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
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8:30 — Welcome and Opening Remarks by Dr. Nick Deardorff, Chair
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8:35–9:20 Student Oral Presentations
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8:35, Adriana Lasta Perez: Enhancing Education Through Hydrology: Assessing Marsh Run Flood Patterns and Innovative Teaching Strategies
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8:50, Alexa Pechulis: Using Diatom Abundance and Diversity to Understand the Water Quality of a Suburban Neighborhood Stream
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9:05, Austin Konopka: Using Diatom Abundance and Diversity to Understand Water Quality of a Rural-Suburban Interface
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9:20–9:30 Break
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9:30–10:30 Student Oral Presentations
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9:30, Hope Burbank: Establishing a Baseline of StreamCharacteristics in Indiana County, PA: Leveraging Community Connections
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9:45, Zachary Stuart: Tanoma Acid Mine Drainage Analysis
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10:00, Samuel Jubin: Environmental Change Through Time as Identified Through the Rock Record at Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
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10:15, Autumn Jones: Identifying the Orientation and Grouping of Stegosaurus Vertebrate Fossils
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10:30–10:40 Break
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10:40–11:40 Student Oral Presentations
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10:40, Joshua Mitchell: Using Diatom Size to Reconstruct Holocene Southern Ocean Climate
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10:55, Bailey Campbell: Effects of Global Temperatures on the Abundance of Marine Diatoms
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11:10, Hannah Taylor: Using Diatom Microfossils to Understand Paleo Nutrient Availability in the Scotia Sea.
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11:25, Marisol Gonzalez Flores: Mapping Mineral Chemistry in Exhumed Seafloor Rocks, Central Range, Taiwan
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11:40–12:10 Poster Session
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12:10–1:10 Alumni Presentation Brock Kennedy ’18