Meet some of the wonderful students I’ve had…
Below is a list of my senior I.S. students through the years. I am proud of every one of them. As you can see from the list, there is a real diversity of projects. This research variety makes I.S. so fun and challenging each academic year – both for my students and for me.
2021. Culp, Juda. Research in progress.
2021. Pedroso Curry, Morgan. Research in progress.
2021. Troen-Krasnow, Shoshana. Research in progress.
2019. Hankla, Charley H. An analysis of fractures around the Sevier Fault Zone near Orderville, Utah.
2019. Myers, Taylor Lamar. The greening of the concrete jungle: the connection between young farmers and the remedying of food deserts.
2019. Thomas, Michael. Structural comparison of the deformation styles in the Arapien Formation (Twelvemile Canyon Member: Hardy Units B and C), Ninemile Reservoir, central Utah.
2018. Sheban, Mara. The interpreted depositional environment of large oncoids from the Flagstaff Formation, San Pitch Mountains, central Utah.
2018. Shearer, Matthew. The Richmondian Invasion of the Late Ordovician of Cincinnati with a focus on trepostome bryozoans, or the ekphrastic geologist and other essays. (student mentored during Dr. Wilson’s research leave).
2018. Hurst, Peter. An analysis of caddisfly larval cases from bioherms in the Upper Green River Formation, White Hill cuesta, Ephraim, Utah.
2018. Luna, Eduardo. Stratigraphy, depositional environment, and origin of silica at Gal Hill, Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah: a petrographic and geochemical Study.
2018. Werthmann, Emmett. Reconstructing the Cretaceous paleoenvironmental and paleoecological setting of Salina Canyon using paleosols, Sevier County, Utah, U.S.A.
2017. Backman, Elizabeth. Improving p-XRF capabilities for in situ geochemical analysis: a case study for Arkansas’s Magnet Cove and Stanley Shale.
2017. Gelwicks, Conner. Animating the dynamics of Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska.
2017. Komara, Kevin. Lithologic and well log analysis of a four well case study, in Morrow County, Ohio.
2017. Osterman, Sharron. An analysis of the erosion at Wooster Memorial Park near Wooster, Ohio.
2017. Siegel, Helen. Projection of groundwater pumping sustainability in Volta Wildlife Refuge, Merced County, CA.
2017. Wallace, Chloe. Paleo-Ice thickness of a glaciovolcanic tindar ridge, Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest Iceland. (student mentored during Dr. Pollock’s research leave).
2016. Baxstrom, Kelli W. Ice Springs Volcanic Field: new insights and history for a series of complex eruptions.
2016. Franceschi, Julia. A study of the stratigraphy of Pillow Ridge: a glaciovolcanic tindar in Northwestern, British Columbia, Canada. (student mentored during Dr. Pollock’s research leave).
2016. Parker, Eric M. Analysis of water quality parameters and preliminary investigation into the impacts of human access on the water quality of the Nisqually River, Mount Rainier National Park.
2016. Williams, Michael. Emplacement processes and monogenetic classification of Ice Springs Volcanic Field, central Utah.
2015. Gresh, Elisabeth. Historical earthquakes in the Anna Seismic Zone of western Ohio.
2015. Herold, Thomas. Growth patterns of Acropora cervicornis affected by current flows at Coral Gardens, Belize.
2014. Burden, Kyle. Reconstruction of eruptive conditions based on crater rim stratigraphy at Miter Crater, Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah.
2014. Hall, Tricia. Kinematic and dynamic analysis of deformation bands in the Late Cretaceous Sixmile Canyon Formation, Central Utah.
2013. Cary, Will. Ballistics analysis of volcanic ejecta: Miter Crater, Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah.
2013. Horton, Jennifer. Dating the first millennium AD glacial history of Adams Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, southeast Alaska. (student mentored during Dr. Wiles’s research leave).
2013. Peppers, Matthew. Analysis of Ice Springs Volcanic Field Structures, Black Rock Desert, Utah.
2013. Wilch, Joseph. Insights into the tectonic evolution of the northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic results, northern Snake Range, Nevada.
2012. Collins, Andrew. A comparison and analog-based analysis of sinuous channels on the rift aprons of Ascraeus Mons and Pavonis Mons volcanoes, Mars.
2011. Davenport, Jesse. Protolith determination of mylonitic rocks adjacent to the Madison Mylonite Zone, Henry’s Lake Mountains, southwest Montana and Idaho.
2011. Deering, Elizabeth. The paleoecology of stromatolite facies and depositional environment of the lacustrine Eocene Green River Formation (Pggr), Sanpete County, central Utah.
2010. Blecher, Phillip. Limnology of the Green River Formation, Sanpete Valley, central Utah.
2010. Thomas, William. Petrographic and mapping analysis of volcanic tuffs in the Green River Formation cuestas, Sanpete Valley, Utah.
2009. Edwards, Meggie. Ice-rafted debris associated with millennial-scale climate variations and deep ocean stability in the subpolar Atlantic: IODP Site U1314.
2009. Sprajcar, Jodi. Calculating the rate of dextral strike-slip faulting along the Höh Serh Fault, the southwestern boundary of the Höh Serhiyn Nuruu in the Mongolian Altai, western Mongolia.