Barak's Virtual Poster Gallery

We very much enjoy the poster medium at professional meetings. Poster presentations duplicate the challenge to Hillel of telling the essence of an issue while standing on one foot. Wandering through a poster session, we can pick and choose much better than we can from the scheduled oral presentations and, should a presentation be tedious,verbose or poorly delivered, we can simply move along without commitment or embarassment. Furthermore, standing in front of our own posters, we can talk to scores of visitors during a poster session and be assured that we have walk-by "readership". When the session ends and the lights go down, these posters are sometimes posted in the hallways of our home institution and sometimes trotted out for informational meetings but, by and large, their time in the sun is over...until now.

Instructional Technology:

• "Using Multimedia Educational Tools to Expand Science Education", P. Barak, 1999, at Educause '99, Oct 26-29, 1999, Long Beach, CA.
• "Web-based Technology in Undergraduate Instruction: A Primer for Moving Beyond Accessibility to Measures of Efficiency" Nick J. Balster and Phillip Barak, 2002, at the Fourth Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources, March 14-17, 2002, North Carolina State University.
• "The New and Improved 'Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules', now with Jmol". P. Barak, C.A. Stiles, E.A. Nater, and M. Howard. SSSA/ASA Annual Meetings, 6-10 Nov, Salt Lake City, UT. Abstracts CD-ROM. ASA, Madison, WI. [oral presentation, 8 Nov 2005]
• "Stereoscopic 3D in the Virtual Museum of Minerals & Molecules: Glitz, Bother, or Value?" P. Barak. OPID Spring Conference: 'Partnering for Student Success in the First Year: Learning About Learning.' Madison Concourse Hotel, March 22-24, 2007. [Poster session, as part of Wisconsin Teaching Scholars program.]
• "Preserving and Enhancing the ‘Virtual Museum of Minerals & Molecules’" P. Barak. North American College Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) annual mtg and USDA-Science and Education Resources Development (SERD) Project Directors' Conference. Jun 10-13, Logan, UT.
• "How Worldwide is the Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules?", UW-Madison Educational Research Poster Fair, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, 22 Feb 2019.

Soil "Aging" and Soil Quality:

• "Are depleted soils causing a reduction in the mineral content of food crops?" James W. Lyne and Phillip Barak, 2000, ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meetings, Nov 5-9, Minneapolis MN.
• "Coupling of H and N cycles in several common agroecosystems of Midwestern United States" Mauricio Avila-Segura, Phillip Barak, Joshua L. Posner, 2000, ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meetings, Nov 5-9, Minneapolis MN.
• "Accelerated soil weathering due to nutrient inputs in Wisconsin cropping systems" Mauricio Avila-Segura, Phillip Barak, Joshua L. Posner, 1999, ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meetings, Oct 31-Nov 4, Salt Lake City, UT.

Phosphorus in Soils and Nutrient Recovery:

• "Vertical Distribution of Phosphorus in Wisconsin Cropping Systems" Juliane M. Meyer, Mauricio Avila-Segura, Joshua L. Posner, and Phillip Barak. 2003. Poster SSSA/ASA Annual Meetings, 2-6 Nov, Denver, CO.
• "Fertilizer-Grade Calcium Phosphate Recovery From Wastewater Treatment Plants" Amanda Boyce and Phillip Barak. 2010. ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meetings, Oct 31-Nov 3, Long Beach, CA.
• "Evaluation of Oxygen-18 Labeled Phosphate as an Environmental Tracer and Biological Marker" Eric Melby, Douglas J. Soldat, and Phillip Barak. 2010. ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meetings, Oct 31-Nov 3, Long Beach, CA.

Others:

• "A colorimetric microwell method for determining bromide concentrations in tracer studies." Brian Lepore and Phillip Barak. 2007. In: Annual Meeting Abstracts [CD-ROM]. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA. Madison, WI. (poster presentation)
• "N-15 enrichment reveals N losses from manure digesters and lagoons." Laura Bybee and Phillip Barak. 2019. Soil Sci Soc Am Internat'l Mtg, San Diego, CA, 7 Jan 2019.

Last modified: 7 Mar 2019.