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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Eads Fouché Home Institution: Amherst College Faculty Mentor: Samuel Birch Project: A Final Global Database of Surface Changes on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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") |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Nicolas Valencia Home Institution: University of California, Berkeley Faculty Mentor: Karen M. Fischer Project: Investigating Antarctic Ice Layer Properties Using Ps Seismic Phases |  |
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The 2024 REU students presented their summer projects at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in Washington D.C.
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