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Future Meetings are 2013 at California State University, Long Beach.
2014 at California State University, Channel Islands
2015 at Loyola Marymount University
Awards presented at the 2012 Meeting for Posters and
Presentations were as follows.:
SCAS 2012 POSTER COMPETITION
(Thanks to the judges!)
There was a three way tie in Ecology and Evolution:
Poster # 94: S.D. Taylor, S. Espino, A. Downey, and H. J. Schenk, A new
method for in-situ measurements of stem hydraulic conductance in intact
plants, California State University, Fullerton
Poster #96: M.E. De Guzman, S. Virk, and L.S. Santiago, The role of sapwood
capacitance in hydraulic strategies of desert chaparral shrubs, University
of California, Riverside
Poster#102: Emily Nguyen Wieber and H. Jochen Schenk, Testing for embolism
repair in Valencia Orange, Calfornia State University, Fullerton
There was a three way tie in Molecular:
Poster # 56 (originally a E): G.E. Jang and S.K. Goffredi, Quantification of
methanogenic microbes associated with tropical bromeliad: influences on
function and abundance, Occidental College
Poster # 105 (originally a E): F.F. Tarzi, R. Bahnam, V.F. Tarzi, J.R. Wood,
L. Grismer, L.F. Greer, Phylogenetic position of the pit viper
Cryptelytrops Honsonensis
Poster # 124 (originally a E): A.M. Lim, C. Broussard, Estrogen receptor
usage by endrocrine disrupting chemicals DES and HPTE on embryonic tymocytes
There were not enough entries in the Physical Science
category to merit an award in the opinion of the judges.
2012 Best Paper Awards
Molecular Biology (There is no graduate award)
Undergraduate: 69M Andrea L. Tsoris, Occidental College
TESTING PERMEABILITY OF SELECT EPITHELIA
IN MEGATHURA CRENULATA TO TRACERS USING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Graduate)
58: Megan Bartlett; U.C.L.A.
RAPID DETERMINATION OF COMPARATIVE DROUGHT
TOLERANCE
TRAITS:
USING AN OSMOMETER TO PREDICT TURGOR LOSS POINT
62 Elena Granda; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC,
Spain
THE INTERACTING EFFECTS OF WATER AVAILABILITY AND ATMOSPHERIC
CO2 PLAY A MORE IMPORTANT ROLE FOR LONG-TERM GROWTH OF
MEDITERRANEAN TREES THAN WATER-USE EFFICIENCY
Undergraduate:
153 Will Spinter UC Riverside
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONDITION, MORPH, AND
STRIDULATION IN MALE PACIFIC FIELD CRICKETS (Teleogryllus oceanicus)
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