Photo Gallery: 2026 Wrigley Institute Research Symposium

2026 Wrigley Institute Research Symposium Student Poster Award Winners. From left, Thabassum Nattikallungal, Bernadeth Tolentino, Cat Odendahl, and USC Wrigley Institute Director Joe Árvai.

Bernadeth Tolentino, Graduate Student, Marine & Environmental Biology | Blue Inoculants: Harnessing Microbial Potential to Nourish Giant Kelp

Thabassum Nattikallungal, Graduate Student, Chemistry | Sustainable Sensitizers for Solar Fuels

Yeshvi Tomar, Graduate Student, Chemistry | Organic Coating Layer for Hydrogen Evolution Suppression and Improved Charging Efficiency for Alkaline Iron Electrodes

Mia Franks, Graduate Student, Ocean Sciences | Marine biogeochemical responses to the Palisades and Eaton Fires across time

Kimberly A. Schoenberger, Graduate Student, Marine & Environmental Biology | Variations in long bone development of island and continental foxes

Douglas Noble, Professor of Architecture | POCKET LODGE: Sustainable and Comfortable Tiny Homes in an Extreme Climate

Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Provost Professor and Director, USC Schaeffer Behavioral Science & Policy Initiative | TV news stories about severe weather events can increase concerns and support for climate change adaptation policies

Donal T. Manahan, Professor of Biological Sciences | Meeting the Biological “Cost-of-Living” on our Changing Planet – Strategies of Resilience

John P. Wilson, Professor and Founding Director, Spatial Sciences Institute | Mapping Urban Tree Canopy at Scale

Shannon Gibson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Political Science, and International Relations | Co-Producing Climate Justice: From Classroom to COP with the Gibson Climate Justice Lab

Noelle Held, Gabilan Assistant Professor of Marine & Environmental Biology | Changes in nutrient limitation at the San Pedro Ocean Time Series

Karla Heidelberg, Director, USC Sea Grant and Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies | Nature-Based Defenses for a Changing Coastline: New Knowledge and Applications in Coastal Dune Science

Julia Schwartzman, Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Quantitative & Computational Biology | The microscopic world of giant kelp

Sarah Feakins, Professor of Earth Sciences | Wood burial at sea – climate and carbon implications

Hagen Buck-Wiese, Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine & Environmental Biology | Towards understanding the importance of microbe-carbohydrate interactions in maintaining healthy and resilient kelp forests

Paul Rousteau, Postdoctoral Researcher, Earth Sciences | Microbial methane-related microbial diversity of San Pedro Basin: an overlooked methane seep

Will Berelson, Professor of Earth Sciences | CO2 mitigation: The role of Fish

YC Chan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Earth Sciences | The air-quality costs of climate intervention

Qiming Wang, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering | NeoCorals: Seawater-Assisted Scalable Electrochemical Carbon Sequestration Manufacturing

Karen Lloyd, Professor of Earth Sciences and Marine & Environmental Biology | Direct measurements of the biggest sink for oceanic methane: deep-sea methane oxidation