Geology Senior Thesis Titles (GEOL 394): 1990 - 1999
| Date | Name | Title | Advisor |
| Spring 1990 | Lee, Barbara | Vesicle Size Distribution of Pumice-Obsidian Samples from Panum Crater and Obsidian Dome in Owens Valley, California | Candela/Piccoli |
| Spring 1991 | Blase, Bradley | The Strafford Dome: A Geophysical Analysis Using Gravity Modeling | Brown |
| Spring 1991 | Danaceau, Chris | Structural Relationships Between the Augen Gneiss Member of the Baltimore Gneiss and the Gunpowder Granite in the Towson Dome Near Baltimore, Maryland | McLellan |
| Spring 1991 | Drevo, Chuck | Biocoenoses Vs. Thanatocoenoses in the Corryville Member, McMillian Formation (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio | Stifel |
| Spring 1991 | Everett, Mark | A Modal Analysis of Mafic Enclaves in the Tuolumne Intrusive: Yosemite, California | Candela |
| Spring 1991 | Galasso, Daniel | Geochemical Prospecting of Heavy Minerals to Determine if a Marker Exists for the Sykesville District of Carroll County, Maryland | Wylie |
| Spring 1991 | Messina, Theresa | A Comparison of the Macroscopic and Microscopic Fracture Patterns Associated with the Quetico Fault Zone | McLellan |
| Spring 1991 | Saint-Clair, Michael | The Impact Cratering Rate on the Brazilian Shield | Stifel |
| Spring 1991 | Sandford, Clinton | Evidence for Multi-ring Structure in the South Polar Basin of Mars | Stifel |
| Spring 1991 | Seiss, Scot | Stream Channel Slope as a Function of Lithology in the Baltimore County Area | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1992 | Brace, Gordon | Fracture sets and the Potomac river bends | Ridky |
| Spring 1992 | Kovacs, A. Laszlo | Structural evidence of Mesozoic rifting in the Weverton Formation, Maryland, Central Appalachians | McLellan |
| Spring 1992 | Romero | ||
| Spring 1992 | Sigillito, Amanda | Discrimination of six closely spaced Wisconsinan Age glacial border deposits through fractal shape analysis of their constituents | Ridky |
| Spring 1992 | Vanderveer, Kevin | Dissolved iron transport in a wetland in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland | Prestegaard |
| Fall 1992 | Chen, Jeffrey | Analysis of comparing development of stream channels and basins in Maryland | Prestegaard |
| Fall 1992 | Keane, Christopher | The relative control of lithology and weathering processes on landform development in western Carroll County, Maryland: a fractal analysis approach | Ridky |
| Fall 1992 | Smith, Alexander E. | Constraints on the genesis of sulfide mineral deposits in the Morgan Run Formation from Re-Os isotope analysis | Walker |
| Spring 1993 | Bettendorf, David | Local groundwater flow in a Central Piedmont drainage basin: porous media or fracture flow? | Prestegaard/McLellan |
| Spring 1993 | Colyer, Ronald G. | Heavy mineral provenance correlation of the Antietam and Harpers Formation, Washington Co., MD | Krogstad |
| Spring 1993 | Knight, George | An examination of Ellicott City Granite | Walker |
| Spring 1993 | Nolan, Patrick | Geophysical testing for a paleochannel, Dorchester County, Maryland | Segovia |
| Fall 1993 | Costinett, Matthew J. | Stream discharge and suspended sediment fluxes in two tributaries with varying land use and erosion controls | Prestegaard |
| Fall 1993 | Daly, Alice | Blackened chondrules in enstatite chondrites -a result of shock? | Walker/Piccoli |
| Fall 1993 | Davis, Adam | Magma sources for the Port Deposit Gneiss | Krogstad |
| Fall 1993 | Dolan, Brian J. | Linear shoal patterns on the Maryland Shelf | Conkwright/Stifel |
| Fall 1993 | Lee, Jennifer | Bankfull discharge estimates for reconstructed paleochannels of a Potomac River meander at Great Falls, Virginia | Ridky |
| Fall 1993 | Shay, Barry | Hydrostratigraphic units in a coastal plain watershed | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1994 | Ator, Scott | The importance of land-use to groundwater quality in carbonate areas: a statistical analysis | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1994 | Berry, Dave | Analysis of trace quantities of amphibole asbestos based on the fractal model for mass distribution | Wylie |
| Spring 1994 | Bertolo, Steven E. | Three phases of the Ellicott City Granodiorite; a study of genetic affinity and trace element variations | Walker/Krogstad |
| Spring 1994 | Daly, Scott | Milankovitch and Climate of the Sahel region 125 Ka | Giese |
| Spring 1994 | Garzione, Carmala | An isotopic study of the origins of a lithium-rich pegmatite, North Carolina | Walker |
| Spring 1994 | Hodkinson, Damian | Nd isotopic evidence for the origin and evolution of the Pajonales Plutonic Complex of Northern Chile | Krogstad |
| Spring 1994 | Leiker, Sarah | Empirical Test for Europium valence speciation in pegmatite melts | KrogstadWalker |
| Spring 1994 | Maloney, Stephen M. | Analysis of textural point counting as a method for determining crystallization sequences | Candela/Piccoli |
| Fall 1994 | Bettendorf, Sheila Darby | Fluorine and chlorine trends in apatite from a zoned granitic pegmatite in Black Hills, South Dakota | Walker/Piccoli |
| Fall 1994 | Kulp, Andrew | Influence of pre-existing structure on early Mesozoic rift geometries: Culpeper Basin, Virginia and Maryland | McLellan |
| Fall 1994 | Lambros, Dina | Apatite as an indicator of aqueous fluid movement through pegmatite country rock | Walker/Piccoli |
| Fall 1994 | McGurty, Kathleen | Thornthwaite, Penman, and Lysimeter methods for determining evapotranspiration for Beltsville, Maryland | Ridky |
| Fall 1994 | Steil, Douglas H. | Biostratigraphic correlation of the lower Stonehenge Formation, Washington County, Maryland, with other Appalachian sections | Stifel/Repetski |
| Spring 1995 | Dacquel, Romeo S. | The effects of military small arms ranges on the concentration of copper in Peumansend Creek, Ft. A. P. Hill, VA | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1995 | Eicens, Bryan E. | Base flow concentrations of nitrate, sulfate and iron in the Nanjemoy and Calvert Formations, Maryland | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1995 | Frasch, Mark | Study of sedimentation of the Patuxent River and the associated Chesapeake Bay Area | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1995 | Fellows, Christine S. | Characterization of groundwater flow in Battle Creek Cypress Swamp, Calvert County, MD | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1995 | Hightower, Jeffrey R. | Characterization of the protoliths of the Wissahickon Schist, Loch Raven Formation, Ocella Formation, and Morgan Run Formation from Rare Earth Element Patterns | Walker/Krogstad/Wylie |
| Spring 1995 | Jackson-Gewirtz, Allan | A comparison of methods of analysis of powdered samples | Wylie |
| Spring 1995 | Joyce, Jim | Possible lithologic controls on multiple cleavage in the Martinsburg Shale | McLellan |
| Spring 1995 | Leach, Jeff | Analysis of the effect of Old River control on the sinuosity of the Atchafalaya River | Ridky |
| Spring 1995 | Lim, Mee S. | Anomalous optical properties of Tremolite-Actinolite series fibers | Wylie/Verkouteren |
| Spring 1995 | Patronik, Daniel C. | Sediment supply changes in the Paint Branch stream | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1995 | Schultz, Robert | Determination of Asbestos weight percent in a matrix material through the employment of the fractal model for mass distribution | Wylie |
| Spring 1995 | Simon, Adam | Copper in the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite: is its behavior controlled by ferromagnesian phases? | Candela |
| Spring 1995 | Smith, Milisa | Does rock competency control clast shape in the Liberty Complex? | McLellan |
| Spring 1995 | Tegeler, Judy | Petrography and geochemistry of mafic enclaves in granitoids of the Robertson River Igneous Suite, Blue Ridge Province, central Virginia | Zen/Tollo |
| Spring 1995 | Tenace, Cathleen | The origin of grain size variations in the Port Deposit Gneiss and its significance in the interpretation of regional deformation | McLellan |
| Spring 1995 | Yeh, Meng-Wan | Fossil shark distribution: a relationship between tooth form and water depth | Kent/Stifel |
| Fall 1995 | Winters, Roberta | Biological Effect of Fiber Size and Mineralogy: The Case of Talc Fibers in Hamster Tracheal Epithelial and Rat Macrophage cells | Wylie |
| Spring 1996 | Biolsi, Thomas | Effects of absorption and thickness in measuring the index of refraction in blue glass and riebeckite and its application to Crocidolite | Wylie/Verkouteren |
| Spring 1996 | Dusterhoff, Scott R. | Effects of bed particle size distribution of bed and hydraulic roughness in a natural stream environment | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1996 | Fowler, Barbara A. | Rhenium and osmium partitioning between silicates and metals: an analog for Core Formation | Walker |
| Spring 1996 | Harrington, Debra J. | The effect of hydrologic variations on the mobility of toxic metals during winter and summer conditions in an urban wetland | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1996 | Heyman, Jeff | Redox zones of iron, manganese, and sulfur and their relation to hydraulic gradients in the Battle Creek wetland of Calvert County, MD | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1996 | Megless, Brian | Investigation of the diffusion of gasoline in three different soil types when under the influence of a vacuum | Segovia |
| Spring 1996 | Savage, Janine | Streamflow patterns and related channel morphology of Battle Creek Cypress Swamp, Calvert County, Maryland | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1996 | White, Katherine | X-ray diffraction and optical analysis of Picrolite from the State Line Quarry, Pennsylvania | Wylie |
| Fall 1996 | Kral, Katrin M. | Origin of K-feldspar megacrysts in Cathedral Peak granodiorite, Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California | Piccoli |
| Fall 1996 | Ledbetter, Ann | Evaluation of the hydrological processes that support a small wetland in Montgomery County, Maryland | Prestegaard |
| Fall 1996 | Stuller, Bryan | An experimental study of crystallization textures in rhyolite-melt brine systems | Candela |
| Fall 1996 | Rosenfeld, Christina Lee | The identification of Erionite in Zeolite deposits | Wylie/Piccoli |
| Fall 1996 | Willett, Jason C. | Relationship of Stream Length and Drainage Area: varying physiographic provinces | Candela/Ridky |
| Spring 1997 | Givens, Sharon | Rates of aqueous acid neutralization by reaction with selected rock type | Candela |
| Spring 1997 | Schorr, Jerome O. | The Chesapeake Bay: Relationship between shoreline variability and underlying lithology | Segovia |
| Spring 1997 | English, Rebecca (Emma) | Photogeomorphic analysis of palaeochannel orientation as indicator for depositional environment: Pilcomayo River, South America | Segovia |
| Spring 1997 | Rocca, Tracy | Garnet-type Vanadates: Ca3Li(Mg, Zn, Ni)(VO4)3 | Chang |
| Spring 1997 | Ndofor, Norbert | Assessing the role of denitrification of nitrate within a constructed wetland | McLellan/Prestegaard/McCarty |
| Fall 1997 | McMillan, Matthew C. | Lattice dimensions vs. chemical composition and optical properties: an x-ray diffraction study of tremolite | Wylie |
| Fall 1997 | Etter, Greg M. | Ground-based magnetometer survey of the Sandy Spring Area of Montgomery County, Maryland | Candela/Wylie |
| Spring 1998 | Grenzer, Andrew Timothy | Variations in biotite chemistry in a dike from the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California | Piccoli |
| Spring 1998 | Koval, Anthony Gerard | The potential relationship of high biological productivity to the onset of the Neoproterozoic ice ages | Kaufman |
| Spring 1998 | Richardson, William David | Recession of Neoproterozoic Ice Ages | Kaufman |
| Spring 1998 | Silverman, Abraham | An isotopic and geochemical study of sources, transport, and fate of nutrients associated with Pfiesteria on Maryland's Eastern Shore | Kaufman/Prestegaard |
| Fall 1998 | Freda, Adrienne T. | Analysis of phenocryst populations within a pumice and obsidian-bearing rock | Piccoli |
| Fall 1998 | Grim, Theron C. | Phosphorus availability and mobility in a sandy loam soil | Gallup |
| Fall 1998 | Heber, Matthew W. | Evaluation of hydrologic and sediment controls on Riparian zone denitrification along the upper Patuxent | Prestegaard/Angier |
| Fall 1998 | Jean, Lurick | Determination of evaporation and groundwater seepage at Huntley Meadows wetland and pond, Fairfax County, Virginia | Prestegaard |
| Fall 1998 | Wright, Kathleen L. | Hydrostratigraphy of tidal marsh sediments | Prestegaard |
| Spring 1999 | Asuquo, Blessing E. | Evolution of the osmium isotopic composition of the upper mantle through time: evidence from ophiolites | Walker |
| Spring 1999 | Corcoran, Kelly R. | Is there a fault whose trace is parallel to Mather Gorge? | Solar/Brown |
| Spring 1999 | Earnest, Daniel J. | A preliminary investigation of crystallization kinetics a granitic dike, Yosemite, California | Candela |
| Spring 1999 | Friedberg, Michelle N. | Control of the morphology of two ponds on Bear Island near Great Falls, Maryland | Zen |
| Spring 1999 | Hebert, Craig L. | Origin of a neoproterozoic carbonate sequence in the Marshall Quadrangle of Virginia | Kaufman |
| Spring 1999 | Resh, Peter D. | Organic matter concentrations in modern and fossil Acropora palmata and Porites asteroides corals | Gallup |
| Fall 1999 | Coyne, Claire M. | A comparison of pressure estimates based on epidote compositions and Al-in-hornblende: an example from the Ellicott City granodiorite | Piccoli |
| Fall 1999 | Dillingham, Jeremy L. | Fresh Tidal Water and Riparian Water Mixing in the Groundwater of Jug Bay, A Fresh Water Tidal Wetland, Maryland | Prestegaard |
| Fall 1999 | Meyer, Russell S. | The Effects of Chemical Composition on the optical properties and cell parameters in the Riebeckite-Magnesioriebeckite series | Wylie |
| Fall 1999 | Smith, Grahme B. | The origin of the muscovite in the granite bodies at Bear and Sherwin Islands, MD | Piccoli |