All times EST.
Program subject to change.
Updated October 9, 2025

Posters will be available for viewing from Wednesday through Friday and the poster session will be on Wednesday, November 5 – 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Determination of per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in an Urban Watershed

Dongmei Alvi
Occoquan Lab, Virginia Tech, Manassas, Virginia

Algal Community Response to Pulse and Press Disturbances in Central Texas Ponds

Victoria Chraibi
Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas

Validating the Pond Shoreline Assessment Tool (PSAT) Using Grand Strand Stormwater Wet Ponds to Implement as a Future Inspection Technique

Lillian Doll
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

Diatoms and Sediment Core Chronology – A Tool to Reconstruct Baseline (Pre-industrial) Nutrients in New Jersey Lakes

Mihaela Enache
New Jersey DEP, Trenton, New Jersey

The Contrasting Responses of Phytoplankton and Benthic Algae to Spatially Variable TN:TP Ratios in a Large, Shallow Hypereutrophic Lake

Hanna Innocent
Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Early Detection and Rapid, Coordinated Management Responses Contain Starry Stonewort Spread in Five Minnesota Lakes

Christine Jurek
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul, Minnesota

Homemade “Tools of the Trade” Ease Sampling on Candlewood Lake

Steve Kluge
Candlewood Lake Authority, New Fairfield, Connecticut

Tracking the Fall Pump-Up of Candlewood Lake in SW Connecticut

Steve Kluge
Candlewood Lake Authority, New Fairfield, Connecticut

A Survey of the Parasites of Morone saxatilis (Striped Bass) in the Hudson River, New York

Delaney Long
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York

Progress on Rehabilitation of Greenfield Lake, North Carolina

Michael A. Mallin
Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina

Global Challenges: Freshwater – Development of a Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Certificate Program

Emily R. Nodine
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida

Using Rhodamine WT Dye as an Aquatic Herbicide Tracer to Quantify Site-Specific Water Exchange Rates in Hydrilla-Infested Tidal Areas of the Connecticut River

Amber Riner
ORISE, US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida

Informing Watershed Management Decisions Through Source Tracking of Bacteria and Turbidity Across the Three Sub-watersheds of Edisto Island

Brynne Sumner
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

Using Satellite Imagery to Detect Northern Hydrilla: Time-Series Analysis of Northern Hydrilla in the Connecticut River From 1994–2024.

Summer Weidman
CAES OAIS, New Haven, Connecticut