Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences

2024 DEEPS-Leadership Alliance REU

Program Overview

Research projects for the summer of 2024 spanned diverse topics ranging from Earth’s climate system, to the cycling of crust deep into Earth’s mantle, to the strength of rocks in earthquake faults to surface processes on comets.  These research projects have implications for societally-relevant topics such as air quality, sea-level rise, tropical cyclone impacts on health care facilities, Earth’s present-day climate system, the history of climate change and earthquakes. 

Brandt Bechtel
Home Institution: University of Houston
Faculty Mentors: Greg Hirth and Monica Barbery
Project: Investigating The Mechanical Behavior Of Fault Gouge Through Shearing Experiments At Shallow Conditions
 
Brandt Bechtel
Ailani Bonilla
Home Institution: University of Southern California
Faculty Mentor: Emily H.G. Cooperdock
Project: Unveiling Hosts for Nitrogen Transportation and Storage in Meta-Serpentinites
 
Ailani Bonilla
Asiah Donahue
Home Institution: Xavier University of Louisiana
Faculty Mentor: Meredith Hastings
Project: Incorporating Lived Experience from Residents of Providence, Rhode Island into the Scientific Method
 
Asiah Donahue
Eads Fouché
Home Institution: Amherst College
Faculty Mentor: Samuel Birch
Project: A Final Global Database of Surface Changes on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
 
Eads Fouché
Margaret Gonzalez
Home Institution: Loyola University Chicago
Faculty Mentor: Mara Freilich
Project: Ocean robots reveal the role of Antarctic Winter Water in the carbon cycle
 
Margaret Gonzalez
Abrielle Mannino
Home Institution: Rollins College
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Horvat
Project: Enhancing Climate Resilience in the South Pacific using Artificial Intelligence Models of Tropical Cyclone Impacts ("EMPIRIC_TC")
 
Abrielle Mannino
Andrea Jimenez Moreno
Home Institution: University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Faculty Mentor: James Dottin III
Project: Triple Oxygen Isotope Evidence for Crustal Recycling Within the Samoan Mantle Plume
 
Andrea Jimenez Moreno
Alejandra Torres
Home Institution: Southern Methodist University
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Ibarra
Project: Hydroclimate variability in Glacial Lake Mojave: A high-resolution record across the last deglaciation
 
Alejandra Torres
Nicolas Valencia
Home Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Mentor: Karen M. Fischer
Project: Investigating Antarctic Ice Layer Properties Using Ps Seismic Phases
 
Nicolas Valencia