Iowa State University

Iowa State University

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences

Got a question or comment?
Contact us at 515-294-4477 (geology) or 515-294-4758 (meteorology)
geology@iastate.edu
meteorology@iastate.edu

Carl Jacobson
Chair
Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
253 Science I
Ames, Iowa 50011

FAX: 515-294-6049

William Gallus
Professor-in-Charge
Meteorology Program
3010 Agronomy Hall
515-294-2270


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);