2019 DEEPS-Leadership Alliance REU
Solana Buchanan (Rice University)Faculty mentors: Jim Russell and Tim Herbert Project: West African Climate Changes Across the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary |
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Lissete Melendez (University of South Florida)Faculty mentor: John Mustard Project: North Polar Layered Deposits on Mars: Investigating the Effect of Perennial Dust Deposits on Water-Ice Sublimation |
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Samantha Pennino (University of South Florida)Faculty mentor: Meredith Hastings Project: Stormwater and Rain: Sources of Nutrients to Upper Narragansett Bay? |
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Andrea Salazar (University of Chicago)Faculty mentors: Tim Herbert, Colleen Dalton and Alberto Saal Project: Modeling the Role of Volcanism in the Last 20 Million Years of Global Cooling |
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Jamila Smith (SUNY Fredonia)Faculty mentor: Jim Russell Project: What the Lake Says: Assessing Temperature and Precipitation Changes in Eastern Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum using Sediment Cores from Lake Mahoma, Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda |
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Jennifer Riggin (Tulane University)Faculty mentor: Steven Clemens Project: The Isotope Dilution Method: A New Approach to Measuring the Isotopic Composition of Individual Foraminifera |
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Jorge Ruiz Gonzalez (Sonoma State University)Faculty mentor: Stephen Parman Project: Predicting Noble Gas Solubility in Silicates |
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Malik Walker (Princeton University)Faculty mentor: Alexander Evans Project: Geophysical Investigation of Lunar Impact Craters with Anomalous Gravitational Signatures |
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Student Presentations at AGU
American Geophysical Union Meeting, Dec. 9-13, San Francisco, CA

Solana Buchanan - An Alkenone and Leaf Wax Biomarker Record of West African Sea Surface Temperature and Vegetation Change Across the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary from ODP Site 659. - Authors: S. Buchanan, B. Mitsunaga, A. Jewell, A. J. Crocker, P. A. Wilson, J. M. Russell, T. Herbert

Samantha Pennino - Stormwater and Rain: Sources of Nutrients to Upper Narragansett Bay? - Authors: S. Pennino, E. Joyce, S. Hibbens, and M. G. Hastings

Andrea Salazar - Modeling the Role of Volcanism in the Past 20 Million Years of Global Cooling. - Authors: A. M. Salazar, W. Si, T. Herbert, C. A. Dalton, A. E. Saal

Jamila Smith - Assessing temperature changes in Central Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum using sediment cores from Lake Mahoma, Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. - Authors: J. Smith, S. Garelick, J. M. Russell, M. A. Kelly, N. Anderson, B. Nakileza