Summer Systematics Institute 2024 | Final Presentations: Session 2

Hear from this year's Summer Systematics Institute students, a museum-based internship supported by the NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. (All times PST.)

1:00 PM — Opening remarks by Drs. Lauren Esposito & Rebecca Johnson (Co-Directors, Summer Systematics Institute)

1:05 PM — Julianna Escobedo, Wellesley College // "Platforming Native Communities to Steward Cultural Heritage: Two-Eyed Seeing at the California Academy of Sciences" // Advisor: Shannon Tushingham

1:25 PM — Matteo Alemany, Willamette University // "A sticky situation: Pairing DNA barcoding with morphological data for species identification of long-jawed orb weaver spiders (Tetragnatha sp.)" // Advisors: Maddy Hannappel, Anna Holmquist, Athena Lam, Lauren Esposito

1:45 PM — Haley Arbon, Fordham University // "Out of Amazonia and Back Again: Phylogeography of Thecadactylus geckos" // Advisors: Michael Yuan and Edward Myers

2:05 PM — Sofia Micci, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo // "Act Naturally: How physical environments may influence receptiveness to conservation messaging" // Advisor: Laurel Allen

2:25 PM — BREAK

2:40 PM — Shantel Watson, Rochester Institute of Technology // "Baskets of Knowledge: Basketry as an Ecological and Cultural Artifact in Indigenous California" // Advisor: Shannon Tushingham

3:00 PM — Emilio Chavez, University of California, Berkeley // "A Novel Non-Lethal Method for Scorpion Diet Analysis" // Advisors: Eric Stiner & Lauren Esposito

3:20 PM — Audrey Garcia, UCLA // "Investigating geographical species distributions before and after reservoir construction in northern sierra nevada foothills" // Advisors: Nat Low & Avery Hill

3:40 PM — 3:40 PM — Nia Gladden, Georgia Institute of Technology // "Coming Home: Evaluating the impact of individuals' connection to place as a motivator of conservation behaviors" // Advisor: Laurel Allen

4:00 PM — BREAK

4:10 PM — Matthew McDonald, College of Charleston // "Phylogeographic Patterns in the Baja Coachwhip (Masticophis fuliginosus) Inferred from complete mitochondrial genome sequences" // Advisor: Ed Myers

4:30 PM — Daniel Martinez, San Francisco State University // "Updates from the Field" // Advisors: Jacob Gorneau & Lauren Esposito

4:50 PM — Closing remarks by Drs. Lauren Esposito & Rebecca Johnson