Recent Alumni and Senior Theses

Keith Bruce (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Divining the Past From Salmon Skeletons (Pincelli Hull and Catherine West, Boston University, advisers)

Evan Cheng (BA Earth and Planetary Sciences): Evolving Relationships of Paleontology and Visual Appeal (Derek Briggs & Pincelli Hull, Advisers)

Andrea Chow (BA Earth and Planetary Sciences): Ecology, Biogeochemistry, and Carbon Cycling in Kelp Forests (Lidya Tarhan, adviser)

Spencer Greenfield (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Modeling Micro-Scale Air and Wet-Bulb Temperature in New Haven, CT: Statistical Approaches in an Urban Environment (Xuhui Lee, adviser)

Daniel Havlat (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Triple Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Devonian Brachiopod Shells (Jordan Wostbrock, adviser)

Christina Lee (BS Computer Science): Evaluating Remote Sensing Techniques for Forecasting Maize Yield in Zimbabwe (Xuhui Lee, adviser)

Benjamin Mousseau (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Triple oxygen isotope values of microbial carbonates (Jordan Wostbrock, adviser)

Naomi Norbraten (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Estimating Fluid Flux during Eclogitization in the Bergen Arcs, Norway (Jay Ague, adviser)

Theo Schiminovich (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Millennial climate variability with origins in the Southern Ocean (Alexey Fedorov and Paul Curtis, advisers)

Victoria Smithson (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): A Tale of Three Tuffs: Comparing Modern and Paleo Precipitation Isotopes in the US Cordillera (Mark Brandon and Mike Hren, UConn, advisers)

Maddie Bartels (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Alternative Feedstock and Spatial Sampling Variability for Enhanced Mineral Weathering in Agricultural Settings (Noah Planavsky, adviser)

Immanuel Bissell (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Into Arid Unkowns: Projecting Drought Over the Northeastern Unnited States using NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 (Kai Chen, YSPH, adviser)

Leah Clayton (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): The Potential for Terrestrial Storage of Woody Biomass from High Wildfire Risk Forests in the Western United States under Historical and Projected Future Climates (Sinéad Crotty, Carbon Containment Lab/YSE, adviser) 

Megan Grimes (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Arctic Sea Ice Trends: An analysis of the Cape Bathurst Polynya from 1979 - 2023 (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser) 

Ella Lubin (BS Solid Earth Science): Quenching-Induced Precipitation Formation and Behavior in Hydrous Olivine Under High Pressure-Temperature Conditions (Shun-Ichiro Karato and Jennifer Girard, advisers) 

Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Integrating GM and XROMM Illuminates the Role of the Quadrate as a Keystone of Cranial Kinesis (Anjan Bhullar and Armita Manafzadeh, advisers)

Alyse Olcott (BS Solid Earth Science): Investigating the Effect of Titan’s Hydrologic Cycle on its Surface Environment (Juan Lora, adviser)

Dana Polomski (BS Solid Earth Science): Paleomagnetism of Mesoproterozoic Red Beds in Kalahari (David Evans, adviser) 

Evie Sackett (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Calibration of Soil Charcoal as a Proxy for Paleofire in Grassy Systems: Effects of Environmental and Burn Variables in Experimental Burn Plots (Carla Staver, adviser)

Lex Schultz (BS Solid Earth Science): Modeling Earth Accretion Using Isotopic Constraints (Jun Korenaga, adviser) 

Madelyn Stewart (BS, Mathematics(Int.)): Inertial Oscillations in Arctic Ice (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser)

Lolyn Tejeda Lemus (BS Paleontology and Geobiology, double major with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): It’s the “Valley Tough” Life for Us: The Biogeochemistry and Occupational Hazard of a Pathogenic Fungus, Coccidioides, in California’s San Joaquin Valley (Ruth Blake, adviser)

Hanna Winter (BS Earth and Planetary Sciences): Observations and Mechanisms of Regional Sea Level: The German Bight and its Coastline (Maureen Long, adviser)

Catherine Zhang (BS Physics and Geosciences): The Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Deep Water in the Arctic Ocean’s Canada Basin (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser)

Mary Chen (BA, double major with Political Science): Crustal Deformation Caused by the Yellowstone Uplift Detected by Anisotropic Receiver Functions (Jeffrey Park, adviser)

Brianna Fernandez (BS, double major with Astronomy): Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inversion to Characterize the Rheology of the Early Hadean Upper Mantle (Jun Korenaga, adviser)

Lexie Gardner (BA, double major with Environmental Engineering): Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from Marine Environments (Drew Gentner, adviser)

Iszac Henig (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Just Keep Swimming? Understanding the Effects of Climate Shifts through Observations of Fish Productivity in the Southern Pacific Ocean across the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary (Pincelli Hull, Elizabeth Sibert, advisers)

Evelyn Larson (BS Solid Earth Science): Re-Os Geochronology of the Windermere Supergroup: Investigating the Age of Sedimentary Successions in British Columbia (Alan Rooney, adviser)

Eliza Poggi (BS, MS Solid Earth Science): Are Ediacaran Carbonates Reliable for Paleomagnetic Analysis? Two Case Studies from Utah, USA and Ouarzazate, Morocco (David Evans, adviser)

Katrina Starbird (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Modeling California Central Valley Groundwater under SGMA (James Saiers, adviser)

Gavrielle Welbel (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Engineering Science-Mechanical): Enhanced Rock Weathering in Agricultural Settings: Field Trial at Zumwalt Acres in Sheldon, IL (Noah Planavsky, adviser)

Sophie Lai (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Economics): The Carbonation of Serpentinites in the Orange-Milford Belt, Connecticut, USA (Jay Ague, adviser)

William Lawrence (BS Solid Earth Science, double major with Chemistry): Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material: Peak Metamorphic Temperatures of Matrix Surrounding High-Grade Blocks in the Franciscan Complex (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Selena Martinez (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): I Need [Morpho]Space: Determining the Affinity of Fossil Xantusiid Jaws with Implications for Post-KPg Squamate Diversity (Roxanne Armfield, adviser)

Tasman Rosenfeld (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Stable Oxygen Isotopes from Skeletal Carbonates as a Proxy for Habitat in Extant and Extinct Testudines (Jacques Gauthier, Jordan Wostbrock, advisers)

William Strauch (BS Solid Earth Science): Nuclear Fusion: A Primer (Jay Ague, adviser)

Alex Waller (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Predicting the Role of Enhanced Rock Weathering Relative to Future Carbon Emissions for the Great Barrier Reef (Noah Planavsky, adviser)

Sherry Xu (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Environmental Studies): Exploring the Controls on Marine Habitat Availability and Ecosystem Function through Time with Idealized Model Worlds (Pincelli Hull, adviser)

Raymond Zhao (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Panel Identification and Fault Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Case Study of a 0.5 MW PV System (Xuhui Lee, adviser)

Colin Baciocco (BS Solid Earth Science): The Impact of Improved Surface Boundaary Conditions on Titan’s Climate Patterns (Juan Lora, adviser)

Chiara Chung-Halpern (BS Solid Earth Science): Reconnaissance Paleomagnetism of the Northern Rehoboth Basement Inlier, Namibia (David Evans, adviser)

Vuong Mai (BS Physics & Geosciences): Paleomagnetic Regional Survey of Late Magmatic and Sedimentary Rocks of the Southern Rehoboth Basement Inlier (David Evans, adviser)

Patrick Perry (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Lithological and Taxonomic Bias for Silicification in Devonian New York (Derek Briggs, adviser)

Emery Wallace (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Hypothesis for the Evolution of Flight in Chiroptera by Comparison to Aves (Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, adviser)

Mary Yap (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate, double major with Architecture): Understanding the Influence of Topography on Titan’s Asymmetric Lake Distribution (Juan Lora, adviser)

Nadia Grisaru (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Applying the Re-Os Isotope System to a Survey of Cratonic Bedrock in Northeastern Canada (Alan Rooney, adviser)

Lindsay Hogan (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Air-Sea Fluxes in the Western Tropical Atlantic (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Arianna Lord (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Snout Scale Development in Alligator Mississippiensis and the Ancestral Condition of Keratinized Structures in the Reptilian Face (Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, adviser)

Sofia Menemenlis (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate, double major with Global Affairs): Extreme Precipitation and Atmospheric Rivers in a Model of Pliocene Climate (Juan Lora, adviser)

Daniel Monteagudo (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Satellite-based Permafrost Mapping and Climate Trend Analysis in Northern North America (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Katrina White (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Economics): Macroalgae and sediments as records of seawater ​^187​Os/​¹⁸⁸​Os  composition in the Long Island Sound (Alan Rooney, adviser)
 

Emily Chu (BS Solid Earth Science, double major with Engineering Science-Mechanical): The Relationship of Seismic Hazard and Building Codes in Supercities (Maureen Long, adviser)

Christoph Funke (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate, double major with Applied Mathematics): Computing Pressure Fields Over Laboratory Water Waves using Particle Image Velocimetry Data (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser)

Cerys Holstege (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Toward an Understanding of Phosphorus Cycling on Waterworlds (Noah Planavsky, adviser)

Seamus Houlihan (BS Solid Earth Science, double major with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): Paleomagnetism of ca. 750 Ma Syenite Dykes of the Southern Congo Craton, Northern Namibia (David Evans, adviser)

Danya Levy (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Predicting Past and Future Variations in Global Mean Surface Temperature with a Simple Model (Alexey Fedorov, adviser)

Chenyu Ma (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Environmental Studies): A GIS-based Analysis on the Capacity and Feasibility of Pumped Hydropower Storage Facilities in Tibet (Michael Oristaglio, adviser)

Clara Ma (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate, double major with Political Science): Arctic Climate Change in Numerical Experiments with Abrupt CO₂ Increase (Alexey Fedorov, adviser)
 

Ariege Besson (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate, double major with Ethnicity, Race & Migration): Weighing Earth, Tracking Water: Hydrological Applications of Data from GRACE Satellites (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Theodore Kuhn (BS Solid Earth Science): Al-in-Hornblende Barometry of Southern New England Intrusions and Comparison with Metamorphic Bathograds (Jay Ague, adviser)

Holden Leslie-Bole (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate, double major with Engineering Science-Mechanical): Global Climate Impacts of the AMOC Slowdown Caused by Arctic Sea Ice Decline (Alexey Fedorov, adviser)

Martha Longley (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Lithium as a Proxy for Silicate Weathering during the Southeast Asian Monsoon (Noah Planavsky, adviser)

Peter Mahony (BA, double major with Economics): Detrital Zircon Geochronology and Vitrinite Reflectance Analysis of the Cascadia Subduction Complex, Washington (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Sophie Ruehr (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): The Oasis Effect: Evaluating Intrinsic Biophysical Mechanism Theory and its Implications for Sustainable Water Management in Zhangye, Gansu, China (Xuhui Lee, adviser)

Madison Shankle (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate, double major with Environmental Engineering): Global Influences on the Indian Monsoon: Testing Existing Hypotheses with Climate Indices (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Juan Aragon (BS Solid Earth Science): SKS splitting and seismic anisotropy beneath the Mid-Atlantic Appalachians using data from the MAGIC FlexArray experiment (Maureen Long, adviser)

Derek Brown (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Hydraulic Fracturing and its Impact on Renewable Energy Development (Michael Oristaglio, adviser)

Annie Bui (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): The Feasibility of Implementing Carbon Capture and Storage at Yale (Michael Oristaglio, adviser)

Khalid Cannon (BA): Reviewing Crude Oil Extraction Methods and Investigating Innovative Improvements (Jay Ague, adviser)

Adrienne Gau (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Structure and evolution of the unique pseudosuchian auricular region from the Late Triassic to the present (Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, adviser)

Lily Hahn (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Impact of Cloud Phase Composition on the Climate Response to Obliquity Forcing (Trude Storelvmo, adviser)

John McNamara (BS Physics and Geosciences): A Fluid Dynamics Approach to Planetesimal Formation (David Bercovici, adviser)

Torren Peebles (BA): Development of Hubbert’s Peak Oil Theory and Analysis of its Continued Validity for U.S. Crude Oil Production (Jay Ague, adviser)

Adam Sokol (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Aerosols, Ice Supersaturation, and Cirrus Clouds in the Southern Hemisphere: Comparison of Aircraft Observations with Two Global Climate Models (Trude Storelvmo, adviser)

Jordan Vargas (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Mars: A Primer on Modern Research and the Martian Past (Jun Korenaga, adviser)

Chris Bowman (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): A High Resolution Stable Isotope Analysis of Middle Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera (Pincelli Hull, adviser)

Paige Breen (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Creating an extensive, multi-species planktonic isotope record at an Eocene-Oligocene high latitude site (Pincelli Hull, adviser)

Luke Cartwright (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Reversing the effects of the Patagonian ice sheet on the southern Andes (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Martha Cosgrove (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): A Paleoelevation History of the Southern Patagonian Andes from Hydrated Volcanic Glass (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Eric Fein (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): SKS and SKKS Splitting Beneath Alaska: Evidence for Anisotropy in the Lower Mantle (Maureen Long, adviser)

Matthew Goldklang (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience), Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry of Bulk Planktonic Foraminifera (Mark Pagani and Pincelli Hull, advisers)

Sara Kahanamoku-Snelling (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Sizing up community structure: exploring latitudinal gradients in Eastern Pacific Patellogastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda) body size with high-throughput morphometric imaging (Pincelli Hull, adviser)

Parker Liautaud (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Isotopic Composition of Near-Surface Snow Across Antarctica (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Samantha Lichtin (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): Variance in Orca Basin compound-specific GDGT δ13C: Implications for source, sink, and paleoclimate interpretations (Mark Pagani and Pincelli Hull, advisers)

Ivette López (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Seismic anisotropy beneath the northeastern United States: An investigation of SKS splitting at long-running seismic stations (Maureen Long, adviser)

Tess Maggio (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Old and new climate proxies with foraminifera: Providing geochemical evidence for porosity as a proxy for metabolism, and investigating the validity of I/Ca as a new redox proxy (Pincelli Hull, adviser)

Maya Midzik (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Monitoring harmful algal blooms in Lake Champlain with MODIS and Landsat 8 OLI remote sensing data (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Viktor Nesheim (BA, double major with Economics): Mineral Carbon Sequestration and Theoretical Constraints on CO2 Removal (David Bercovici, adviser)

Astrid Pacini (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): The relationship of water isotopes to orographic precipitation and regional climate (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Gabriel Roy Liguori (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): An analysis on the influence of a horizontal axis wind turbine on the ambient electric field (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Jane Smyth (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Responses of the hydrological cycle to solar forcings (Trude Storelvmo, adviser)

Christine Tsai (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Cloud Thermodynamic Phase in the Radiation Budget and its Determination Using Remote Sensing Technology (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Rain Tsong (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Re-examination of Li isotopic ratios as a weathering proxy: a core-top calibration (Trude Storelvmo, adviser)

Olivia Walker (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Refining the Paleomagnetism of the Congo Craton, Northern Namibia (David Evans, adviser)

XinXin Xu (BS, MS Solid Earth Science, double major with Economics): Paleomagnetism of Mesoproterozoic Lavas in the Barby Formation of the Sinclair region, southern Namibia  (David Evans, adviser)

George Adesanya (BA, double major with Economics): Fugitive methane: The promise and pitfalls of the shale gas revolution (Michael Oristaglio, adviser)

Christian Brown (BS Paleontology and Geobiology, double major with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): Exploring the evolution of oxygen on the early Earth: Constraining the Great Oxidation Event through the utilization of uranium isotopes (Noah Planavsky, adviser)

Leah Campbell (BS Solid Earth Science): Complex seismic anisotropy beneath Germany from *KS shear wave splitting and anisotropic receiver function analysis (Maureen Long, adviser)

Marjorie Hirs (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Experimental studies in melting pyroxenite (Kanani Lee, adviser)

Tierney Larson (BS Physics and Geosciences): Mesoproterozoic paleomagnetism of the southern Congo Craton (David Evans, adviser)

Maggie Lynn (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Mercury: from source to sink, considerations for fish consumption advisories in the State of Connecticut (Gaboury Benoit, adviser)

Johanna Press (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Remote monitoring of suspended solids in the San Francisco Bay estuary (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Philippa Stoddard (BS Solid Earth Science): Light carbon stable isotopes in aragonite veins, Lopez Island, WA: Evidence for deep life? (Mark Brandon, adviser)

XinXin Xu (BS Solid Earth Science): Seismic anisotropy in the lower mantle underneath North America from SKS-SKKS splitting discrepancies (Maureen Long, adviser)
 

Max Andersen (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Environmental Engineering): Paleotempestology: Exploring methods to develop tropical storm records in response to theoretical interactions between changing climates and hurricane intensity (Mark Pagani, adviser)

Stella Cao (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Natural gas flare reduction: Case studies in Russia, Nigeria, and the United States (Michael Oristaglio and Brian Skinner, advisers)

Wendy DeWolf (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Investigating the glacial and topographic history of the central Patagonian Andes using (U-Th)/He thermochronology (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Sarah Ditchek (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): A genesis potential index for Asian-Australian monsoon low pressure systems (William Boos, adviser)

Abigail Eurich (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Examining the boron isotope-pH proxy: the role of vital effects on d¹¹B of Porites coral and implications for proxy use (Zhengrong Wang, adviser)

Emily Farr (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience):  Gas transfer velocities in small forested ponds: Toward an understanding of carbon cycling in small inland waters (Peter Raymond, adviser)

Frieda Fein (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Political Science): Temperature dependence of phosphate content in Thermus thermophilus: Characterizing the source of temperature signatures recorded in dissolved phosphate oxygen isotope ratios (Ruth Blake, adviser).

Beata Fiszer (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Modeling the relationship between stable isotopes in precipitation and mountain elevation (Mark Brandon, adviser)

William Gearty (BS Paleontology and Geobiology):  Resolving the relationships of the squamate tree of life: An assessment of new approaches and problems (Jacques Gauthier, adviser)

Allegra Gordon (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): An analysis of satellite skin temperatures in the Beaufort Sea region in conjunction with in-situ air temperature measurements (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser)

Jenna Hessert (BS Solid Earth Science, double major with Environmental Engineering): Paleomagnetic baked-contact tests in the Mesoproterozoic Sinclair region of Namibia (David Evans, adviser)

Ryan Laemel (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Late Cenozoic glacial erosion and relief change in Fjord Steffen and Cordon Los Nadis of the Patagonian Andes from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Nicole Shibley (BS Physics): The Arctic’s Atlantic water double-diffusive staircase: From the basin boundaries to the interior (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser).

Wells Thorne (BS Paleontology and Geobiology, double major with Theater Studies): Paleoecology and preservation of faunal assemblages in phosphatic nodules from the Pennsylvanian Midcontinent (Derek Briggs, adviser)

Robert Young (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Laboratory testing of a substrate mechanism for decay inhibition and exceptional preservation (Derek Briggs, adviser)
 

Anthony Fragoso (BS Physics):  On the formation of icicles: Compositional supercooling and instabilities in a free boundary problem (John Wettlaufer, adviser)

Jennifer Kasbohm (BS Solid Earth Science, double major with Humanities): A paleomagnetic reanalysis of the Auborus Formation, Namibia (David Evans, adviser)

Florence Loi (BS Solid Earth Science):  Asbestos: Yesterday’s insulator of public buildings, today’s threat to public health (Catherine Skinner, adviser)

Eli Mitchell-Larson (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with Environmental Studies): Temperature and salinity variability recorded by Cladocora caespitosa: a multi-proxy analysis of a shallow-water Mediterranean coral (Mark Pagani, adviser)

Benjamin Mullet (BS Physics): Markov chain Monte Carlo inversion for the rheology of olivine single crystals (Jun Korenaga, adviser)

Natalee Pei (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience, double major with East Asian Studies):  The hydrologic issues associated with shale gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale (Brian Skinner, adviser)

Evan Sniderman (BS Solid Earth Science, double major with Economics): Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance analysis of Scotland Group sediments, Barbados (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Alexandra Turrini (BS Physics): Analysis and modeling of aerosol effects on temperature change: Comparison of trends in radiation data to atmospheric models (Trude Storelvmo, adviser)

Ilya Uts (BS Physics): Effect of laser annealing of pressure gradients in a diamond anvil cell using common solid pressure media (Kanani Lee, adviser).

Thomas Winger (BS Solid Earth Science): Pressure solution mass transfer of the Purgatory Conglomerate (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Cole Yeager (BS Environmental and Energy Geoscience): Hawaiian Picrite Basalt (ML647-2B) reactivity with CO₂-bearing solution on a microscale: Implications for carbon sequestration via mineral trapping (Zhengrong Wang, adviser)

Nicolas Casasanto (BA): Frack Attack: Weighing the debate over the hazards of shale gas production (Jay Ague, adviser)

Catherine Chamberlin (BS Chemistry): Using δD in Biological n-alkanes for Altimetry Purposes in New Zealand (Mark Pagani, adviser)

Lucila Dunnington (BS Solid Earth Science): Mineral reactions during natural carbon sequestration in low-permeability rocks (Jay Ague, adviser)

Margaret McCall (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Changes in the character of the Pacific Water in the Central Canada Basin from 2004-2012 (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser)

Daksha Rajagopalan (BS Physics): Characterizing fjord oceanography near tidewater glaciers Kronebreen and Kongsvegen, in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser)

Joseph O’Rourke (BS Solid Earth Science; double major with Physics and Astronomy): Thermal and chemical evolution of Venus and super-Venus planets (Jun Korenaga, adviser)

Rick Russotto (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Microphysical Modeling of Cloud Droplet Activation over Dominica (Trude Storelvmo, adviser)

Alexandra Andrews (BS Solid Earth Science): The effect of diffusion on P-T conditions inferred by cation-exchange thermobarometry (Zhengrong Wang, adviser)

Roxanne Carini (BS Applied Math): Crack formation in desiccated colloidal suspensions (John Wettlaufer, adviser)

Matthew Ramlow (BA, double major with Environmental Studies): Sources of error within stable isotope and carbonate dissolution measurements of early Paleocene hyperthermals (Mark Pagani, adviser)

Ariel Revan (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Reconstructing an icon: Historical significance of the Peabody’s mounted skeleton of Stegosaurus and the changes necessary to make it correct anatomically (Jacques Gauthier, adviser)

Jake Sayler (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): A new species of baenid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of North Dakota and a revised maximum parsimony phylogenetic analysis of Paracryptodira (Jacques Gauthier, adviser)

Natasha Vitek (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Giant fossil soft-shelled turtles of North America (Jacques Gauthier, adviser)

Chelsea Willett (BS Solid Earth Science): History of long-term glacial erosion in the Patagonian Andes (Mark Brandon, adviser)

Lee Christoffersen (BA, double major with BS in Environmental Engineering): A strategic metal for green technology: The geologic occurrence and global life cycle of lithium (Jay Ague, adviser)

Sarah Dewey (BS Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate): Observations of shear-driven mixing in Arctic winter high-wind events using ice-tethered profilers (Mary-Louise Timmermans, adviser)

Rebecca Jackson (BS Physics): Entrainment in turbulent gravity currents (John Wettlaufer, adviser)

Sophia Merrifield (BS Physics, double major with BS in Mechanical Engineering): El Niño hindcast with a simple dynamical model (Alexey Fedorov, adviser)

Michele Trickey (BS Physics): Atmospheric physics in coastal Ecuador:  Establishing a daily rainfall cycle in a climatic transition zone (Ronald Smith, adviser)

Claire Bucholz (BS Solid Earth Science): Fluid flow and Al transport during quartz-kyanite vein formation, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland (Jay Ague, adviser) 

Andrew Delman (BS Solid Earth Science): Erosion and overwash: Tracking and numerical modeling of coastal barrier evolution at Little Homer pond, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts (Jay Ague, adviser; with Andrew Ashton, WHOI)

Abigail Fraeman (BS Solid Earth Science): The thermal evolution of Mars modulated by mantle melting (Jun Korenaga, adviser)

Kimberly Lau (BS Paleontology and Geobiology): Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography of the New York Appalachian Basin Eurypterids (Derek Briggs, adviser)

Ian Rose (BS Solid Earth Science): Paleomagnetism of mafic dikes in the northern Pilbara craton, Western Australia (David Evans, adviser)

Nathaniel Wilson (BS Solid Earth Science): Modeling Patagonian ice sheet extent during past glaciations (Mark Brandon, adviser)