Honors Projects

Daily, seasonal, and yearly timescales of seawater carbonate chemistry variability in Harpswell Sound and the Gulf of Maine
 

Dual Isotope Model Insights on the Nitrogen Cycling Network of Coastal Sediments

by Zoë Alexandra Dietrich '21

Who Will Bear the Burden of Increased Coastal Flooding as Sea Level Rises in San Mateo County, California? An Analysis of the Factors Contributing to Community Vulnerability


Spatially variable syn- and post-orogenic exhumation of the Appalachian Mountains from apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology


By: Luke Coughtry Basler ’20

Living Upstream: Kennebec River Influence on Nutrient Regimes and Phytoplankton Communities in Harpswell Sound

By: Siena Brook Ballance ‘20

Rapid Processing of High Resolution Ba/Ca Records from California Margin Bamboo Corals to Assess Geochemical Reproducibility

By: Zoe Aarons '19

Plutonic lithics record dynamics in the magmatic system beneath the Akaroa Volcanic Complex, New Zealand

By: Elizabeth Teeter '18

Investigating the validity of bamboo coral barium proxies: potential deep-sea archives of ocean refractory nutrients and bathypelagic ocean circulatory structure

 By: Jamie Lynn Ptacek '18

Sorption of pyridine cations to aluminosilicate clay minerals

By: Samuel W. Shaheen '18

Dissolved organic carbon in lakes in Maine: a spatial analysis of the primary sources of DOC

By: Georgia Bolduc '17

Compositional variations and microstructures in kyanite illuminate the metamorphic history of metapelites from the Goshen Dome, Western Mass.

By: Cameron de Wet '17 

Connections between precipitation, Penobscot River discharge, and dissolved organic carbon flux to the coastal waters, Gulf of Maine

By: Samantha C. Hoegle '17

Seasonal carbonate chemistry variability in a Kennebec estuary soft-shell clam mudflat

By: Hannah R. Miller '17

Abundance and distribution of benthic organisms in mesophotic coral exosystems across the Hawaiian Archipelago

By: Cameron B. Ogden-Fung '17

Components and Mechanisms of Total Alkalinity Variability in an Intertidal Salt Marsh

By: Lloyd B. Anderson '16

Bamboo Corals as Climate Archives: Radiocarbon-based Chronologies and Evaluation of Mg/Li as a Temperature Proxy

By: Megan M. Freiberger '16

Determining phytoplankton community structure from ocean color at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO)

By: Sasha Jane Kramer '16

The bivalve breakdown: effect of calcite saturation state on the elemental composition of juvenile Eastern oyster shells

By: Julia E. Maine '16

Investigating liquid lines of descent in silica over and undersaturated alkaline igneous rocks at Red Hill, New Hampshire

By: Hannah Mae Marshall '16

Anomalous seasonal oscillations in the Ba/Ca ratios from a Floridian surface coral

By: Isaiah W. Bolden '15

Characterizing the exhumation path of the first ultrahigh-pressure terrane in North America

By: Zachary F.M. Burton '15

Investigating crystal accumulation in the Turkey Creek caldera, Arizona

By: Rachel E. Haynes '15

Characterizing the influence of Atlantic water intrusion on water mass formation and primary production in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

By: Courtney M. Payne '15

Ba/Ca ratios in North Pacific bamboo corals record changes in intermediate water chemistry

By: Gabriela Serrato Marks '15

Implications of climate variability on boreal and subarctic peatland carbon fluxes in Manitoba, Canada

By: Cameron D. Adams '14

Geochemical and Stratigraphic Analysis of the Linnévatnet Sediment Record: A Study of Late Holocene Cirque Glacier Activity in Spitsbergen, Svalbard

By: Graham H. Edwards '14

The effect of basal topography on the calving dynamics of retreating tidewater glaciers in the Maine coastal lowlands

By: Riley M. Eusden '14

Formation of rhyolite at the Okataina Volcanic Complex, New Zealand: new insights from analysis of quartz clusters in plutonic lithics

By: Karina A. Graeter '14

The cooling history of the Dark Harbor Basalt, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada

By: Stephanie Rose Lynn '14

The effects of climate warming on peatland carbon dynamics in southeastern Labrador, Canada

By: Daniel F. Lesser '14

Strain localization and deformation along the Norumbega Fault System, Maine

By: Kevin P. McDonough '14

Coastal currnts in the Gulf of Maine: a mechanism for algal bloom transport

By: Ryan James Peabody '14

Sediment transport in Katama Bay and Inlet, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

By: Madison M. Smith '14

The relationship between fire frequency/severity and rates of carbon accumulation in northern Manitoba, Canada

By: Anna Elizabeth Westervelt '14