Apr 13
Geology Department Comps Presentations
9:00 Aaron Frankl 'The Intersection of River Channelization, Soil Properties, and Agriculture: A Case Study of Mud Creek in Northfield, Minnesota.'
9:15 Sylvie Polonsky 'Ceramic applications of two Rice County clays.'
9:30 Rum Ravi 'Biological and Abiotic Sulfide Oxidation: The Use of Elemental Sulfur Particles as Biomarkers.'
9:45 Dylan Murphy 'Lead Contaminated Urban Soils: Causes, Effects, and Techniques for Remediation.'
10:00 Break
10:15 Matt Carter 'Worse than random: developing an inverse model of the fossil ridge-transform intersection in the Troodos ophiolite in Cyprus.'
10:30 Nick Gross Almonte 'Age and provenance of the Upper Cretaceous Valdez Group turbidites, Northern Prince William Sound, Alaska.' and
Alysala Malik 'U-Pb dating of detrital zircons from turbidites of the Chugach and Prince William terranes, Alaska: Implications for the significance of the Contact fault system as a terrane boundary.'
11:00 Break
11:15 Benton Franklin 'Lateral Variability and Biodiversity of the Permian Park City Group, Utah and Eastern Nevada.'
11:30 Kaitlin Schaible 'Mapping the floor of Lake Powell: Preliminary discussion of CHIRP data along the San Juan Sediment Delta.'
11:45 Austin Sorscher 'Precariously Balanced Rocks in Northern Utah: Applications for finding ground acceleration constraints along the Wasatch fault zone.'
12:00 Lunch Break - Geology Seniors, their families, Geology Juniors/New Majors, Geology Faculty/Staff are invited to M&D LL35
1:30 Eliza Malakoff 'A historical approach: using historic aerial imagery to unravel the relationship between stream power, vegetation and stream morphology changes on Last Chance Creek (CA).'
1:45 Kevin Murphy 'Timber harvesting intensity and channel head distance-to-ridge in Elk River, California.'
2:00 Sarah Ogle 'Atmospheric River Families and their Relationship to Landslides in Washington State.'
2:15 Sara Wall 'Characterization of a Runoff-initiated Post-fire Debris Flow in the Western Cascades, Oregon.'
2:30 Break
2:45 Sarah Ward 'Textural Characteristics of Pumice from a Postglacial Plinian Eruption at Lagunadel Maule, Southern Chile: Implications for Magma Ascent Dynamics.'
3:00 Clarissa Smith 'Investigation of Mineral Alteration in Andesite and Dacite from Three Different Volcano Hydrothermal Systems on Dominica, Lesser Antilles.'
3:15 Quentin Hirsch 'Tropical Cambrian Ice: Petrographic Study and Oxygen Isotope Composition of Carbonates from Clumped Isotope Thermometry.'
3:30 Sophie Homans 'Using astrochronolgy to constrain the age of the Late Cretaceous Inoceramid extinction event in Gubbio, Italy.'
3:45 Break
4:00 Natasha Dietz and Taiyi Wang 'Hydrogeological Investigation of Geothermal Fields Using Borehole Data and Numerical Modeling.'
4:30 Adam Berkebile 'Surviving the Field: An Introduction to Safety Protocols and Geologic Procedures in the Field.'
5:30pm Geology Senior Reception (Geology Seniors, their families, Geology Faculty/Staff) in Alumni Guest House Meeting Room. Seniors, bring your legal ID.