MWC 2005 SPONSORS
U.S. Geological Survey  • Senator George J. Mitchell Center • Maine DHS / Drinking Water Program • Portland Water District • Aqua Maine • Maine Coastal Program / State Planning Office • Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection • Maine Geological Survey • Maine Rural Water Association • Maine Wastewater Control Association • Maine Water Utilities Association • Maine Congress of Lake Associations • Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program • Maine Rivers • University of Maine Cooperative Extension • Maine Sea Grant

2005 Undergraduate Poster Presentations
2005 Graduate Poster Presentations
2005 Professional Poster Presentations

Posters invited for display at the 2005 Maine Water Conference address one or more aspects of water quality or quantity issues. These may include chemical, biological, and hydrological aspects of surface and ground waters, and their policy and economic implications.

Juried Student Poster Exhibition
The Senator George J. Mitchell Center and the U.S. Geological Survey have sponsored a juried student poster exhibition at the Maine Water Conference since 2000. Winners receive a cash award and their names are engraved on a plaque housed in the  Mitchell Center. This year features separate undergraduate and graduate competitions.

Posters are on display throughout the day and can be viewed at any time. Scheduled poster viewing sessions, when presenters are likely to be available to answer questions, are at 8:00am and 10:00am.

Special thanks to the Association of Graduate Students and the Graduate School at the University of Maine for use of easels for poster displays.

Student presenters are indicated in bold type.

2005 Undergraduate Poster Presentations

Matt Borden
Policy Analysis for Reducing Mercury Exposure to Loons in Maine

Julie Daigle and Kim Borges
Correlation of E. coli levels with land use in the South Perley Brook watershed, Aroostook County, Maine

Mark Eisel, Erica Costello, Kenneth Baker and Dr. Daniel E. Buckley
Multi-year Surveys for Variable Leaf Milfoil, Myriophyllum heterophyllum, in  Messalonskee Lake and Pleasant Pond, Maine

Amanda Haponski, Theresa Hattenrath, Tracy Burke, and Rebecca Beasley
The effects of grazing by Littorina littorea, nutrients, and temperature on benthic microalgal biomass along a salinity gradient in the Machias River, MAINE

Ashley Malinowski and Lois K. Ongley
A Point Source of Orthophosphate in the Sabattus Pond (Maine) Watershed?

Ivan Mihajlov and D. Whitney King
Application of capillary electrophoresis to determination of nitrate concentrations in temperate lakes

Sarah Winslow, Roberta Hill, and Keith Williams
Maine's "Virtual Herbarium"

2005 Graduate Poster Presentations

Therese D. Anderson and Jean D. MacRae
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Fish and Wastewater Samples from an Area of the Penobscot River in Central Maine

Tanya Baker, Jonathan Rubin, and Kevin Boyle
Recovering Recreational Damages from Coastal Oil Spills — A case scenario for Greater Portland & Casco Bay, Cumberland County, Maine

Katie DeGoosh, Emily Schilling, Cynthia Loftin, Katherine Webster
Message in the Mud: Does Chaoborus americanus indicate fish absence in Maine ponds?

Melinda Diehl, J. Kahl, K. Webster, I. Fernandez, and S. Norton
Determining Landscape Controls on Surface Water Sulfate Concentrations Using Elevational Transects at the Bear Brook Watersheds in Maine

Fretwell, L.A., D.B. Dail, K.E. Webster, and S.H. Brawley
The relationship between phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations, algal growth, and land use in the Meduxnekeag River watershed

Grygo, A, K. Webster, C. Loftin, K. Tonnessen, S. Kahl
A GIS landscape model examining DOC variability among watersheds in National Parks

Shan Huang and Kathleen P. Bell
Communicating the Risks of Exposure to Arsenic in Drinking Water: Does Newspaper Coverage Influence Testing Decisions?

Jennifer L. Jespersen and Laurie Osher
Maine Estuarine Soils as a Potential Sink for Terrestrially Derived Carbon

Kramar, David E.
Proximity analysis of the influence of land cover type and loon blood
mercury levels using geographic information systems

Zhaohui Luo, Indira Silwala, Lexan Lhu, John M. Peckenham, Touradj Soloukia
Molecular Identification of Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water by High Resolution GC FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry

Sara Colburn McCabe, Peter Vaux, and Ruth Hallsworth
Creating and Evaluating Specialized User Interfaces on the PEARL Website

Jennifer Ward, Dr. Kevin J. Boyle, and Roy Bouchard
Valuing Water Clarity in Maine's Lakes: A contingent valuation approach to estimating value of Maine's access users

Jennifer M. Weldon and Jean D. MacRae
Do Microbes Affect Groundwater Arsenic Concentrations? A Study of Iron and Arsenic Reducing Bacteria

2005 Professional Poster Presentations

Holly Wright, Jake Van Gorder, Bik Wheeler, Tifin Calcagni, and  Jane E. Disney
Not all Cruise Ships Are The Same — The 2004 Cruise Ship Season Report For Bar Harbor, Maine

Dieffenbacher-Krall, Ann C. and Nurse, Andrea M.
A 12,000 Year Record of Lake Levels of Mathews Pond and Whitehead Lake, Northern Maine, USA

Friedman, Ed, Salazar, Michael & Salazar, Sandra, Gagne, Francois
The Use of Caged Mussels and Vitellin Assay to Detect Endocrine Disruption Activity

Ken Heim, Mark Gerath, Matt Kennedy, Jim Herberich, Melissa Evers, and Laura Blake
Determining Streamflow Statistics for Ungaged Watersheds in Maine

Travis Hussey
Union River Watershed Coalition: Volunteer water quality data collection and dissemination

Joshua Katz
Persistent Road Salt in Bedrock Aquifers — An Unintended Environmental Legacy?

Kramar, David E., Vaux, Peter D.
PEARL: Recent Innovations to the architecture and functionality of the environmental information source for Maine.

Oksana Lane and David C. Evers
Developing a geographic exposure profile of mercury contamination in salt marshes of New England National Wildlife Refuges and a state wildlife management area in Maine through scan sampling of Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrows

Peter A. Slovinsky, Stephen M. Dickson, Ginger C. McMullin
Tidal Inlet Studies for Oil Spill Response Planning

Peter D. Vaux
Freshwater Biodiversity in Maine: Status, trends and information gaps

E. Wilkerson and J.M. Hagan
Water quality change in headwater streams following timber harvesting