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Recent Undergraduate Research Projects in GES
Many undergraduates take advantage of research opportunities. Our summer research fellows are funded through a departmental grant from the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE). Student Honors theses are archived with the Undergradaute Program Coordinator. Here is
a list of recent projects
| SES Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows, 2007 |
| Student |
Yr |
Project Title |
Advisor |
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| Kate Benham |
'09 |
The use of InSAR data to study groundwater recharge in the San Luis Basin |
Rosemary Knight & Howard Zebker |
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| Bonnie Chien |
'10 |
A search for evidence of early life on Earth |
Don Lowe |
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| Nicole Chorney |
'10 |
Trace element limitation on phytoplankton productivity in Kane'ohe Bay |
Adina Paytan |
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| Spencer Craven |
'10 |
Reconstruction of complex stresses through dike mapping and analysis |
Elizabeth Miller |
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| Collin Cronkite-Ratcliff |
'09 |
Geostatistical methods for mapping urbanization from remote sensing |
Karen Seto |
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| Dimitri Dadiomov |
'07 |
Carbon storage in the 21st century |
Jerry Harris |
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| Matt Decker |
'10 |
Identifying controlling variables impacting Fe(III) oxide transformations |
Scott Fendorf |
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| Valentina Fontiveros |
'09 |
Factors influencing the release of adsorbed mercury |
Gordon Brown |
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| Rachel Friedman |
'08 |
People, plants, and Propithecus: A sustainable relationship? |
Rodolfo Dirzo |
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| Ben Graves |
'07 |
Biodiversity and natural resource exploitation on the Patagonian steppe |
Rob Dunbar |
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| Zachary Greenberg |
'09 |
Promoting sustainable urban development in Qatar |
Karen Seto |
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| Alexsandra Greer |
'10 |
U-Th dating of Easter Island Porites lobata corals |
Rob Dunbar |
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| Maria Gudmunds-dottir |
'09 |
The effects of lithology and tectonics on the landforms of the Sierra Azul |
George Hilley |
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| Tim Lambert |
'09 |
Using oxygen isotopes in fish scale phosphate as paleothermometers |
Adina Paytan |
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| Maija Leff |
'09 |
Investigation of climate and topographic change through the Cenozoic |
Page Chamberlain |
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| Nate Levine |
'10 |
Erosion rates in the Yarlung-Brahmaputra River and their relationship to landscape form and precipitation |
George Hilley |
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| Ilana Lohr-Schmidt |
'08 |
Ecological controls on major evolutionary radiation |
Jon Payne |
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| Bianca Morales |
'10 |
Arsenic adsorption and desorption behavior with Al-substituted iron oxides in soils and sediments |
Scott Fendorf |
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| Alex Mcinturff |
'08 |
Photoacclimation: Understanding Antarctic phytoplankton community composition |
Kevin Arrigo |
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| Nellie Olsen |
'08 |
Arsenic in the geothermal systems of Iceland |
Dennis Bird |
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| Julie Padilla |
'07 |
UHP metamorphism in the Chaucus complex of central Guatemala |
Chris Mattinson |
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| Geeta Persad |
'10 |
Automated analysis of the InSAR image archive |
Howard Zebker |
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| Annie Scofield |
'09 |
Coral reef responses to shifts in the global carbon cycle |
Rob Dunbar |
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| Chris Seifert |
'08 |
Using a GIS to model growth in Qatar |
Karen Seto |
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| John Solder |
'08 |
Landslides associated with road-building in San Mateo County |
Keith Loague |
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| Silas Stafford |
'08 |
Stable isotope analysis of exhaust gases from coal-seam fires |
Tony Kovscek |
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| Mindi Summers |
'09 |
Exploration of the Permo-Triassic boundary in south China |
Jon Payne |
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| GES Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows, 2006 |
| Student |
Yr |
Project Title |
Advisor |
|
| Amna Aziz |
'09 |
Variation in Arsenic Levels within Soils and Surface Waters of the Mekong Delta, Cambodia |
Scott Fendorf |
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| Collin Cronkite-Ratliff |
'09 |
Super-Resolution Mapping with Geostatistics |
Andre Journel |
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| Katy Elsbury |
'06 |
Identifying and Quantifying Nutrient Sources and Cycling to Lake Tahoe |
Adina Paytan |
|
| Rachel King |
'09 |
Provenance of Obsidian from Catalhoyuk-West: Smapling the Geological Sources |
Gail Mahood |
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| Saya Kitasei |
'08 |
A High-Resolution Stable Isotope Record of Early Oligocene Climate |
Rob Dunbar |
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| Jessica Luo |
'06 |
Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorous of Phytoplankton Tows in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea |
Adina Paytan |
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| Hari Mix |
'08 |
Implications of middle Miocene resurgent doming associated with silicic volcanism in NW Nevada and SE Oregon |
Gail Mahood |
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| Megan Nesland |
'08 |
Effects of Ionic Strength and Temperature: Methylation of Mercury in Tidal-influenced Wetlands |
Gordon Brown |
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| Nellie Olsen |
'08 |
Geochemical constraints on the environmental mobility of non-anthropogenic arsenic associated with the Juneau gold belt in the Gold Creek watershed, Juneau, AK |
Dennis Bird & Scott Fendorf |
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| Morgan Reed |
'06 |
Redox Fluctuations in Cambodian Sediments: Climatic controls and metabolic effects |
Scott Fendorf |
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| Parjanya Rijal |
'07 |
A Feasibility Study on Small, Closed Solar/Hydrogen Economies |
Tony Kovscek |
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| Samia Rogers |
'07 |
Factors affecting the Transport and Toxicity of Mercury: New Idria, CA |
Gordon Brown |
|
| Nahid Samsami |
'08 |
Investigating temporal variations of pH levels of coral reef waters at Christmas Island, Kiribati |
Rob Dunbar |
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| Silas Stafford |
'08 |
Nature of underground coal fires on the Southern Ute Reservation |
Tony Kovscek |
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| Mindi Summers |
'09 |
Diversification of Foraminifera during early Triassic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction: A case study from south China |
Jon Payne |
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| Tim Varga |
'06 |
Mapping fire fueld loads in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: combining hyperspectral remote sensing, LiDAR elevational data, and canopy and water content |
Greg Asner |
|
| Katy Yan |
'07 |
Tracing sources and levels of pollution through nutrients and N isotopes in the highly industrialized Shanghai estuary |
Adina Paytan |
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| GES Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows, 2005 |
| Student |
Yr |
Project Title |
Advisor |
|
| Jamie Cundiff |
'06 |
Calculation of Magma Storage Depth in Cascade Volcanoes by Analyzing Crystal Melt Inclusions with IR Spectroscopy |
Dennis Bird |
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| Elizabeth Derse |
'06 |
Identifying Sources of Carbon and Nitrogen to Macroalgae and Coral Reef in Kawai Using Isotopic Tracers |
Adina Paytan |
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| Katy Elsbury |
'06 |
Tracing the northern boundary of the high-pressure Chaucus terrane: the Baja Verapaz shear zone in the Cubulco area, central Guatemala |
Juhn Liou |
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| David Fedor |
'06 |
Remote Sensing on the Rangeland of the Tibetan Plateau |
Karen Seto |
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| Dianna Ferrand |
'05 |
Microbialite Morphogenesis on a Microscopic Level: Lago Sarmiento, Patagonia, Chile |
Don Lowe |
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| Adam Freedman |
'06 |
Epidote in Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading centers: Reykjanes and Nesjavellir, Iceland |
Dennis Bird |
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| Christine George |
'07 |
Navajo Nation Uranium Assessment |
Scott Fendorf |
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| Ellen Gray |
'06 |
Anaysis of Sulfur Isotopes in Oceanic Barite around the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
Adina Paytan |
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| Adam Kreek |
'07 |
Quantifying the Geometry of Microfolds in 3-D |
Dave Pollard |
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| Lindsay Love |
'06 |
Metamorphic clasts in Carboniferous-Permian conglomerates in the Cubulco-Sacapulas area of central Guatemala: a proxy for late Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Maya Block |
Juhn Liou |
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| Jessica Luo |
'06 |
Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen of Sedimentary Organic matter from the Santa Monica Basin, Southern California |
Adina Paytan |
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| Sally Mills |
'06 |
Size distribution and Mineralogy of Atmospheric Dust Deposited in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea |
Adina Paytan |
|
| Katy Yan |
'07 |
Mapping Open Ocean Biological Productivity during mid-Cretacious Ocean anoxic events |
Adina Paytan |
|
| Lee Chang |
'08 |
Structural evolution of the Warner Mountains and the Surprise Valley, NE California |
Elizabeth Miller & Anne Egger |
| Katy Elsbury |
'06 |
| Ilana Lohr |
'08 |
| Hari Mix |
'08 |
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| GES Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows, 2004 |
| Student |
Yr |
Project Title |
Advisor |
|
| Andrea Christenson |
'05 |
Investigating the patterns and drivers of urban change in the Yaqui
Valley, Mexico |
Karen
Seto |
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| Dianna Ferrand |
'05 |
Microbialite formation in and around Lago Sarmiento, Chile |
Don
Lowe |
|
| Christine George |
'07 |
Ra isotopes as tracers for groundwater discharge in coastal areas |
Adina
Paytan |
|
| Ellen Gray |
'06 |
Analysis of sulfur isotopes in oceanic barite around the Late Paleocene
Thermal Maximum |
Adina
Paytan |
|
| Malinda Kent-Corson |
'05 |
Sedimentological and isotopic analysis of Cenozoic lacustrine basins
of southwestern Montana |
Page
Chamberlain |
|
| Simone Manganelli |
'05 |
Linking rhyolitic eruptions and basaltic intrusions: The potential
for block-and-ash flows in the Long Valley Caldera-Mammoh Mountain-Inyo
Craters magmatic system |
Gail
Mahood |
|
| Dan Martin |
'05 |
Arsenic cycling in soils under variable redox conditions: A laboratory
study investigating arsenic release |
Scott
Fendorf |
|
| Julia Rosen |
'05 |
Paleoenvironmental responses to climate change in the Cordillera
Vilcanota, Peru |
Rob
Dunbar |
|
| Laura Sherman |
'05 |
Cenozoic climate and topography: developing a terrestrial stable
isotope record in central Wyoming |
Page
Chamberlain |
|
| Scott Walter |
'06 |
Making sense of maladaptive uses of the landscape: A look at the
conversion of arable land to urban space in Zhujiand, China |
Karen
Seto |
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| GES Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows, 2003 |
| Student |
Yr |
Project Title |
Advisor |
|
| Erin Beller |
'05 |
Biogeochemical and hydrologic changes in Napa Valley
watersheds impacted by vineyard systems |
Peter
Jewett & Eve-Lyn
Hinckley |
|
| Mike Calhoun |
'04 |
Marine productivity fluctuations across
the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum |
Adina
Paytan |
| Lyndsie Schmalz |
'05 |
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| Jake Covault |
'07 |
Mapping the West Humboldt Range, northwestern
nevada: implications for Basin and Range extension |
Elizabeth
Miller |
| Nancy McKeown |
'05 |
|
| Amelia De La Paz |
'05 |
Cenozoic climate and topography in the
western U.S. Cordillera |
Page
Chamberlain |
| Malinda Kent-Corson |
'05 |
| Katie Paul |
'05 |
| Laura Sherman |
'05 |
|
| Twila Paterson |
'04 |
An investigation of crevasse patterns on East Antarctic
ice streams |
Dave
Pollard |
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| GES Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows, 2002 |
| Student |
Yr |
Project Title |
Advisor |
|
| Andrei Aron |
'04 |
Applications of differential geometry to field data analysis in
structural geology |
Dave
Pollard |
|
| David Nicholson |
'02 |
Alkaline phosphatase activity in Monterey and San Francisco Bays |
Adina
Paytan |
|
| James Poole |
'05 |
Textural and compositional analysis of 3.47-3.25 Ga impact-produced
spherule beds, Barberton Greenstone belt, South Africa |
Don
Lowe |
|
| Tim Ross |
'03 |
Productivity fluctuations and their relation to Cretaceous anoxic
events |
Adina
Paytan |
|
| Ian Thomsen |
'04 |
Paleo-sedimentary environments of the lower Cambrian strata, southern
White Mountains, eastern California |
Gary
Ernst |
|
| Ivan Tzvetanov |
'05 |
Tertiary volcanism and Basin and Range faulting in the Pueblo Mountains,
Nevada |
Mike
McWilliams |
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| Honors Theses |
| Student |
Yr |
Project Title |
Advisor |
|
| Katy Elsbury |
'06 |
Phosphate Cycling in Lake Erie |
Adina Paytan |
| Adam Freedman |
'06 |
Epidote in Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading Centers: Reykjanes and Nesjavellir, Iceland |
Dennis Bird |
| Ellen Gray |
'06 |
Analysis of Sulfur Isotopes in Oceanic Barite around the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
Adina Paytan |
|
| Malinda Kent-Corson |
'05 |
Cenozoic surface elevation in southwestern Montana and eastern Idaho: A stable isotope study |
Page Chamberlain |
| Simone Manganelli |
'05 |
Young volcanism within the Long Valley Caldera/Mammoth Mountains/Inyo Craters magmatic system: (1) Temporal implications of the Java Islet eruption at Mono Lake; (2) Linking rhyolitic eruptions and basaltic intrusions |
Gail Mahood |
| Julia Rosen |
'05 |
Paleoenvironmental responses to climate change in the Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru |
Rob Dunbar |
| Laura Sherman |
'05 |
Cenozoic topography and climate in the Rocky Mountains: A stable isotope study in central Wyoming |
Page Chamberlain |
|
| Tzvetina Erohina |
'02 |
A geographical and geophysical study of Prydz Bay, Antarctic Sites
742 and 1166, ODP legs 119 and 188 |
Rob
Dunbar |
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