Recent undergraduate thesis projects by year

 

1999-2000: 

 

Jenée Rowe, ‘00: (with Marcia Bjornerud):  “Volcanic petrographic textures in ceramic glazes” Presented at the Geological Society of  America Annual meeting, Denver, CO, November 1999.

 

Work was subsequently published:

Rowe, J. and Bjornerud, M. 2000.  Volcanic petrographic textures in ceramic-glaze interfaces.  J. Geoscience Education, 48, p. 304-306 and 360-361.

 

Katie Young, ’00 (with Jeff Clark): The effects of seasonality and lake level fluctuations on subsurface hydrology of Heckrodt Wetland, Menasha, WI, Abstracts of the 14th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, p. 212. May 2000.

 

 

2000-2001 (Bjornerud on sabbatical):

 

Faye Gilbert ’01 (with Jeff Clark and Tony Hoch), Hydrochemical Characteristics of a Reclaimed Suburban Wetland, Menasha, Wisconsin, AWRA Wisconsin Section Program with Abstracts, pg. 4. *Best Student Paper. March 2001.

 

Peter Levi ’01 (with Jeff Clark), Nitrate and Phosphorus Levels in the Apple Creek Watershed, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, No. 4, pg. A-1. April 2001.

 

 

2001-2002:

 

Amy Garbowicz ’03 (with Jeff Clark):  “Fluvial Modeling of the Effects of Vegetation on Meandering Systems”.

 

Brooke Miller ’02 (with Tony Hoch):  “Aquifer characterization and mineral reactions in a reclaimed wetland, Menasha, Wisconsin”.  Presented at the Geological Society of  America Annual meeting, Boston, MA, November 2001.

 

Emily Schultz ’02 (with Marcia Bjornerud):  “Strain Heterogeneity in an Early Proterozoic Metavolcanic Complex, Central Wisconsin”.  Presented at North Central and Southeastern joint sectional meeting of the Geological Society of  America, Lexington, KY, April 2002.

 

Don Smith ’02 (with Jeff Clark):  “A 10,000 Year History of the Bjørklunden Property, Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin”.  Presented at the National Council on undergraduate Research annual conference, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, May 2002.

 

 

2002-2003:

 

Michele Buttram ’03 (with Marcia Bjornerud):  “Textural Constraints on the origin of rapakivi granites”.  To be presented at the Institute on Lake Superior Geology, May 2003.

 

David Fellenz ’03 (with Tony Hoch), Experiments to Characterize Cation Exchange in Sediment Treated With NaCl-Spiked Water, Heckrodt Wetland Reserve, Menasha, Wisconsin.  Geological Society of  America Annual meeting, Abstracts with Program, 34, Denver, CO, October, 2002.

 

Amy Garbowicz ’03 (with Marcia Bjornerud):  “Paleostresses in the Wisconsin segment of the mid-continent rift”.  To be presented at the Institute on Lake Superior Geology, May 2003.

 

Martha Nelson ’03 (with Jeff Clark):  “Nitrate and Sediment Removal in Two Regional Stormwater Wed Detention Ponds.” Presented at Pew Consortium for the Natural Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, November, 2002.