Archive of Senior Thesis Projects 1972 - present

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Spring

Nicholas Caviglia Pore Fluid Reactivation of Normal and Reverse Faults
Advisor: Wenlu Zhu and Melodie French
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Steve Knighton Indium Distribution among Select Granitic Minerals
Advisor: Philip Candela, Philip Piccoli, and Richard Ash
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Adam McKeeby Age and geochemistry of lithospheric mantle underlying Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
Advisor: Richard Walker and Philip Piccoli
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Steven Noll Zirconium in Rutile Geothermometry: Peak Temperature Determination in the Catalina Schist
Advisor: Sarah Penniston-Dorland and Philip Piccoli
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Christopher Olsen The Subglacial Hydrology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Northern New Jersey
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard
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Kelsey Wood Spatial and temporal variations in sediment accumulation rates in a freshwater tidal marsh channel of the Patuxent River, Maryland
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard and Alan Jay Kaufman
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Fall

Harif Balogun Estimating the temperature of equilibration of quartz in the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite
Advisor: Philip Piccoli
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Robbie Burgess Imaging the Gutenberg Seismic Discontinuity beneath the Oceanic Crust of the North American Plate
Advisor: Nicholas Schmerr
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Emma McConville Evolution of the Karaha-Telaga Bodas Geothermal System based on the Composition of Alteration Minerals
Advisor: Philip Candela, Philip Piccoli, and Joseph Moore (University of Utah)
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Jonathan Tino Highly Siderophile Elements in H Chondrites
Advisor: Richard Walker, Katherine Bermingham, and GS Gregory Archer
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John Whelan Storage Capacity in Step Pool Stormwater Conveyance Systems
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard and Rosemary Fanelli
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