This year, nineteen Geoscience students presented at the IUP Scholars Forum on April 3 at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. These students presented posters on their ongoing independent research projects, along with more than 340 other undergraduate and graduate students.
Two of the students were recognized by the local chapter of Sigma Xi for their work. Brennan Ferguson, who will graduate in 2018, received the first place award from Sigma Xi for his work with Dr. Jonathan Warnock. Aaron Seidel was honored with an honorable mention from Sigma Xi for his work with Dr. Gregory Mount.
All of the Geoscience student presenters and the titles of their research projects:
- Amy
Clegg: “The Eastern Central Range of Taiwan: an
Assessment of Metamorphic Foliations That Record Recent Exhumation”
- Nicholas Bradley: “A
Phase-1 Environmental Site Assessment of the Bryce Brothers Glass Factory in
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania”
- Brennan
Ferguson: “Relating F. Kerguelensis Fragments to Original
Valve Shape”
- Erin
Johnson: “Determining Factors Affecting Flow Rate from
Legacy Wells in Indiana, Pennsylvania”
- Nicole
Kelley: “Resistivity Imaging of Preferential Flow Paths
from Passive Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Systems in the Huff Run Watershed,
Ohio”
- Brock
Kennedy: “Flow Rate Methodology With Respect to Legacy
Wells in Indiana County”
- Drake
Kutkat-Tonkin: “Lateral Ramps and Seismicity within the Valley
and Ridge of the Central Appalachians”
- Nicole Lees:
“Determining the Paleogeographical Origin of the Allosaurus Fragalis from
within the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry (Price, Utah) Using Biogenic Apatite
δ18O Values”
- Jillian Mathews:
“Impacts of Urban Environments on Marsh Run”
- Caleb McCombie: “Climate
Driven, Differentiated Uplift in the Central Range of Taiwan, Hualien County”
- Ryan O’Donnell: “In-Situ Calcite Growth on Shales: Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Re-fracturing and Sequestration”
- Nicholas Payne: “Marsh Run Indiana Pa. Flash Flooding”
- Justin Petricko: “Elemental Composition Analysis of the Cleveland
Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry Identifying Diagenetic & Bio-accumulate Sedimentation
Processes Associated with Bone Deposition”
- Nicholas Santoro: “Examining Conductivity and Subsurface Heavy Metal Concentrations
within Western Pennsylvania Through the Use of Inductively Coupled Plasma
Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Aerial Photography”
- Aaron Seidel: “Using Ground Penetrating Radar and a Complex
Refractive Index Model to Estimate Methane Flux in Acid Mine Drainage Treatment
Sites in Western Pennsylvania”
- Garrett Sharp: “Assessing the Impact of AMD Chemistry on Algal Communities”
- Tyler Sharretts: “Multi-dimensional Characterization of Seasonal
Critical Zone Architecture”
- Courtney Sullivan: “Phase 1 Investigation of Indiana University of Pennsylvania Rain
Garden”
- Kyler Yingling: “Galilean Orbital Resonance and Europa-Io-Storm
Related Positions”