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Posters

Reaching Nevada’s Students Through The Education Component Climate Change Institute
Aubrey M. Bonde
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The role of areas of endemism, transitional areas, and Pleistocene climate change in the formation of North American Desert biodiversity
Mallory E. Eckstut and Brett R. Riddle
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Leadership Diversity and Innovation Capacity for Sustainability
Hilary K. Ego
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Energy Purveyors and Climate Change in Nevada: Knowledge, Needs and Perspectives
Lauren Fossile
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Intermittency in dust deposition rates around the world:  the story of hiatuses affecting rates
Noah Fraser
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Usability Studies for the Nevada Climate Change Portal
Ivan Gibbs
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Untangling the Development of An Extreme Urban Heat Island Signal for the Arid, Complex Terrain City of Reno, Nevada
Benjamin J. Hatchett,  J. F. Mejia, and D. R. Koracin
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Plant Response to Climate and Hydrologic Factors: The Importance of Vegetative Microclimate and Elevation in the Successful Germination and Establishment of Abies magnifica Seedlings
Michelle Hochrein, Scott Bassett, Elizabeth Leger, and Doug Boyle
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Occupancy patterns of a small mammal (Neotoma cinerea) in the Great Basin through late Quaternary climate changes: assessing the assumption of local adaptation
Angela D. Hornsby and Marjorie D. Matocq
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Atmospheric River Dynamics from Energy and Momentum Perspectives
Farnaz Hosseinpour1, and David J. Raymond
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Precipitation extremes in the western United States: its spatiotemporal changes under natural climate variability and human-induced climate change
Peng Jiang
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Distributional responses of desert trees to climate change: factoring in disturbance legacies and dispersal limitations
Sarah L. Karam and Peter J. Weisberg
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Northern Nevada EPSCoR Science Teachers Bring Climate Change to the Classroom
Timothy Kiley, and Dr. Jacque Ewing-Taylor
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Evaluation of Regional Downscaling Predictions of Future Drought Probabilities in the Western United States
K.C. King,  J. F. Mejia, D. McEvoy, and D. Koracin
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Using runoff collectors to understand surface runoff in remote Nevada catchments
Kerensa Kruse, and Dr. Laurel Saito
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Investigating Rural Nevadan Perspectives on Climate Change Solutions
Tricia Mynster
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Climate and fire regime interactions on long-term persistence of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems
Zachary J. Nelson, Peter J. Weisberg, and Robert S. Nowak
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SUNPRISM: A Software Framework for Climate Change Research
Sohei Okamoto and Sergiu Dascalu
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Political Orientation and Climate Change at the University: A Look at Professors’ Political Views and Beliefs Concerning Climate Change
Marissa C. Owens and E. Michael Nussbaum
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Cognitive Congestion Control for Data Portal
Ershad Sharifahmadian, and Shahram Latifi
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Status & Design of the NV-EPSCoR Remote Environmental Monitoring Transect Stations, Snake and Sheep Ranges, Nevada
Scotty Strachan, Brad Lyles, Brian Bird, and Greg McCurdy
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Remote Snow Data Collection
Benjamin Trustman and Dr. Laurel Saito-Project
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Future Projections and Uncertainty Assessment of Extreme Rainfall Intensity for Las Vegas Region
Jianting Zhu, William Forsee, Rina Schumer, and Mahesh Gautam
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