BAHS students present at Informal Cost Research Day

Student research projects were highlighted as the College of Science and Technology Informal Research day on Nov 20, 2020. The event, held on ZOOM, was coordinated by Dr. Abby Hare-Harris. Congratulations to Katelyn Kelchner and Allison Sowers, co-winners of the Audience Favorite Award. The following BAHS students presented research:

Celeste Takach - Light Effects on Aquatic Decomposition in a Headwater Stream

Morgan Murphy - Do Avian Communities Prefer Artificial or Natural Wetlands?

Mary Ann Bogert - Effects of Wastewater Treatment Facility Chemicals on Acid Mine Drainage in the Susquehanna River

Cameron Buoy - The Annotation of Poison Exons in BRCA2

Allison Sowers - The Effects of BORIS on Telomere Signals in Metaphase Chromosomes

Jessica Paoletti - A Comparison of Fish Diversity in Pennsylvania Zone Four Lakes

Sarah Buckley - Including Algae in Environmental Education

Kaitlyn Serpa - Decomposition Testing on Antietam Creek vs Schuylkill River in Southeastern PA

Connor Harding - Comparative Analysis of How Tributaries Flowing into the Loyalsock Creek Effect Water Chemistry

Ty Basinger - Decomposition Rates in Three Small Lentic Wetlands

Katelyn Kelchner - PEX-DETEX - Development of an Automated Pipeline for Identifying Poison Exons

Rachel Daku - Comparative Phosphorus Absorption and Storage in Diatom Taxa

Sweetie Patel - Annual Metabolism in Fishing Creek, PA

Braeden Gonzales - Relationships between upstream land cover and lake trophic status in Eastern Pennsylvania

Michael Facella - Microplastics in Biofilms at Fishing Creek

Brianna Werley - The Annotation of Poison Exons within SCN1A

Alexis Bowser - Comparison of continuous water chemistry data in West Branch and North Branch Susquehanna River

Martina Bennick - Comparing Algal photosynthetic Capacity in Impaired Streams using Pulse-Amplitude Modulate Fluorescence

Audience favorites by Allison Sowers and Katelyn Kelchner. 




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