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NHRE Earth Science Projects
2024
Comparative Morphological Variation and Evolutionary Trajectories in Asexual vs. Sexual Ostracodes: Insights from the Fossil Record
Intern: Chloe Smith
Mentor: Gene Hunt
Department: Paleobiology
Imaging Magnetofossils in Situ
Intern: Ie'Jana Woodley
Mentor: Courtney Wagner, Ioan Lascu, Tim Gooding
Department: Mineral Sciences
Clumped isotope paleotemperature analysis of Turonian and Campanian foraminifera from southeast coastal Tanzania
Intern: Jonathan Chen
Mentor: Brian Huber, Chuyan Wan, Anna R. Waldeck, Andrew D. Jacobson, Brad Sageman
Department: Paleontology
A Mineralogical Approach to Understanding Oyster Shells
Intern: Elsie Buskes
Mentor: Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Gabriela A. Farfan
Department: Mineral Sciences
2022
Clumped isotope paleotemperature analysis of Turonian and Campanian foraminifera from southeast coastal Tanzania
Intern: Olivia Gadson
Mentor: Brian Huber, Matthew M. Jones, Gabriela Farfan
Department: Paleobiology
Change in magnetic mineral assemblages as a proxy for weathering and redox conditions around the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary
Intern: Gianna Greger
Mentor: Ioan Lascu, Courtney Wagner
Department: Mineral Sciences
Morphological bottlenecks and phylogenetic restructuring following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Intern: Johanna Sullivan
Mentor: Stewart M. Edie
Department: Paleobiology
2021
3D Turbulence and Air Entrainment in Pyroclastic Density Currents from Video Analysis
Intern: Ajayi Ayomide
Mentor: Benjamin Andrews
Department: Mineral Sciences
Testing a Method to Estimate CO2 Levels in Deep Time
Intern: Shaherazade N. Khan
Mentor(s): Richard S. Barclay, Scott L. Wing
Department: Paleobiology
Boulders and Beyond: A Multiscale Analysis of Asteroid (101955) Bennu
Intern: Lisette E. Melendez
Mentor(s): Erica Jawin, Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
Department: Mineral Science
Assessing the Relationship between Dinosaur Diversity and Outcrop Characteristics
Intern: Payton Netherland
Mentor: Matthew T. Carrano
Department: Paleobiology
Ecological drivers of body size evolution in brachiopods and trilobites across the Late Ordovician mass extinction
Intern: Cade Orchard
Mentor: Selina Cole
Department: Paleobiology
Exploring Morphological Disparity in the Cassiduloida (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) Using Geometric Morphometrics
Intern: Edward Spagnuolo
Mentor(s): Camilla Souto, Gene Hunt
Department: Paleobiology
2019
Analysis of Low and High Latitude Planktonic Foraminiferal Distributions Across the Late Maastrichtian Deccan Volcanism Event
Intern: Samantha McComb
Mentor: Brian Huber
Department: Paleobiology
Once Upon a Puquio:Biomineralizationin the Salar de Llamara, Atacama Desert, Chile
Intern: Austin Weber
Mentor: Michael A. Ackerson
Department: Mineral Sciences
Once Upon a Puquio: Biomineralizationin the Salar de Llamara, Atacama Desert, Chile
Intern: Paul Machabee
Mentor: Erica Suosaari
Department: Mineral Sciences
Sexual selection and secual dimoorphism trends in cytheroid ostracodes from the U.S. Coastal Plain
Intern: Maya D. Samuels-Fair
Mentor: Gene Hunt
Department: Paleobiology
2018
Evidence for impacted-induced shock melting in carbonaceous chondrites
Intern: Jake Acquadro
Mentor: Glenn Macpherson & Cari Corrigan
Department: Mineral Sciences
Foraminiferal paleoecology and paleotemperature estimates for the Cenomanian (100-94 Ma) at high southern latitudes
Intern: Becca Goughnour
Mentor: Brian Huber
Department: Paleobiology
Ginkgo-ing into the geologic past: testing a proxy for deep time CO2 levels
Intern: Mason Scher
Mentor: Richard Barclay & Scott Wing
Department: Paleobiology
Nitrogen solubility in magma oceans
Intern: Ian Ocampo
Mentor: Colin Jackson & Elizabeth Cottrell
Department: Mineral Sciences
Probing the Earth's deep oxygen cycle with vanadium: the temperature dependence of partitioning
Intern: Rilla McKeegan
Mentor: Megan Holycross & Elizabeth Cottrell
Department: Mineral Sciences
Uncovering the origin of magnetism in early Proterozoic rocks from Lake Superior
Intern: D'Maia Curry
Mentor: Ioan Lascu
Department: Mineral Sciences
2017
Cell size in Ginkgo and the paleo-CO2 proxy
Intern: Zev Brook, University of California Berkeley
Mentor: Richard Barclay and Scott Wing
Department: Paleobiology
Evidence of thermal alteration in CV Chondrite NWA 8418 provides unique insight into secondary parent body processing
Intern: Lucia Mallozzi, Suffolk County Community College
Mentor: Glenn Macpherson and Cari Corrigan
Department: Mineral Sciences
Taphonomy of England's Blue Lias ichthyosaurs
Intern: Myria Perez, Southern Methodist University
Mentor: Kay Behrensmeyer
Department: Paleobiology
The Dimetrodon dilemma: reassessing posture in sphenacodonts
Intern: Caroline Abbott, The College of William and Mary
Mentor: Hans-Dieter Sues
Department: Paleobiology
The geological and cultural significance of impact melt nodules from Lake Mistastin in northern Labrador
Intern: Tania Evans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mentor: Cari Corrigan and Stephen Loring
Department: Mineral Sciences
2016
Entrainment and runout of Martian pyroclastic density currents
Intern: Darien Florez, Collin County Community College
Mentor: Ben Andrews
Department: Mineral Sciences
Landscape diversity of the Upper Cretaceous Judith River formation
Intern: Jordan Claytor, Elon University
Mentor: Matthew Carrano
Department: Paleobiology
Making silica-rich rocks without plate tectonics or water by partial melting of a primitive meteorite
Intern: Emma Sosa, Lafayette College
Mentor: Nicole Lunning and Tim McCoy
Department: Mineral Sciences
Morphometric study of the Rotalipora lineage (planktic foraminifera) during the middle and late Cenomanian
Intern: Melanie Sorman, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Mentor: Andrew Fraas and Brian Huber
Department: Paleobiology
2015
Cranial osteology and phylogenetic relationships of a Late Triassic parareptile from the Chinle Formation of the American Southwest
Intern: Rachel Johnson, Transylvania University
Mentor: Hans-Dieter Sues
Department: Paleobiology
Family tree of a mass extinction survivor: phylogenetic analysis of the brachiopod genus Leptaena
Intern: Stephanie Plaza-Torres, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Mentor: Peter Wagner and Simon Darroch
Department: Paleobiology
Investigating plant–insect interactions from the Early Permian of Texas: analysis of insect herbivory in the Sanzenbacher flora
Intern: Isabella Muratore, Haverford College
Mentor: Conrad Labandeira
Department: Paleobiology
Mineral associations in enstatite chondrites: a window into Mercury’s present
Intern: Sierra Kaufman, SUNY at Fredonia
Mentor: Cari Corrigan
Department: Mineral Sciences
Oxygen fugacity of abyssal peridotites along the Gakkel Ridge
Intern: Meena Said, Lock Haven University
Mentor: Suzanne Birner and Elizabeth Cottrell
Department: Mineral Sciences
What’s all the talc about? Air entrainment in dilute pyroclastic density currents
Intern: Brianna Marshall, Calvin College
Mentor: Ben Andrews
Department: Mineral Sciences
2014
Cretaceous theropod teeth from western North America
Intern: Maricel Beltrán Burgos, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Mentor: Matthew Carrano
Department: Paleobiology
Ecosystem engineering during the Early Cambrian
Intern: Claudia Mazur, Mount Holyoke College
Mentor: Douglas Erwin
Department: Paleobiology
Investigating the effects of selenium on fungal growth and mineral production
Intern: Jennifer Kenyon, Louisiana State University
Mentor: Cara Santelli and Carla Rosenfeld
Department: Mineral Sciences
Oxygen fugacity of hotspot xenoliths: a window into the Earth's mantle
Intern: Kellie Wall, Washington State University
Mentor: Elizabeth Cottrell and Fred Davis
Department: Mineral Sciences
2013
A new species of albanerpetontid amphibian from the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the western USA
Intern: Abree Murch, Delaware Valley College
Mentor: Matthew Carrano
Department: Paleobiology
Assessing biases of sampling and scale in Miocene vertebrate assemblages from northern Pakistan
Intern: Janet Burke, Smith College
Mentor: Kay Behrensmeyer
Department: Paleobiology
Experimental study of sedimentation in pyroclastic density currents
Intern: Gabrielle Ramirez, University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Ben Andrews
Department: Mineral Sciences
Phylogenetics within Bellerophon: Breaking down a classic wastebasket taxon
Intern: Caitlin Boas, CUNY Brooklyn College
Mentor: Peter Wagner
Department: Paleobiology
Revised foraminiferal biostratigraphy for Late Cretaceous deep-sea assemblages from Agulhas and Naturaliste Plateaus (Southern Ocean)
Intern: Raquel Bryant, Brown University
Mentor: Brian Huber
Department: Paleobiology
Sulfides in enstatite chondrites: Indicators of impact history
Intern: Kristyn Hill, Lock Haven University
Mentor: Cari Corrigan
Department: Mineral Sciences
2012
Dust enrichment of molecular clouds through young stellar jets
Intern: Tushar Mittal, Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Glenn Macpherson
Department: Mineral Sciences
Factors influencing microbial growth and manganese oxidation
Intern: Tyler Imfeld, Xavier University
Mentor: Cara Santelli
Department: Mineral Sciences
Geochemical characterization of potential impact melt clasts from lunar meteorite PCA 02007
Intern: Sarah Verghese, Oberlin College
Mentor: Cari Corrigan
Department: Mineral Sciences
New information on the herpetofauna of Quarry 9 from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation
Intern: Jose Fuentes, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
Mentor: Matthew Carrano
Department: Paleobiology
Oxygen fugacity of the upper mantle recorded by spinel: Determination by electron microprobe analysis
Intern: Oscar Lopez, Northwestern University
Mentor: Elizabeth Cottrell
Department: Mineral Sciences
Taphonomic biases influencing exceptionally preserved Naraoia from the Burgess Shale
Intern: Calder Atta, Boston University
Mentor: Marc LaFlamme
Department: Paleobiology
2011
A phylogenetic dissection of the gastropod subfamily Knightitinae across the Permian-Triassic boundary
Intern: Rhiannon LaVine, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Mentor: Peter Wagner
Department: Paleobiology
Changes in Mammal Community Structure in Kenya over the Last 100 years
Intern: Aniko Toth, The College of William and Mary
Mentor: Kate Lyons
Department: Paleobiology
Impact Melts In Ordinary Chondrites
Intern: Kara Hodges, Michigan Technological University
Mentor: Cari Corrigan
Department: Mineral Sciences
Manganese Oxide Precipitation Induced by Fungal Species
Intern: Alison Post, University of Maryland
Mentor: Cara Santelli
Department: Mineral Sciences
Patterns of Tree Fern Abundance in Fossil Wetland Plant Communities from the Illinois Basin over the Pennsylvanian
Intern: David Reed, The College of William and Mary
Mentor: Bill DiMichele
Department: Paleobiology
2010
Charting Climate Change and Ocean Dynamics During the Mid-Cretaceous Supergreenhouse: Chemical Evidence from Tanzanian Foraminifera
Intern: Carlos Rodriguez-Russo, Harvard University
Mentor: Brian Huber
Department: Paleobiology
Identification of Basaltic Clasts in Lunar Meteorites: In Search of South Pole-Aitken Basin Material
Intern: Katie Marshall, Earlham College
Mentor: Cari Corrigan
Department: Mineral Sciences
Reconstructing Environmental Conditions During the Cretaceous: An Analysis of Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes of Benthic Foraminifera in Relation to their Preservation and Shell Chemistry
Intern: Sarah Ehlinger, Lawrence University
Mentor: Brian Huber
Department: Paleobiology
The Effect of Water on V and Sc Partitioning Between Mantle Minerals and Melt at Fixed Oxygen Fugacity
Intern: Christa Jackson, Humboldt State University
Mentor: Elizabeth Cottrell
Department: Mineral Sciences
Twelve Million Years of Ecological Conservatism: Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri, a Pennsylvanian seed fern confined to wetland habitats
Intern: Gregory Stull, Ohio Wesleyan University
Mentor: Bill DiMichele
Department: Paleobiology