Geology Graduate Students
Jennifer Abrahamson - Hydrogeological and Geophysical
Investigation of the Upper Bear Creek Watershed (Simpkins); M.S.
Todd Bonsall - Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Geochemistry
of the Lavrion Silver-Lead-Zinc District, Greece (Spry); M.S.
Cammy Bright - Faunal and Stable Isotope Study of Late
Glacial and Holocene Abrupt Climate Changes in the Mediterranean Sea
(Cervato); Ph.D.
Bjorn Brook - CHRONOS and the Cambrian Explosion: Chronostratigraphy
and Paleontology of the Globally Distributed Soft Bodied Fauna in the
Cambrian (Cervato); Ph.D.
Melinda Buyck - Quantifying Potential for Perennial
Vegetation to Remove Nitrate in Riparian Zones (Simpkins); Ph.D.
Humberto Carvajal-Ortiz – Carbon Isotopic Composition
of Plant-derived Organic Matter from a Tropical Sedimentary Sequence
as a Recorder of Late Cretaceous Early Paleogene Changes in the Carbon
Cycle (Mora); M.S.
Evan Christianson - Hydrogeology and Nutrient Balance
of a Gravel Pit Lake at Ada Hayden Heritage Park. (Simpkins); M.S.
Shamik Das Gupta - Linking Microbial Diversity, Biogeochemistry,
and Stromatolitic Structures of Eukaryote-Dominated Microbial Mats in
an Acid Mine Drainage System, Indiana (Fang); M.S.
Matt Dvorak - The Effects of Land-Use Changes on the
Health of Coastal Environments (Mora); M.S.
Paul Ebert - Partitioning Nutrient Inputs to Lake Macbride
from Overland Flow, Vadose Zone, and Groundwater Sources (Simpkins);
M.S.
Heath Giesleman - An Experimental Study of Frost Heave
(Iverson/Horton); M.S.
Matt Graesch – Interpreting the Origin of the Madison
Drumlin Field using the Magnetic Properties of Till (Iverson); M.S.
Adriana Heimann - The Origin and Exploration Significance
of Garnet and Gahnite to Broken Hill-Type Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposits
in the Curnamona Province, Australia (Spry); Ph.D.
Xianyi Huang - Using WEPP, an Erosion Computer-Model,
and VR to Visualize the Effect of Long-Term (10+ year) what-if Scenarios
for Erosion in Iowa (Harding); M.S.
Lucie Macalister – Evaluation of Conservative Practices
using conjunctive Groundwater. Surface Water Modeling in Two Agricultural
Water Sheds (Simpkins); M.S.
Janet Mann - Experimental Study of Debris Flow Mobilization
(Iverson); M.S.
Peter Moore - Dynamics of Ice Flow and Sediment Transport
in the Lower Ablation Area of Storglaciaren, Sweden (Iverson); Ph.D.
Matthew Newcomb - A Multimodal Interface for Road
Planning Tasks using Vision, Haptics and Sound (Harding); M.S.
Anastasiya Ojeda - An Experiment for Determining P-Wave
Velocity in Engabreen, Norway (Iverson); M.S.
Joshua Reed – Designing IT Applications for Antarctic
Drilling (Cervato); M.S.
Jacqueline Shumway - Microstructural Characteristics
of the Douglas Till of the Lake Superior Lobe: Implications for Bed
Deformation (Iverson); M.S.
Jin Zhang - Microbial Soil Community and Structure
in Grass Monocultures of Iowa as Determined by Organic Molecular Analyses
and Incubation Experiments (Mora);
