The impact of large floods on fluvial systems in northern Yellowstone National Park Overview: This six-student Gateway project will introduce five rising sophomores to field-based applied fluvial geomorphology research and provide a senior thesis for a rising senior...
Young eyes on old rocks: Evaluating tectonic models for Neoarchean(?) basin formation in the metamorphic core of the Black Hills, South Dakota Overview: The crystalline core of the Black Hills of western South Dakota exposes Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic plutonic...
Integrated Stratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Study of the Middle-Late Devonian Carbonate to Black Shale Transition in the Michigan Basin Overview: Devonian climate trends have long been studied within the context of biological change. For example, the End-Devonian...
Geochemical controls on uranium contamination of groundwater in the Central Valley and High Plains aquifer systems Overview: Two of the most agriculturally productive regions in the world are the western Great Plains, which grows the majority of U.S. grain, and the...
Structural evolution of a segmented normal fault transfer zone, Sevier fault, southern Utah Overview: This five-student project focuses on the evolution of the Sevier normal fault zone in southern Utah, near Zion National Park. The Sevier normal fault, considered one...
