Posters

Using LiDAR and Field Data to Analyze Canopy Structure in a Sand Pine Forest
James J. Angelo, John F. Weishampel, Hilary M. Swain, and Edwin M. Everham III. Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conservation, Kissimmee, FL.

Quantifying sea turtle nesting responses to hurricane erosion: an application of LiDAR remote sensing
Tonya Speight and John Weishampel. Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Loreto, Mexico.

Monitoring Post-Freeze Recovery of Mangroves along the East Coast of Florida
Sue Leitholf and John Weishampel. Climate Change and Florida Conference, Tampa.

Bird populations in geographically isolated freshwater marshes: the importance of patch area and isolation on habitat utilization
Brian Rodenbeck and John Weishampel. Ecological Society of America, Memphis, Tennessee.

Habitat utilization of geographically isolated wetlands by avian species – a GIS-based approach for assessing the distribution of bird populations in depressional marshes across the central Florida landscape
Brian Rodenbeck and John Weishampel. International Association of Landscape Ecology, San Diego, California.

Assessing the Undergraduate Biology Curriculum at the University of Central Florida
David G. Jenkins, Alison Morrison-Shetlar, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, I. Jack Stout, Jane Waterman, and John F. Weishampel. NSF - Faculty Institutes to Reform Science Teaching (FIRST II) Conference, Kellogg’s Biological Station, Hickory Creek, Michigan.

The Virtual forest
Kent Lamers, Kevin Kramer, Shaun Wightman, Chris Richter, and Adam Flores
UCF Undergraduate Showcase.

Rivers of the world are small-world networks
David G. Jenkins, John F. Weishampel, and Carlos Rosas-Anderson
Society for Conservation GIS, US Fish and Wildlife Services’ National Conservation Training Center, West Virginia

Earlier nesting of loggerhead sea turtles following sea surface warming
John F. Weishampel, Dean A. Bagley, and Llewellyn M. Ehrhart, Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, San José, Costa Rica

Multi-scale spatial pattern analysis of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, stranding patterns in the IRL
Neysa A. Martinez, John F. Weishampel, Wendy D. Noke, Megan K. Stolen, Vickie Larson, and Daniel K. Odell Society of Marine Mammalogy, Greensboro, North Carolina

Characterizing successional volumetric patterns of forest canopy architecture
John F. Weishampel and Geoffrey G. Parker, Ecological Society of America, Savannah, Georgia

Sea turtle nutrient input to dune vegetation—a stable isotope analysis
Laura B. Plog, John F. Weishampel, James D. Roth, and Llewellyn M. Ehrhart
Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Using lidar to discern primary, secondary, and selectively-logged rainforest canopy structure
Charles C. Cowden, John F. Weishampel, J. Bryan Blair, David B. Clark, Ralph O. Dubayah, Michelle A. Hofton, and Robert Knox. International Canopy Conference, Cairns, Australia

Quantifying forest canopy structure: learning from neutral models
Lee Anne Kirkpatrick and John F. Weishampel International Canopy Conference, Cairns, Australia

The virtual forest canopy Orlando Science Center exhibit
Teresa M. Riedel, John F. Weishampel, John Breedlove, Michael Moshell, Charles E. Hughes, Chris Stapleton, and Eileen Smith, International Canopy Conference, Cairns, Australia

Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of seagrass beds in the northern Indian River Lagoon
Matt S. Love, John F. Weishampel, and Robert W. Virnstein, International Association of Landscape Ecology, Lincoln, NE

Using lidar to analyze canopy structure in primary and secondary tropical rainforests
Charles C. Cowden, John F. Weishampel, J. Bryan Blair, David B. Clark, Ralph O. Dubayah, Michelle A. Hofton, and Robert Knox, Working Forests in the Tropics: Conservation through Sustainable Management Conference, Gainesville, FL and International Association of Landscape Ecology, Lincoln, NE

Seasonal and diel patterns of manatee habitat selection
Monica Ross, John F. Weishampel, and Richard O. Flamm, Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference, Vancouver, BC

Quantifying structure in volumetric neutral landscapes
Lee Anne Kirkpatrick and John F. Weishampel, International Association of Landscape Ecology, Tempe, AZ

Seagrass fractal pattern dynamics in the Indian River Lagoon
Matt S. Love, John F. Weishampel, Robert W. Virnstein, Lori J. Morris, and Lauren M. Hall, Seagrass Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL

Multi-dimensional Characterization of Tropical Rainforest Canopy Structure
Jason R. Godin, John F. Weishampel, and Ralph Dubayah, British Ecological Society/Ecological Society of America Conference, Orlando, FL
U. S. International Association of Landscape Ecology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
 
Spatial variation of vertical structure in tropical dry and wet forests
Carrie L. Yoder and  John F. Weishampel, British Ecological Society/Ecological Society of America Conference, Orlando, FL 

Spatiotemporal distribution of sea turtle nests in south Brevard County and the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge 1989-1999
UCF Marine Turtle Research Group and Landscape Ecology Class
20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Orlando, FL

Self-organized critical behavior in microbial communities
Jay L. Garland, John F. Weishampel, and Julie P. Richmond
International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH

Spatial variation of vertical tropical forest structure in relation to remotely sensed laser waveforms
Carrie L. Yoder and John F. Weishampel, Second International Conference Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, Orlando, FL

Analysis of spatial nesting patterns of a wading bird colony at Gatorland, Orange County, Florida
Jodi Doster, Walter K. Taylor, and John F. Weishampel, International Association of Landscape Ecology, Snowmass, CO

The Vegetation Canopy Lidar Mission: 3D Rainforest Structure from La Selva, Costa Rica
Ralph Dubayah, Steve Prince, Bryan Blair, Robert Knox, David Clark, and John Weishampel, International Canopy Conference, Forest Canopies: Global Perspectives, Sarasota, FL

Biogeochemistry of Spanish Moss in Orange County, Florida: A Twenty-five Year Revisit
George J. Husk, John F. Weishampel, and Jason R. Godin, International Canopy Conference, Forest Canopies: Global Perspectives, Sarasota, FL

Spatial Pattern Analysis of Pre- and Post-Hurricane Canopy Structure in the Duke Forest, Durham, NC
Jeffry C. Boutet, Jr. and John F. Weishampel, Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD

Multifractal and Lacunarity of Remotely-Sensed and Simulated Spatial Patterns of a Longleaf Savanna
Jason B. Drake and John F. Weishampel, Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD

Scales of canopy height distribution in North American landcover classification schemes based on laser altimetry
Jason R. Godin, John F. Weishampel, and Robert Knox, Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD

Multifractal and 1/f Analysis of Remotely-Sensed and Ground-Based Measures of a Longleaf Pine Savanna
Jason B. Drake and John F. Weishampel, International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, Lake Buena Vista, FL
 
Comparison of Intact Rainforest Texture (1970s-1980s)
John F. Weishampel, Jonathan H. Sloan, Jeffry C. Boutet, Jr. and Jason R. Godin
International Association of Landscape Ecology, Duke University, Durham, NC

Analysis of Laser Altimeter Waveforms for Forests of Central Florida
John F. Weishampel, David J. Harding, Jason B. Drake, and Jeffry C. Boutet, Jr.
Association of Southeastern Biologists, Greenville, SC
International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Orlando, FL
Florida Ecological and Evolutionary Symposium, Lake Placid, FL