The 2023-2024 Academic Year
Gateway Projects
Floods in Yellowstone National Park
The impact of large floods on fluvial systems in northern Yellowstone National ParkOverview: 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...
Groundwater in California and Western Great Plains
Geochemical controls on uranium contamination of groundwater in the Central Valley and High Plains aquifer systemsOverview: 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...
Advanced Projects
Neoarchean Rocks of the Black Hills
Young eyes on old rocks: Evaluating tectonic models for Neoarchean(?) basin formation in the metamorphic core of the Black Hills, South DakotaOverview: The crystalline core of the Black Hills of western South Dakota exposes Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic plutonic and...
Carbonate to Black Shale Transition in the Michigan Basin
Integrated Stratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Study of the Middle-Late Devonian Carbonate to Black Shale Transition in the Michigan BasinOverview: Devonian climate trends have long been studied within the context of biological change. For example, the End-Devonian...
Structural evolution of the Sevier fault
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...
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