The senior geoscience majors presented their research at the 46th annual Geoscience Day.
Where: IUP, Weyandt Hall Planetarium
When: April 24, 2020
Geoscience Day 2020 Program (PDF)
Recordings available on our YouTube Channel
Presentation Schedule
- 8:00 Opening Remarks by Dr. Nick Deardorff
- Session 1: Tectonics and Volcanism
- 8:10 Lindsey Aman: Rapid Exhumation of the Eastern Central Range of Taiwan: Constraints from Brittle Deformation Patterns
- 8:30 Ross Bolesta: Characterizing Low-relief, High-elevation Landscapes using Drone Imagery near Jiaming Lake, Taiwan
- 8:50 Allison Rife: Effects of Compositions on Recrystalization in Pyroclast Recycling
- 9:10 Charis Biancuzzo: Seawater Interactions: A Look at Chlorine Infusion in Submarine Volcanic Eruptions
- Session 2: Environmental Geology
- 9:45 Justin Fenchak: Potential Issues Between Oil and Gas Pipeline and Superfund Sites
- 10:05 John Grozanick: Electrical Resistivity Imaging of the Subsurface at Glacier Creek Preserve for Agricultural and Prairie Land
- 10:25 Brian Bennett: Fugitive Soil Vapor and Natural Gas Well Emissions from a Non-Integral Abandoned Conventional Gas Well
- Session 3: Fluvial Geology and Hydrogeology
- 11:00 Gabriella Millette: Distribution and Variation of Anthropogenic Debris within Marsh Run, Indiana PA
- 11:20 Ryann Knowles: Determining a Water Budget for a Suburban Headwater Stream, McCarthy Run, Indiana, Pennsylvania
- 11:40 Ian Darragh: Water Quality of Marsh Run, a Small-town Urban Stream in Indiana Borough, Pennsylvania
- Session 4: Stratigraphy. Climate, and Paleoceanography
- 1:00 Mitchell Moore: Environmental Determination for Paleoecological Reconstruction of Jurassic National Monument
- 1:20 Shane Parker: The Effect of a Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse on Nutrient Recycling Rates During Marine Isotope Stage 31
- 1:40 Victoria Lewis: Determining the Impacts of Paleoclimate Changes on Oceanic Nutrient Conditions with the use of Diatom Records
- 2:00 Kevin Soffera: The Record of Terrigenous Glacial/Interglacial Variability in Core KN223-10LC2 Along the Western Flanks of the Mid Atlantic Ridge