Grad 10-min Competition: P-IE, Climate Change

Moderator(s)

• TP

  Travis Prochaska

  Water and Cropping Systems Extension Educator
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Schuyler, Nebraska
• MP

  Manoj Pandey (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific

  500 years of hemlock defoliator outbreaks in the Tongass National Forest
  

  Presenting Author: Marlee Theil – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Graham – USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection

  Co-Author: Michael Howe (he/him/his) – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Kellen Nelson – USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

  Co-Author: Patrick Tobin – University of Washington
• 8:12 AM - 8:24 AM Pacific

  Better together? Diverse microbial communities promote stable soybean resistance to simultaneous drought and herbivore stress
  

  Presenting Author: Brendan Randall (he/him/his) – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Kimberly Komatsu (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina, Greensboro

  Co-Author: John Parker – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  Co-Author: Kelsey McGurrin – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Nicole Rieger-Erwin – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Karin Burghardt (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
• 8:24 AM - 8:36 AM Pacific

  Climate manipulation alters the role of pollinators in floral microbiome assembly of two subalpine wildflowers
  

  Presenting Author: Emily Burgess – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Moria Robinson – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Robert Schaeffer – Utah State University
• 8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

  Inheriting parental stress: Insect herbivory and drought effects transcend generations in soybeans
  

  Presenting Author: Manish Gautam – University of Arkansas

  Co-Author: Rupesh Kariyat – University of Arkansas
• 9:00 AM - 9:12 AM Pacific

  Investigating interactions between invasive host plant use, heat waves, and drought on dormant larvae of a declining butterfly, the Baltimore checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton)
  

  Presenting Author: Anngely Leeds – Georgetown University
• 9:12 AM - 9:24 AM Pacific

  The impact of climate change on insect-mediated nutrient cycling in the Arctic tundra
  

  Presenting Author: Isobel Mifsud (she/her/hers) – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Duncan Menge – Columbia University
• 9:24 AM - 9:36 AM Pacific

  Using a diagnostic molecular approach to uncover altered oak gall wasp-parasitoid interactions under range expansion
  

  Presenting Author: Aly K. Milks – Binghamton University

  Co-Author: Kathy Fridrich – Binghamton University, SUNY

  Co-Author: Thomas H.Q. Powell – Binghamton University

  Co-Author: Kirsten M. Prior – Binghamton University