Archive of Senior Thesis Projects 1972 - present

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2002

Spring

Lisa Baccala A Study of Xenolith Constraints on Northern Appalachian Lithosphere Using Re-Os Isotopic Geochemistry
Advisor: William Minarik

Elizabeth Brabson Sulfur Isotopic Analyses of Sulfides from the Huronian Glacial Sequence: Implications for the Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere and Paleoclimate
Advisor: Boswell Wing, Alan Jay Kaufman, James Farquhar

Alton (Holm) Bradley Experimental leaching of transition metals from the Hunting Hill Serpentinite Complex
Advisor: Philip Piccoli, Philip Candela, Adam Simon

Brooke Carter Kinematics and microstructural analysis of the Garth Run Shear Zone
Advisor: Dazhi Jiang

Alec Latifov Assessment of Ductile Strain Intensity using grain-contact analysis: testing and application to quartzo-feldspathic rocks of the Morgan Run and Sykesville Formations, Carroll County, MD
Advisor: Nathalie Marchildon, Renato Moraes

Karen Phemister The Effects of Urbanization on Groundwater Recharge and Base-Flow Water Chemistry in First-Order Streams, College Park, MD
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard

Lori Smith-Hall Channel Network and Morphology in a Tidal Freshwater Wetland in the Patuxent River, MD
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard

Fall

Graeme Bowles Geomicrobiology of Acid Mine Drainage from the Kempton Coal Mine Complex, Maryland
Advisor: Philip Piccoli, Stephen Lower
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Tracey Centorbi The Mooselookmeguntic Igneous Complex, Maine; A Pb isotopic study to clarify basement sources
Advisor: Paul Tomascak
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Jeff Harp Flow mechanics of rock avalanches
Advisor: Julio Friedmann
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