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2018 Vermont EPSCoR All Hands Meeting


 
VT EPSCoR held a successful kick off to Year 3 with an exciting All Hands Meeting on June 12, 2018 at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, VT. Over 80 participants attended including the new 2018 Undergraduate interns, graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and members from the VT EPSCoR External Advisory Committee.
 
Dr. Sean Kennan, NSF Program Director, provided opening remarks with Dr. Arne Bomblies, VT State EPSCoR Director. Science Leaders from each BREE research group provided an overview of the work, progress on the research and expectations for the upcoming year.
 
Representatives from VT PBS, including Holly Groschner, President, and Heather Duhamel, Education Consultant, spoke to the group shortly after lunch and provided an overview of VPTs online curriculum for the VT EPSCoR sponsored, Emmy award winning "Saving our Waters" program.
 
Patrick Clemins, Manager, Cyberinfrastructure and Partnerships for VT EPSCoR, provided a data management overview. Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez, Director for Workforce Development and Diversity (VT EPSCoR CWDD) at Saint Michael’s College provided an update on the exciting workforce development and training efforts over the past year and what to expect in the coming year.
 
For more details please visit the videos and slides below.
 
Welcome
Arne Bomblies, State Director, VT EPSCoR
& Sean Kennan, Program Director, NSF EPSCoR
Video
CWDD Overview
Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez, VT EPSCoR CWDD Coordinator.
Video    PDF
Macroinvertebrates
Declan McCabe, Associate Professor of Biology, St. Michael's College
Video    PDF
Ecological Team BREE Research
Carol Adair, Arne Bomblies, Andrew Schroth
Video    PDF
Riparian Ecosystem Monitoring Network
Brittany Lancellotti, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
Video    PDF
Effects of Changing Spring Melt and Land Use on Watershed Nutrient Export
Erin Seybold, VT EPSCoR, Post-Doctoral Associate
Video    PDF
Urban Hydrology and Basin Resilience to Extreme Events
Dan Demers, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
Video    PDF
Developing a Conceptual Model of Nutrient and Bloom Dynamics in Two Shallow, Eutrophic Bays...
Wilton Burns, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
Video    PDF
Hydrodynamic Model of Lake Champlain
Liv Herdman, VT EPSCoR, Post-Doctoral Associate
Video    PDF
Putting the Social in Social Ecological Systems
Christopher Koliba, VT EPSCoR, BREE Social Systems Leader
Video    PDF
ALL ABM Update
Liz Doran, VT EPSCoR, Post-Doctoral Associate
Video    PDF
Modeling Agents with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Social Ecological Systems
Kevin Andrew, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
Video    PDF
An Adaptive Agent-Based Model of Network Governance
Patrick Bitterman, VT EPSCoR, Post-Doctoral Associate
Video    PDF
VT PBS Saving Our Waters Update and Curriculum Guide Presentation
Holly Groschner, President, VT PBS &
Heather Duhamel, Education Consultant, VT PBS
Curriculum Link
BREE IAM Status and Development Plans
Asim Zia, VT EPSCoR, BREE Integrated Assessment Co-Leader
Video    PDF
Major Features of the BREE Integrated Assessment Model
Donna Rizzo, VT EPSCoR, BREE Integrated Assessment Co-Leader
Video    PDF
Deep Learning & Data-Driven Approaches to Modeling Suspended Sediment Loads
Scott Hamshaw, VT EPSCoR, Post-Doctoral Associate
Video    PDF
Predicting Sediment Regimes to Inform Prioritization of River Restoration
Doug Denu, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
Video    PDF
Phosphorus Load Estimates
Jory Hecht, VT EPSCoR, Post-Doctoral Associate
Video    PDF
Cyberinfrastructure Update
Patrick Clemins, VT EPSCoR, Manager, Cyberinfrastructure and Partnerships
Video    PDF
Climate Team Overview and Progress
Johathan Winter, VT EPSCoR, BREE Climate Co-Leader
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Climate Team Progress: WRF Model Evaluation
Huanping Huang, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
Video    PDF
Improving the Accuracy of Regional Climate Models using Bayesian Modeling and Bias Correction
Maike Holthuijzen, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
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ERA5 Regional Precipitation Analysis
Caitlin Crossett, VT EPSCoR, Graduate Research Associate
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