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Session No. 129: T61. 38th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition Sponsored by Sigma Gamma Epsilon


Session Chairs:
Alexander K Stewart, Richard L. Ford, Lee Potter, Norman S. Levine, Steve J. Baedke, Claire Marshall, Scott R. Beason

Description:

Students are invited to submit geoscience research to this poster session. Projects from any geoscience subdiscipline are welcome. Student members of the geoscience honorary society Sigma Gamma Epsilon are eligible for competitive awards.



Author Availability:

2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Presentations

Booth No. Paper No. Title Presenting Author Action
114 129-1 Trishear Kinematic Modeling of the San Rafael Monocline, Utah: Reconnaissance Investigation of Contractional Fault-propagation Fold Evolution Samantha Hearn View
115 129-2 Strain Accommodation within the San Rafael Monocline, Utah: Reconnaissance Investigation of Deformation within the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone During Contractional Fault-propagation Folding Daniel Larson View
116 129-3 Delineation of a Mylonitized and Metamorphosed Pseudotachylyte System in the Homestake Shear Zone, Colorado Gabriella Griffith View
117 129-4 Petrology of Quartzo-Feldspathic Suspect Pseudotachylyte from East Africa Maya Madajewicz View
118 129-5 Correlation of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit: Comparative Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology from Penteli and Evia, Greece Preya Nguyen View
119 129-6 Cross Comparison Between Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material and Quartz Opening Angle Thermometry on the Phyllite-Quartzite Unit in Crete Greece Grayson Houghton View
120 129-7 A Labyrinth of Lines: Exploring Potential Stress Field Sources of Significant Jointing in an Abandoned Limestone Quarry in Southwest Ohio (Oakes Quarry Park) Gloria Haines View
121 129-8 Re-evaluating the Role of Strike-Slip Versus Normal-Slip Faulting Between the Carolina and Falls Lake Terranes in the Eastern Piedmont of North Carolina Abaigeal Sims-Clark View
122 129-9 A Test of the Eclogite Delamination Model for the Uplift of the Wallowa Mountains: Insights from Hornblende Trace Element Crustal Thickness Estimates Kayla Palucho View
123 129-10 Exploring Spatial and Temporal Variability of Icelandic Basaltic Lava Flows Cecily Shipman View
124 129-11 Plutonic Lithic Fragments as Records of Crystal Mush Processes in the Ohakuri Caldera Magma System, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand Delilah Acosta View
125 129-12 Assessing Lithium Potential from the Fish Canyon Tuff, Mineral County near Creede, Colorado Craig Smith View
126 129-13 Utilizing XRF and Crush-Leach Analysis as Exploration Tools for Gem-Bearing Pegmatite Pockets in the Pikes Peak Granite, Colorado Nikalina Shkolnik View
127 129-14 Geochemistry of Gem Peridot near Badger Creek in Park and Fremont County, Colorado Alexander Barkley View
128 129-15 Colorful Colorado: Photochromic reactions and crystal lattice modifications in Colorado mineral samples Camryn Guerrero View
129 129-16 Oxygen Isotope Provenance Study of Gold-Bearing Banket Conglomerate Quartz Pebbles, Tarkwaian Group, Ghana: Implications for Regional Gold Exploration. Edwin Obeng View
130 129-17 Assessing Critical Mineral Enrichment in Coal Waste Piles in Southeast Kansas Jax Rosekrans View
131 129-18 Characterizing Natural Gas Generation from the Illinois Basin Using Carbon and Hydrogen Stable Isotope Ratio Chiyori Shiozaki View
132 129-19 Constructing a subsurface geophysical log database for reservoir characterization exploration, Sacramento Basin, northern California Hannah VanBuren View
133 129-20 Using Paleomagnetism and Rock Magnetism of Ethiopian Igneous Rocks from the East African Rift System to Understand Subsurface Mantle Evolution Deborah McCoy View
134 129-21 Forensic Geophysics: Field Investigation Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to Search for a Remote, Unmarked Gravesite Allison Brown View
135 129-22 Boulders and Boulder Tracks in Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Lunar South Pole Gillian Racek View
136 129-23 UAV-Based Digital Outcrop Modeling for Stratigraphic Correlation Across the Carboniferous Succession of the Southern Appalachian Basin, Tennessee Gabriel Babbit View
137 129-24 A Stratigraphic Reevaluation of the Mt. Simon Formation at Its Type Locality: Implications for the Elk Mound Group Reed Ziemer View
138 129-25 Sandstones and Paleosols of the Mingus Shale (Desmoinesian, Pennsylvanian), Palo Pinto County, Texas Aryah Rogers View
139 129-26 Paleobotany of the Mingus Shale (Desmoinesian, Pennsylvanian), Palo Pinto County, Texas Clifton King View
140 129-27 Chemostratigraphy of the Uppermost East Mountain Shale, North-Central Texas, and Interpretation of Depositional Topography (Desmoinesian, Pennsylvanian) Madeline Price View
141 129-28 Unfreezing Snowball Earth: The Basal Ediacaran Cap Carbonate Record in Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho, USA Bella Byron View
142 129-29 Paired Organic and Carbonate Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy of the Ireviken Biogeochemical Event from Measley Ridge, Ohio Emma Skelley View
143 129-30 Geochemical Evidence and Conodonts As Stratigraphic Markers for the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Event in Northern Utah Sneha Maharjan View
144 129-31 Geochemical and Isotopic Analysis of the Late Cretaceous Coon Creek Formation using Inoceramid Bivalves and Sediment Minerology Allison Shelton View
145 129-32 Determining Cross-Shore Variation in Grain Size Using Image Analysis: A Case Study of Sand from Puerto Rico Gene Abron View
146 129-33 Beyond Wave Exposure: Contrasting Sediment Texture, Composition, and Benthic Habitats across Ambergris Caye, Belize Ashlyn STROBEL View
147 129-34 Sequence-stratigraphic architecture of the Claiborne aquifer, southwest Georgia: aquifer quality, extent, and connectivity Hailey Bos View
148 129-35 Cirques in the Southern Alps of New Zealand: Identification and Measurement of Glacial Features Ella Powers View
149 129-36 A Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Study of Holocene Forest Dynamics in Durango, Colorado Hannah Cloonan View
150 129-37 Landslide Differencing Using Lidar in Floracliff Nature Sanctuary Jillian Bales View
151 129-38 Landform Mapping with Lidar in Floracliff Nature Sanctuary and Elk Creek Falls Watershed, Central Kentucky, USA Noah Jennings View
152 129-39 The “Petrified Waterfall” at Floracliff Nature Sanctuary: New Insights on Tufa Development in Central Kentucky. Breana Pollard View
153 129-40 Who Moved My Soil: Microbial Ecology and Soil Geochemistry Across Landslide and Reference Settings at Floracliff Nature Sanctuary, Kentucky Mamie View
154 129-41 Topographic and Zoogeographic Evidence for River Network Reorganization Within the Southern Appalachian Mountains Anna Farmer View
Withdrawal of Abstract 20279
156 129-43 Textural Variability of Terra Rossa Soils in Croatia Annika Vikstrom View
157 129-44 The Impacts of Warfare on Landscape Disturbance: Establishing a Baseline from Early Modern Period Strata Willow Hovland View
158 129-45 Effects of Vegetation Colonization on Shoreline Retreat Following a Channel Avulsion in the Caraulun River Delta, Timor-Leste Ronin Max View
159 129-46 Free Flowing: Benefits and Costs of Dam Removal In Idaho Grace Brighten View
160 129-47 Modeling an April 2025 Flooding Event to Understand Central Kentucky Tributary Flooding Kendall McGarvey View
161 129-48 Understanding Eastern Kentucky Flooding Through Hydroclimatological Data and Geospatial Analysis Asher Jack View
162 129-49 Hydroclimate Variability Relative to Flood Horizons Preserved Along the KY River in Fayette County, Kentucky Marianna Ritchie View
163 129-50 Preliminary Joint Survey in the Central New York Appalachian Plateau: Implications for Groundwater Use for Datacenters and the Proposed Constitution Pipeline Miles Gaston View
164 129-51 Lakes, Rain, and Groundwater, Oh My! - Contributing Sources to the Hydrogeology of an Interdunal Wetland Carter Dickey View
165 129-52 Summer Rains and Snow Drought Intensity Affect Seasonal Vegetation and Groundwater Connections Hannah Bloxham View
166 129-53 A Survey of Phosphorus Concentrations in Icelandic Glacial Lakes and Rivers Leah Brinks View
167 129-54 Temporal Migration of a Salinity Transition Zone Along a Coastal Salt-Marsh Channel, Carpinteria, California Jacob Gove View
168 129-55 Spatial Variability in Drivers of Light Attenuation Across Massachusetts and New Hampshire Coastal Waters Krio Moon View
169 129-56 Synergistic Effects of the Balcones Escarpment and Urban Heat Island on Convective Storm Intensification Over San Antonio Christopher Campbell View
170 129-57 250 Years of American Old Growth: Tracing European Settlement and the Black Swamp with Dendrochronology of Ohioan Witness Trees Adam Wood View
171 129-58 Southeast Alaska’s Western redcedar exhibit an enigmatic cold-season climate response Anika Knowles View
172 129-59 Stumped No More- Past Precipitation Changes in Clinton County, KY Saxton Merriman View
173 129-60 Climate Proxy Comparisons between the Gulf of Alaska and the Patagonian Icefields Cheyenne Wentz View
174 129-61 Mayla Site: a Hydrogeologic Paleoperspective from Knox County, Kentucky Ethan Lung View
175 129-62 High-resolution chemical stratigraphy of saline lakes of the Southern High Plains Ian Strang View
176 129-63 Tale of Two Centrics: An Analysis of Diatom Paleoecology in Lake Core Records from Silver Lake and Shadow Lake, Sierra Nevada, CA Anna Lundquist View
177 129-64 Fern Spores From Inland Lake Sediment Core Indicate Floral Change at Poisonwood Blue Hole, New Providence, The Bahamas Lauryn White View
178 129-65 Coaxing Climate Inference from Dicot Leaves: A Test in the Rainforest of Queensland Australia Nicholas Humphries View
179 129-66 Leveraging the Literature: A Paleocene-Eocene Climate Reconstruction of North America through CLAMP Analysis Bailey Gervais View
180 129-67 An Early Eocene Florule from Hatchetigbee Bluff, Southwestern Alabama, USA and Its Paleoclimate Interpretation Mikyle Polcari View
181 129-68 Still Muddy: Palynology Across the K-Pg Boundary in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky Beau Park View
182 129-69 Niche Partitioning Between Small-Bodied Insectivorous Mammals During Early Eocene Climate Fluctuation, Willwood Formation (56-52 Ma), Bighorn Basin, WY Reagan Kuhn View
183 129-70 Morphometric Variation in Neothauma tanganyicense from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa Evelyn Burdett View
Abstract 17900 withdrawn
185 129-72 Additional Cranial Anatomy of the Early-Diverging Aetosaurine Stenomyti huangae Reveals Morphological and Biomechanical Variation: Interpretation for Dietary Specialization Carolina Pierri View
186 129-73 Digital Segmentation and Skeletal Reconstruction of the Basal Aetosaur Stenomyti Using synchrotron computed tomography data Nestor Garcia-Gonazalez View
187 129-74 The endocast of the early-diverging phytosaur Parasuchus bransoni (Archosauriformes) and preliminary incorporation of endocranial characters into phytosaur phylogenetics Owen Blomberg View
188 129-75 Preservation of Dermal Soft Tissue in the Marine Reptile Clidastes propython (Squamata, Mosasaurinae) Everett Mancke View
189 129-76 Shining a new light on modern raptor pellets as taphonomic analogues Kyle Toon View
190 129-77 Ground Penetrating Radar Comparison of Late Pleistocene Rodent Burrows and Modern Burrow Systems of Prairie Dogs Sierra Smart View



38th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition Sponsored by Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Description


Date and Time: Monday, 12 October - 2:00 PM (Mountain Time (US & Canada))

Room: CCC, Hall F

Session Type: Poster: Topical

Session Format: Poster

Author Availability: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.


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