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Class of 2024 |
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| Jialu Tao |
A 35-year lake ice phenology record reveals climate change
impacts on High Arctic (Honors)
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| Milo Pavlovich |
Monitoring lead levels in soil samples along an elevational
gradient in the Green Mountains of northern Vermont from
1980 to 2022
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Savia Berlucchi |
Analysis of atmospheric magnetic spherules and their
deposition in Williamsburg, Virginia
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Jake Berkowitz |
Hyperspectral imaging and biogeochemical analysis of a lake
sediment record from northern Greenland reveals Holocene climate fluctuations
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Ru Williams |
Historic atmospheric lead deposition reconstructed from the
High Arctic Greenland |
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Elizabeth Diaz |
Investigating the deglacial history of the Wandel Dal valley,
northern Greenland |
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Xanadu Biondi |
Impacts of shoreline erosion at York River State Park: an
educational project for GEOL 160 |
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Meghan Kirk |
Connecting people and place: providing geological context of
Virginia's Eastern Shore to the local community |
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Daniel Velvel |
Archiving and understanding the effects of Hurricane Camille in
Nelson County, Virginia |
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Anna Hart |
Trends in Virginia’s growing season lengths
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Maddie Winer |
Monitoring soil moisture dynamics in a sustainable field,
conventional farm, and forest |
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Abby Hazelgrove |
Investigating the effects of historic redlining on
ecohydrological processes in Richmond, Virginia |
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Anna Jordan |
Curating mammal specimens from Pleistocene deposits in
Pender County, North Carolina
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Tim Speedy |
Effects of intraspecific variation on the cranial biomechanics of
Diplometopon zarudnyi |
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Logan Flynn |
Phylogenetic implications of postcranial characters in
Procolophonidae (Procolophonomorpha, Reptilia) |
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Meagan Kiss |
Pixels to minerals: extracting petrologically meaningful data
from micro-scale geochemical maps
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Molly Moran |
Structural geometry of the eastern Blue Ridge in the Schuyler
7.5’ quadrangle, Virginia
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Eno Adusei |
Fracture analysis in the Schuyler 7.5 Quadrangle eastern Blue
Ridge, Virginia |
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Kinsey Shelfton |
Geology of an ancient Native American bedrock quarry,
western North Carolina Blue Ridge |
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Orion Fellows |
Origin of listwaenite near Fanja, Oman
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Eran Driscoll |
Cenozoic Tectonic inversion in the Bandar Jissah area, Oman
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Nailah Johnson |
Geology of the Oakville Volcanic Suite and the
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia Piedmont
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Class of 2023 |
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| Meara Carlin |
Analysis of surface features on Jupiter's moon Europa:
Complex fracture history of the Bright Plains Region
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Heather Christensen |
Radon risk mapping using uranium series geochemistry and
social vulnerability in the North Carolina Coastal Plain (Honors)
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Edward Clarke |
Distinguishing tooth morphotypes from a microvertebrate
assemblage from the Chinle Formation (Late Triassic, Arizona)
helps chronicle ecological differentiation of archosauromorphs
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Allison Dorsey |
Stratigraphic Distribution and Source of Radon in the Yorktown
Formation (Virginia)
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Sarah Gianturco |
Rates and drivers of benthic respiration in an Arctic coastal
lagoon
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Parker D. Jackowski |
Oyster Morphology in Middle Woodland Middens and Late
Woodland Pits at the Shelly Archaeological Site (Southeastern
Virginia)
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Jordan Kenney |
Assessing watershed understanding through place-based
learning
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Chloe Lund |
Highlighting groundwater use by trees in a forested watershed
in the Virginia Coastal Plain
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Jennie Mullen |
The Impact of a Retention Pond on Downstream Groundwater-
Surface Water Interactions
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Zach Price |
Geospatial analysis of 1969 Hurricane Camille in Nelson County,
Virginia
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Payton Reidy |
Geophysical Surveys of Soapstone and Nelsonite Bodies in
Virginia’s Eastern Blue Ridge
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Danni Riggs |
Characterizing hydrological and geomorphological changes in
urban streams through environmental signals
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Braden Rountree |
Surficial geology of the Cub Creek drainage basin, Virginia Blue
Ridge
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Morgan Sanders |
The Foundations of Highland: a geological analysis of James
Monroe's Highland
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Lauren Schmidt |
Reconstructing Ice Cap Changes in Northern Greenland Using
Proglacial Lake Sediments
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John Small |
Effect of Marsh Migration on Coastal Forest Litter Decomposition
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Vera Soltes |
The effect of varying soil and hydrologic conditions on GPR
interpretations to detect unmarked graves in Colonial
Williamsburg (Honors)
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Natalie M. Spage |
Metabolic rate as a predictor of molluscan abundance across
the Mid- Pliocene Warm Period in the Virginia Coastal Plain
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Hannah Tebbens |
The age and origin of nelsonite in the central Virginia Blue
Ridge (Honors)
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Olivia Wachob |
From the Iapetus to the Atlantic: Geology, Geochronology,
and Petrology of the eastern Blue Ridge cover sequence,
central Virginia (Honors)
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Quincy Wilkins |
Measuring Uranium Levels in Fossils in the Yorktown
Formation to Determine Radon Risk Potential
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Class of 2022 |
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Charlie Altman |
Analyzing the Impact of Land-Use Changes on Sedimentation
in Coastal Plain Mill Ponds
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Lindsey Call |
Powering a sustainable future: How environmental review aids
Dominion Energy's net-zero mission
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Nick Carpenter |
Structural Analysis of Blueschists and Eclogites at As Sifah,
Oman
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Kathleen Chellman |
Geologic Controls on 137Cs Cycling by Terrestrial Vegetation
in the Eastern U.S. (Honors)
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Cameron Clarke |
Unraveling the History of Pleistocene Sea-Level Change in
Virginia: Insights from the Wachapreague Formation,
Virginia Eastern Shore
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Cole Cochran |
Honey as a Biomonitor for Air Pollutant Deposition in the
Eastern United States using Ion Chromatography and Scanning
Electron Microscopy (Honors)
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Katie Cullen |
Structural Geology of the Eastern Limb of the Blue Ridge
Anticlinorium, in the Schuyler area, central Virginia
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Lee DePue |
Paleofire Proxies in a Lake Matoaka Sediment Core:
Macroscopic Charcoal and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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Olivia Falb |
Growth rates and sclerochronology of modern Crassostrea
virginica from the lower Chesapeake Bay (southeastern
Virginia)
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Katherine Fosnight |
Reconstructing Storm Records from Pond Sediment in
Virginia's Coastal Plain
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Jordan Green |
Improving the teaching of climate science in undergraduate
geoscience laboratory lessons
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Chrissy Hart |
Sifting through sediment: Evaluating zinc in the remote
Gordon Creek Watershed, Virginia
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Matt Kortan |
Petrology, Structure, and Geochronology of the Oakville
Metavolcanic Sequence: Implications for the Provenance of
the Smith River Allochthon, Virginia
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Juliet Liscomb |
Age and Origin of the Albemarle-Nelson Mafic-Ultramafic
Complex in Virginia's Eastern Blue Ridge: Rift Related
Differentiated Sills? (Honors)
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Vornica Mantha |
Quantifying the Hydrological Impact of Tides & Precipitation
on Jamestown Island, Virginia Wells from 2017-2020
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Haley E. Meyrowitz |
Stratigraphy and Depositional Age of the Upper Lynchburg
Group in the Schuyler 7.5’ Quadrangle, Virginia
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Dorian Miller |
Predicting and Communicating Newly-Identified Radon Hazards in
the Virginia Coastal Plain
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Kara Morien |
National Fossil Day Event for Colonial National Historical
Park (Southeastern Virginia)
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Rachel Parthasarthy |
Developing a Comprehensive 300-year Record of Contaminant
Shifts in Lake Matoaka, Virginia (Honors)
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Johnathan Peters |
Petrogenesis of an Unusual Chlorite-Quartz-Garnet Rock,
Chopawamsic Terrane, Virginia
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Samuel Poth |
The Consequences and Future of Mountaintop Removal
Mining
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Neel Simpson |
People, Plants, and Pastures: A Multi-Proxy Approach to
Understanding Human-Environment Relationships in
Holocene South Arabia
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Elexis Speers |
An exploration of the relationship between sediments and
mountain slopes on Venus
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JaneAnne Stockton |
Reconstructing Fire History in the Shenandoah Valley from
an Ephemeral Sinkhole Pond
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Meg Taylor |
Quantifying Changes in Shell Morphology of Chesapecten
(Bivalvia) Across the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period in Virginia
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Emily Topness |
Decline in marine invertebrate species richness across the
Mid-Pliocene Warm Period in the Virginia Coastal Plain
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Rebecca Topness |
Northern Norway paleofire records reveal prehistoric
human impacts on fire activity
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Class of 2021 |
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Christopher Bennett |
Mineralogy and Geochemistry of a Metapyroxenite,
Chopawamsic Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia
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Mackenzie Chriscoe |
Creating a Paleontological Inventory for Colonial
National Historical Park in Virginia, U.S.
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Katharine Dean-McKinney |
Monitoring Performance of Shallow, Subtidal
Restoration Oyster Reefs Using Advanced
Technologies: A Case Study on Felgates Creek
Reef (York River, VA)
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Leah Earnest |
Nuclear Testing and its Lasting Effects on Ecosystems
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Rosemary Guardado |
The Effects of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction on
Phylogenetic Relationships in Crassatellidae (Mollusca,
Bivalvia) from the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain
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Emily Hall |
Hidden Levees: Efficacy of Small-Scale Barriers to Sea
Level Driven Marsh Migration on Rural Coasts
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Junhao Hu |
Kinematics and Geochemistry of Fault Zones at the
Dominion Quarry, Eastern Blue Ridge, Virginia
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Sarah Grace Lott |
Internal Geometry of a Headland Bypassing System:
São Francisco do Sul Island, Brazil
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Breanna Maldonado |
Numerical Modeling of Compounding Flooding
During Hurricanes in the Charleston Harbor and
Savannah River Watersheds
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Greta Mattheis |
Urbanization and Zinc Pollution in the Lake Matoaka
Watershed
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Gabriel Mojica |
Structural Geometry of Mafic/Ultramafic Bodies Near
Schuyler in the Eastern Blue Ridge, Central Virginia
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Lindsay Moller |
A Holocene Record of Tephra Deposition from lake
Kirkjuvatn, Faroe Islands
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Zoey Mondshine |
Validation of the Derivative Radon-Risk Map of
Williamsburg, VA
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Colleen Norton |
Size and Age Structure of Modern Crassostrea
virginica in Lower Chesapeake Bay
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Christopher Pardo |
Urban Runoff and Atmospheric Deposition as Zinc
Contributors in Two Distinct Watersheds
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Olivia Pearson |
Strain and Kinematic Analysis of Quartzite from the
Evington Group, Eastern Blue Ridge, VA
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Andrew Peck |
Mapping and Analyzing Millpond Watersheds in
Williamsburg, VA using Geographic Information
Systems and Remote Sensing
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Sarah Snipes |
Isolation Basin Records Constrain Late Holocene
Sea-level Trends in Northern Norway
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Christopher Snyder |
Quantifying Morphological Variation in the Ornament
and Shape of Dermal Scutes in Sturgeon (Acipenseridae)
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Melanie Strik |
The Importance of the Sedimentology of Dunes in the
Protection from Sea Level Rise
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Timothy Terlizzi |
Three Centuries of Vegetation Change in the William
& Mary College Woods reconstructed using Phytoliths
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Kelly Thigpen |
Tectonic Inversion in the Sherando 7.5’ Quadrangle,
Blue Ridge Province, Virginia
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Jacob Tidwell |
Constraints on the Origin of Ferruginous and
Manganiferous Quartzites in the Mineral Area,
Chopawamsic Terrane, Virginia
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Nicholas Vaka |
The Origin and Significance of Metamorphosed
Ultramafic Rocks in the Chopawamsic Terrane,
Buckner Quadrangle, Virginia
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Caitlin Walker |
Holocene Trends in Biogenic Silica Revealed by
FTIR Spectroscopy Applied to a Lake Sediment
Record from Northern Norway
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Class of 2020 |
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Billy Arthur |
Urbanization and Sedimentation in Three Discrete
Catchments
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Samuel Belding |
Analysis of Brittle Deformation Features in the
Channel of The James River, Western Piedmont
Virginia:Traditional and Remote Sensing Techniques
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Koltyn Caricofe |
Strain analysis of an Evington Group quartzite,
eastern Blue Ridge, Virginia
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Andrew Churcher |
Petrogenesis of a Possible Tonalite Pluton in the
Chopawamsic Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia
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Megan Gillen |
Vulnerability and Resilience of Tidal Marshes along
an Estuarine Salinity Gradient
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Emily Hinshaw |
Structure, Petrology, and Geochronology of
Mesozoic Diabase Dikes in the Central Virginia
Piedmont
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Alton Hipps |
High Localized Uranium and Radium in the
Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain:Implications for Radon
Hazards
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Savannah Jones |
Developing COLL of the Wild: A Natural History
of the Coastal Plain of Virginia
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Evan Laughlin |
The Depositional and Deformational History of
Meta-Carbonate Rocks at the Blue Ridge-Piedmont
Transition, Central Virginia
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Sam Laveson |
Rift Propagation in the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
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Isaac Mantelli |
Limiting Factors of Pyrite Formation in the Belt
Supergroup, Montana
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Isabella Muller |
Further Investigations of the Union Mill Gneiss in
the Raleigh Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia
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Eric Nubbe |
A Tectonic Origin for Listwaenite in the Semail
Ophiolite at Wadi Mansah, Northern Oman
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Chloe Obara |
Spit Elongation as a Control on Downdrift Barrier-
Island Stability: Insights from Assateague Island,
Virginia
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Eric Osinkski |
Revising the Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy in Central
Virginia: Insights from the Tye River
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Brady Pitts |
Determining the Effects of the Mid-Pliocene Warm
Period on Glycymeris subovata Morphology
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Claire Rae |
Strain Analysis of Diamictites and Sandstones in
the Neoproterozoic Ghubrah & Fiq Formations,
Northern Oman
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Alexa Regnier |
Peak Warming during Marine Isotope Stage 11
in the Arctic Ocean Based on Planktic Foraminifera
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Mahinaokalani Robbins |
Sea-Level Rise and Updrift Sediment Trapping Drive
Net Sand Loss along the Virginia Barrier Islands
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Amanda Sasina |
Unearthing the Tectonic Significance of
Metamorphosed Igneous Rock in the Central
Virginia Piedmont
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Colleen Scott |
Provenance of Hurricane-Induced Salt Marsh
Sedimentation on the Southeast Coast, USA
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Paul Volante |
Advantages of Americium-241 as a Dating
Tool in Sedimentary Systems
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Ryan Walter |
Unmasking a Terrane Triple Point in
Central Virginia
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Gabe Westergren |
A 12,000-year Biogenic Silica Lake Record
From Northern Norway
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Ian Wilenzik |
Inferring Diet of Clidastes liodontus through
Comparative Skull and Pterygoid Tooth
Morphology of Toxicoferan Squamates
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Peyton Winter |
The Effects of Climate Change and Megafaunal
Extinction on the Body Size and Diet of the
Hispid Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus)
over the Late Quaternary
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Class of 2019 |
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| Caroline Abbott |
The Dimetrodon Dilemma: Reassessing Posture in
Sphenacodontians and Related Non-Mammalian
Synapsids
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Savannah Bailey |
Evidence of Limited Erosion in the White Mountains of
New Hampshire
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John Bednarek |
Petrogenesis of the Roanoke Rapids Pluton, Eastern
Piedmont Province, North Carolina
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Bianca Boggs |
Contributions of Antecedent Topography to Long-Term
Barrier-Island Dynamics: Examples from the New Jersey
and Maryland Coasts
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Kayla Cahoon |
Spheroidal Carbonaceous Particles in a Virginia Mill
Pond Provide a Record of Local and Regional Coal
Combustion
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Briana Childs |
Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Late Quaternary
Cypress Swamp Formation, Delaware
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George Denny |
Plate Reconstruction of Astypalaea Linea, Europa:
Testing for Transtensional General Shear
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Hope Duke |
U/Pb Zircon Evidence for a Cryptic Suture in the
Goochland Terrane, Virginia
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Joanne Ensley |
How Effective are Retention Ponds at Mitigating the
Effects of Urban Runoff?
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Sean Franco |
Finding Evidence of Retention Ponds in Sediment
Archives
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Maddie Gaetano |
Nutrient Availability and Temperature as Catalysts of
Growth: a Study of Crassostrea gigantissima
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Allison Gonzalez |
Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Bourdon Creek
Pluton, Roanoke Rapids Terrane, Piedmont Province,
Virginia
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Hannah Grudi |
Response of Stenothermal and Eurythermal Fossil
Mollusks to Temperature Shifts Across the Mid
Pliocene Warm Period
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Klaire Gubler |
Evaluating the Impact of Increased Impervious Surface
Cover on Hydraulic Conductivity of Soil in a Paired
Watershed Study
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Paige Haley |
Emerging Contaminants from Urban Runoff in Lake
Matoaka
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Charles Hollmuller |
Kinematics of Deformation at Whittle's Mill
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Mohini Jodhpurkar |
Relationship Between Radar-Bright Areas and
Geologic Landforms in Venusian Tesserae
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Annette Kang |
Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the North View Pluton,
Piedmont Province, Virginia
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Kendall King |
Saltmarsh Event Sedimentation: A Comparative Study of
Hurricane Irma Deposits across the Southeast U.S.A
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Ben Landolt |
Sinkhole Development in Maple Flats, Virginia, and Its
Potential Implications for late-Pleistocene Climate
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Livia Marrs |
Mercury Accumulation in the Deep Basin Sediments
of Lake Matoaka from 1780-2016
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Leah Marshall |
Late Holocene Sea-Level Reconstruction for the Lofoten Islands,
Norway Using Sediment Records from Isolation Basins
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Emily Mushlitz |
An 8000-year Record of Climate and Environmental
Change from Lake Sandsvatn, Faroe Islands
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David Nicks |
Response of Spartina patens and Distichlis spicata
productivity to experimental sea-level rise
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Madelyn Phillips |
Integration of Socioscientific Activities into an
Introductory Geology Lab: Impacts on Student
Engagement
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Caroline Polly |
Petrogenesis of an Early (?), More Mafic Phase of the
Petersburg Batholith near Richmond, Virginia
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Jun Shi |
A Comparison of Phosphorus Level in Created Living
Shoreline and Natural Salt Marsh Soils
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Kinsey Wilk |
Detrital Zircon Double Dating in the Scottsville Basin
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Class of 2018 |
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| Meagan Cantwell |
Reconstructing Late Holocene Storm Records in the
Chesapeake Bay (USA)
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| Sophia (Sophie) Delzell |
The Impact of The Younger Dryas on Northern Norway
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| Kate DeMarco |
Beach and foredune ridges as recorders of coastal
shoreline evolution: Insights from Chincoteague-Assateague
-Wallops islands, northern Virginia
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| Moussa Dia |
Reconstructing Late Holocene sea level change and
impacts on early settlements in the Lofoten Islands, Norway
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| Gabriella (Gabi) Edghill |
Classification of Surficial Seafloor Sediments in the
Atlantic Ocean: A Reproducibility Study
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| Lauren Herbine |
Implications of Long-term Resilience of Delmarva
Peninsula Marshes for Barrier-Island Stability
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| Joshua Himmelstein |
Mechanisms of Pond Expansion on the Saltmarshes of
the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland
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| Katherine (Katie) Lang |
Kinematics of Brittle and Ductile Deformation in the
Catoctin Formation near Rockfish Gap, Virginia
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| Kelsey Mathern |
Group II elements in Crassostrea virginica across a salinity
gradient in the James River, VA
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| Ashley Mitchell |
Gender and the Geosciences: Graduation Rates of Women
from Twenty Schools including the Keck Geology Consortium
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| Jason Nykorczuk |
The Effects of Martian Atmospheric Dust on Human Exploration
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| Oluwakorede (Korede) Olateru-Olagbegi |
Tracing Erosion on Asymmetric Forested Hillslopes in
Southeastern Virginia using Cs-137
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| Genevieve (Eve) Pugsley |
Lacustrine Records of Holocene Climate History and
Human-Driven Landscape Evolution in the Lofoten Islands, Norway
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| Daniel Ray |
Origin and Significance of a Large Mafic Gneiss Xenolith in
the Petersburg Granite, Piedmont Province, Virginia
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| Madison (Maddie) Renshaw |
Effects of Latitude on Pollutants Pb Burens in Lake Sediments
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| Kendall Rosenberg |
A Sedimentological Record of Gravity Flows in Prince
William Sound, Alaska: Implications for Paleoseismicity
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| Jacob (Jake) Seefeldt |
Flexural response of the Suffolk Scarp on the mid-Atlantic
Coastal Plain
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| Forrest Sprouse |
Comparing size and growth rate of Pleistocene and
modern Crassostrea virginica in Delaware Bay
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| Moira Tayler |
Spatial and Temporal Differences of Oyster Aquaculture
Bed Sediment in the Chesapeake Bay
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| Catherine (Katie) Valery |
Eclogitization and Shear Zone Kinematics in the
Lofoten Islands, northern Norway
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| Thomas Vinci |
Origin of the Nottoway Falls Knickpoint in Nottoway, Virginia
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| James (Jimmy) Van Hook |
Late Quaternary Climate and Landscape History of the
Grafton Ponds Natural Area Preserve, Yorktown, Virginia
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| Aubrey Vaughan |
The Structure Timing and Kinematics of Deformation in
the Buckmarlson Transition Zone Virginia Piedmont
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| Lauren Visokay |
Kinematic Analysis of the Metamorphic Sole in the
Samail Ophiolite, Hawasina Window, Oman
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| Richard Watson |
Emplacement and Exhumation Mechanisms of the
Petersburg Batholith
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| E. Worthington |
Evaluation of Offshore Heavy Mineral Resources of
Delaware and Virginia
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| Jiayi Zhang |
Effect of Impervious Cover on Urban Stream Salinity
of Williamsburg Area Streams
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Class of 2017 |
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| Sherifa Atwa |
Diversity in the Geosciences: An Investigation of
Four-Year Institution Completion Rates by Gender and
Race
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| Sarah Baker |
Historical erosion and accretion patterns along Plum
Island Point and Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts
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| Connor Barto |
Pleistocene Crassostrea virginica population density and
paleoclimate in Horry County, South Carolina
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| McNeill Bauer |
Factors regulating enhanced atmospheric deposition
across high elevation thresholds
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| Genevieve Brei |
Provenance of Ferruginous Sandstone at Menokin on the
Northern Neck, VA
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| Yingchi (Alicia) Cheng |
Argillic horizon development and its controls on radium
redistributions in Coastal Plain, Virginia
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| Jennifer Connell |
Investigating salt marsh response to natural and
anthropogenic changes in the Great Marsh,
Massachusetts
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| Mary Donohue |
Geology of the James River State Park at the Blue
Ridge/Piedmont boundary, central Virginia
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| Sean Driggers |
Structural and stratigraphic analysis of the
basement-cover contact in the eastern Blue Ridge,
Virginia
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| Erin Girven |
Evaluating possible high P and T amphibolites in the
Goochland Terrane, VA
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| Kira Holmes |
The influence of impervious surface cover on
groundwater residence time as measured with 22 Na
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| Jacqueline Huettenmoser |
10Be erosion rates and rock properties at drainage
margins: implications for bedrock weathering in the
Blue Ridge, Virginia
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| Cecilia Hurtado |
Structural history of the Semail Ophiolite, Northern Jebel
Nakhl Culmination, Oman
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| Maggie Irwin |
Marine and estuarine molluscan assemblage and
sub-aquatic vegetation change in Florida Bay
throughout the past millennium
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| Emily Meehan |
Investigating the Timing of Human Settlement on the
Faroe Islands
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| Ashley Meredith |
The use of microbial induced calcite precipitation to
reduce trace element concentrations in fly ash leachate
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| Kristen Merritt |
Size and Growth Rates of Pleistocene-aged Oysters
near Mink Island (Horry County, South Carolina)
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| Meredith Meyer |
A sedimentary record of environmental change since
1720 from Lake Matoaka, Williamsburg, VA
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| David (Mac) Phillips |
Tree Throw in the College Woods of William and Mary:
Sediment Transport, Rates, Event Frequency, and
Controlling Variables
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| Jessica Raff |
Thresholds of barrier island change: a case study of
Parramore Island, Virginia Eastern Shore
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| Camilla Renner |
A structural analysis of metavolcanic clasts from the
Puddledock quarry in the Eastern Piedmont Province, VA
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| Zachary Sauter |
Geomagnetic analysis of the geometry of CAMP-related
dikes in James River State Park, west central Piedmont,
Virginia
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| Kassie Smith |
Reconstructing environmental history: Is there a lag
between EPA regulations of leaded gasoline and lead
concentrations in Lake Matoaka?
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| Patrick Sommer |
The effect of increased impervious cover on ground
water residence time in Williamsburg, VA
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| Carmi Thompson |
Survey of molluscan fauna from the mid-Atlantic United
States continental shelf
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| Hope Trisler |
Hillslope asymmetry in relation to microclimate in the
College Woods in Williamsburg, VA
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| Joshua Zimmt |
Exploring the Calvert Cliffs: Interpreting the history of
condensed sequences through the application of
strontium isotope stratigraphy and paleoecology
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Class of 2016 |
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| Carrie Adams |
Alluvial island formation in the James River, Piedmont
province, Virginia
|
| Michael Bekken |
Assessing models of landscape evolution using stream
profile analysis, Shenandoah National Park
|
| Kallie Brown |
Does shell chemistry differ among oysters from
different rivers?
|
| Nathaniel Chien |
Basin-average erosion rates and watershed hypsometry in
a transient landscape
|
| Tiff Choi |
Knickpoint migration and erosion rates: determining
transience in the central Blue Ridge, Virginia
|
| John Christoph |
Spatial and temporal relationships among small shield
volcanoes in Ceraunius Fossae, Mars
|
| Vincent Cunningham |
A kinematic history of brittle deformation at the Blue
Ridge-Piedmont boundary, Central Virginia
|
| John Dearborn |
Mineralogy, geochemistry, and timing of Neoproterozoic
mafic magmatism in the Roanoke Rapids Terrane,
Piedmont province, Virginia
|
| Daniel Dores |
First measurements of cosmogenic 24Na in rain and
runoff samples in Williamsburg, Virginia
|
| Sarah Flaherty |
Impact of weathering on bedrock channel geometry and
channel response to base level change
|
| Ryan Flesch |
Save your apatite! A quantitative tool for analyzing
magmatic volatiles
|
| Claire Goydan |
Development of cosmogenic 22Na as a tool to measure
young water age in multiple watersheds
|
| Alexander Greene |
Stream capture: an analysis of the Chickahominy and the
South Anna Rivers in central Virginia
|
| Lindsey Guthrie |
Near & far: understanding long-distance trade and
interaction within the Society Islands through the
application of energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence
|
| Annabel Hess |
Coring the Crim Dell: a reconstruction of sedimentary
history in Williamsburg, Virginia
|
| Jack Hollingsworth |
Mineralogical and geochemical constraints on the
origins of kyanite quartzite in the Kings Mountain
Terrane, North Carolina and South Carolina
|
| Nathan Keithline |
Paleomagnetic analysis of the Scottsville Mesozoic rift
basin, VA: implications for regional geologic history
|
| Jennie Latane |
Kinematic history of the North Anna gneiss dome in the
Goochland Terrane, eastern Piedmont, Virginia
|
| Karin Lehnigk |
The formation of fluvial valleys on Alba Mons, Mars
|
| Brody Marino |
Seasonal and spatial variability in the sedimentology of
the Merrimack, Massachusetts
|
| Allison McCluskey |
Paleoecology of northeast Florida Bay, Everglades
National Park, Florida: reconstruction of salinity and
hydrology for the past ~2000 years
|
| Cait McCormick |
Analysis of potential felsic volcanics in the Mechum
River Formation, Blue Ridge, Virginia: implications for
the Snowball Earth
|
| Ben Olinger |
Bamboozled: phytolith production, introduced bamboo,
and its relationship with soil pH
|
| Reid Perkins |
A regional analysis of strike-slip fault morphologies on
Europa
|
| Tess Reardon |
A comparison of modern to ancient sand dunes, Virginia Coastal Plain
|
| Nathan Ribyat |
Pseudotachylite in the Fork Church Fault Zone,
eastern Piedmont, Virginia: a record of Mesozoic
seismic activity
|
| Justin Shawler |
Multi-proxy records of anthropogenic impacts on fluvial
sediment discharge at Joppa Flats, Massachusetts
|
| Sarah Springmann |
Changes in tornados along the eastern United States
|
| Kaylin Stigall |
Measuring the impact of land use on sedimentation
rates along the industrialized coastline of Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia
|
| Blair Stuhlmuller |
A self-efficacy intervention in Introductory Geology Labs
|
| Paige Stuhlmuller |
Motivation, achievement and careers in Introductory
Geology Labs
|
| Lauren Thronson |
Cenozoic faulting in the eastern Piedmont, Virginia
|
| Kat Turk |
Eigenshape analysis as a tool for family-level
identification of nepomorphans from the Solite
Lagerstatte (Triassic, Virginia)
|
| Marissa von Nessi |
A kinematic and petrographic analysis of deformed
rocks at the base of the Semail Ophiolite near Buwah,
Oman
|
| Ben Weinmann |
Deformation and magmatism in the Ivy Creek Natural
Area, eastern Blue Ridge, Virginia
|
| Hannah Whitworth |
Late Holocene benthic micropaleontology and
reconstruction of past sea-level rise on the Potomac
River, Virginia, USA
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Class of 2015 |
|
| Edward Abrahams |
Post-fire hillslope aspect controls on erosional processes traced by
fallout radionuclides in Fourmile Canyon, Colorado
|
| Alana Burton |
Testing a steady state model of 22Na transport in small watersheds
for the purpose of dating young freshwaters
|
| Heather Cameron |
Analog modeling of structural deformation
|
| Brady Coleman |
Nitrate and phosphate removal in a biochar-amended denitrifying
bioreactor
|
| Charles Deaton |
Barrier island migration and its role in extensive marsh loss on
Virginia's Eastern Shore
|
| Megan Flansburg |
Priming for supereruption: the hot pre-Peach Spring Tuff lavas
and the Peach Spring Tuff magmatic enclaves, Black Mountains, Arizona
|
| Haley Gannon |
Vicious cycles: an analysis of cyclical erosion and a migrating
erosional hotspot on Plum Island, MA
|
| Mary Gillespie |
Characterization of seafloor sediment to inform electromagnetic
induction imaging
|
| Michelle Hoon-Starr |
Knickpoints and disequilibrium in an ancient orogen: a study of
central Appalachian channel profiles around Crabtree Falls, Virginia
|
| Anna Jay |
Biological aging of oyster shells from the York River (Virginia)
|
| Mike Larson |
Mineralogy and geochemistry of clasts in the Potomac Formation,
Coastal Plain, Virginia
|
| Ciara Mills |
A petrologic and structural analysis of metavolcanic rocks in the
western Piedmont and eastern Blue Ridge provinces, Central Virginia
|
| Jannette Morris |
Evaluating landscape disequilibrium of the Blue Ridge in a passive
margin near Peaks of Otter, Virginia
|
| Owen Sitler |
Analysis of longitudinal profiles & knickpoints to determine the
cause of high Appalachian relief
|
| Matthew Sniff |
Quantifying and modeling mylonitization in the Hylas Fault Zone
of Virginia
|
| Anna Spears |
A petrographic and structural analysis of metasedimentary rocks on
the boundary of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces, Central VA
|
| Elizabeth Stoeckle |
An investigation of landscape disequilibrium using channel profile
analysis in the Blue Ridge of Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
|
| Frank Tamakloe |
Clay mineral characterization: an exploration into the swelling
tendencies of sodium montmorillonite as a function of salinity
|
| Kelsey Watson |
Provencance of ballast stones used in early 17th century
foundations at Jamestown, Virginia
|
| Quan Yuan |
Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Skippers Pluton, Roanoke
Rapids Terrane, Virginia
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Class of 2014 |
|
| Samuel Adler |
Mineralogy and geochemistry of gneisses in the vicinity of the
Lucky Lake Gem Mine, Raleigh Terrane, Virginia
|
| Emily Barnett |
Tracing sources of groundwater in the shallow aquifer at Jamestown
and implication for heavy metal mobility
|
| Hanna Bartram |
The kinematics, geometry, and history of the Thousand Lake
Fault System, Central Utah
|
| William Brightly |
Olfactory ratio a potential proxy for behavior in Theropoda
|
| Patric Callahan |
Characterization and origin of carbonate nodules at the Fossil Beach
outcrop of the Eastover Formation, York River State Park, Virginia
|
| Parker Campbell |
Structural analysis of the Bowen's Creek Fault, Central Virginia Piedmont
|
| Elizabeth Carter |
Mineralogy and geochemistry of possible mantle xenoliths in the
Diana Mills Pluton, central Piedmont, VA
|
| Eric Dale |
Reconstructing Pleistocene seasonality via Crassostrea virginica and
Mercenaria mercenaria sclerochronolgy, Holland Point, Virginia
|
| Ariel Deutsch |
Investigating water ice in persistently shadowed craters in
Mercury's North Polar Region
|
| Zachariah Fleming |
Geology of the Rabbit Valley Salient: Wayne County, Utah
|
| Patrick Frier |
Structural geometry and kinematics of the Chatham Fault
Zone, Virginia
|
| David Godschalk |
Three-dimensional strain analysis of the Antietam Formation
in the western Blue Ridge, Virginia
|
| Phillip Goodling |
Tidal river aquifer salinity communication and its implications
for drinking water quality in Jamestown, Virginia
|
| Elysia Howe |
Utilizing the Paleobiology Database for undergraduate education
|
| Joachim Katchinoff |
Exfoliation and characterization of montmorillonite clay via atomic
force microscopy
|
| Connor Kee |
Knickpoint form and migration due to base level lowering at
Great Falls, VA
|
| Jeffrey Knox |
Study of oil-mineral interactions by atomic force spectroscopy
|
| Erin Landis |
Is oyster shell geochemistry unique among tributary basins of the
Chesapeake Bay?
|
| Augusta Maguire |
Strain analysis of the Rockfish Conglomerate, Blue Ridge, Virginia
|
| Aaron Marshall |
Petrolgical and structural analysis of mafic dikes in the central
Virginia Blue Ridge
|
| Aaron Martinez |
Time-averaging in Chesapeake Bay mollusks: estimates based on
amino acid racemization of Holocene Mulinia
|
| Brandon McCoy |
Application of Gust Erosion Microcosm and LISST instrumentation
to measure erodibility and the size distribution of suspended
sediments in the York River Estuary
|
| Casey McGrath |
Kinematic analysis and strain partitioning of a mesoscale fold of
quartz arenite, Blue Ridge province, Virginia
|
| Angela Mullins |
The effects of climate change on epibiont communities in the
Neogene of Virginia
|
| Shenandoah Raycroft |
Using tree-ring derived PHDI values to reconstruct James River
salinity during the Jamestown Settlement
|
| Elizabeth Saccoccia |
Linking water elevation and salinity in the Pitch and Tar Swamp
to the James River and the shallow Jamestown aquifer
|
| Charles Shobe |
Spatially variable rock erodibility related to the interaction
between erosion rate and weathering in bedrock-floored
river channels, Great Falls area, Virginia
|
| Monica Stone |
An assessment of the frequency and cause of concentrated flow
on agricultural fields in teh Virginia Coastal Plain portion of the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
|
| Eleanor Trott |
Thrust faulting and fault sequence in the James River Gorge and
Arnold Valley Region, Blue Ridge and Valley & Ridge provinces, Virginia
|
| Erika Wenrich |
Structural geometry and sediment thickness in the Fish Lake Basin, Utah:
a 3-dimensional analysis of gravity anomalies
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Class of 2013 |
|
| Samantha Bonanni |
Ages and growth rates of Crassostrea virginica from Pleistocene
reefs in the Mid-Atlantic
|
| Kirkland Broadwell |
Comparative climate analysis of Virginia during the 20th & 21st
centuries
|
| Patti Burton |
Detailed sediment composition of the Eastover, Calvert, Old Church
and Piney Point Formations, New Kent County area, Virginia Coastal Plain
|
| Katharine Celata |
The effects of urban vs. rural land use on Cr concentrations in the
College Creek Watershed
|
| Maxwell Cunningham |
Characterizing rock erodibility and channel geometry along the
longitudinal profile of a bedrock-floored river
|
| Lydia Cuker |
Characteristics of ooids in the Middle to Late Cambrian Elbrook
Formation, Virginia
|
| Tyler DeCourt |
An evaluation of possible garbensheifer in the Chopawamsic Terrane,
central Piedmont province, Virginia
|
| Zachary Foster-Baril |
Stratigraphy, structural geometry, and deformation history of the
Neoproterozoic Rockfish Conglomerate, Central Virginia Blue Ridge
|
| Andrew Follet |
Shields up: can the "mini magnetosphere" of Mars protect
astronauts from radiation?
|
| Sebastian Hancock |
A structural analysis of the Coles Hill uranium deposit in the
Piedmont province of Virginia
|
| William Jaeger |
Analysis of Mesozoic diabase dikes in the Scottsville Basin
|
| Thomas Alex Johnson |
Geology of the Catoctin Formation in the eastern Blue Ridge,
Central Virginia: petrogenesis and tectonic signature
|
| Kristopher Kusnerik |
Reconstructiing the age and paleoenvironment of a
Crassostrea virginica reef deposit at Holland Point, Virginia
|
| Nancy Lauer |
Developing cosmogenic sodium-22 as a clock for stream water
age in Virginia's Coastal Plain
|
| Glencora Maccubbin |
Death at Jamestown 1607: a geochemical analysis of arsenic,
iron and DOC in drinking water
|
| Dominique Paxton |
Sediment analysis, x-radiography and acoustic methods to reveal
fine scale sediment laminations in the York River Estuary
|
| Jacob Rosenthal |
Geology of the Midway Mills Mesozoic basin and Mayo Creek,
Virginia Piedmont
|
| Stephan Simmons |
Kinematic analysis of ductile deformation in the Goochland
Terrane, Virginia
|
| Kyle Stark |
Troubled waters: the hydrology at Jamestown, VA
|
| Peter Steele |
Global sediment lifting of Martian dust devils
|
| Sarah Young |
Utilizing GIS to study concentrated flow from agricultural fields
in the Virginia Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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Class of 2012 |
|
| Megan Ambrose |
The kinematic history of brittle deformation in the Petersburg
Granite, Richmond, Virginia area
|
| Emma Caverly |
Ephemeral organic carbon fluxes to the Chesapeake Bay from
agricultural runoff on the Virginia Coastal Plain
|
| Isaac Clark |
Flow and density driven sediment dynamics shown by dual frequency
acoustic sounder of the York River Estuary, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia
|
| Stephen Dronfield |
Tracking mineralogical changes in stream sediment composition
in the vicinity of Willis Mountain
|
| Tess Engebretson |
Assessing residence time of lead in Montane New England O horizons
|
| Mariam Fakhroo |
Strain analysis on the Buffards Formation, Piedmont province, Virginia
|
| Lyndsey Funkhouser |
Using GIS to quantify riparian buffer bypassing in the Virginia
Coastal Plain, within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
|
| Amanda Grant |
Investigation of Pleistocene oyster population structure and growth
rates in a Piankatank River reef (Virginia)
|
| Molly Hahn |
Structural analysis of brittle deformation in the eastern Blue Ridge,
Central Virginia
|
| John Hollis |
Brittle deformation in the Hylas Zone, eastern Piedmont, Virginia
|
| Ben Huff |
Magnetic anomalies in the eastern Blue Ridge, Central Virginia:
a magnetic interpretation of subsurface structure
|
| Andrea Jensen |
Origin and tectonic significance of the Albemarle-Nelson Soapstone
Belt and associated metagabbros in Central Virginia
|
| Erin Kwon |
A comparison of task value in Introductory Geology courses and
its role in student performance & retention
|
| Ryan Love |
Morphometrics of Miocene shark, marine mammal, and reptile
teeth from the Calvert Formation, Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA
|
| Emily Orzechowski |
Meta-analysis of extinction selectivity in fossil marine bivalves
and gastropods
|
| Kevin Quinlan |
Structural geology of the Scottsville Mesozoic Basin, Virginia
|
| Dylan Reilly |
Predicting flow and measuring fluxes in buffer bypassing channels
|
| Doug Rowland |
Hydrologic and geochemical variables and their effect on groundwater
quality at Jamestown Fort, Virginia
|
| Christine Solon |
Sexual dimorphism and species selection in late Cretaceous ostracodes
from the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain
|
| Matt Sparacino |
Variability of erodibility in bedrock-floored channels produced by
differential weathering
|