The link to the left is for a poster that I wrote and presented at the Benthic Ecology Meeting (BEM) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I wanted to present a poster that I could talk about more personally to the attendees that came around to see it. I wanted people to have a better idea of the encompassing nature of the work, and that is hard when given only 12 minutes to speak. I was also lucky enough to find Dr. David Thistle from Florida State and Dr. Paul Montagna from Texas A&M at Corpus Christi and chat with them again, as that would most likely be the final time that I would see them, since they are retiring.
The link to the left is for a talk that I wrote and presented presented at the Association of Southeastern Biologists Conference (ASB) in Montgomery, Alabama. This presentation really sums up, in the briefest of nutshells, the 5 year study that Dr. Romano had begun some ages ago. To be precise, begun in 2007. Unfortunately, I had no desire to look at the work after I graduated, as I had gotten a little disillusioned before graduating and wanted to move on to other pursuits. I always knew that I would go back to the data and crunch a few numbers and tie everything back together with a neat little bow on it. So in late 2016, I dusted off the neglected file on my Mac, entitled "NOAA Presentation Stuff", and got to work in my spare time arranging and writing so that I would have a functioning talk to give in a few months. It helped that the conference was just done the road in Montgomery. I did not have access to the last year of raw data, due to the actions of our research partner after Dr. Romano passed. But I did present what I had, all sorted nicely with the biotic, abiotic and granulometric correlations added in. It was a fitting swan song for a project that really defined my time at Jacksonville State.
The link, again to the left, is for a talk that I co-wrote with Dr. Romano and he delivered at the Benthic Ecology Meeting in Mobile, Alabama. At the time, it was as far as we had gotten on our research, which is tedious given the fact that we are counting thousands of critters that can for the best part only be seen under a microscope. But it was also the first conference that I attended that dealt with bottom dwelling life and their habitat. It was also cool that after the talk, I was approached by Dr. David Thistle and his student crew from Florida State and was told how they had enjoyed the presentation and how they had been anticipating it. So that was neat. I ended up hanging out with them for the duration of the conference and got to know several people pretty well.
The link to the left (again) is for a talk I gave at the Association of Southeastern Biologists Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. It was structured after a talk I gave at the JSU student research symposium earlier that year. I would also use this presentation as a starting place for my thesis defense and would narrow down the charts into more aesthetic and understandable versions for my thesis and publication.
The link (yes, again) is for a poster that we co-wrote with a few colleagues and was presented at the 14th International Meiofauna Conference in Ghent, Belgium. It expanded on our work to include data from the 2008 sample collection. We would have included 2009 data, but counting and sorting these little critters is very tedious and time consuming. It was cool to have our work shared with leading authorities on meiofauna from all over the world.
The link to the (guess where?!) is for a poster that I co-wrote with Dr. Romano and presented at the Association of Southeastern Biologists Conference in Asheville, North Carolina. It was the first conference that I attended and first time presenting research. It is a preliminary poster, detailing some results from the survey's beginning. This would form a backbone of later presentations and was very helpful for me personally because I was given the freedom to work on my writing skills and attention to detail. In short, I became more patient with my writing.