Summer 2003

Front row, steps L to R: Eugene Morgan, Lincoln Weller
Middle row, steps L to R: Heather Hilchey, Lauren Larkin, Nikki Dellas
Last row, steps L to R: Max Rudolph, Jen Campbell
Stoop L to R: Lindsey Christiansen, Rebecca-Ellen Farrell, Andrew Leaf, Kate Stalker
Missing in photo: Christine Regalla, James Saenz, Josh Spinler

In the summer of 2003, 14 interns spent 4-10 weeks in the Department of Geology and Geophysics.  The research projects were supplemented by optional field trips including the caves in SW Wisconsin; Lake Superior (cruise on the Blue Heron Research Vessel); observations of Proterozoic structures at Baraboo, Wisconsin; and this year's new field trip to Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska. Photos from some of the field trips.

Again this year, the interns presented posters of their research at the end of the program.  Photos from the poster session.


A summary of research projects by summer 2003 interns
 

Jennifer Campbell, Williams College
Taphonomy of three Pliocene mammal localities east of Alien Canyon, Meade County, Kansas
Advisor: Fox

Lindsey Christiansen,  Wheaton College
Experiments that modeled the effect of the San Andreas fault on the uplift rates of the terraces surveyed in Northern California.
Advisor: Perg

Nikki Dellas, Carnegie Mellon University
Using experimental petrology to answer a specific question regarding partial melting of carbonated eclogite in the mantle.
Advisor: Hirschmann

Rebecca-Ellen Farrell, Smith College
Exploring minerals and their mechanical properties: Quantifying the Mohs Hardness Scall and surveying garnet microfractures for thier tectonic applications.
Advisor: Whitney

Heather Hilchey, Carleton College
Experiments to determine the source of magnetic signal in Alaskan Loess.
Advisor: Banerjee

Lauren Larkin, College of William and Mary
Advisor: Kohlstedt

Andrew Leaf, Gustavus Adolphus College
Advisors: Ito/Clotts

Eugene Morgan, University of California-Santa Cruz
Dating marine terraces using cosmogenic radionuclides (CRNs).
Advisor: Perg

Christine Regalla, Lehigh University
Analyze shear sense in the leucogranite to determine if the fabric records a component of shear related to an upward movement of the Naxos dome, Greece.
Advisors: Whitney/Teyssier

Max Rudolph, Oberlin College
Visualization of multi-scale, multi-aspect simulations with high resolution.
Advisor: Yuen

James Saenz, Boston University
Experimental Constraints on Hydrothermal Fe-flux in Archean-Like Sea Water: Implications for Fe Transport in the Precambrian Seas and Precipitation of Banded Iron Formation
Advisor: Seyfried

Joshua Spinler, University of Wyoming
In-depth study of ductile shear zones of the Caledonide Mountains of Northern Sweden.
Advisors: Hudleston/Baird

Kathryn Stalker, Carleton College
Examined carbonate melt and the relationship between carbonate and silicate melt in mantle conditions through high pressure and temperature experiments.
Advisor: Hirschmann

Lincoln Weller, Acadia University
Surveying Marine Terraces Using Ground Penetrating Radar in Northern California.
Advisor: Perg
 
 
 

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