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Society of Wood Science and Technology
Student Poster Winners 2003
The 2003 Student Poster Competition was held on Saturday, June 21, 2003 at Double Tree Hotel, Bellevue, Washington. Judges for the Competition were: Dan Dolan, Steve Shook, Eva Haviarova, and Qinglin Wu.
The winners were:
First Place - $250 - Awarded to: B.B. Maruthi Sridhar, Mississippi State University,
for "Monitoring structural changes of fern (Pteris vittata) during phytoremediation of Cr and As contaminated soils".
Second Place - $125 - Awarded to: Iris Vasquez-Cooz, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, New York.
Other Participants were:
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David B. DeVallance, Oregon State University, "Affect of veneer roughness, lathe check, and earlywood/latewood measures on Douglas-fir plywood glue-bond quality"
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Jeff Ellsworth, Iowa State University, "Detecting sinker stock lumber with ultrasound"
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Rastislav Lagana, University of Maine, "An optical method for measuring hygro-mechanical proeprties of wood"
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Reuben J. L. Mwamakimbullah, University of Idaho, "A seamless system for building models to improve the sawmills' efficiency"
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Henry Quesada, Purdue University, "Benchmarking study based on critical success factors for household, office and kitchen cabinet wood furniture industries in U.S."
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Rodrique Safou-Tchiama, Universite Bordeaux, "Comparative study of some tropical woods, chemical reactivity, X-ray wide-angle diffractometry and ESCA characterization. Application in wood polymer composites"
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Marieke Schmutzer, University of Maine, "Simple detection of quinone reducing activity by wood decay fungi"
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Lawrence R. Stombock, Mississippi State University, "The use of bioreactors and constructed wetlands to facilitate bioremediation of oriented strand board process wastewater"
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Karla D. Turner, Mississippi State University, "Degradation of pentachlorophenol through phytoremediation with different tree species"
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Brian K. Via, Louisiana State University, "A proposed model to predict fiber saturation point as a function of lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose"
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Ronnie Y. Vun, Louisiana State University, "Ultrasonic characterizatino of horizontal density variations in oriented strand board"
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Minghui Zhang, Purdue University, "Methodology formodeling a regain of moisture in a package of dried red oak lumber"
Last updated: 3/10/04
For further information, please contact Vicki Herian at
vicki@swst.org
