Evidence for Action Poster Session

Led by Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar, Director of The Envirome Insitute at the University of Louisville, and Dr. Terry Horton, Associate Professor of Research in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, the “Evidence for Action” poster session will showcase basic and applied research that can inform discussions around the economic and practical applications of nature as a social determinant of health.

The poster session will begin Thursday, October 17 at 5 p.m. in the mezzanine of the Snow King Resort Hotel. The event is free and open to the public.

Poster session abstracts, their presenters at SHIFT and the studies’ authors are as follows.

• Reward Positivity as a Biomarker for Attention Restoration in Nature 
  • Presenter: Amy McDonnell
  • Authors: S.B. LoTemplio, E.E. Scott, D.L. Strayer, et al.
• Managing Public Lands for Healthy Outcomes through Outdoor Recreation: Multi-State Survey Data from the BLM Outcomes-Focused Management Approach
  • Presenter: Peter Fix
  • Authors: R. Bryant Wright, Peter J Fix, Rachel Garcia, Dorothy Morgan, Kimberly Diamond, Randy J. Virden, T. Timothy Casey
• Effects of PTSD and MDD Comorbidity on Psychological Changes During Surf Therapy Sessions
  • Presenter: Nicholas P. Otis
  • Authors: Nicholas P. Otis, Kristen H. Walter, Lisa H. Glassman, Travis N. Ray, Betty Michalewicz-Kragh, & Cynthia J. Thomsen
• Nature in Urban and Exurban settings as violence prevention and trauma relief
  • Presenter: Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Ph.D.
  • Authors: A. Johnson, S. Malec-McKenna
• A Protocol for School-Based Park Prescriptions: Connecting Students to Nature
  • Presenter: Courtney Schultz
  • Authors: C.L. Schultz, T.H. Horton, J. Henderson, et al.
• Health and Educational Outcomes of Nature Based Education for Non-White, Low-Income, Urban Youth
  • Presenter: Nadav Sprague
  • Authors: N.L. Sprague, and C.C. Ekenga 
• Acute Bouts of Exercise in Virtual Nature Uniquely Influences Cognitive Performance
  • Presenter: Rachel Hopman
  • Authors: R. Hopman, N.E.Logan, C.H. Hillman, and A.F. Kramer
• Green Exercise Improves Fasting Blood Glucose
  • Presenter: Teresa Horton
  • Authors: T. Horton and A. Minasov
• Building Healthy Teams: Using Nature-Based Interventions to Improve Workplace Performance and Promote Healthy Work Environments
  • Presenter: Paul Atchley
  • Authors: R.A. Atchley, E.M. Benau, and D. Strayer 
• Inclusion in the Outdoors to Address Social Determinants of Health with Wilderness Inquiry
  • Presenter: Elle Maureen Newcome
  • Author: E.M. Newcome
• Prolonged Exposure to Nature Modulates Neural Biomarkers of Attention
  • Presenter: Emily Scott
  • Authors: E.E. Scott, S. LoTemplio, A. McDonnell, et al.
• Designing Nature-Based Social Prescriptions with Teenage Mothers to Address Social Connection
  • Presenter: Ashby Leavell
  • Authors: M.A. Leavell, J.S. Litt, J.A. Leiferman, S. Tillema, A. Turbyfil
• Nature as a Modulator of the Error-Related Negativity
  • Presenter: Sara LoTemplio
  • Authors: LoTemplio, S., Scott, E.E., McDonnell, A.M., Hopman, R.J., McNay, D., Greenberg, K.G., McKinney, T.M., Castro, S.C., Payne, B.R., & Strayer, D.L.

Abstracts for the poster session were evaluated and selected by the E4A Steering Committee members:

• Aruni Bhatnagar, PhD, Director, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, University of Louisville, Committee Co-Chair 
• Richard Christiana, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Promotion and Behavior, Appalachian State University
• Rachel Hopman, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University
• Terry Horton, PhD, Associate Professor of Research, Northwestern University, Committee Co-Chair
• Art Kramer, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive & Brain Health, Northeastern University
• Nick Otis, Research Associate, Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Military Population Health, Naval Health Center
• David Strayer, PhD, Director, Applied Cognition Lab, University of Utah
• Kristen Walter, PhD, Clinical and Research Psychologist, Health and Behavioral Sciences, Naval Health Research Center