2006 Science Research Symposium Schedule

Gather and Welcome (9:30 - 10:00 am)
Session 1 (10:00 am - 10:40 am)

10:00 - 10:20 a.m.	Peter Daniel	Biology	Antennular waving in lobsters and the detection of odorants: A 3D kinematic analysis
10:20- 10:40 a.m.	Dilruba Ozmen-Ertekin	Engineering	Role of transportation accessibility in attracting new businesses to New Jersey

Break (10:40 - 11:00 am)
Session 2 (11:00 am - 12:40 pm)

11:00 - 11:20 a.m.	Charles Merguerian	Geology	New geologic discoveries in southern Manhattan
11:20 - 11:40 a.m.	Dennis Radcliffe	Geology	Trace elements in natural rutile: testing Pauling's rules
11:40 - 12:00 p.m.	Alex Zaharakas	Physics	Universal behavior in a model of fluctuation driven ventricular fibrillation
12:00 - 12:20 p.m.	Nanette Wachter	Chemistry	Probing nitric oxide release by furoxans
12:20 - 12:40 p.m.	Robert Seagull	Biology	Improving the economic value of cotton crops

Lunch Break and Posters (12:40 pm - 1:30 pm)
Posters (presenters will be available during the lunch break)

Qiong Zhou	Biology	Finding the lmna gene in non-model organisms
Matthew Testa, Charles Frago, David Miller, Alex Zaharakis, Sabrina G. Sobel (Chemistry), and Harold M. Hastings	Physics	Density driven pattern formation in a shallow petri dish

Session 3 (1:30 pm - 2:50 pm)

1:30- 1:50 p.m.	Paul Doherty	Biology	Why do Piping Plover eggs fail to hatch?
1:50 - 2:10 p.m.	Bret Bennington	Geology	Testing for Ecological Stability in the Fossil Record: Promises and Problems with a Guild Level Approach
2:10- 2:30 p.m.	Anthony Agnone	Engineering	R.E.S.C.U.E. 911 (Padre Pio)
2:30 - 2:50 p.m.	Christa Farmer	Geology	Tropical Climate Change: Linkages to High Latitudes

Coffee and Dessert Reception (2:50 pm - 3:45 pm)
Download a pdf of the speaker abstracts (4 pages)