STUDENT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS 2007
    Student-Faculty Publications 2007

    • April, R.H,Rampe, E., Kaplan, J., and Carr, P.F. 2007. Burial and contact metamorphism in the late Permian Broughton formation, Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia. In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Bullen, T.D. and Wang, Y. eds., v.1, 53-56. (Above paper also printed in abstract form and presented by R. April at the 12th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Kunming, China, July 31-August 5, 2007.) go to abstract

    • Geist, D.J., Harpp, K.S., Naumann, T.R., Poland, M., Chadwick, W.W., Hall, M., and Rader, E., (2007): The 2005 eruption of Sierra Negra Volcano, Galapagos, Ecuador, Bulletin of Volcanology. DOI 10.1007/s00445-007-0160-3.

    • Buffen, A., Leventer, A.,Rubin, A., and Hutchins, T., 2007, Diatom assemblages in surface sediments of the northwestern Weddell Sea, Antarctic Peninsula, Marine Micropaleontology, 62, 7-30.


    • Perez, R., Brachfeld, S., Gorring, Domack, E., Leventer, A., Maritz, J., , and Passchier, S., 2007, Multi-proxy analyses of kasten cores and surface samples from the Joinville-d'Urville Trough, Northeastern Antarctic Peninsula: Results and correlation with the Western Antarctic Peninsula, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, Spring 2007 AGU Meeting. go to abstract

    • Soja, C.M., Newton, A., , Antoshkina, A.I., and White, B. (2007) Silurian skeletal stromatolite reefs, southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane) and Ural Mountains, Russia. In Vennin, E., Artez, M., Boul- vain, F., and Munnecke, A (eds.), Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, v. 195:161-163.

    2007 Senior Honors Projects

    • Erika Rader '07 (High Honors)
      Differing emplacement conditions of Sierra Negra lava and implications for morphology


    2007 Geology 440 Presentations

      Gina Fallas
      The Influence of Algae, Lichens, and Moss on the Chemical Weathering of Minerals
      Advisor: Rich April


      Dana Fisco
      Post Hurricane Dynamics of Coral Reefs in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
      Advisor: Connie Soja


      Justin Kowalkoski
      Late Stage Collapse of the Eastern Adirondack Mountains, Whitehall, NY
      Advisor: Martin Wong


      Jenn Telling
      Aeolian Geomorphology on Mars as Viewed from HiRISE and THEMIS
      Advisor: Scott Nowicki


      Steph Tubman
      Trends in Carbon Isotope Ratios of Maple Syrups, 1970 – Present
      Advisor: William Peck


      Mike Werner
      Quantifying Fluvial Erosion Rates in the Lepontine Dome, Switzerland
      Advisor: Martin Wong



    Student Research Projects- Summer 2007

    • Alexis Coplin '07 (advisor: Bruce Selleck)
      Development of X-ray fluorescence techniques for minor elements in biogenic carbonates

    • Gina Fallas '08 (advisor: Rich April)
      Ca-depletion and chemical weathering in Adirondack forested ecosystems

    • Dana Fisco '08 (advisor: Connie Soja)
      Hurricane impact on coral reef growth in Tague Bay and Buck Island, St. Croix

    • Meghan Frye '07 (advisor: Connie Soja)
      DNA-Based phylogeny of coyotes in New York state

    • Alyssa Hausman '09 (advisor: Connie Soja)
      Use of endangered wildlife in advertising media

    • Caraline Higgins '09 (advisor: Amy Leventer)
      Oceanographic controls on the distribution of silicoflagellates in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

    • Justin Kowalkoski '08 (advisor: Martin Wong)
      Structural and kinematic studies of a major high-grade shear zone near Whitehall, NY, Eastern Adirondacks

    • Molly Patterson '07 (advisor: Amy Leventer)
      Marine sedimentation records of early Holocene warmth

    • Caitlyn Perlman '08 (advisor: Karen Harpp)
      Geochemical investigation of Icelandic Tertiary volcanics

    • Stephanie Tubman '08 (advisor: William Peck)
      Carbon isotopes in maple syrup

    • Josh Turka '08 (advisor: Karen Harpp)
      On the origin of the Burfell volcanic center, south Iceland

    • Kate van den Heever '09 (advisor: Rich April)
      Effects of acid rain on calcium depletion in Adirondack forested ecosystems

    • Emmett Weatherford '09 (advisor: Karen Harpp)
      Field investigation of the NE flank of Hekla Volcano, Iceland

    • Mike Werner '08 (advisor: William Peck)
      Dating flood events in the Lepontine Dome, Swiss Alps using lichenometry of boulder surfaces

    • Brian White '08 (advisor: Karen Harpp)
      The sub-glacial Moberg ridges of the Hekla volcanic province