Geology Comps 2025 Schedule | Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 8:30am | Olin 149
8:30-9:00 am, Coffee Hour
9:00 – 10:00 am | Session 1: Meteorites and Metamorphic Rocks
9:00-9:15 am Saide DiCarlo: The Effect of Pyrohydrolysis on Trace Element Signatures in Meteorites
9:15-9:30 am Claire Boyle: Geothermobarometry of Metamorphic Rocks Associated with the Sanak-Baranof Plutonic Belt in the Chugach–Prince William Terrane & the Boundary Block, Southern Alaska
9:30-9:45 am Clara Gale: Provenance of the Kootznahoo Using U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology in Southeastern Alaska
9:45-10:00 am Sebastian Forero Escovar: Crystallization Ages and Emplacement History of the Paparoa Core Complex, South Island, New Zealand
10:00-10:15 am, Break
10:15 – 11:00 am | Session 2: Soil Science and Land Use
10:15-10:30 am Lia Salomon: Quantifying Topographic Controls on Debris Flows in Residential and Heavily Trafficked Areas on the Post-Glacial Landscape of Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska
10:30-10:45 am Adele Fredericks: Earthworm Density as an Indicator of Variation in Soil Properties with Land Use Changes at Sharing Our Roots Farm
10:45-11:00 am Liza Swanson: Assessing Soil Variability in an Enhanced Weathering Context
11:00 – 11:30 am, Break
11:30 – 12:30pm | Session 3: Structural Geology and Fault Analysis
11:30-11:45 am Hannah Hackenmueller: Re-Interpreting Borehole Breakouts from Well Logs in Central California: Implications for Stresses in the San Andreas Fault System
11:45-12:00 pm Amberly Kroha: Microstructural Analysis of Deformation Bands from Parkfield, California: Implications for Brittle Deformation off the San Andreas Fault
12:00-12:15 pm Brett Hanley: Interpreting and Correlating 1700s Cascadia Megathrust Rupture Evidence in Pacific Northwest Marshes
12:15-12:30 pm Toby Pasternak: Evaluating the Effectiveness of SFM Photogrammetry for the Development of 3-D Learning Models of Geologic Outcrops
12:30-1:45 pm, Lunch
1:45 – 2:45 pm | Session 4: Weathering and Environmental Monitoring
1:45 – 2:00 pm Collin Kelso: Figuring Out What Works: Reviewing the Pros, Cons, and Effectiveness of Passive Enhanced Weathering Settings and Feedstocks
2:00 – 2:15 pm Jordan Milashus: Chemical Weathering of the Morton Gneiss: Classification and Effects
2:15-2:30 pm Gerrit Hoving: Novel Measures of Feedlot Ammonia Emissions: Indirectly through Random Forest Regression on Spectral Data and Directly through Spectral Matched Filter
2:30-2:45pm Rachel Gregg: Measuring CO2 Flux in Enhanced Weathering Trials in Southeastern Minnesota: An Evaluation of Existing Technologies and a Proposed Optimized Model
2:45-3:00 pm, Break
3:00 – 4:00 pm | Session 5: Hydrogeology and Environmental Science
3:00-3:15 pm Ezra Buonopane: Effects of Shale, Sandstone, and Limestone Columns on Acid Mine Drainage Precipitates
3:15-3:30 pm Natalie Lang-Ree: Construction of a Landfill Simulation in a Hydrogeologic Sand Tank Physical Model
3:30-3:45 pm Jeremiah Lanzillo: Studying the Efficiency of the Ground-Coupled Geothermal Heat Exchanger at Carleton College: Groundwater Interaction and Surface Water Impacts
3:45-4:00 pm Gabriel Kaplan: Precipitation and Groundwater: Increasing Sensitivity of Deep Wells in Minnesota