Students will present their research at the forty-ninth annual Geoscience Day on Friday, April 28, 2023.
- Geoscience Day, Friday, April 28, 2023.
- Monongahela Room, Hadley Union Building (HUB), Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
- The talks will also be live-streamed on the departmental YouTube Channel.
Program Schedule
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- 8:30 — Welcome and Opening Remarks by Dr. Nick Deardorff and Dr. Calvin Masilela
- 8:35 — Introduction of GEOS 480 Senior Research Presentations by Dr. Ken Coles
Hydrology and Paleontology
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- 8:40 — Lucas Hoffner: "Enhanced Analysis of the Water Budget for Marsh Run Watershed"
- 8:55 — Eric Buzzelli: "Taphonomic Analysis of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation"
- 9:10 — Adam Mancini: "Paleontological Phenomena of the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
- 9:25–10:00 — Student Poster Session and Coffee Break
The poster session will allow for discussion with the GEOS 480 students and also includes these projects in Geography and Regional Planning:
- Nathan Clair: "Revitalization in American Cities: Lessons from Atlanta Beltline Project in Atlanta, GA"
- Alena Deily: "Effects of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions and Mitigation Strategies"
- Jesse Gowin: "Abrahamic Religions in the Development of European Political Boundaries"
- Jacob Krinock: "GIS-Based Optimal Route Selection for Oil and Gas Pipelines: An Exploratory Approach"
- Michael Rihn: "Cloud Seeding Development in the State of California and Southwestern States"
- Scott Yackuboskey: "The Contrast of New York City and Post-War Germany Housing Policy to Compare Demand-Side and Supply-Side Housing Policy for Lower Housing Prices"
Stratigraphy and Structural Geology
- 10:00 — Joshua Colasante: "Paleoenvironmental Stratigraphic Reconstruction and Control on the Distribution of the Lower Keyser Formation of Central Pennsylvania"
- 10:15 — Morgan Spatz: "Stretching Directions in the Eastern Central Range of Taiwan: A Record of Subduction and Exhumation Kinematics from a Seafloor Section"
10:30 — Break
Alumni Presentation
- 10:45 — Gabriella Zuccolotto (BSEd 2018), University of Pittsburgh
"Water Watch: Monitoring Earth's Rivers with Remote Sensing"