Photo Gallery: 2024 Wrigley Institute Annual Research Symposium

ByUSC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability

On Thursday, March 21st, USC Wrigley Institute-affiliated researchers across 12 disciplines and 3 USC schools presented their environmental and sustainability work at the second Wrigley Institute Annual Research Symposium.

Student Awardees 

  • 1st Place Student Speaker – Rachel So | Advisor: Sarah Feakins |  Earth Science | Climate variations of recent ice ages at Utah Lakes: Implications for wate avallabilty in the western Us
  • 2nd Place Student Speaker – Maddelyn Harden | Advisor: Serguy Nuzhdin | Molecular Biology | Genomic Analvsis of Heat Stress Response in M. pyrifera (Giant Kelp)
  • 3rd Place Student Speaker – Josh Inwald | Advisor: Wändi Bruine de Bruin | Psychology | Older Americans are more politically polarized than younger Americans about climate policies 
  • 1st Place Poster Presenter – Maya Gomez | Advisor: Carly Kenkel Biological Sciences | Marine and Environmental Biology | Fine-scale morphological plasticity in staghorn coral as a function of water flow, light and genotype
  • 2nd Place Poster Presenter – Chan-Mao Chen | Advisor: Josh West | Earth Sciences | The 2021 Melamchi Flood: A massive erosional cascade in the Nepal Himalaya
  • 3rd Place Poster Presenter – Killian Ashley | Advisor: Josh West | Earth Sciences | Source or Sink? Evaluating CO2 Fluxes From Urban Hardscape Surfaces

View the 2024 Wrigley Institute Annual Research E-Booklet for full list of presenters.