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2022 Conference

3rd Annual Extreme Environments Conference
August 26, 2022 | 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm | BSE 2.102

Schedule

Time	Activity
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Student Poster Presentations Undergraduate Arianna Acosta Learned Image Compression for Sentinel-2 Satellite Optical Imagery in the Polar Region Daniela Bartels Synthesis and Characterization of Alumina Oxides as Star Dust Analogs Christopher Campbell The Presence of Microplastics in Hailstone in the Greater San Antonio Area Erika Dyer Change Analysis in Urban Heat Island Surface Temperatures for San Antonio, Texas from 2013-2018 Sofia Gutierrez Tangarife Background Subtraction, Image Realignment and Fourier Transformation for Pressure Sensitive Paint Analysis Melvin Hernandez Using MATLAB to Reduce LiDAR Data to Hazard Map for Autonomous Navigation of Lunar Rovers Joshua Le Augmented Reality Visualization for Lorenz Attractor Austin Patridge Thermal, Chemical, and Rheological Analysis of Lunar Highland Simulants Mark Reyna 3D Printing Fundamentals, Use Cases, and Advanced Techniques Haven Russell Design and Construction of a Vertical Hybrid Thruster Testing and Measurement Stand Jordyn Sloan Origin of the Hurricane Harvey (2017) Freshening Anomaly in the Western Gulf of Mexico Cheyenne Wilson In-Situ Resource Utilization Using Perchlorate Brines on Mars Doctoral Jordana Masuma Iqrah Segmentation of Sea Ice and Open Water Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Optical Imagery in the Polar Regions Jullian Williams and Mansi Joshi Sea Ice Observations in Nunavut, NWT, Canada
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Student Presentations Master's Angelina Andrade Velocity Measurements in Hypersonic Flow Using Molecular Tagging Velocimetry Ishan Bhattarai Simulation of Turbulent Density Currents over Rough Surfaces Ashley Emerson Calorimetric Determination of Lava Crystallinity: the Fissure 17 Flow, Kilauea 2018 Iyare Oseghae Understanding the Role of Environmental Metrics Affecting Wildfire Vegetation Burn Severity Kevin Posladek Applying Air Data to a Neural Network for Instrumentation Calibration Thanh Tran Aerosols Plume Height Retrieval of FIREX-AQ AirMSPI Data Using Stereoscopic Imaging Doctoral (Earth and Planetary Science) Mckenzie Dice Comparison of Boundary Layer Stability and Forcings: McMurdo Station and Dome Concordia Station, Antarctica Karen Mendiondo Investigating Essential Ocean Variables Using the SeaExplorer Underwater Glider Thomas Nordstrand Comprehensive Characterization of Inorganic Chemical Constituents and Dissolved Organic Matter in Large Hailstones from South-Central Texas Jullian Williams Detection of Sea Ice Floe Flooding in the Amundsen Sea Using Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Invited Keynote Presentation Gui Paniagua, Ph.D., Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera, Buenos Aires, Argentina Malvinas Current at 44.7°S: First Assessment of Velocity Temporal Variability from In Situ Data
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Student Presentations Doctoral (Engineering) Protik Banerjee Influence of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry on Soil Phosphorus Mobilization Eugene Hoffman Analysis of Distributed Roughness Effects on Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions Using Non-Intrusive Diagnostics Elijah LaLonde Sensitivity Characterization and Optimization of a Self-Aligning Focusing Schlieren System Juan Sebastian Rincon Tabares Fast Sensitivity Analysis and UQ Method for Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Using Hypercomplex Finite Element Method Jesse Slaten Investigations and Intercomparisons of 2019 Williams Flats Wildfire Plume Smoke Forecasts in the Convective Boundary Layer Using WRF-LES-bPlume Doctoral (Earth and Planetary Science) Brenna Halverson Bubble Interactions in the Ahu'aila'au Flow of the 2018 Kilauea Eruption: Implications for Bubble and Rheological Evolution Gina Josef Linking Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure and Stability in the Central Arctic during MOSAiC to Thermodynamic and Dynamic Features Mansi Joshi Variations in Sea Ice Thickness over Weddell Sea for 2019-2020 Using ICESat-2 Andrea Mazzeo Thermal Properties of Picrite Analogue: Implications for Martian Lava Flows Lauren Schwartz Relating Thermal Inertia of Basaltic Lava Flows to their Texture Christian Sustayta Glider-Based Estimation of Geostrophic Currents and Transports in the Gulf of Mexico

2021 Conference

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 conference has been reduced to one day and will occur virtually.

2nd Annual Extreme Environments Conference
August 19, 2021 | 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Schedule

Time	Activity
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Main Room Opens
10:00 am - 10:05 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Grant Macdonald and Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
10:10 am - 11:05 am	Student Presentations Karen Mendiondo Validating Ocean Current Velocities Measured by a Glider-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler in the Mediterranean Sea Angie De La Cruz Presence of Microplastics in Hailstones Zach Riddle A 3D Printing Approach to Creating a Mars Rover Thomas E. Nordstrand Characterization of Large Hailstone Growth Using Stable Isotope Gina Jozef Testing the Efficacy of Several Automated Methods for Identifying Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height Using Data Collected by sUAS during MOSAiC Eugene Hoffman The UTSA Mach 7 Ludwieg Tube Wind Tunnel Joshua Le Object Detection Algorithm Using 3-D LIDAR Data Subject to Turbulent Wind and Ocean Condition Hazem Mahmoud 2020 Wildfire Plumes Observed by Satellite and Ground Sensors at San Francisco Bay Desiree Arbizu TBA
11:05 am - 11:40 am	Student Breakout Rooms
11:40 am - 12:30 pm	Student Presentations Vincente Flores Enabling Spatial Resolved Laser-Based Measurements in Reacting Flows Ta'Lya Brooks Analysis of TIE-Fighter at Mach-7 Flight Ishan Bhattarai Effect of Roughness in Entrainment Protik Banerjee Role of Organic Matter in Mobilization of Phosphorus in Tallgrass Prairie Soil Christian A. Sustayta Ocean Currents from a Buoyancy Glider and from a Satellite-Based Ocean Current Analysis Pratik Mitra Computation of Rough Wall-Bounded Turbulence over Unsteady Channel Flow Jullian Williams Lead Detection with Sentinel-1 in the Beaufort Gyre Using Google Earth Engine Chrishall Armstrong Assessment of Water Quality in Upper San Antonio River
12:30 pm - 1:25 pm	Lunch Break
1:25 pm - 1:30 pm	Welcome Back
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm	Invited Keynote Presentation Dr. Gary Jedlovec, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center NASA Earth Science: A View from the Inside
2:10 pm - 3:00 pm	Student Presentations Steve Lara Aerodynamics and Design of the SR-72 Crystal Moreland Detecting Coastal Ocean Freshening from High Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Fields Juan Carrasco Developing a Test Setup to Study Wave Propagation in Periodic Material Raj Patel The UTSA Small-Scale Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Power Plant Elijah LaLonde The Development of Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements for Light Gas Gun Facilities Thanh Tran Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Turbulent Buoyant Plumes Daniel Brun TBA Valeria Delgado TBA
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Student Breakout Rooms
3:30 pm - 3:35 pm	Break
3:35 pm - 4:25 pm	Student Presentations Iyare Oseghae Predicting Mineral Abundance and Vegetation Fractional Coverage Using Machine Learning Jesse Slaten Buoyancy Effects on Entrainment of Turbulent Plumes: Implications to Wildland Fire Using WRF-LES with Buoyancy Formulation Elina Valkonen Arctic Cyclones and Sea Ice in an Ensemble of CMIP6 Models Emily Pressler Retrieving and Plotting Data with Python Nicholas Tkatchuk Evolution of Supraglacial Lakes on Nansen Ice Shelf from 2018 to 2021 Bianca Reusch Data Modeling - Converting wrfout to MatLab Files Jaylin Wilson Machine Learning and Data Testing Ashley Aguilar TBA
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm	Closing Remarks Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar

2020 Conference

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 conference has been reduced to one day and will occur virtually.

Inaugural Extreme Environments Conference
August 20, 2020 | 9:45 am - 4:00 pm

Schedule

Time	Activity
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Meet & Greet and Morning Session Instructions
10:00 am - 10:05 am	Welcome Dr. Hongjie Xie
10:05 am - 10:40 am	Keynote Presentation Dr. Siva Prasad Gogineni, University of Alabama and Chair of CAMEE External Advisory Committee Ultrawideband (UWB) Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) Radars for Mapping of Lunar Lava Tubes
10:45 am - 12:05 pm	Presentations: Alamo Colleges CAMEE Student Interns see student presentations guide
12:05 pm - 12:45 pm	Lunch Break
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm	Presentation: UTSA Undergraduate Mars Rover Team
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Research Focus Area Presentations: CAMEE Students Research Focus Area 1: Aerodynamics Research Focus Area 2: Atmospheric Science and Extreme Events Research Focus Area 3: Modeling, Simulation, and Big Data Research Focus Area 4: Gulf of Mexico and Polar Oceans Research Focus Area 5: Polar Sea Ice and Sea Level Rise see student presentations guide
3:35 pm - 3:50 pm	BIG IDEA Presentations Dr. Sonya Legg, Dr. Donald Perovich, and Dr. Marilyn Raphael
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm	Acknowledgments and Closing Remarks Dr. David Silva, UTSA College of Sciences Dean and UTSA Oversight of CAMEE

Morning Session

Afternoon Session