Department of Geology
P.O. Box 8795
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
23187-8795
geology@wm.edu
Voice: 757/221-2440
Fax: 757/221-2093
Undergraduate Research
One of the strengths of the Geology program at the College of William and Mary is the requirement that students complete an independent research project during their senior year. The following students are engaged in senior research as part of the requirements for graduation. Kathleen Bleach (‘04, left) discussing her research at the 2004 NE/SE Geological Society of America meeting. Many William & Mary Geology majors present the results of their research at professional meetings. |
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Class of 2007 |
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Jessica Ball |
Geology and geochemistry of the Osiris trachyte, Fish Lake Plateau, Utah |
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Christopher Bowles |
Structural Geometry and Deformation History of the Eastern Fish Lake Plateau, Utah |
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Leah Cheek |
Geochemistry of the Raleigh Gneiss in the Peidmont Province of Southeastern Virginia; Implications for the Nature of the Protolith. |
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Claire Flannagan |
The effect of sampling on the observed richness and evenness of molluscan assemblages in the Plio-Pleistocene shell beds of southwest Florida |
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Erin Fenlon |
Qualifying the Morphology and Reconstructing the Phylogeny of Venericard Bivalves along the Gulf Coastal Plain during the Paleocene and Eocene |
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Phillip Gopon |
Petrology of the Elk Hill Complex in the Central Piedmont Province, VA |
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Erik Haug |
Surficial Geology of the UM Creek Drainage Basin, Fish Lake Plateau, Utah: Glaciation, Tectonics, and Mass Wasting |
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Marie Kurz |
Landscape Knickzones in the Virginia Piedmont: Evaluating Landscape Disequilibrium Through GIS-Based Morphometric Analysis |
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Meghan Lamoreaux |
The Neoproterozoic-PhanerozoicTtransition in the Western Blue Ridge Province, Southern Shenandoah National Park, Virginia |
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Katherine Luciano |
Investigation Into the Relationship Between Morphology and Tidal Flux In Ditched and Non-Ditched Salt Marsh Creek Systems, Rowley, Massachusetts |
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Jason Lunze |
The Distribution, Morphology, and Chronology of Rusticle Growth on the Confederate Submarine H. L. Hunley |
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Joseph Olney |
The distribution and kinematics of high-strain zones in northwestern Albemarle County, central Virginia Blue Ridge |
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Matthew Oreska |
Paleoecology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) Vertebrate Fauna from Microvertebrate Sites in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming |
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Ammie Pascua |
More Complex than Plain: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Pleistocene Allostratigraphic Formations to Morphology of the Virginia Costal Plain in the Vicinity of York River State Park |
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Emily Robinson |
Ecological Effects Of Miocene-Pliocene Cooling On Mollusks From The Eastover and Yorktown Formations of Southeastern Virginia |
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Laura Robertson |
Impacts of Channel Incision on Water Table Elevation and Chemistry: Upper Chisel Run, James City County, VA |
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Bethany Stackhouse |
Distribution and Sub-bottom Features of Oyster Deposits in the York River, Virginia and the Rate of Degradation of Oyster Shell |
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Hallie Street |
Description and phylogenetic analysis of cryptocleidoid plesiosaurs based on new material of Tatenectes laramiensis from the Sundance Formation (Wyoming, USA) |
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Shelbi Wilson |
Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Chloritoid-bearing Kyanite Quartzite at Hagers Mountain, North Carolina and Comparisons with Virginia Occurrences |
Class of 2006 |
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Laura Buchanan |
Kinematic and Strain Analysis of Mylonites from the Suizo Mountains, Santa Catalina Metamorphic Core Complex, Arizona. |
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Tim Dickson |
Structural History of Cedarless Flat, Fish Lake Plateau, Utah. |
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Robert (Joe) Fuscaldo |
Fracture Analysis and Slope Stability in Southern Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. |
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Emily Gercke |
Relationships among Weather, Glacial Ablation, and Fluvial Processes, Svalbard, Norway. |
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Matthew Gibbons |
Are Kyanite Quartzites in the central Virginia Piedmont part of the Arvonia Formation? A Mineralogical Test. |
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Michael Grenz |
Effectiveness of a Detention Pond in James City County, VA |
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Natasha Hunter |
Can We Measure the Effects of Human Disturbance on Mollusk Communities from the Chesapeake Bay? |
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Robert Jacobsen |
Retention Deficit Disorder? Effectiveness of Retention Ponds in the Management of Stormwater Runoff: A Case Study in Williamsburg/James City County, VA. |
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Colleen Kayser |
Geometry and Kinematics of the Harris Cove Fault near Naked Creek, Page County, Virginia. |
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Sarah Kolbe |
Morphological Variability, Body Size, and Survivorship in Veneroid Bivalves During the Plio-Pleistocene Extinction in Florida. |
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Keith Moodhe |
Waipaoa River: Chemical and physical analysis of an active margin river. |
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Owen Nichols |
Mapping and Interpreting the Swift Run Formation and the Great Unconformity |
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Holly Packard |
Heavy Metal Concentrations in Sediments of Developed and Undeveloped Watersheds, Williamsburg, VA. |
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Zack Pennington |
Abundance as a Factor in Background Extinction: Bivalves from the Choptank Formation (Miocene) of Maryland. |
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Eric Tadlock |
Structural Geology of the Western Blue Ridge in Central Virginia: Blue Ridge Fault, Myth or Reality? |
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Brian Wachter |
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Retention Basin in Williamsburg/James City County. |
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Will Weaver |
Surficial Mapping and Helium-3 Dating of Glacial Deposits at Fish Lake, Utah. |
Class of 2005 |
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| David Bookbinder | Water Table Fluctuations in an Incised Stream in Williamsburg, VA |
| Adam Forte | The Porphyroclast Hyperbolic Distribution Method of Kinematic Vorticity Analysis |
| Brian Hasty | Kinematic and Temporal Significance of Fractures in the Western Blue Ridge Province, North-Central Virginia |
| Margaret Kroehler | Structural Geometry of the Eastern Blue Ridge in Greene and Madison counties, Virginia: A Geological and Geophysical Analysis |
| David Lasris | The Neoproterozoic Unconformity in the North-Central Virginia Blue Ridge |
| Andrea Philippoff | A Morphometric Analysis of the Venusian Nightingale Corona and a Portrayal of Three Distinct Orogenic Hypotheses for Artemis |
| Marshall Popkin | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Detention Ponds and Storm Water Management Programs in James City County, VA |
| Patrick Rowley | Accuracy of Extended Weather Forecasts: An Analysis of Weather Forecast Sources and Their Respective Range of One to Seven Day Forecasts |
| Liz Tennant | Late Quaternary Climate and Provenance Signals of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Plain, Bangladesh |
| Katie Wooton | The Nature and Timing of Deformation in the Blue Ridge Province, Greene County, Virginia |
Class of 2004 |
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| Kathleen Bleach | Phylogeny and systematics of the bivalve genus Callista |
| Meg Blome | A Petrographic Analysis of Native American Ceramics in the James River Basin |
| Lisa Renee Chastant | Taphonomic bias in Chesapeake Bay mollusks: the effects on species composition, diversity, and abundance |
| Christopher Coppinger | Modeling Fluvial Responses to Baselevel Change |
| Bill Craddock | How do channel width and channel slope vary across differing lithologies in rock bed rivers? |
| Amy Edwards | Influences of Historical Land-Use Change on Chesapeake Bay, Reconstructed from Environmentally Sensitive Benthic Ostracodes |
| Diana Gibson | Effects of Urbanization on First-Order Streams in Williamsburg, Virginia |
| Kelly Gibson | The Use of Seismic Technology in Identifying Scour Resistant Layers: A Study of the Wreck Site of the Queen Anne’s Revenge and the Control of Underlying Geology on the Process of Scour and Burial |
| Laura Goldenbaum | Geology of the Roundtop Mountain Area, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia |
| Kristen Iriarte | Geochemistry of Massive and Gneissic Varieties of the Montpelier Anorthosite, Goochland Terrane, Virginia, and Comparisons with Other Alkalic Anorthosites |
| McDonald “Mac” Lee | The Factors affecting sedimentation patterns of a tidal salt marsh in Plum Island Sound Estuary, Massachusetts: A component study of the TIDE Project |
| Meredith McCool | The effects of weathering on erosion and channel geometry in bedrock rivers, James River Basin, Virginia |
| John Morton | The Structural Geometry of the Mechum River Belt in Rappahannock County, Blue Ridge Province, Virginia |
| J. Twohy Murray | Land use impacts on storm hydrographs and the effectiveness of best management practices, Coastal Plain, Virginia |
| Claire Runge | Determining the Incorporation of NaCl into Ice VII by Raman Spectroscopy and Synchrotron Radiation |
| Josiah “Si” Schiavone | Sedimentation from the Waipaoa River, North Island, New Zealand |
| Catherine Shirvell | The Maidens Gneiss, Goochland Terrane, Virginia: An Investigation of the Timing of High-Grade Metamorphism, Protolith Rock-Type, and History of Deformation |
| Amy Tolcin | Abundance and paleoecology of gastropods in the Sunken Meadow Member, Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Southeastern Virginia |
| John Turcotte | Terrace Studies and Landscape Disequilibrium in the Central James River Basin, Virginia Piedmont |
| Lauren Work | Taphonomic bias in Chesapeake Bay mollusks: patterns of shell damage |
Class of 2003 |
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| Heather Baugh | Does abundance promote survivorship during a case study using bivalve species |
| Sara Bottenfield | Estimating stream and groundwater contributions to Lake Matoka: A water balance approach |
| Kimberly Burnett | Mineralogical and geochemical constraints on the origin of the Moseley felsic gneiss, Goochland Terrane, Virginia |
| James Chapman | Structural geometry of the Lynchburg group and contact relations in the eastern Blue Ridge, Nelson County, Virginia |
| Johnathan Felis | Terrace studies and knickzone characterization on the James River, Virginia Piedmont |
| Jessica Fuhs | Field relationships, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the L'Enfer norite and possible relationships with massif anorthosites, Grenville Province, Quebec |
| Jayme Mills | System and phylogenetic reconstruction of the bivalve genus Pitar |
| Joel Neubauer | Sedimentation pattern changes subsequent to channel dredging in an ebb tide delta, Cape Fear River, North Carolina |
| Matthew Niemitz | Millennial-scale changes of thermocline depth in the Early Pliocene: Evidence from the western equatorial Atlantic Ocean |
| Matthew O'Donnell | A paleontologic and geochemical analysis of mixed-salinity environmental faunas in the upper Yorktown formation (Late Pliocene), Williamsburg, Virginia |
| Lina Polvi | Structural analysis of the Lawhorne Mill high-strain zone, Blue Ridge Province, Nelson County, Virginia |
| Roland Roberson | A survey of the geology of the Queen Anne's Revenge wreck site, Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina |
| Becky Roper | Reexamining the relationship of Berryllium-7 adsorption to grain size in the York River, Virginia |
| Jessica Shelton | The effects of the Chesapeake Bay impact on calcareous nannofossils |
| Andrew Solomon | A reconnaissance and petrographic investigation of granitoids in the Eastern Slate Belt of Virginia |
| Caroline Webber | Structural and fluvial history of the Fish Lake basin, High Plateaus, central Utah |
| Christina Znidarsic | Field, mineralogical, and geochemical characteristics of a small granitic pluton in the Raleigh Terrane, Virginia |
Class of 2002 |
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| Armistead Booker | Sediment transport in 1st and 2nd order streams, Williamsburg, Virginia |
| Nick Brockway | Mineralogical and petrologic investigation of granitic bodies, Goochland terrane |
| Chris Carroll | The distribution of travertine along Falling Spring Run, Verona, Virginia |
| Gabrielle David | Fluvial responses to development in Williamsburg, Virginia |
| Nikki Dattoli | Diversity in heavy mineral suites along the James and York Rivers, Virginia: Persistent trend or local anomaly? |
| Lynsey Ellis | The relationships of seabed conditions and turbidity in the water column in the estuarine turbidity maximum of the upper Chesapeake Bay |
| Chris Koteas | Structural analysis of the Columbia-Quantico syncline, Virginia Piedmont |
| Matthew Kirwan | Geomorphology of Appalachian high elevation plateaus |
| Jonathan MacCarthy | Mineralogical and petrologic investigation of ultramafic bodies, Goochland County, Virginia |
| Ryan McKinney | Factors that Control Trail Conditions in the College Woods |
| Jeffrey Murray | A mineralogical, petrologic, and geochemical investigation of amphibole-rich rocks, northwestern Goochland County, Virginia |
| Matthew Pasek | The geochemistry of the kyanite quartzites of the Piedmont, Virginia: clues to a possible protolith |
| Jay Oliver | Geomorphology of coastal dunes, Bay Back, Virginia |
| Jon Relyea | Geology of the Chopawamsic Formation, Columbia quadrangle, Virginia Piedmont |
| Sarah Riggen | Effects of development on streams in Williamsburg, Virginia: stream hydrographs and water chemistry |
| Jeff Soltess | Hydrogeology of an ancient cistern, Axum, Ethiopia |
| Ethan Weikel | Structural analysis of the Arvonia and Long Island synclines, Virginia Piedmont |
Class of 2001 |
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| Kristen Axselle | Location and origin of knickpoints in the Virginia Piedmont |
| Jesse Baldwin | Nearshore changes in shoreline geometry Duck, North Carolina |
| Pete Berquist | Geology of high-strain zones, Blue Ridge Province, Madison County, Virginia |
| Lisa Coughlin | Hydrologic investigation of low flow conditions in streams draining the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia |
| Ken Davis | Age and origin of pseudotachylyte in the Coast Mountains, British Columbia |
| Becca Dill | Petrologic investigation of amphibolites in the Chopawamsic terrane, Buckingham County, Virginia Piedmont |
| Ian Dubinski | Age and origin of knickpoints in streams draining the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia |
| John Dubose | Geology of the Columbia pluton and Chopawamsic metavolcanics, Fluvanna County, central Virginia Piedmont |
| Eleanor Eyster | Strain and vorticity analysis of the Pinaleno high-strain zone, Arizona and the Brookneal high-strain zone, Virginia |
| Barbara Francis | Magnetic and structural investigation of the central Piedmont fault zone, Virginia |
| Stephen Gallagher | Neotectonics of the Sierra Blanca, Peru |
| Donna Gatliff | Chemical and physical changes in small watersheds, James City County, Virginia |
| Matt Goodman | Petrologic and structural analysis of the Columbia pluton, central Virginia Piedmont |
| Ryan Greene-Roesel | Stream hydrology of small developed and non-developed watersheds, James City County, Virginia |
| Willow Johnson | Fluvial terraces of the James River, Virginia Piedmont |
| Billy Sadler | Taphonomy and taxonomy of a fossil baleen whale, Newport News, Virginia |
| Kristen Markman | Character of modern stream sediments, Piedmont province, Virginia |
| Carrie Snyder | Sedimentation dynamics in the York River estuary |
| Adam Teepe | Petrologic investigation of granitic rocks in the northwestern Goochland terrane, Virginia Piedmont |
| Ethan Weikel | Sedimentology of the Hampshire Formation, western Virginia Valley & Ridge |
| Billy Sadler | Taphonomy and taxonomy of a fossil baleen whale, Newport News, Virginia |
| Jon Weston-Freidrichs | Historic sedimentation rates in Lake Powell, James City County, Virginia |
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