2024 BERC Resources Symposium Research Exposition

ABOUT THE research EXPOSITION

The Resources Symposium’s Research Exposition (“Research Expo”) will showcase UC Berkeley student research projects and creative solutions for sustainable land management in response to the climate crisis. Submissions will demonstrate diverse research approaches, including participatory methods, community-based initiatives, interdisciplinary studies, or new applications of established methodologies.

Selected applicants will prepare a 22"x28" presentation board as well as a brief overview to present to a panel of judges. Prizes of $1000, $500, and $250 will be awarded to the top three projects as determined by the judges. Please email Meghan Hale at meg_hale@berkeley.edu with any questions!

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, Oct 3, 2024

Submit your abstracts via this Google form.

GENERAL GUIDELINES

Target audience: Members of the sustainable land use community, students and faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, and the public at large. Posters and presentations should both make an impression on the judges and be understandable to the majority of Expo attendees.

Project parameters: A good project is at a point where outcomes or conclusions can be reported, and a question is being answered. Projects are welcome from all departments and universities, granted that the topic relates to sustainable land use in some fashion.

Effort to engage non-experts: The Research Expo is a way for all participants (including non-experts) to learn and engage with student research. We are also hoping that this offers researchers a new way of thinking about presenting their research to a broader audience then they might encounter in a standard academic conference.

Application specifics: For participation in the Research Expo, a separate abstract and poster will need to be submitted. All abstracts and posters are subject to approval. Please submit a concise abstract of 4-6 sentences that conveys the overall topic area, methods and conclusion. If a high-school science student was reading the abstract, would they have a good sense of what your research is trying to accomplish?

Poster design specifications: For BERC to print your poster it must be submitted in PDF format, size 36″ x 48″ (or 48” x 36”). We cannot print any other sizes or formats. We cannot provide any quality control for your poster regarding picture quality, etc. If you bring your own poster, we can be more flexible with the poster size.

Judging: Poster prizes will be determined by a panel of expert judges.

Awards: $1,000 First, $500 Second, $250 Third

2024 PRESENTERS

Hind Alboom (Master of Development Practice)

• Climate, Conflict, and Displacement: Evaluating Support Systems for IDPs in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Somali Regions

Julian Barragan (Master of Development Practice)

• Analyzing the Viability of Implementing Payments for Ecosystem Services Models in the Coffee-producing Communities of Guerrero, Mexico

Florencia Sepulveda (Master of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning)

• Participatory Design and Cross-Cultural Engagement for Sustainable Land Management: A Case Study of the Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve

Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna (Master of Urban Design)

• Paradoxes of Lake Development

Ethan Levin (Mechanical Engineering)

• The Forgotten Side of Wildland Fires

Carla Milsted, Sophie Koh, Julia Campbell, Do-Kyoung Lee, Carolin Sutter-Fella and Ana C. Arias (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

• Optimizing Organic Solar Cells: Performance Comparison of Inverted Spun vs. Fully Printed Devices

Philothei Sahinidis (PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

• Electrolyte Composition Influence on Zinc Air Battery as Oxygen Sensor Performance

Armando Valencia (Master of Rangeland and Wildlife Management)

• Utilizing Fire to Enhance Acorn Food Resources in California’s Oak Woodlands

Lucas Lahann (PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

• In Situ Recalibration of Printed Nitrate Sensors Using Selective Electrode Heating