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Seven Lafayette students and two graduates presented research at the 49th annual meeting of the Northeast Section of the Geological Society of America in Lancaster, Pa. The conference was co-hosted by Lafayette and several professors headed technical sessions and workshops.
Chris Kelly ’13, Hollis Miller ’14, and Professor Kira Lawrence work in the lab.
- Liana Agrios ’14 (Morgan, N.J.), a geology major, and David Sunderlin, associate professor of geology, presented “A Provenance Analysis of Passaic Formation Fanglomerate Facies Adjacent to the Ramapo Fault, Newark Basin.”
- Geology major Caitlin Altomare ’14 (West Boylston, Mass.) presented two papers: “Thermal Expansion in the Tourmaline Mineral System” with Guy Hovis, John Markle Professor of geology, and “Eolian Deposits of Pyroclastic Volcanic Debris in Meteor Crater.”
- Michael Castelli ’14 (Egg Harbor, N.J.), a geology major, presented “Evaluation of Sand Resources Offshore New Jersey: A Marine Seismic Survey to Locate and Quantify Usable Sand Deposits for Beach Replenishment.”
- Biology major Hannah Kowalski ’14 (Durham, Conn.) presented her research “Species Specific Correlation Needed to Calculate Body Mass of Ancient Small Mammals.”
- Hollis Miller ’14 (Fort Washington, Pa.), an anthropology & sociology and geology double major, Rachel Griffiths ’14 (Dalton, Pa.), a geology major, Chris Kelly ’13, a geology and international affairs graduate, and Julia Seidenstein ’14 (Lawrenceville, N.J), a geology major, presented “The Evolution of Ocean Surface Conditions in the Southwest Pacific Over the Plio-Pleistocene Transition” with Kira Lawrence, associate professor of geology.
- Seidenstein and Dru Germanoski, Van Artsdalen Professor and head of geology, presented “Clay Mineralogy Fingerprinting of Sediments Deposited from Tropical Storm Irene in the Connecticut River Watershed.”
- Geology graduate Hilary White ’12 “Records of Late Holocene Moisture Regime from Wetlands in Nova Scotia, Canada.”