3rd Annual Extreme Environments Conference

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