ESDRI Research Showcase
The ESDRI Research Showcase is an annual event that features posters on environmental science and design research and creative activities.
We welcome submissions from KSU undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and even presenters external to 蜜桃工作室, but with work connected to the University.
Presenters can be from any college or department, but work must be related to environmental science, environmental design, sustainability, or similar.
Attendance is welcome and encouraged from peers, mentors, friends, family, and community members!
2026 Research Showcase
April 22nd, 2026
Judged Awards Sponsored by The Nature Conservancy:
Co-First place - Annie Fink (The System of Provisioning: Tackling Food Insecurity through Community-Based Food Assistance in Mahoning County) and Anna Green (Coal mine drainage impact on zooplankton abundance in lakes in the Ohio Muskingum Watershed Conservancy)
Second place - Andrew Shenal (From Barns to Bay: Mapping Animal Feeding Operation Manure Risks in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Using Geospatial AI)
Third place - Corey Alexander (Craving for worms: Do House sparrows selectively forage for arthropods prior to breeding?)
Honorable mentions - Kyle Goertler (Developing a Computer-Vision Model to Quantify Bird Behavior), Jackson Miller (Two-Eyed Seeing: A Remote Sensing Approach to Monitoring Wildfires on Indigenous-Owned Lands), and Allison Remick (Under the Shell: Exploring the Relationship Between Bacterial Abundance and Lysozyme in Lizard Eggs)
People's Choice Awards:
Undergraduate - Isabel Traska (Differential Chlorophyll Responses of Kale (Brassica oleracea) to Mechanical Damage and Light Deprivation)
Graduate - Lakhvinder Singh (Divergent fates: two decades of raptor population change across Ohio's shifting landscape)
2025 Research Showcase
April 23rd, 2025
First place - Samantha Poore (Bee Populations on 蜜桃工作室 Campus)
Second place - Sophia Carmichael (Impacts of Collection Methods on Observed Insect Community Composition)
Co-third place - Andrew Shenal (A multi-sensor approach to monitor cropland irrigation within the Lake Erie Basin), Hana Esber & Kaylin Mentz (Not your normal cup of tea! A snapshot of soil health), and Ella Lucas (Soil Contamination and Environmental Effects Around Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Plant)
Honorable mentions - Drew Davis (Comparison of Bycatch in Two Insect Trapping Methods) and Lilia Ford (Home Range Estimation of Black-Capped Chickadees in an Urban Landscape Using Radio Telemetry)
2024 Research Showcase
April 22nd, 2024
Co-first place - Adriana Cooper (Fertile Grounds, Fragile Ecosystems: An Examination of Awareness and Impacts of Lawn Fertilizer Practices in Suburban Environments) and Dillon Seymore (Studying the effects of sunlight exposure on the academic performance of 蜜桃工作室 students)
Second place - Pamela Brigger (What are the Ecological Ramifications on the Environment from the Cannabis Industry in Ohio?)
Honorable mentions - Stephanie Petrycki (Building Design and Bird Fatalities: An On-Campus Bird Window Collision Study) and Alicia Costello (Experimental assessment of the soil blocking seed-starting method to improve plant growth and reduce plastic use in sustainable greenhouse production)
Previous student poster presentations coincided with ESDRI's Symposiums.