Left to right: Undergraduates Mikayla Dubis, Jessi Florendo, Sebastian Rueda, Devyn Barraza, and Raymond Turrisi

The RI C-AIM team traveled to Columbia, SC, to participate in the 2019 NSF EPSCoR National Conference. We thank Dr. Prakash Nagarkatti, Vice-President for Research at the University of South Carolina, and his team for their hard work hosting the collaboration- and idea-generating event!

The following students presented their C-AIM research at the conference:

Undergraduate

Devyn Barraza (University of Rhode Island) “Assessing Bimolecular and Spatial Distribution Changes of Marine Biofilm on PDMS”
Mikayla Dubis (Rhode Island College) “Investigating Perceptions of Coastal Conditions at Sabin Point Park”
Jessica Florendo (URI) “Taking the Heat: Climate Change Effects on Muscle Physiology of Fish in the Narragansett Bay”
Sebastian Rueda (URI) “Synthesis of Thiocarbamate based organocatalysts for ROP”
Raymond Turrisi (URI) “Work Towards the Development The Multipurpose Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Coastal Research”

Graduate

Stewart Copeland (Rhode Island School of Design) “Data Platforms and WebVR: Representations of the Buoy Experience”
Timo Kuester (University of Rhode Island) “Towards continuous in situ sensing of marine pollutants using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy”
Sonia Refulio-Coronado (University of Rhode Island) “Coping with bad water: Water quality effect on recreational demand for beach use”