In the summer of 2005, 10 interns spent 5-10 weeks in the Department of Geology and Geophysics.  The research projects were supplemented by optional field trips within Minnesota: Duluth Complex/North Shore of Lake Superior; karst and caves in the southeast; 3.5 million-year old rocks in the Minnesota River Valley; structural geology at Jay Cooke State Park; and the Agate Stampede at Moose Lake (some photos from the field trips).

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

Brian Bagley , Texas A&M
Modeling Mantle Discontinuities using ScS Reverberations
Advisor: Justin Revenaugh

Dylan Boyle , Michigan State University
Chemistry of Transpiration Water from Cattails: a reflection of subsurface concentrations
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Mapping the Yellow River Watershed near Potsville, Iowa with Fluorescent Dye
Advisor: Calvin Alexander

Marcia Ferreira , California State University-Northridge
Historical Analysis of Lake Surface Area Change and Implications for Holocene Lake Stratigraphy
Advisor: Bryan Shuman, Geography

Jennifer Fletcher , University of Washington
Imaging Mantle Discontinuities Beneath the Western Pacific using ScS Reverberations
Advisor: Justin Revenaugh

Jennifer Heathcote, Carleton College
Magnetic Properties of Urban Air Pollution
Advisor: Bruce Moskowitz

Sedge Neil, Evergreen State College
A Pre-Holocene Lake Sediment Record from Central Minnesota
Advisor: LRC

Megan Rohrssen, Carleton College
Comparative Grain Growth in Olivine and Two Phase Peridotite
Advisor: Marc Hirschmann

Max Rudolph, Oberlin College
Advisor: David Yuen

Stephen Schneider, Texas A&M
The Effect of Deformation on Grain Boundary Wetness in Partially Molten Peridotite
Advisor: David Kohlstedt

Jamie Velkoverh, St. Norbert College
Presence of Natural Organic Matter In Stormwater Runoff of the St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Calvin Alexander
 

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