Miami University

Graduate Student Research Forum

The Third Annual Graduate Research Forum was held on November 4, 2011.  Twelve geology graduate students participated in this forum and are listed below along with the title of their research work.  This forum was sponsored by the Graduate School and Graduate Alumni.

Mike Bishop, "Bioreduction of Fe-Bearing Clay Minerals and Their Reactivity Toward Pertechnetate (Tc-99), Advisor: Hailiang Dong

Kenneth Brown, "Geochemical Heterogeneities Along a Paleo-Continental Margin: An Example from Late Cretaceous Intrusions, Santa Rosa Range, Norhtwestern Nevada", Advisor: Hailiang Dong

Camilla Crifo, "Vein Denisty: A Proxy to Characterize Strata Within a Tropical Forest". Advisor: Ellen Currano

Laura Crimmins, "Structure and Chemistry of Minerals in the Ca/As/P/[OH, F, Cl] Apatite System: Johnbaumite, Svabite, and Turneaureite". Advisor: John Rakovan

Joel Hecker, "Calibrating Groundwater Models to Estimate the Impacts of Future Climate Change on Water Resources in the American Southwest". Advisor: Jason Rech

William Hokanson, "Identifying Complex Fluvial Sandstone Reservoirs Using Core, Well Log, and 3D Seismic Data. Cretaceous Cedar Mountain and Dakota Formations, Souther Uinta Basin, Utah". Advisor: Brian Currie

Shanying Li, "Stable isotopic composition of Middle-Late Miocene lacustrine carbonates from the Markam basin, eastern Tibert: Implications for the paleoelevation history of the eastern Tibetan Plateau". Advisor: Brian Currie

Tomasz Marchlewski, "Simultaneous Sequestration of Geothite-Absorbed as and Pb by Coprecipitation with Apatite". Advisor: John Rakovan

Kelly McHugh, "Pleistocene Basalt Evolution in the Northern Basin and Range-High Lava Plains Transition, Southeastern Oregon". Advisor: William K. Hart

Stefany Sit, "Quantifying Tremor in Southern Mexico and its Apparent Lack of Correlation to Slow Slip". Advisor: Mike Brudzinski

Terry Workman, "Paleowetland Deposits in the Northern Atacama Desert: Archives of Climate Change and Hjman Migrations". Advisor: Jason Rech

Alicja Wypych, Geochemical Evidence of Source and Process Controls in Mid-Miocene Silicic Volcanism in the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada Region", Advisor: William K. Hart

Jing Zhang, Microbial Redution of Fe(III) in Smectite-illite Minerals by Methanogen Methanosarcina mazei". Advisor: Hailiang Dong

Linduo Zhao, "Nitrate-dependent Fe(II) oxidation b Strain 2002". Advisor: Hailiang Dong