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Geology
In its Honors Program the Geology Department awards Honors or High Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2011-2012
- Emma Caverly, "Ephemeral Organic Carbon Fluxes to the Chesapeake Bay from Agricultural Runoff on the Virginia Coastal Plain" (Honors)
James Kaste + Randolph Chambers, Gregory Hancock - Lyndsey Funkhouser, "Using GIS to Quantify Riparian Buffer Bypassing in the Coastal Plain of Virginia within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed" (Honors)
Randolph Chambers, Stuart Hamilton, Gregory Hancock, James Kaste - Kevin Quinlan, "Structural Geology of the Scottsville Mesozoic Basin, Virginia" (Honors)
Christopher Bailey + R. Heather Macdonald, Jes Therkelsen - Matthew Sparacino, "Variability of Erodibility in Bedrock-floored Channels Produced by Differential Weathering" (Honors)
Gregory Hancock + Mark Hinders, James Kaste
2010-2011
- Chelsea Ellen Jenkins, "Dating Deformation: Thermochronology and chemical and mineralogical changes in the Blue Ridge basement complex in Virginia" (Honors)
Christopher Bailey + Brent Owens, Deborah Bebout - Sean Michael Moren, "The Taphonomy, Palcoccology, and Depositional Environment of Vertebrete Microfossil Bonebeds from the Late Cretaccous Hell Creek Formation in Garfield County, Montana" (Honors)
Rowan Lockwood + Matthew Carrano, Christopher Bailey, John Swaddle - Bradley J. Peters, "Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Ferruginous Quartzites in the Chopawamsie Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia" (Honors)
Brent Owens +R. Heather Macdonald, Robert Pike - Judith Anne Sclafani, "A Morphological and Phylogenetic Examination of the Miocene and Pliocene Bivalve Genus Chesapecten" (Honors)
Rowan Lockwood + Heather Macdonald, John Swaddle
2009-10
- Guy Nathaniel Evans, "Timing and Magnitude of Soil Erosion in Owens Valley, California: A Combined 137Cs and 210Pbex Approach" (High Honors)
James kaste + Gregory Hancock, Carey Bagdassarian - Jonathon Lloyd Garber, "Using In Situ 10Be Soil Profiles to Date Fluvial Terraces of the South Fork, Shenandoah River, VA" (High Honors)
Gregory Hancock + James Kaste, Stuart Hamilton - Andrew Keith Laskowski, "3D Restoration of the Sugar Hollow Rift Basin, Blue Ridge, Virginia" (High Honors)
Christopher Bailey + Ryan Thigpen, Mike Kordosky - Brendan Patrick Murphy, "Spatially variable erodibility in bedrock channels produced by weathering" (High Honors)
Gregory Hancock + James Kaste, Clay Clemens - Alexandra Kristine Snell, "Constraining the Deformational Geometry of the Yavapai-Mazatzal Orogeny Using Three Dimentional Strain Analysis In Proterozoic Vallecito Conglomerate, Needle Mountains, Southwestern Colorado" (Honors)
Christopher Bailey + Ryan Thigpen, Stuart Hamilton
2008-09
- Nathan Alan Burgess, "Combining Field Data and Computer Modeling to Improve Designs for Two Wet Detention Ponds in James City County, VA" (High Honors)
Greg Hancock + James Kaste, Randy Chambers, Richard Phillips - Adam Gattuso, "Tectonic Significance of the Late Neoproterozoic Swift Run Formation and Basement-Cover Unconformity in the Virginia Blue Ridge" (High Honors)
Christopher Bailey + Brent Owens, Stuart Hamilton, Scott Southworth - Graham Lederer, "Geology and Structural History of the Blue Ridge Basement Complex, Albemarle County, Virginia" (High Honors)
Christopher Bailey + Brent Owens, David Thompson, Scott Southworth - Ethan Theuerkauf, "Alongshore Variations in Foreshore Morphology, grain Size, and Wave Dissipation at a SHoreline Erosional Hotspot" (High Honors)
Jesse McNinch+ Brent Owens, Christopher Bailey, Stuart Hamilton - Jennifer Whitten, "Bare Bedrock Erosion Rates in the Central Appalachain, Virginia" (High Honors)
Greg Hancock + Christopher Bailey, James Kaste, Carey Bagdassarian
2007-08
- Ari Dale Hartmann, "Newly Discovered Mesozoic Rift Basins in the Virginia Blue Ridge: Sedimentology, Provenance, Structure, and Tectonics" (High Honors)
Christopher Bailey + Heather Macdonald, Greg Capelli, Scott Southworth - Karl Alexander Lang, "Lithologic and Structural Control on the Evolution of a Knickzone on the James River, Central Virginia Piedmont" (High Honors)
Gregory Hancock + Christopher Bailey, Brent Owens, Sarah Stafford - Lauren Beth Parker, "Evidence for Knickzone Generation and Landscape Disequilibrium Through Surficial Studies of the James River, Central Virginia Piedmont" (Honors)
Gregory Hancock + Christopher Bailey, Heather Macdonald, Evan Feldman - Charles Louis Plummer, "Searching for Tectonic Moments: Geochemical Tracers in Young Anatolian Basalts, Sivas, Turkey" (High Honors)
Brent Owens + Christopher Bailey, Robert Pike, Tanya Furman (Penn State Geoscience) - Austin Lee Pryor, "Examination of the abundance and geographic range of rare taxa: survivorship patterns of Miocene-Pliocene marine invertebrate fauna of the Virginia Coastal Plain" (High Honors)
Rowan Lockwood and Karen Layou + Christopher Bailey, Chris Funk
2006-07
- Jessica Lynne Ball, "Geology and Geochemistry of the Osiris Trachyte, Fish Lake Plateau, Utal" (Highest Honors)
Chuck Bailey + Brent Owens, Carey Bagdassarian - Christopher James Bowles, "Structural Geometry and Deformation History of the Eastern Fish Lake Plateau, Utah" (Highest Honors)
Chuck Bailey + Greg Hancock, John Swaddle - Erin Elizabeth Fenlon, "Quantifying the Morphology and Reconstructing the Phylogeny of Venericard Bivalves along the Gulf Coastal Plain during the Paleocene and Eocene" (High Honors)
Rowan Lockwood + Heather Macdonald, Rochelle Seitz, Linda Ivany (Syracuse) - Eric William Haug, "Surficial Geology of the UM Creek Drainage Basin, Fish Lake Plateau, Utah: Glaciation, Tectonics, and Mass Wasting" (High Honors)
Chuck Bailey + Greg Hancock, James Allegro - Matthew Paul Julius Oreska, "Paleoecology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) Vertebrate Fauna from Microvertebrate Sites in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming" (High Honors)
Rowan Lockwood + Heather Macdonald, John Swaddle, Matt Carrano (Smithsonian)
2005-06
- Laura Buchanan, "Kinematic and strain analysis of mylonites from the Suizo Mountains, Santa Catalina metamorphic core complex, Arizona USA" (High Honors)
Christopher Bailey + Brent Owens, Brian Holloway - Sarah Kolbe, "Morphological Variability, Body Size, and Survivorship in Veneroid Bivalves During the Plio-Pleistocene Extinction in Florida" (Highest Honors)
Rowan Lockwood + Heather Macdonald, George Gilchrist, Gene Hunt
2004-05
- Adam Forte
Christopher Bailey + Brent Owens, Todd Averett - Andrea Philippoff
Christopher Bailey + Greg Hancock, Ann Reed - Elizabeth Tennant
Steven Kuehl + Katherine Farnsworth, Brent Owens, Michael Tierney - Kathleen Wooton
Christopher Bailey + Brent Owens, J.C. Poutsma