Student Honors Projects

2004

Andrew P. Baker
"Evidence of Multiple Highstands and Lowstands during the Holocene in Seneca Lake, New York"
Tara Curtin, Advisor

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2002

Sandra M. Baldwin
"The Effect of Meteorological Events on Chlorophyll-a Concentrations"
John Halfman, Advisor

Lindsey Paige Bowser
"Nitrate Loading in the Seneca Lake Watershed: Is Hog Farming
Having an Effect?"
John Halfman, Advisor

Margaret D. Etherington
"Influence of Sedimentological Factors on the Distribution of
Diporeia and Dreissena species in Lake Ontario"
John Halfman, Advisor

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2001

Jon C. Amsterdam
"Refined Barometry in Kinzigitic Gneisses, Southeasternmost
Adirondacks"
Susan Orrell, Advisor

Michah J. Nicolo
"Einviromental Transition at the End of the Mid-Holocene Hypsithermal:
Evidence From the Sediment of Seneca Lake"
Leah H. Joseph, Advisor

Timothy C. Riley
Application of the HWS Data Logger to Hydrological Studies
John Halfman, Advisor

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2000

Mark Flusche
"The Hydrogeochemistry of the Northern Sedge Mat at Zurick Bog, Lyons, NY"
John Halfman, Advisor

Jay Freeman
"Regional Differences in US Climate Data"
William Ahrnsbrak, Advisor

Elizabeth Leslie
"Diagenesis and Dolomitzation of the Sconondoa Member, Lockport Formation (Middle Silurian), New York State"
Donald Woodrow, Advisor

Peter Polt
"Current Reversals in Eastern Lake Ontario"
William Ahrnsbrak, Advisor

Jon Rumpf
"Development of an Underwater Housing Design For Use with The HWS Data Logger System"
John Halfman, Advisor

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1999

Cory C. Clechenko
"An Investigation of Metamorphic and Deformation Histories of a Kinzigite Gneiss in the Southeastern Adirondack Mountains, New York"
Susan Orrell, Advisor

Jennifer C. McSweeney
"The Concentration and Source of Atrazine in Seneca Lake, New York"
John Halfman, Advisor

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1998

Robert Dedrick
"Development of an Inexpensive Data Logging System with an Application
To Periodically Measure Stream Stage"
John Halfman & D. Brooks McKinney, Advisors

Thomas Sardella
"Fluctuations of the Internal Seiche Amplitude in Seneca Lake"
William Ahrnsbrak, Advisor

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1997

Damian Tane Herrick
"Computer Modeling of Small-scale Convection in the Upper Mantle"
D. Brooks McKinney, Advisor

Matthew Carl Lamanna
"Biogeography of Cretaceous Dinosauria"
Donald Woodrow, Advisor

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1996

Nancy Anne Cixkowski
"Chemical Analysis of Glacial to Post-Glacial Sediments from Seneca Lake and Its Paleoclimatic Implications"
John Halfman, Walter Bowyer, Advisors

Danielle Bluesette Larsen
"Quantifying Perthite Textures Using Image Analysis Techniques"
D. Brooks McKinney, Advisor

Aimee Elizabeth Tucker
"Rim Structures in Perthites from the Central Adirondack Mountains Near Wanakena, New York"
D. Brooks McKinney, Advisor

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1995

Nadine L. Acquisto
"The Impact of the Zebra Mussel (Dresiassena polymorpha) Within Seneca Lake"
Donald Woodrow, Advisor

Eric Primrose
"A Problematic Fossil Horse Specimen from June Quarry, Brown County, Nebraska"
William Korth, Advisor

Jennifer Lee Woody
"Iron-Titanium Oxide Thermometry of the Fayalite-Granite in the Central Adirondacks, Near Wanakena, N.Y."
D. Brooks McKinney, Advisor

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1994

Amy Lynn Preston
"The Morphology, Circulation, and Chemistry of Saline Pore Water in the Belhurst Castle Hole, Seneca Lake, Geneva, New York"
Michael Wing, Advisor

Frank Edward Urban
"Late Proterozoic Values Recorded in Namibian Carbonates: Implications for Secular Variation, Paleoclimate, and Macrobiotic Evolution Across a Refined Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary"
Ann Isley, Advisor

Kathleen Ann VanEvera
"Modeling Plate Kenematics and Their Consequences: East Africa and South America 50 Million Years in the Future"
Ann Isley, Advisor

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1993

David P. Loring
"A Petrographic Analysis and Paleotemperature Study of the Fayalite Granite near Wanakena, New York"
D. Brooks McKinney, Advisor

Richard C. Mugler, III
"Correlative Oscillatory Zoning Patterns in Orbicular Plagioclase from Fisher Lake, California"
D. Brooks McKinney, Advisor

Gretchen A. Shultz
"Examining Quaternary Sedimentary Parameters in Seneca Lake Cores: Implications for Regional Paleoclimatology"
Ann Isley, Advisor

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1992

Brett D. Amero
"The Environmental Consequences of a Poorly Managed Hazardous Waste Site – A Case Study of the Yates County Municipal Landfill"
Michael Wing, Advisor

Alison M. Fronk
"Lehigh Valley Railroad Spill: A Study of a Contaminated Carbonate Aquifer"
D. Brook McKinney, Advisor

Jonathan N. Leahy
"Effects of a Leachate from a Municipal Landfill on an Unamed Tributary of Catharine Creek"
Michael Wing, Advisor

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1991

Jennifer A. Pietri
"The Phenomenon of Coral Bleaching as an Indicator of Global Environmental Change"
Don Woodrow, Advisor

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