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Spring

Nathan Bailey Effects of Deicing Agents on Stream Water Chemistry
Advisor: Sujay Kaushal
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Joseph Browning Origin of Tourmaline in the Setters Formation, Maryland: Evidence from Major and Trace Element, Boron Isotope, and Rare Earth Element Characteristics
Advisor: Philip Piccoli and Richard Ash
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Luke Councell Hydrothermal Formation of Unakite in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: A Geochemical Analysis
Advisor: Philip Piccoli and Richard Ash
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Patrick Deery The Influence of Gravel Bars on Urban Water Quality, NE Branch of the Anacostia River
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard
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Foteine Dimitracopoulos Analysis of Convection Cells on Sputnik Planum on Pluto
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard and Nicholas Schmerr
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Justine Grabiec Insights into the formation of the Cottonwood Canyon fault in the Catalina Schist
Advisor: Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Richard Walker, and Melodie French
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Kyle Ludwig Highly siderophile element abundances and 187Re-187Os isotope systematics of Gorgona Island komatiites and Costa Rican picrites
Advisor: Richard Walker, Igor Puchtel, and Katherine Bermingham
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Adam Santoroski Limitations of magnesium isotope fractionation geothermometry determined using laser ablation of eclogite from Zermatt-Saas
Advisor: Richard Ash, William McDonough, and Sarah Penniston-Dorland
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Dakota Sparks Quantifying Differences in Turbulence Between Alluvial and Bedrock Streams Using Analyses of Seismic Noise
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard and Vedran Lekic
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Mark Wong Sulfur dioxide oxidation and isotope fractionation as a function of pH
Advisor: James Farquhar and Nanping Wu
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Fall

Jeffrey Adams Strike Slip Faults on Jupiter's Moon Europa
Advisor: Vedran Lekic
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Caroline Liegey Morphology and Formation Mechanisms of Cryovolcanoes in the Solar System
Advisor: Karen Prestegaard and Nicholas Schmerr
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Peter Meehan Boom and Bust: Investigative Seismology in Cheverly, Maryland - Resolution of Booms by Use of a Seismic Nodal Array
Advisor: Vedran Lekic
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Paul Neuberger Emplacement of the Woodstock Granite In Granite, Maryland
Advisor: Philip Piccoli and Richard Ash
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Rhobeca Oliveros Fractionation in a dike in the Tuolumne Batholith in California
Advisor: Philip Piccoli and Richard Ash
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Benton Williams Determination of the Modifying Effects of the Firn Aquifer in Helheim Glacier Using Reflection Seismology and Radar Surveys
Advisor: Nicholas Schmerr
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