2014 GABRAF Program
OPENING
7:30 – 8:00 Registration
8:00 – 8:10 Opening remarks
STEVE WOLVERTON
8:15 – 9:00 Keynote
Ricketts & Steinbeck: From Ecology to Literature in The Log from The Sea of Cortez
DAVID TAYLOR
SESSION ONE
Chair: Evan Carpenter
9:00 – 9:15 Use of Urban Green Spaces by Bumble Bees in Denton County
BECKHAM, JESSICA
9:15 – 9:30 Development of Endothermy in King Quail (Coturnix chinensis)
SHERIF, MIRIAM and EDWARD DZIALOWSKI
9:30 – 9:45 Importance and Spatial Distribution of Two Major Host Trees of Phytophthora ramorum in a Coast Redwood Forest in Soquel, California
GRAY, ALICIA and ALEXANDRA PONETTE-GONZÁLEZ
9:45 – 10:00 Changes in Great Kiva Faunal Assemblages during Late Pueblo III Drought
WINSTEAD, CHRISTY and AMY HOFFMAN
SESSION TWO
Chair: Amy Eddins
10:15 – 10:30 Zooarchaeology and Vertebrate Taphonomy of Contemporary Goat Ranching at Puesto Toscal, Western Argentina
OTOALA, CLARA, STEVE WOLVERTON, MATTHEW FRY, and MIGUEL GIARDINA
10:30 – 10:45 Who Wants a Free Tree? Using Census Data to Characterize Participants in a Tree Give-Away Program in Denton, Texas
HELLMAN, WES
10:45 – 11:00 City of Denton Plastic Bag Use Analysis
MCDANIEL, AMANDA
11:00 – 11:15 Applied Zooarchaeology of the Late Holocene Freshwater Mussel Community in the Leon River Basin of Central Texas
POPEJOY, TRACI
LUNCH
11:30 – 1:00
SESSION THREE
Chair: Jonathan Dombrosky
1:00 – 1:15 The Influence of Local Habitat Variability on White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Body Size at Fort Hood, Texas
EDDINS, AMY
1:15 – 1:30 The Problem of Space Averaging in Zooarchaeological Data: Different Interpretations about Resource “Intensification” in Central Western Argentina
OTAOLA, CLARA, STEVE WOLVERTON, and MIGUEL GIARDINA
1:30 – 1:45 Assessing Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives on the Grid-Connected Photovoltaics Market in the DFW Region
JACK, KATHY
1:45 – 2:00 Hidden Dangers of Hydraulic Fracture Drilling: Increased Leukemia Rates in North Texas
LANZA, JESSICA
SESSION FOUR
Chair: Traci Popejoy
2:15 – 2:30 Impacts of PIII Resource Intensification on Leporid Populations in the Mesa Verde Region, AD 1000-1280
ELLYSON, LAURA
2:30 – 2:45 To Recycle or Not to Recycle: Evaluating the Impact of Choice
KNAUPP, VICTORIA and STEPHEN RAMSEY
2:45 – 3:00 Greater Sage-Grouse in the Paleozoological Record
SCHULWITZ, SARAH
SESSION FIVE
Chair: Christy Winstead
3:15 – 3:30 Region as Patch: Assessment of Foraging Efficiency in Mesa Verde and the Northern Rio Grande (ca. AD 1300)
DOMBROSKY, JONATHAN
3:30 – 3:45 Transcript and Metabolic Alterations in Juvenile Danio rerio Following Chronic Exposure to the Environmental Contaminant, Norethindrone
BARKER, ANDREW, TY CURRAN, RAJEEV AZAD, and BARNEY VENABLES
3:45 – 4:00 Identifying Cultural and Non-cultural Factors Affecting Litter Patterns: A Case Study of Plastic in Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas
CARPENTER, EVAN
CLOSING
Keep Denton Beautiful (KDB)
LAUREN BARKER
Closing Remarks
JONATHAN DOMBROSKY
OPENING
7:30 – 8:00 Registration
8:00 – 8:10 Opening remarks
STEVE WOLVERTON
8:15 – 9:00 Keynote
Ricketts & Steinbeck: From Ecology to Literature in The Log from The Sea of Cortez
DAVID TAYLOR
SESSION ONE
Chair: Evan Carpenter
9:00 – 9:15 Use of Urban Green Spaces by Bumble Bees in Denton County
BECKHAM, JESSICA
9:15 – 9:30 Development of Endothermy in King Quail (Coturnix chinensis)
SHERIF, MIRIAM and EDWARD DZIALOWSKI
9:30 – 9:45 Importance and Spatial Distribution of Two Major Host Trees of Phytophthora ramorum in a Coast Redwood Forest in Soquel, California
GRAY, ALICIA and ALEXANDRA PONETTE-GONZÁLEZ
9:45 – 10:00 Changes in Great Kiva Faunal Assemblages during Late Pueblo III Drought
WINSTEAD, CHRISTY and AMY HOFFMAN
SESSION TWO
Chair: Amy Eddins
10:15 – 10:30 Zooarchaeology and Vertebrate Taphonomy of Contemporary Goat Ranching at Puesto Toscal, Western Argentina
OTOALA, CLARA, STEVE WOLVERTON, MATTHEW FRY, and MIGUEL GIARDINA
10:30 – 10:45 Who Wants a Free Tree? Using Census Data to Characterize Participants in a Tree Give-Away Program in Denton, Texas
HELLMAN, WES
10:45 – 11:00 City of Denton Plastic Bag Use Analysis
MCDANIEL, AMANDA
11:00 – 11:15 Applied Zooarchaeology of the Late Holocene Freshwater Mussel Community in the Leon River Basin of Central Texas
POPEJOY, TRACI
LUNCH
11:30 – 1:00
SESSION THREE
Chair: Jonathan Dombrosky
1:00 – 1:15 The Influence of Local Habitat Variability on White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Body Size at Fort Hood, Texas
EDDINS, AMY
1:15 – 1:30 The Problem of Space Averaging in Zooarchaeological Data: Different Interpretations about Resource “Intensification” in Central Western Argentina
OTAOLA, CLARA, STEVE WOLVERTON, and MIGUEL GIARDINA
1:30 – 1:45 Assessing Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives on the Grid-Connected Photovoltaics Market in the DFW Region
JACK, KATHY
1:45 – 2:00 Hidden Dangers of Hydraulic Fracture Drilling: Increased Leukemia Rates in North Texas
LANZA, JESSICA
SESSION FOUR
Chair: Traci Popejoy
2:15 – 2:30 Impacts of PIII Resource Intensification on Leporid Populations in the Mesa Verde Region, AD 1000-1280
ELLYSON, LAURA
2:30 – 2:45 To Recycle or Not to Recycle: Evaluating the Impact of Choice
KNAUPP, VICTORIA and STEPHEN RAMSEY
2:45 – 3:00 Greater Sage-Grouse in the Paleozoological Record
SCHULWITZ, SARAH
SESSION FIVE
Chair: Christy Winstead
3:15 – 3:30 Region as Patch: Assessment of Foraging Efficiency in Mesa Verde and the Northern Rio Grande (ca. AD 1300)
DOMBROSKY, JONATHAN
3:30 – 3:45 Transcript and Metabolic Alterations in Juvenile Danio rerio Following Chronic Exposure to the Environmental Contaminant, Norethindrone
BARKER, ANDREW, TY CURRAN, RAJEEV AZAD, and BARNEY VENABLES
3:45 – 4:00 Identifying Cultural and Non-cultural Factors Affecting Litter Patterns: A Case Study of Plastic in Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas
CARPENTER, EVAN
CLOSING
Keep Denton Beautiful (KDB)
LAUREN BARKER
Closing Remarks
JONATHAN DOMBROSKY