Student Research Projects

2006-07

Jennifer Horner '07 and Daniel Ressler

Archana K.C. '08 and Daniel Ressler

Victoria McDowell '07 and Ali Tokay (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

 

2005-06

Angela Dippold '07 and Jennifer Elick: Geologic Map and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Pennsylvania Age Rock Associated with an Underground Mine Fire: Centralia, PA

Erin Markel '07 and Daniel Ressler: Gaseous Contributions to Soil Nitrogen at the Centralia Mine Fire

Kristin Simpers '07 and Daniel Ressler (and NSF REU summer program at William and Mary): Eastern Bluebirds: The Effect of Soil and Food Quality on the Health, Growth Rate, and Sex Ratio of Nestlings

Tyson Snader '07 and Andrew Kozlowski: A Breath of Life to the Dead: Applications of 3-Dimensional Impulse Ground Penatrating Radar for the Delineation of Late 19th-Early 20th Century Unmarked Graves in Milton, PA

 

2004-05

Jeremy Apgar '05 and Jennifer Elick: Characterizing Floodplain Vegetation from Plant Root Trace Patterns: Catskill Formation (Upper Devonian)

Katie Beem '06 and Derek Straub: Measurements and Dispersion Modeling of Sulfur Dioxide Concentrations in the Vicinity of a Coal-Fired Power Plant

Laura Bolton '05 and Katherine Straub: The April Pause in Pennsylvania

Jackie Lawlor '05 and Daniel Ressler: Urban Tree Inventory of Sunbury, PA

Matthew Smart '05 and Andrew Kozlowski: Dipole-Dipole Electrical Resistivity Characterization of the Lycoming Valley Glacial Aquifer, Lycoming County, PA

Donna Strahan '05 and Katherine Straub: Using Outgoing Longwave Radiation and Station Precipitation Data to Analyze the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Caleb Woolever '05 and Andrew Kozlowski: Sedimentological and Stratigraphic Evidence of Late Glacial Floods Within Lycoming Creek Valley, Lycoming County, PA

 

2003-04

Christina Graber '04 and Katherine Straub: 20th Century Climate Change in Pennsylvania

Rachel Stone '05 and Daniel Ressler: Storm Contributions to Wetland Hydrology, Montandon Marsh

Caleb Woolever '05 and Daniel Ressler: Annual Water Budget for Montandon Marsh

 

2002-03

Brad Anthony '04 and Katherine Straub: A Climatology of Tornadoes in Pennsylvania: 1985-2002

Robert Clark '03 and Jennifer Elick: Fossil Guide for Sunbury, PA 7.5 quadrangle

Shawn Lowery '03 and Katherine Straub: Regional Analysis of the Influence of Large-Scale Circulation Anomalies on Wintertime Climate Variablity and Nor'easter Occurrences

Shannan Ott '03 and Andrew Kozlowski: Aquifer Vulnerability Map of the Kalamazoo 15' Quadrangle, SW Michigan

Brett Schrader '03 and Jennifer Elick: Comparison of Two Upper Devonian Archaeopteris Forests in Pennsylvania: Paleoecological and Tectonic Iimplications

Jaclyn Sumner '03 and Daniel Ressler: Microbial Communities in Wetland Soils

Jason Yablonski '03 and Daniel Ressler: Urban Tree Inventory of Sunbury, PA

 

2001-02

Amy Martinez '02 and Daniel Ressler: Soil Chemistry Conditions and Microbial Communities at the Centralia Mine Fire

Charles "Gordon" Layfield '02 and Jennifer Elick: Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Onondaga Formation (Middle Devonian), Selinsgrove Junction, PA