Annual Meeting 2023

Overview of key GEM3 accomplishments (Moderator: Andy Kliskey)

• Sven Buerki. Sagebrush synthesis: celebrating success, teamwork, and integration.
• Chris Caudill. Toward empirical assessment of adaptive capacity in aquatic populations across scales: from genomes to landscapes in native rainbow trout populations in Idaho
• Morey Burnham. Social Ecological Systems science synthesis.
• Sarah Penney-Jackson. Highlighting GEM3's education, workforce development and diversity initiatives

2:00 PM

BREAK (15 min)
 

Highlights of recent collaborative and integrative topics
(Moderator: Rick Schumaker)

• Haley Netherton-Morrison. Highlighting student perspectives and research at the 2023 Ecological Society of America conference.
• Morgan Calahan and Mosope Abanikannda. GEM3-sponsored training opportunities: insights from the Smithsonian Conservation Genomics Bioinformatics Workshop.
• Peter Olsoy. High-resolution thermal imagery reveals how interactions between crown structure and genetics shape plant temperature.

Highlights from GEM3 Seed awards and next directions
(Moderator: Paul Hohenlohe)

• Josh Griffin and Ben Pearson. Developing wireless tags using laser-induced graphene for sagebrush VOC detection.
• Josh Grinath. Relating sagebrush genome size to resource co-limitation and competition.
• Dan Cronan. Tackling uncertainty: Coupling Stakeholder and Biophysical Scenarios under a multifaceted research program.
• Li Huang. Stakeholder-driven scenarios of land system changes and their impacts on ecosystem services.
• Allison Simler-Williamson. Building Research Capacity in Biology

Closing remarks and Adjourn
Andy Kliskey

Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Lightning Talks (Moderator: Peggy Martinez)

• John Clare. Using aerial imagery to map and monitor range land plant abundance while accounting for observation error
• Spencer Roop. Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) Ecophysiology: from native habitats to common gardens and beyond.
• Josh Egan. Genomic time-series data reveal signatures of selection in wild redband trout populations.
• Ryan Wickersham. Drone-based predictions of big sagebrush demographic performance across an elevation gradient.

Faculty Lightning Talks – GEM3 legacy, research, education, and broadening participation capacity (Moderator: Kitty Griswold)

• Carolyn Dadabay. Building research capacity at a PUI: EPSCoR investments and opportunities.
• Shanny Spang Gion and Laticia Herkshan. Tribal Scholars: vision for the future.
• Liz Redd. (Re)cultivating and (Re)newing Reciprocal Research--supporting native nations-university collaborative research ethics and practice.
• Leonora Bittleston. Investigating the sagebrush leaf microbiome.

2:00 PM

BREAK (15 min)
 

Highlights from GEM3 Workforce Development and Education (Moderator: Sarah Penney-Jackson)

• Devaleena Pradhan. Gene regulatory networks in a sexually plastic fish
• Chris Caudill. Aquatic Molecular Ecology (AquaMolE) as a Vertically Integrated Project
• Catherine Isaak. An overview of BSU's Lab & Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (LURE/CURE).

Lasting resources for continued collaboration (Moderator: Colden Baxter)

• Andrew Child. Preserving the past, enabling the future: expanding data archives for lasting research progress.
• Donna Llewellyn. ASSERT: Aligning Stakeholders and Structures to Enable Research Transformation (recorded).
• Sarah Penney-Jackson. Exploring opportunities within NSF's Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED) program.

Approaching and crossing the finish line: GEM3 and new directions (Moderator: Rick Schumaker)

• Rick Schumaker. No-cost extension and final GEM3 annual reporting.
• Kitty Griswold. Idaho's next NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 award overview: Idaho Community-engaged Resilience for Energy Water Systems (I-CREWS).
• Andy Kliskey. NSF EPSCoR national directions; concluding remarks.