The role of beaver on catchment sediment and carbon budgets
What: This Keck project will investigate the role of beaver in the sediment and carbon budgets of small catchments (<10 km2) in the central Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Working within Huntingon Wildlife Forest (managed by SUNY-ESF), our geomorphic...Historical ecology of marine mollusks in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Investigating anthropogenic impacts in coastal ecosystems through live-dead analysis
What: Human activities have enhanced nutrient delivery to coastal ecosystems in the northern Gulf of Mexico which has led to extensive eutrophication. By comparing populations living in the region today with the remains of historical populations preserved in marine...Subfossil assemblages as indicators of environmental quality in temperate lakes of Wisconsin
What: A field-based conservation research project using paleontological, sedimentological, and geochemical tools to address modern environmental concerns. When: Early July-Early August Where: Students will spend the first week in Wisconsin, collecting cores and...Constraints on magma transport and eruption dynamics at a glaciovolcanic pillow ridge southwest Iceland
What: Constraints on Magma Transport and Eruption Dynamics at a Glaciovolcanic Pillow Ridge, Southwest Iceland When: Mid June to Mid July (June 18 – July 16) Where: Iceland and Wooster, OH Who: Meagen Pollock (College of Wooster) and Ben Edwards (Dickinson College)...Tephrastratigraphy in Iceland
What: The “big picture”—there is a long-standing effort to understand the mechanisms of explosive lava–water interaction on Earth and Mars. It is important to be able to distinguish those volcanic features on Mars that have formed from exclusively by “dry” volcanic...29th Keck Symposium
at Oberlin College
28th Keck Symposium Volume
At Union College, 2015
PLIOCENE PALEOPRODUCTIVITY AND ICE DYNAMICS IN THE WEDDELL SEA: ODP SITES 693-695
What: The overarching goal of this study is to improve our understanding of ice dynamics, glacial history and paleoproductivity of the Pliocene Weddell Sea using sediment cores from ODP Sites 693 and 695. Who: Suzanne O’Connell, 4 Students When: early/mid- June...TRACE METAL SUBSTITUTION IN AND RELEASE FROM SECONDARY IRON (OXY)HYDROXIDES
What: This project is motivated by the objective to better predict the bioaccessibility of trace metals in the environment. Students will collect samples of iron (oxyhydr)oxide precipitates and water from an abandoned mine site, synthesize pure and trace metal...Keep in Touch!
