{"id":206320,"date":"2019-10-21T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/?p=206320"},"modified":"2019-10-21T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:57:05","slug":"students-win-aag-regional-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/2019\/10\/21\/students-win-aag-regional-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Students win top prizes at AAG regional meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_206321\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2019\/10\/bhagyashree-poster.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2019\/10\/bhagyashree-poster.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Bhagyashree Vaidya explains her poster\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhagyashree Vaidya explains her poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bhagyashree Vaidya, with co-authors Diane Hagmann, Dr. Jennifer Krumins, and Dr. Nina Goodey, won 1st Prize in the Graduate Student Poster competition, for her study, &#8220;Artificial Root Exudates Augment Extracellular Enzyme Activity in Metal Contaminated Soil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Runners up were from Virginia Tech and Rutgers, and the competition was judged by the MSAAG executive board.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Anastasia Figueroa, with co-authors Dr. Greg Pope, Dr. Xiaona Li, and Dr. Yang Deng, won the Rob Mason Memorial People&#8217;s Choice Poster Award, for her study, &#8220;Relation between black carbon sediment deposition and anthropogenic related organic and inorganic contaminants in an urban waterway using a multi-tiered geochemical approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was awarded based on votes from conference attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle States American Association of Geographers held their regional meeting, where multiple student posters were recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-recognition","category-research","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206323,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206320\/revisions\/206323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}