Geology Senior Thesis Titles (GEOL 394): 2000 to the present
| Date | Name | Title | Advisor |
| Spring 2000 | Kenworthy, Jason | A study of class morphometrics and functional morphology in modern amniotes and theropod dinosaurs | Holtz/Chapman (Smithsonian) |
| Spring 2000 | Mandeville, Keli | The Growth Rate of Quartz Crystals from a Granitic Melt as a function of Undercooling | Candela |
| Spring 2000 | Tarvin, Timothy P. | A comparison of the serrations on the teeth of three genera of white sharks | Kent(Biology)/Holtz |
| Fall 2000 | Ashley, Russell | Differing rates in march declination with respect to marsh morphology; eastern Neck Island National Wildlife Refuge, MD | Prestegaard |
| Fall 2000 | Coutts, Rachel | An experimental investigation of solid solution formation among the compounds CaTiO3, Y2Ti2O7, Ca2Nb2O7 | Vanderah/Roth (NIST)/Chang |
| Spring 2001 | Arroyo, Alicia Maria | Cerro El Toro xenoliths -fragments of the central Mexican Lower Crust | Rudnick |
| Spring 2001 | Baker, Laura Joan | Crystal size distribution analysis of quartz grains: A means for interpreting igneous textures | Candela |
| Spring 2001 | Fisher, Jeremy Isaac | Mapping Firn Scattering properties in Antarctica with SSM/I and climate re-analysis models | Fahnestock |
| Spring 2001 | Goodson, Jacqueline Anna | An analysis of the effects of Urbanization on Stream Channel Complexity: a comparison of Urban and Rural stream channels | Prestegaard |
| Spring 2001 | Kotch, Nicolas Michael | The effect of development on the recurrence interval of selected streams in the State of Maryland | Ridky |
| Spring 2001 | Missell, Christine Ann | An oxygen isotope comparison of Hadrosaurid metabolism | Kaufman/Holtz |
| Spring 2001 | Steely, Colin Carroll | The implications of porphyroblast fabric obliquity on the timing of deformation and metamorphism at Coos Canyon, Maine | Brown |
| Spring 2001 | Suh, Julia Me | Phase equilibria and crystal chemistry of the SrO-1/2Er2O3-CuOy system | Wong-Ng (NIST)/Chang |
| Spring 2001 | Williams, E. Cliff | Ferromagnesian Silicate Relationships of Granites in Lachlan Fold Belt | Candela |
| Spring 2002 | Baccala, Lisa | A Study of Xenolith Constraints on Northern Appalachian Lithosphere Using Re-Os Isotopic Geochemistry | Minarik |
| Spring 2002 | Brabson, Elizabeth | Sulfur Isotopic Analyses of Sulfides from the Huronian Glacial Sequence: Implications for the Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere and Paleoclimate | Wing/Kaufman/Farquhar |
| Spring 2002 | Bradley, Alton (Holm) | Experimental leaching of transition metals from the Hunting Hill Serpentinite Complex | Piccoli/Candela/Simon |
| Spring 2002 | Carter, Brooke | Kinematics and microstructural analysis of the Garth Run Shear Zone | Jiang |
| Spring 2002 | Latifov, Alec | Assessment of Ductile Strain Intensity using grain-contact analysis: testing and application to quartzo-feldspathic rocks of the Morgan Run and Sykesville Formations, Carroll County, MD | Marchildon/Moraes |
| Spring 2002 | Phemister, Karen | The Effects of Urbanization on Groundwater Recharge and Base-Flow Water Chemistry in First-Order Streams, College Park, MD | Prestegaard |
| Spring 2002 | Smith-Hall, Lori | Channel Network and Morphology in a Tidal Freshwater Wetland in the Patuxent River, MD | Prestegaard |
| Fall 2002 | Bowles, Graeme | Geomicrobiology of Acid Mine Drainage from the Kempton Coal Mine Complex, Maryland (final paper) | Piccoli/Lower |
| Fall 2002 | Centorbi, Tracey | The Mooselookmeguntic Igneous Complex, Maine; A Pb isotopic study to clarify basement sources (final paper) | Tomascak |
| Fall 2002 | Harp , Jeff | Flow mechanics of rock avalanches (final paper) | Friedmann |
| Spring 2003 | Cassara, Jason | Taphonomic biases on the preservation of within-community seed size distributions (final paper, poster) | Friedmann/Sims |
| Spring 2003 | Gelinas, Amy | Osmium isotope constraints on the proportion of bolide component in the Chicxulub impact melts (final paper, poster) | Walker |
| Spring 2003 | Kearsley, Sarah | The phylogeny of antiarch placoderms (final paper, poster) | Holtz |
| Spring 2003 | Puls, Brendan | Evolution of osmium isotopes in the Earth's mantle via study of Tibetan and Northern Chinese ophiolites (final paper, poster) | Walker |
| Spring 2003 | Thompson , Ruth | Sedimnetological, sequence stratigraphic and stable isotopic study of the Late Cambrian Conococheague Formation, Strasburg, VA (final paper, poster) | Kaufman |
| Fall 2003 | Collins, Lisa | Acid mine drainage; flow through experiments examining pyrite dissolution rates (final paper, poster not available) | Candela/Lower |
| Spring 2004 | Gilbert, Laura | Testing deep water depositional models for the Trimmers Rock formation (final paper, poster) | Friedmann |
| Spring 2004 | Hillebrand, Jeff | Characterization of the distribution of sideophile and highly siderophile elements in the Milton and Eagle Station pallasites (final paper, poster) |
Walker/McDonough/Piccoli |
| Spring 2004 | Long, Josh | Fluvial --> lacustrine transition zones of the Passaic Formation, Newark Basin: The role of anastamosed fluvial depositional systems (final paper, poster) | Friedmann |
| Spring 2004 | Stevens, Juanita | Field and laboratory analysis of controls on groundwater iron concentrations in marsh and forested wetland sediments (final paper, poster) | Prestegaard |
| Fall 2004 | Lipella, Marc | Refractory element fractionations in the CV3 carbonaceous chondrite Allende: What role do CAIs play? (final paper, poster) | Rudnick/McDonough/Ash/Piccoli |
| Fall 2004 | Reynolds, Chalbeth | The behavior of niobium during core formation (final paper, poster) | McDonough |
| Spring 2005 | Harvey, Jennifer | Magnetic survey of ultramafic rocks, Montgomery County, Maryland (final paper, poster) | Candela |
| Spring 2005 | Zelanko, Paula | An isotopic analysis of Pleistocene mammals of the American Southeast (final paper, poster) | Holtz/Kaufman/France |
| Fall 2005 | James, Jonathan | Magmatic liquid crystallization of sulfides in the Ellicott City granodiorite: Implications on ore metals (final paper, poster) | Rudnick/Piccoli |
| Spring 2006 | Aeiker, Dusty | Deducing the depth of origin of granulite xenoliths from zircon-rutile thermometry: a case study from Tanzania (final paper, poster) | Rudnick/McDonough/Piccoli |
| Spring 2006 | Burgy, Kate | The Measurement of Small-Scale Structures to Determine Their Influence on the Orientation of the Mather Gorge of the Potomac River, Maryland and Virginia, USA (final paper, poster) | Martin/Zen |
| Spring 2006 | Limburg, David | An Analysis of Apatite Chemistry in Garnet Porphyroblasts and in the Matrix of Metamorphic Rocks (final paper, poster) | Piccoli |
| Spring 2006 | Masterson, Andrew | Anomalous Fractionation Patterns of Multiple S-Isotopes in the Broadband UV Photolysis of He-SO2 (final paper, poster) | Wing/Farquhar |
| Spring 2006 | McCleaf, Ashley | Hydraulics Affecting Bedrock Erosion at a Stream Knickpoint (final paper, poster) | Prestegaard |
| Spring 2006 | Pitcher, Lynnette | The Behavior of Rhenium and the Platinum Group Elements during Fractional Crystallization of the Kilauea Iki Lava Lake in Hawaii (final paper, poster) | Walker/Helz |
| Spring 2006 | Shansby, Andrew | Comparison of the Petrology of Samples from Two Amphibolite Facies Localities from the Andrelândia Group, Brazil (final paper, poster) | Brown/Piccoli |
| Spring 2006 | Williams, Brendan | A Sulfur Isotopic Study of Neoproterozoic Evaporites in the Shaler Supergroup, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada (final paper, poster) | Kaufman |
| Fall 2006 | Grabowski, Sandra | Evaluation of Marsh Restoration Progress at Blackwater National Wildlife Reserve (final paper, poster) | Prestegaard/Needelman (ENST) |
| Fall 2006 | Youell, J. Lynn | Experimental Determination of the Partitioning Behavior of Silver Between Various Sulfide Phases and Electrum (final paper, poster) |
Candela/Piccoli |
| Spring 2007 | Behrns, Krystle | Evaluation of Channel Adjustments to Urbanization on the Paint Branch Stream System (final paper, poster) | Prestegaard |
| Spring 2007 | Soneira, Casey | Investigation of Fault Control at Mather Gorge and Petrographic Analysis of Lamprophyre Dikes (final paper, poster) | Martin |
| Spring 2007 | Thomas, Robert | Effect of Phase Transition and High Pressure on Trace Element Partitioning Between Metal and Sulfide Melt (final paper, poster) | Campbell/Fei |
| Spring 2007 | Weinstein, David | Taphonomy of the Late Pleistocene Key Largo Limestone: A Comparison of Modern and Ancient Coral Reef Ecosystems (final paper, poster) | Kaufman/Holtz/Ginsburg (RSMAS - U. of Miami)/Garza-Perez (UMDI-Sisal, UNAM) |
Fall 2007 |
Nguyen, Helen |
Melting of Olivine (Mg, Fe)2SiO4 Under High Pressure (final paper, poster) | Campbell |
| Fall 2007 | Streker, Peter | Impact of Geologic Structures on the Orientation of Potomac River Flow Near Great Falls, Maryland and Virginia (final paper) | Martin |
Spring 2008 |
Bilenker, Laura |
A Phase Equilibrium Study of Cu-Fe Sulfides Between 700°C and 800°C (final paper, poster) | Candela/Piccoli/GS Tattich |
Spring 2008 |
Kosiba, Andrew |
Stability of Gravel Bars & Bedload Transport in Paint Branch Creek (final paper, poster) | Prestegaard/GS Blanchet |
Spring 2008 |
Leone, Eugenia |
Correlating the "Fulton Site" within the Gettysburg Basin (final paper, poster) | Holtz/Merck/Fulton/Weems |
Spring 2008 |
Raum, Joseph |
Measuring U-Pb Zircon Ages in the Bear Island Granodiorite (final paper, poster) | Martin |