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2009

Spring

Achyut Dangol Transport and Storage of Coarse and Fine Grained Sediment, Little Paint Branch Creek
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard, GS Zachary Blanchet
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Susan Drymala Floral Indicators of Late Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Climate Change in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Advisor: Thomas Holtz, Alan Jay Kaufman, Boswell Wing
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Jodi Gaeman Thermal Evolution of an Early Magma Ocean
Advisor: Saswata Hier-Majumder
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Jill Gribbin Insights into deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments from measurements of permeability and porosity
Advisor: Wenlu Zhu, Tivey
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Cory Hanson Vein Related Mass Transport in the Ritter Range Roof Pendant during Late Cretaceous Contact Metamorphism
Advisor: Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Philip Piccoli, William McDonough
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Gus Kingman Constraining depositional ages of Potomac Terrane formations by zircon U/Pb isotope analysis
Advisor: Aaron Martin, Philip Piccoli
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Jeffrey Lillibridge Estimating water flux over a tidal cycle in tidal marsh networks based on tidal prism and gauge height
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard, GS Emily Seldomridge

Garrett Mitchell Rift interaction at the Galápagos Triple Junction
Advisor: Laurent Montesi
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Marcie Occhi Sources of Stream Discharge in the North East and North West Branches of the Anacostia Watershed
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard
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Darya Slobodyanik Using Chemical Contaminant Profiles to Determine Sediment Depositional History at Little Paint Branch Creek
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard, William McDonough, Richard Ash
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Nina Wernecke The Color of the Lower Mantle
Advisor: Andrew Campbell
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Fall

Jessica Little Biomarker Analysis of Carbon Rich Shales in the Neoproterozoic BambuĂ­ Group, Brazil
Advisor: GS Noah Miller, Alan Jay Kaufman
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