Luke Basler ’20
“Constraining the timing and magnitude of uplift of the Adirondack Mountains using zircon and titanite (U-Th)/He thermochronology”
Surdna Summer Research Fellow
Mentor: Jacky Baughman
Manlio Calentti ’20
"Chemical analysis, orientation, and morphology catalogue of sector-zoned clinopyroxenes of intrusive magma from Kauai, HI”
Kufe Family Research Fellowship
Mentor: Rachel Beane
Cameron Markovsky ’21
“Leveraging Python and MATLAB to enhance quantitative reasoning and conceptual understanding in the Earth Sciences”
Gibbons Summer Research Fellow
Mentor: Jacky Baughman
Shona Ortiz ’21
“Comparing geologic histories of North American mountain ranges”
Hughes Family Summer Research Fellow
Mentor: Jacky Baughman
Off-Campus Research
Graham Bendickson ’20
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Project TBD: potentially researching time series data to create a physical-biological model for the Gulf of Maine ecosystem
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Runge
Zoe Dietrich ’21
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Metabolite and microbial composition drivers during a Florida Red Tide bloom”
Aquatic Chemical Ecology REU
Eugen Cotei ’21
Internship at the Institut de Ciencias Del Mar, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain)
Research opportunity focussed on paleoceanography reconstructions, including: deep sea sediment cores as archives, by looking at specific molecular compounds through extraction with organic solvents and analyses by gas chromatography. Experience with manipulation experiments in aquaria with a number of marine organisms, including deep sea corals, sponges and bivalves. Regarding deep sea corals, participation in a long term experiment with Desmophyllum dianthus, a species this lab is attempting to calibrate for paleo- proxies of nutrient concentration, temperature and CO2 system chemistry. Regarding sponges, there will be opportunities to collaborate in a new experiment. In parallel, Eugen will join lab research associates on monthly field trips to a Marine Reserve, Medes Islands, north of Barcelona, in the context of an instrumental time series of temperature, salinity, pH, alkalinity, O2 and chlorophyll, amongst other parameters, that this lab coordinates.
Katelyn Cox ’21
Research Internship with the U.S. Geological Survey (Augusta, ME branch)
Student hydrology intern assisting in routine collection of surface-water, ground-water, quality-water data from gauging stations, wells, or QW monitoring stations all over the state of Maine.