Student Research Projects
EBSD
John Carpenter '05 (Surdna Fellowship) Effects of Growth Conditions on Gallium Nitride (co-advisor M. Msall, Physics)
Coastal Maine
Astrid Rodriguez '07 (NSF grant). Volcanics of South-Central Maine.
Jeremy Huckins '06 (NSF grant). Developing a GIS data base for bedrock studies in Maine.
Scott Drew '05 (NSF grant) Geochemical Analysis of the Metavolcanics of South-Central Maine. Received 2005 Arthur M. Hussey Award and the Geological Society of Maine Walter Anderson prize for outstanding student poster.
Brandon Levy '03 (NSF grant):The Peaks Island Member of the Cushing Formation interpreted as a sub-aqueous volcanic flow succession in southern Maine. Received 2003 Arthur M. Hussey Award.
Lindsey Szramek '02 (Doherty Fellowship): Field and petrographic study of igneous rocks on Vinalhaven Island. This is part of a Keck Geology Consortium project. Received 2002 Arthur M. Hussey Award.
Kelly Lawrence '01 (NCUR Fellowship):Petrologic and geochemical study of the Casco Bay Amphibolites.
Ed Meyer '01 (NCUR Fellowship):Pressure and temperature estimates for metamorphism of the Spring Point amphibolites, Casco Bay, Maine.
Clayton Salem '02 (NCUR Fellowship): Field and geochemical study of the Tunk Lake pluton combined with a GIS analysis of the Coastal Maine Magmatic Province.
Western Maine
Harriet Van Vleck '01 (Surdna Fellowship): Geochemical and petrographic study of mafic and ultramafic blocks in the Hurricane Mountain mélange, west-central Maine. Received 2001 Arthur M. Hussey Award.
David Thomas '00 (Surdna Fellowship): Structural analysis of Penobscottian deformation in the Hurricane Mountain Melange and Dead River Formation, northwest Maine. Received 2000 Arthur M. Hussey Award.
Keck Geology Consortium Project: Tectonometamorphic Evolution of Cycladic Subduction Zone Rocks, Syros, Greece.