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Human-Computer Interaction: “
Twitter Redesign and Prototype
” – Jonathan Alland ’16
Readers: Michael Eckmann and Sarah Sweeney
4. Geosciences Undergraduate Research Exposition
EMERSON AUDITORIUM
Faculty Sponsor: Meg Estapa, Geosciences
Presenters: Emma McCully ’16, Melanie Feen ’16, Benjamin Freiberg ’16, Patrick
Thieringer ’16, Candace Wygel ’16, Rachel Barrachina ’16, Alex (Richard) Ng-Yow ’16,
Taimur Khan ’17, Michaela Ritz ’17
Geosciences majors will present their undergraduate projects in presentation and poster
formats. The 2016 Geosciences Exposition includes presentations investigating climate
change, oceanography, geomorphology, and biogeochemical system modeling as well as
career trajectories for women in geosciences and a live demo of a new high-tech outreach
and education visualization tool in the Dana Atrium.
3:00 pm
Developing a Technique to Determine Iron-Bearing Mineral Composition in
Hydrothermal Plumes Using Optical Backscattering Sensors
- Emma McCully ’16
3:15 pm
Net Community Production from Autonomous Oxygen Observations in the Sargasso Sea
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Melanie Feen ’16
Poster Session 3:30-4pm
Sex-based Inequalities in Academic Geoscience
– Rachel Barrachina ’16
Soiled: An analysis of Saratoga Springs soils using handheld XRF and gamma detection
spectroscopy - Benjamin Freiberg
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Continued Analysis of the Glacial Lake Warrensburg Varve Chronology Reveals
Punctuated Glacial Retreat: Results from HF-300.001: Paleoclimatology Practicum
-
Taimur Khan ’17
Modeling Disruptions to Coastal Silica Transport from the Three Gorges Dam on the
Yangtze River
- Michaela Ritz ’17
XRF Analysis of Glacial Lake Warrensburg Sediment Cores: Climatic and Geologic
Controls on Varve Geochemistry
- Patrick Thieringer ’16
Comparing Replicate Stalagmite Records from Cave Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize: A
Test of the Hurricane Masking Hypothesis
- Candace Wygel ’16
Demonstration 4:00 pm, Dana Atrium
A Virtual Reality Sandbox for the Dana Atrium: Use your hands and some sand, to
