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       Examples of Student Projects in the LMDR  | 
  
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 ![]() Scanning electron micrographs of experimental run products. Images collected at the Laboratory for Biological Ultrastructure.  | 
     
Graeme 
        Bowles (B.S. 2003)
       As part of his undergraduate senior thesis, Graeme performed experiments to evaluate the role of a consortia of bacteria on the breakdown of pyrite. The Kempton Mine, a coal mine that ceased operation in 1950, has been transmitting about 5 mgpd of acidic effluent into the headwaters of the Potomac River. Graeme designed batch experiments that utilized mine effluent, pyrite, and appropriate media so the bacteria could flourish. With S.Lower. 
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       [Studies 
        of Shallow Plutonism][Apatite in Igneous 
        Systems][Microanalysis]  | 
  
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       Maintained by Phil 
        Piccoli   |