Tuesday, October 6
Early Session 1 – Scholarship Student Research Presentations – 9:00 a.m.
The invited Student Scholarship finalists will present their research, with time for Q&A, and will be moderated by Scott Anderson, Haley & Aldrich, NCEC Scholarship Committee Chair. Each finalist will also share their research throughout the conference near the main stage in the Exhibit Hall, and will be available for your rapid-fire questions as you give your assessment and cast your vote for winners.
Student Scholarship Finalists:
TBD
Early Session 2 – AI Powered Field Data Collection & Implementation: Live Demos – 9:00 a.m.
This live demonstration walks through how AI is changing environmental field work—from real-time, GNSS-backed data capture in the field to automated, regulatory-ready reporting back in the office. Using wetland delineation as a working example, we’ll show how structuring and standardizing field data at the point of collection is what makes it both compliance-ready today and AI-ready for tomorrow’s predictive tools. The takeaway for any environmental professional: better field data is the foundation everything else is built on—models and reports only know what your field data taught them.