Summer 2002

Seated from L to R: Marshall Sundberg, Yoshi Kaneko, Lincoln Weller, Lisa Sills, Aimee Wendt, Jessica Oster.
Standing from L to R: Kathy Bailey, Kristina Gross, Jayson Couillard, Sean Bryan, Jo Belvedere, Neil Kelley.
Missing from this photo are Susan Powell, Brendon Stanton, and NASA intern John Keefner.

In the summer of 2002, 14 interns spent 6-10 weeks in the Department of Geology and Geophysics.  The research projects were supplemented by optional
field trips to see the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the St. Croix River Valley; the caves in SW Wisconsin; Lake Superior (cruise on the Blue Heron
research vessel); the famous Duluth gabbro and North Shore volcanics along the scenic shore of Lake Superior (part of the Proterozoic mid-continent rift
system); and a new field trip this year to the Minnesota Iron Range.  Click here to see photos from some of the field trips.

Again this year, the interns presented posters of their research at the end of the program.  If you care to see photos of this poster session, click here.


A summary of research projects by summer 2002 interns
(click on each name to link to a report written by the intern)
 

Kathy Bailey, University of Rochester
Lake sediments as paleoenvironmental records
Advisors: Ito/LRC

Jo Belvedere, Minneapolis Community Technical College
Paleoclimatic and environmental indicators in Mississippi River mollusks
Advisors: Haskell/LRC

Sean Bryan, Carleton College
Groundwater-surface water interactions in a wetland environment
Advisors: Ito/Clotts/LRC

Jason Couillard, MCTC
Advisors: Stout

Kristina Gross, Mt. Holyoke College
Zircon zonation patterns as revealed by cathodoluminescence and backscattered electron images: implications for the interpretation of the thermotectonic evolution of Western Labrador
Advisor: Stout

Yoshihiro Kaneko, UCLA
Clustering analysis and visualization of synthetic earthquake events
Advisor: Yuen

Neil Kelley, Oberlin College
Stable Isotope Paleoecology: Examining Changing Cenozoic Environments
Advisor: Fox

Jessica Oster, Oberlin College
Strontium and magnesium variations in a spebothem from Crevice Cave, Missouri: potential for seasonal scale paleoclimate reconstruction
Advisor: Edwards

Susan Powell, Oberlin College
Fluorescence spectra of speleothems: methods and interpretations
Advisor: Alexander

Lisa Sills, Minneapolis Community Technical College
Can Al2SiO5deformation textures be used to infer crystallization sequence?
Advisor: Whitney

Brendon Stanton, Carleton College
Advisor: Morin

Marshall Sundberg, Carleton College
Geodynamic models of deformation in the Earthís mantle
Advisor: Kohlstedt

Lincoln Weller, Acadia University
Microfabrics in a metamorphosed quartzite from Mount McCartney, Montana
Advisor: Teyssier

Aimee Wendt, St. Cloud State University
Modern lake geochemistry
Advisor: Ito/Myrbo/LRC
 
 
 

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