactions...
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    . Abstract approved by: _________________________________________________________ (Rebecca C. Terry

  • Freeze-thaw cycles in permafrost soils and their impacts on the climate: A literature review

    Creator:
    Bergmann, Maya K.
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    Climate change is occurring at an increasingly rapid rate, with impacts heightened in the cold regions of the world including the Arctic. Warming effects are widespread, with one impacted process – freeze-thaw cycles – increasing in frequency and potentially triggering additional changes in permafrost soils that have previously acted as...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Rebecca A. Lybrand Climate change is occurring at an increasingly rapid rate, with

  • Making the microbial world large : assessing best microbiological engagement and teaching methods for high school students

    Creator:
    Boryer, Ellie
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    With mounting distrust for science, finding effective ways to educate the next generation of scientists has become increasingly important. Microbiology is a prevalent and complex subject and is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technologies for a more in-depth look into the unseen world. However, many people are only ever...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Rebecca Vega Thurber Key Words: microbiology, education, high school, survey, summer camp