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Spring

Matthew Domingues Trace Metal Retention on Manganese Oxides in First Order Streams: A Promising Form of Environmental Remediation
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard and Richard Ash
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Stephen Ginley Geochemical history of the convecting upper mantle: A comparison of ophiolites
Advisor: Richard Walker
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Austin Green Thermal Evolution and Overpressurization of Europa’s Subsurface Ocean
Advisor: Laurent Montesi
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Grant Jiang Characterizing carbon sources and quality in four Baltimore streams with uorescence spectroscopy
Advisor: Sujay Kaushal
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Irene Kadel-Harder Determining continental crust sources using zircons from Proterozoic Piedmont rocks of central Virginia
Advisor: Aaron Martin and Philip Piccoli
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John Kemper The Effect of Sand Content on Sediment Transport, Deposition, and Bar Morphology
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard
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Hollie McBride Zirconium in Rutile Thermometry: Temperature Estimates for Metamorphic Rocks of the Catalina Schist
Advisor: Sarah Penniston-Dorland and Philip Piccoli
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Evan McMullen The Effect of Bedding Laminations on Crack Propagation in the Marcellus Shale
Advisor: Wen-lu Zhu
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Tyler Newton Geochemistry of the Timberville Zn-Pb District, Rockingham County, VA.
Advisor: Philip Candela, Philip Piccoli, and William McDonough
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Rishi Sugla Orbital and Structural Evolution of Triton
Advisor: Saswata Hier-Majumder, Douglas Hamilton, and Vedran Lekic
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Fall

Noah Bowman Developing an Apparatus to Study the Kinetics of Sulfide Oxidation
Advisor: James Farquhar and Graduate Student Daniel Eldridge
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Sean Kayser Partitioning of Indium Between Pyrrhotite and Silicate Melt
Advisor: Philip Candela and Philip Piccoli
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Christine Liu Earthquake Magnitudes Before and After the Mineral, Virginia Event
Advisor: Laurent Montesi
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John Nance Thermodynamic Properties of Indium in Hydrothermal Ore Systems
Advisor: Philip Candela and Philip Piccoli
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