Annual FOREM graduate student symposium
Our graduate student symposium will be held Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:30–11:45 am in three lecture halls in the Forestry and Geology building, F&G 203, F&G 303 and F&G 202 There will be three concurrent oral presentation sessions during the morning, starting at 8:30. Oral presentations will be 25 minutes long (i.e., 18–20 minute presentation followed by 5–7 minutes of questions).
The faculty will provide pizza and refreshments for lunch and also snacks for a social get-together at the grad house during the late afternoon. Your graduate student committee will provide drink tickets for the afternoon social.
This is a good opportunity to showcase your research and to (hopefully) receive constructive feedback. There will be a short afternoon session that will focus on how to write a thesis that should be of interest to everyone.
Graduate students presenting a poster
- Irfan Ashraf—Using JABOWA-3 for forest growth and yield predictions under present-day climatic conditions of Nova Scotia, Canada
- Altamash Bashir—Ecological Succession and the Role of Old Forests to Mitigate Climatic Change Impact through Carbon Sequestration
- Laura Bourgeau-Chavez—Evaluation of Polarimetric Radarsat-2 data for Development of Organic Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms for Boreal
- AlaskaKyle Chisholm—Using the Wet Areas Map to help predict Soil Water Quality for Ecozones in Alberta and New Brunswick
- Lin Gao—Determine the water sampling frequency opportune
- Dorthea Grégoire—Gouting by an exotic phloem feeder decreases the survival of a native hymenopteran by reducing host plant foliar quality
- Saul Hernandez-Maldonado—Vibration performance of cross laminated timber floors
- Doug Hiltz—Landscape-wide LiDAR Mapping of Vegetation Type by Soil Moisture Regime
- Chen Huang—Technique of determining the yield stress of wood compressed perpendicular to the grain
- Jin Hong Kim—Characterization of Black spruce (Picea mariana) Transcriptome
- Henry Meleki Kiwelu—Moisture Induced Deformations in Glulam Members - Experiments and 3-D Finite Element Model
- Qiang Li—Assessing Land use and Soil Conservation Practices Impacts on Groundwater Quality with Surface and Groundwater Models
- Jin Ma—Targeted Mutagenesis of starch branching enzyme genes in potato with Zinc-Finger Nucleases
- Zhilei Ma—Diaphragm Action in Heavy-frame Timber Systems
- Kevin Mahabir—Influence of habitat use and distribution of the Barbuda Warbler (Setophaga subita) and the Yellow Warbler (S. petechia)
- Lauren Miller—Spaces for Public Participation in Crown Land Governance in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
- Jan Niederwestberg—Influence of Laminate Characteristics on Properties and Two-Way Bending Performance of Cross Laminated Timber Panels
- Mohammed Isaque Noory—Effects of Architectural and Structural Elements on Lateral Load Resisting Characteristics of Wood Light-Frame Shear-Wall Segments and implications for Design Practice
- Jae Ogilvie—LiDAR-based Wet-area and Wetland Delineation
- Kwadwo Omari—Dead wood dynamics in white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) plantations following alternative commercial thinning
- Reg Parsons—Mi’kmaq forest-based knowledge and wisdom—from definition to understanding
- Junyu Qi—Modification of Soil Temperature Module in Soil and Water Assessment Tool
- Duncan Rand—Use of RADARSAT-2 Polarimetric SAR Images for Drought Code Mapping over Canadian grasslands
- Zander Ryerson—Assessing climate change impacts on wood supply
- Masoud Sadeghi—Continuity Connections for Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Diaphragms
- Lee Salmon—Characterizing and Predicting Regeneration in Clear and Patch Cut Tolerant Hardwood Forests of New Brunswick
- Amanda Smith—Modelling wood decomposition and nitrogen dynamics in North and Central America
- Ebenezer Ussher—Enhancing the Dynamic Characteristics of High-Rise Buildings with Lightweight Floor Substructures using Tuned Passive Damper
- Grant Virgin—Spruce budworm: super silviculturist revisited: 56 years of post-budworm stand development
- Ben Wallace—Evaluation of a recovery strategy for Atlantic salmon: impacts of stocking hatchery juveniles on wild populations
- Kai Zhao—Characterizing spatiotemporal patterns of spruce budworm defoliation in New Brunswick, Canada
Concurrent morning sessions
Session 1, F & G 203
Moderator: Dr. Don Floyd
- 8:30 José Cubero Moya—Understanding the landowner participation in the Alternative Land Use (ALUS) Program in Prince Edward Island
- 8:55 Vincent Zelazny—Storytelling: the other competence needed by forestry and environmental management students
- 9:20 Louise Comeau—Exploring Ethical Orientations of Environmental Lifestyles: A Mixed-Method Study
- 9:45 Bill Anderson—A Case for the Kingdon “Policy Windows” Model at the Sub-Federal Level
- 10:10 Refreshment break
- 10:30 Monica McKendy—The attitudes and behavior of New Brunswick woodlot owners
- 10:55 Zach Cole—Hierarchically Analyzing the Effects of Scale on Conservation Outcomes in Reserve Networks: A New Brunswick Case Study
- 11:20 Mir Martin—Analyzing seasonal and annual variations in river runoff in the Qilian Mountains of NW China by means of remote sensing data
Session 2, F & G 303
Moderator: Dr. Ian Smith
- 8:30 Ataollah Haddadi-Goyaghaj—Moisture content images of subalpine fir lumber from hyperspectral images
- 8:55 Clevan Lamason—Log moisture content determination with quantitative magnetic resonance
- 9:20 Allan Sugg—Soil Trafficability: Developing a Predictive Model
- 9:45 Qin Yi Zhou—Development of evaluation methodology for rolling shear in CLT
- 10:10 Refreshment break
- 10:30 Guillaume Hans—Determination of log properties using a portable near infrared (NIR) spectrometer
- 10:55 Li Ling—Measurement of mechanical properties of Balsam fir wood in cross section using digital image correlation technique
- 11:20 Lina Zhou—Hybrid Wood-Masonry Wall Test
- 11:45 Thomas Joyce—Connections for CLT Diaphragms in Steel-Framed Buildings
Session 3, F & G 202
Moderator: Dr. Fan-Rui Meng
- 8:30 Mike Szuter—Fine root dynamics of sugar maple and balsam fir: effects of climatic variations
- 8:55 Hua Wen—Tracing surface water flow through landscape using LiDAR DEM
- 9:20 Charles MacPhee—Use of LiDAR imagery to supplement forest inventory for an Acadian forest land base
- 9:45 Rony Mazumber—Assessing Climate Change Impacts on tree growth, yield and mortality
- 10:10 Refreshment break
- 10:30 Fangzhou Zheng—A plot study on channel development, gully erosion and their impacts on hydrology, sediment yield and nutrient losses
- 10:55 Sara Fraser—Heritability of resistance in balsam fir to the balsam twig aphid
- 11:20 John Forsythe—Quantifying Spatial Accuracy of Wildfire Predictions
Pizza and refreshments at 12 noon in F & G 203
Afternoon session on thesis/paper writing in F & G 203
Writing a thesis or peer-reviewed papers that form the core of a thesis is one of the most challenging aspects of a graduate student program. Dr. Steve Heard is writing a book that attempts to help students (and faculty) with this difficult task. He will highlight some of the aspects that he thinks are important to be a good and efficient writer. As everyone approaches writing differently, three faculty members (Tom Beckley, Dave MacLean and Dan Quiring), representing different areas of research, will very briefly highlight some of the strategies they employ to help graduate students write their theses. Hopefully the discussion generated from these presentations will continue later in afternoon when we relax in the grad house.
