Undergraduate Research

The School of Earth Sciences' Summer Undergraduate Research Program allows undergraduate students at all levels and in all majors to apply to work on research projects with any faculty member in the School of Earth Sciences. Students who are accepted will receive a full-time stipend to conduct work over the summer. A few students can also be funded for research during academic quarters if a faculty member is unable to supervise a research project during the summer.

 

2007 Summer Undergraduate Fellows

Kate Benham, '09: The use of InSAR data to study groundwater recharge in the San Luis Basin; Rosemary Knight & Howard Zebker advising

Bonnie Chien, '10: A search for evidence of early life on Earth; Don Lowe advising

Nicole Chorney, '10: Trace Element Limitation on Phytoplankton Productivity in Kane'ohe Bay; Adina Paytan advising

Spencer Craven, '10: Reconstruction of complex stresses through dike mapping and analysis; Elizabeth Miller advising

Collin Cronkite-Ratcliff, '09: Geostatistical methods for mapping urbanization from remote sensing; Karen Seto advising

Dimitri Dadiomov, '07: Carbon storage in the 21st Century; Jerry Harris advising

Matt Decker, '10: Identifying controlling variables impacting Fe(III) oxide transformations; Scott Fendorf advising

Valentina Fontiveros, '09: Factors influencing the release of adsorbed mercury; Gordon Brown advising

Rachel Friedman, '08: People, plants, and Propithecus: A sustainable relationship?; Rodolfo Dirzo advising

Ben Graves, '07: Biodiversity and natural resource exploitation on the Patagonian steppe; Rob Dunbar advising

Zach Greenberg, '09: Promoting sustainable urban development in Qatar; Karen Seto advising

Alexsandra Greer, '10: U-Th dating of Easter Island Porites lobata corals; Rob Dunbar advising

Maria Gudmundsdottir, '09: The effects of lithology and tectonics on the landforms of the Sierra Azul; George Hilley advising

Tim Lambert, '09: Using oxygen isotopes in fish scale phosphate as paleothermometers; Adina Paytan advising

Maija Leff, '09: Investigation of climate and topographic change through the Cenozoic; Page Chamberlain advising

Nate Levine, '10: Erosion rates in the Yarlung-Brahmaputra River and their relationship to landscape form and precipitation; George Hilley advising

Ilana Lohr-Schmidt, '08: Ecological controls on major evolutionary radiation; Jon Payne advising

Bianca Morales, '10: Arsenic adsorption and desorption behavior with Al-substituted iron oxides in soils and sediments; Scott Fendorf advising

Alex McInturff, '08: Photoacclimation: Understanding Antarctic phytoplankton community composition; Kevin Arrigo advising

Nellie Olsen, '08: Arsenic in the geothermal systems of Iceland; Scott Fendorf & Dennis Bird advising

Julie Padilla, '08: UHP metamorphism in the Chaucus complex of central Guatemala; Chris Mattinson advising

Geeta Persad, '10: Automated analysis of the InSAR image archive; Howard Zebker advising

Annie Scofield, '08: Coral reef responses to shifts in the global carbon cycle; Rob Dunbar advising

Chris Seifert, '08: Using a GIS to model growth in Qatar; Karen Seto advising

John Solder, '08: Landslides associated with road-building in San Mateo County; Keith Loague advising

Silas Stafford, '08: Stable isotope analysis of exhaust gases from coal-seam fires; Tony Kovscek advising

Mindi Summers, '09: Exploration of the Permo-Triassic boundary in south China; Jon Payne advising