Students will present their research at the fifty-first annual Geoscience Day on Friday, April 25, 2025.

  • Geoscience Day, Friday, April 25
  • Kopchick Hall, room 104
  • The talks will also be live-streamed on the departmental YouTube Channel.

Geoscience Day Schedule

  • 8:30 — Welcome and Opening Remarks by Dr. Nick Deardorff, Chair

  • 8:35–9:20 Student Oral Presentations

    • 8:35, Adriana Lasta Perez: Enhancing Education Through Hydrology: Assessing Marsh Run Flood Patterns and Innovative Teaching Strategies

    • 8:50, Alexa Pechulis: Using Diatom Abundance and Diversity to Understand the Water Quality of a Suburban Neighborhood Stream

    • 9:05, Austin Konopka: Using Diatom Abundance and Diversity to Understand Water Quality of a Rural-Suburban Interface

  • 9:20–9:30 Break

  • 9:30–10:30 Student Oral Presentations

    • 9:30, Hope Burbank: Establishing a Baseline of StreamCharacteristics in Indiana County, PA: Leveraging Community Connections

    • 9:45, Zachary Stuart: Tanoma Acid Mine Drainage Analysis

    • 10:00, Samuel Jubin: Environmental Change Through Time as Identified Through the Rock Record at Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry

    • 10:15, Autumn Jones: Identifying the Orientation and Grouping of Stegosaurus Vertebrate Fossils

  • 10:30–10:40 Break

  • 10:40–11:40 Student Oral Presentations

    • 10:40, Joshua Mitchell: Using Diatom Size to Reconstruct Holocene Southern Ocean Climate

    • 10:55, Bailey Campbell: Effects of Global Temperatures on the Abundance of Marine Diatoms

    • 11:10, Hannah Taylor: Using Diatom Microfossils to Understand Paleo Nutrient Availability in the Scotia Sea.

    • 11:25, Marisol Gonzalez Flores: Mapping Mineral Chemistry in Exhumed Seafloor Rocks, Central Range, Taiwan

  • 11:40–12:10 Poster Session

  • 12:10–1:10 Alumni Presentation Brock Kennedy ’18