The senior Geoscience Majors are presenting their research at the thirty-fifth annual Geoscience Day.
Where: IUP, Weyandt Hall Planetarium
When: April 24, 2009 8:15 a.m.–noon
Full Geoscience Day schedule and abstracts in PDF format.
Geology
- Tom Bondra: "Biostratigraphic Corellation of the Laurentian Carbonate Platform Using Newly Discovered Trilobite Species"
- Aaron Bowser: "Jointing in the Marcellus Shale"
Environmental Geoscience
- Joe Ruffini: "A Hydrologic Comparison of Leachate of Coal Refuse Material with CFB Coal Ash"
- Chad Paronish: "Establishing a relationship between Metal Concentrations, pH and Discharge in an Acid Mine Drainage"
- Ben Stufft: "The Effects of the Conemaugh Dam on Flood Plain Sedimentation Rates"
Oceanography
- Ashley Hague: "Eolian Deposition Patterns in the EEP: Insight into Paleowinds and Paleolocation of the ITCZ"
- Tina Ritter: "ODP Eastern Equatorial Pacific Leg 138: Eolian Dust Records Trade Wind Influence On Global Climate"
Keynote Speaker:
- Dr. Kevin M. Jones (IUP 2003): "Neodymium isotopes in the ocean and their use as a tracer of past oceanic conditions"
Link to past geoscience day information: Geoscience Day 2008
