Join the Department of Environmental Science and Ecology and the Department of Geological Sciences for the first UTSA Earth Symposium consisting of oral and poster presentations organized in a virtual environment.
We invite contributions that consider the interactions between living organisms and their environment, the effects of global change on populations, communities, and ecosystems, and the conservation of biodiversity.
We invite contributions that look at any issue related to water resource science and management, including surface and groundwater hydrology and water quality, water and its role in ecosystem and public health, water availability, watershed and river processes, aquatic and riparian habitat formation, and conservation and management of aquatic and riparian biotic communities.
We invite contributions at how interactions between the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and cryosphere can be modified by ongoing climate change, as well as lessons that can be learned from the Earth's history.
We invite contributions related to planetary science, including studies of surface and interior processes and environments, and their terrestrial analogs. Examples include, but are not limited to, astrobiology and planetary caves; human exploration and habitation; volcanism, lava flows and lava tubes; the cryosphere and cryovolcanism; and planetary oceans and hydrospheres, past and present.
June 15: Call for Abstracts.
August 1: Deadline for Abstract submission.
August 1-5: Abstracts review.
August 6: Notification of acceptance.
September 4: UTSA Earth Symposium
8:00 am - 8:10 am: Opening remarks
8:15 am - 9:45 am: Oral session 1
9:55 am - 11:10 am: Oral session 2
11:35 am - 12:30 am: Keynote address
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Oral session 3
2:10 pm - 4:10 pm: Oral session 4
4:10 pm - 6:10 pm: Poster session
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm: Closing remarks
Abstract submission is closed.
Poster presentation guidelines
Poster template (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Registration is closed.
The detailed program is now available to download.
Emily Glotfelty and Eva Wikberg
Behavioral Responses to Increasing Population Size in Colobus vellerosus.
Eres A. Gomez and Jennifer A. Smith
Anticoagulant Rodenticides and Secondary Exposure to Raptors in Texas.
Marina Ann Zannino and Jennifer A. Smith
The Effects of Rainfall on Heron Productivity.
Cody Campbell, Omar Carrillo, Nancy Benavidez, and Elizabeth Borda
Comparative Transcriptomics of Anchialine Shrimp (Atyidae).
Gabriela Vara and Jennifer A. Smith
The Importance of Herbaria in Research.
Jamie Killian and Jennifer Smith
Determining Texas Horned Lizard Population Abundance in Karnes and Wilson Counties Using Visual Encounter Surveys.
Logan Day, Skyla Garcia, Jamie Ramos, Victoria Register, and Brian G. Laub
Mapping Potential Freshwater Conservation Areas in the San Antonio Watershed.
Namrata Giri and Brian G. Laub
Seasonal Dynamics of Food Resources in Cibolo Creek, Texas.
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Michael McMahan and Yongli Gao
Improving Best Management Practices for Sensitive Karst Features on the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone.
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Rodolfo Fernandez, Alberto M. Mestas Nuñez, Karen Mendiondo, and Christian A. Sustayata
Satellite Salinity Imaging Depicts Deceleration in Gulf Stream Current during Hurricane Dorian, 2019.
Alexis Godet, Jacob Byerly, Annie Arnaud-Vanneau, Lucie Bonvallet, and Brahimsamba Bomou
The Impact of Supergreenhouse Conditions on Cretaceous Marine Sedimentation.
Richard Gonzalez, Michael D'Emic, Simone Hoffmann, and Thomas Adams
Evolution of Body Size in Pantodont Coryphodon during the PETM.
Brenna Halverson, Stuart Kenderes, Jesse Merriman, and Alan Whittington
Thermal Anomalies around Salt Diapirs and their Effects on Maturation of Surrounding Hydrocarbons.
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Elizabeth Hebel and Hongjie Xie
Evaluating Ice Production of Ross Ice Shelf and Terra Nova Bay Polynyas during 2019 Using Sentinel-1 SAR Images and ICESat-2 Data.
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André Michon, Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez, Hongjie Xie, Zhiwei Wang, and Stephen F. Ackley
Satellite Remote Sensing of Snowpack Variability on Eagle Island, Antarctica.
Dianna Price, Alexis Godet, and Thomas Adams
Digitizing Early Cretaceous Dinosaur Trackways to Preserve the Geological Heritage of Central Texas.
Christopher Ray, Yongli Gao, Benjamin Schwartz, Phil Lucas, and Lijun Tian
Cave Air CO2 and Hydrochemical Monitoring of Helictite Cave, VA.
Megan Schill, Shawn Brown, Richard Baird, and Allison Veach
Southern Appalachian Mountain Wildfires Increase Soil Microbial Nutrient Scavenging with Burn Severity.
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Christian A. Sustayta, Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez, and Karen Mendiondo
Comparisons of Geostrophic Current Observations from Buoyancy Gliders and Satellite Altimetry.
Don Hooper, S.W. Ximenes, R. Wells, E.L. Patrick, and M. Necsoiu
Developing a Simulant to Replicate the Lunar Regolith.
Alan G. Whittington, Graham D.M. Andrews, Stuart Kenderes, Shelby L. Isom, Sarah R. Brown, Holly D. Pettus, Brenna G. Cole, and Kailee J. Gokey
There's a Fault in my Flow: A Reinterpretation of "Pressure Ridges" in Silicic Lava Flows.
John Dye and Alan Whittington
Rheology of Mauna Loa's 1984 Eruption.
Justice Lira, Alan Whittington, and Brenna Halverson
Rheology of the Andesite Erupted from Fissure 17 of the 2018 Kilauea Lower East Rift Zone Eruption.