Theses from 2024
A Paleoseismic Investigation of the Marquesado Fault in San Juan (27-33.5°S), Argentina, Drew Cochran, Shreya Arora, Jeremy Rimando, Gustavo F. Ortiz, Melina Villalobos, and Raul Gomez
Determining Surface Rupture of the 1803 Earthquake in Central Himalaya Using Paleoseismology, Molly E. Harmon
Carbon Dynamics Upstream and Downstream of a Tidal Restriction in Drakes Island Salt Marsh, Wells, Maine, Jamie W. Hollander
Tidal restriction affects carbon dynamics in the Jones Creek Salt Marsh, Scarborough, ME, USA, Anna E. Sarrazin
The Nature of a Quartz Pebble Conglomerate Unit as Understood through Large-Scale Mapping and Thin Section Analysis, Cal D. Schrupp
Theses from 2023
Analyzing Mono Basin Surface Waters for Stable Isotopes (𝛅𝟏𝟖𝐎 and 𝛅𝟐𝐇) and Major Cations to Assess Basin-Wide Evaporation and Geochemical Inputs, Madison A. Broda
An Inventory and Analysis of Post Glacial Faults in Maine, Nicholas Chiu
Plant Succession and Soil Chemical Weathering on Post-glacial Landscapes, SE Alaska, Alana Margerum
A Paleoseismic Investigation of the Central Seismic Gap and Rupture Extent of the AD1505 Earthquake: Northwest Himalaya, India, Natalie Meenan
Petrogenetic history of lava flows from the Casitas Shield in the Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile, Maeve S. Mikulski
Theses from 2022
Methane Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, and Groundwater Hydrology Along the Freshwater Margin of the Sprague River Salt Marsh, Parker Caswell
Reconstructing early Holocene warmth in outer Isfjorden, Svalbard using stable isotope analysis on the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica, Emma Isabelle Christman
Quantifying Crevassing, Damage, and Deformation on the Vaughan Lewis Icefall, Alaska, Cecilia G. Gichner
Marine Climate Reconstruction from the Early Holocene Arctica islandica from Erdmannflya Peninsula, Svalbard, Dewi Henry
Assessing the Impacts of a Ditch Plug on Groundwater Hydrology, Sedimentation, and Carbon Dynamics in a Salt Marsh, Phippsburg ME, Henry Stephen King
Nitrogen isotopes in Zostera marina: tracking anthropogenic nitrogen in Casco Bay, Maine., Ojochenemi T. Maji
Holocene marine climate reconstruction through δ18O isotopes of the bivalve Serripes groenlandicus, Maya P. McDonough
Spatial Elevation Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration Variability Within Sprague Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine, Margaret R. O'Brien
Geochemistry of Three Distinct Lewiston Quadrangle Pegmatites, ZaneAldeen Rahabi
A Structural Analysis of the Plumbago Mountain Fault, Pluton, and Associated Pegmatites, Evan Joseph Saltman
A comparison of carbon sequestration and vegetation history in two Maine salt marshes, Emily Lillian Torkelsen
Theses from 2021
Post cleanup composition and geochemical analysis of historic gold processing residues, Owen Daniell
Impacts of Sea-Level Rise, Accretion, and Subsidence on Recent Changes in Elevation of the Sprague Marsh in Phippsburg, Maine., Summer Caroline Dias
Quantifying Changes in Snow Melt Conditions and Water Equivalent as Result of Arctic Warming in Linnédalen, Svalbard, Olympia CH Fisher
Bedrock Geology, Geochronology, and Tectonic History of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium in Northern New Hampshire, Liza Anne Folsom
Geometry of Brittle and Ductile Bedrock Structures Influencing Groundwater Hydrology Adjacent to the Chlor-alkali Superfund Site, Berlin, NH, Peter B. Galloway
The effect of tidal flow restriction on carbon density in Sprague and Small Point marsh, Phippsburg, Maine., Brianna Karboski
Data Analysis and Spatial Mapping of Dissolved Oxygen in the Surface Waters of the Androscoggin River from 1930-2019, Vanessa Lee Paolella
Flow Banding Formation in Spherulitic Felsic to Intermediate Composition Dikes at Mt. Jasper, Berlin, New, Evelyn Randazzo
Monitoring Beach Retreat and Sediment Shift at Seawall Beach, Phippsburg, ME, Jacob Purdy Russett
The Nature of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium - Central Maine Terrane Contact in the North Berlin 7.5’ Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Thomas F. Sheils
A Comparison of Sediments from Above and Below a Tidal Restriction in the Back River Creek Marsh, Woolwich, ME, Carolyn Ruth Snow
Theses from 2020
Exploring the Possibility of Liquid Immiscibility in the Ste. Dorothée Sill near Montréal, Québec, Michael Cooper
The Effects of Fluorine on the Viscosity of Melts in the (Na, K) ALSiO4-SiO2 System, Emily Erard-Stone
Impact of Lead Mining on Sediments in a Proximal Pond to the Mascot Mine in Gorham, New Hampshire, Forrest Hamilton
Late Glacial to Holocene Sea Level History of Kapp Linné, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, Hannah Brierly Johnson
A Historical Account of Atmospheric Lead Deposition in Basin Pond, Fayette, Maine, Samuel Kent Onion
Estimating the Displacement on the Norumbega Fault System Using Quartz Microstructures, Christopher T. Sargent
Hydroclimate Reconstruction in the Changing High Arctic Maritime Environment, Linnédalen, Svalbard, Emma Lea Wheeler
Theses from 2018
The Alderbrook and Riverton Stages of Glacial Lake Israel and their Significance to the Indigenous Peoples of the Israel River Complex, Hazel Cashman
Eelgrass Bed Carbon Storage in Casco Bay, John Doyle, Beverly Johnson, and Philip Dostie
Assessing the Amount of Carbon Stored in Maine Salt Marshes, Ashley L. Kulesza
Sediment trap analysis in high-arctic lake Linnévatnet indicates a recent shift in the annual hydrological regime, Gabriel H. P. McGinn
A Zooarchaeological and Paleoclimate Analysis of Gadus Morhua Otoliths Recovered from the Sandwick South Site, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom, A. Douglas McNab
Structure and Kinematics of the Jefferson Oliverian Dome in the Southern Half of the Mt. Crescent 7.5’ Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Thorn King Merrill
Bedrock Mapping of the Southern Portion of the 7.5 Minute Mt. Crescent Quadrangle, Northern New Hampshire, Kurt A. Niiler
The postglacial sea level history of Ingøya, northern Norway, Sam Rickerich
Urbanization: Impact on Dissolved Oxygen and Sedimentation in the Hart Brook Watershed (Lewiston, Maine), Hannah Rae Slattery
Analysis of Thermal Properties of Permafrost, and Modeling, Mary Elizabeth Szatkowski
Theses from 2017
The effect of fluorine on melt viscosity in the NaAlSiO4 - KAlSiO4 system, Madeline Stella Bruno and Genevieve Robert
The Effect of Fluorine on the Viscosity of Jadeite-Leucite Melts, Olin Rico Carty and Geneviève Robert
Methane Emissions Above and Below a Ditch Plug, Sprague River Marsh, Phippsburg, ME, Kelsey Chenoweth
Salinic to Neoacadian Deformation within the Migmatite Zone of the Central Maine Belt in Western Maine, Erik James Divan
Newly Discovered Albee Formation in the Northern Half of the Jefferson, NH 7.5’ Quadrangle: Detrital Zircons, Structure, and Tectonics, Ian W. Hillenbrand
Petrology of the hastingsite-riebeckite Granite of Mt. Cabot, NH, Colin Robert Kraft
A Mid-Late Holocene Multi-Proxy Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Northern Finnmark Using a Sediment Core from the Island of Ingøy, Norway, Claire Lockwood Markonic
Late-Season High-Sedimentation Events in a Sediment Trap Record from Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Noel L. Potter
Assessing the effectiveness of using Typha as a proxy for estimating seasonal methane emissions on Maine’s southeastern salt marshes, Daniel Stames
Stable Isotopic Evidence for Nutrient Cycling at Two Zostera marina Meadows in Cape Cod, MA, Yacine Sylla
Bedrock Geology, Stratigraphy and Geochronology in the Migmatite Terrain of the Southern Gilead 7.5’ Quadrangle, Western Maine, Audrey Wheatcroft
Paleoenviromental Reconstruction from the Sediment Record of the Varved Proglacial Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, Gwenyth Williams
Theses from 2016
The Influence of pressure and temperature on the metal-silicate partitioning of V, Cr, and Mn: implications for the formation of the Earth’s core, Christopher William Bradbury
Monitoring the Effects of Marine Derived Nitrogen due to an Alewife Migration at Nequasset Lake, Woolwich, Me, Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum
Structure and Geochronology of the Jurassic Pliny Range Caldera Complex: 7.5’ Jefferson Quadrangle, Northern New Hampshire, Jordan Leigh Cargill
Recent Changes To The Dynamic Sandy Beach System At The Mouth Of The Kennebec River, Mid-Coast Maine, Nicole Marie Cueli
Methane emissions along a salinity gradient of a restored salt marsh in Casco Bay, Maine, Cailene M. Gunn
Applications of LiDAR in the study of landscape geomorphology, Sandwich Range, White Mountain National Forest, Sarah G. Koe
Hydrothermal oxide and nontronite deposits at Seamount 3, Wolf-Darwin lineament, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador, Megan J. Lubetkin, Steven Carey, and Genevieve Robert
Mid-Holocene Marine Paleoclimate Reconstruction Through Schlerochronological Analysis of Arctica islandica from Finnmark, Rolvsøya, Northern Norway, Samuel Zimet Mark
High Resolution XRF Sediment Analysis of Late Season Precipitation Events in a High Arctic Glaciated Watershed: Svalbard, Norway, Christiane P. McCabe
Stocks and Sources of Carbon Buried in the Salt Marshes and Seagrass Beds of Patos Lagoon, Southern Brazil, Elizabeth Weis Patterson
A Late-Holocene Marine Climate Reconstruction Using the Bivalve Arctica islandica from Northern Norway, Julia Margaret Savage
The Effect of Na:K Ratio on Melt Viscosity within the SiO2-NaAlSiO4-KAlSiO4 System, Rebecca Anne Smith
Theses from 2015
Mobilization of Metals by Fungi in Historic Cemeteries, Eleanor D. Briggs
A Paleolimnological Study Reconstructing Organic Carbon Accumulation and Climate History; Mealy Mountains, Labrador, Canada, Timothy D. Campbell
Deformation Post-Doming: New mapping of the Oliverian Jefferson Dome, Mt. Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Michelle Devoe
Analysis and Comparison of Physical Properties and Morphology of Impact Melt Flows on Venus and the Moon to Determine Atmospheric Controls, Christine Elizabeth Dong
Reconstruction of the Post-Glacial Formation of the Peddocks Island Salt Marsh, Hull, MA, Sean W. Enos
Paleoclimatic implication of lake sediment geochemistry in Linnévatnet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Benjamin Gray Merkert
Petrogenesis and Paleostress Analysis of the Mesozoic Mill Brook Dike Zone in the Mount Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Graham Grear Oxman
Analysis of Sediment Traps in Linnévatnet, Svalbard for Reconstruction of Annual Sediment Flux and Lacustrine Processes, Tess L. Walther
Bedrock Geology of the Mt. Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Sarah Mei Xiao and J. Dykstra Eusden
Theses from 2014
A Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Linnédalen, Svalbard using Geochemical and Productivity Proxies, Alexandra Michelle Balter
Nutrient dynamics of an alewife migration in Nequasset Lake: Evidence and modeling efforts, Wells Tanner Cunningham
A Physical and Mineralogical Analysis of Late Holocene Sand Deposits: A Case Study of Little Ice Age Coastal Change in the Shetland Islands, UK, Christopher Trent Halsted
Using LiDAR to Map the Geomorphology of the Swift River Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Cameron A. Held
LiDAR as a Tool for Lineament Mapping and the Reevaluation of Bedrock and Glacial Geology: Examples from the Mount Moosilauke Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Joshua T. Sturtevant
LiDAR as a Tool for Lineament Mapping and the Reevaluation of Bedrock and Glacial Geology: Examples from the Mount Moosilauke Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Joshua T. Sturtevant
Depositional Setting and Deformation History of Central-Western Maine: Silurian Stratigraphic Revisions for the Newry-Gilead Region, Sula Q. Watermulder
Theses from 2013
Assessing the impact of marine-derived nutrient on nitrogen cycling in Nequasset Lake in reponse to the 2012 migration of anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoherangus), Chester Chiao, Beverly Johnson, Philip Dostie, and Theodore V. Willis
600 Years of Late Holocene Climate Variability Inferred from a Varved Proglacial Sediment Record Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Colin W. Dowey and Michael J. Retelle
A Geomorphic and Sedimentological Study of the Periglacial Processes and Environments, Vardeborgsletta, Western Spitsbergen Svalbard, Lauren Brett Farnsworth
Analysis of brittle Paleogene structures in the Svea region, eastern Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Amanda LaFarge Goss
A geochemical investigation of Late Holocene lake sediment cores from Pyramid Lake, Fiordland, New Zealand, David J. Harning
Variations in hypoxia and productivity along the Oregon Margin during the Younger Dryas and Early Holocene, Conor M. Maginn, Beverly Johnson, Jennifer L. McKay, Jesse M. Muratli, and Alan C. Mix
Maine's blue carbon: estimating carbon stocks in Maine saltmarshes, Margaret Alice Pickoff
Tracking Seasonal and Storm Induced Recession of the Popham-Seawall Barrier Beach Complex, Phippsburg, Maine, Amanda Lee Wescott