Senior geoscience majors presented their research at the 46th annual Geoscience Day on Friday, April 24, 2020, via Zoom.
Geoscience Day 2020
Geoscience Day 2020 Program and Abstracts
8:00 – Opening
Remarks by Dr. Nick Deardorf
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