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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023

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Utilizing Selective Seed Breeding to Optimize Carbon Sequestration in Winter Wheat in Wooster, Ohio, Grace A. Braver
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology

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Assessing And Projecting Stream Patterns In Hydrogeomorphology In Low-Elevation Watersheds, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA, Matthew Monroe Engfer
Department: Earth Sciences

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Determining the White Spruce Climate Response and Extending the Chronology in Nabesna, Alaska, Maxwell C. Fletcher
Department: Earth Sciences

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Understanding the Effects of Warming Temperatures on Mountain Hemlock Trees Located in Proximity to Columbia Glacier, Southern Alaska, USA, Nivaan Lobo
Department: Earth Sciences

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An Analysis of Drought, Wildfire, and Landslide Activity Across Ventura County, CA, Christopher M. Roche
Department: Earth Sciences

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Creating a Hydrological Profile of Northern Shreve, Ohio, Through Groundwater Well Analysis, Ryan Henry Sullivan
Department: Earth Sciences

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Magmatic Evolution of the Bræðravirki Ridge Basalts in Western Iceland, Judith G. Topham
Department: Earth Sciences

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An Analysis of the Effects of Water Chemistry on Diatom Ecology Over Time in the American Upper Midwest, Richard Cabral Torres
Department: Earth Sciences

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An Investigation of Improving Blue Intensity Measurements from Tree Rings, Gulf of Alaska, USA, Wenshuo Zhao
Department: Earth Sciences

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022

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Tracing Source Material For Bræðravirki Ridge Through Isotopic Analysis, Layali N. Banna
Department: Geology; Earth Sciences

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Unearthing The Effects Of European-American Settlement On A Northeast Ohio Kettle Lake Through Diatom Stratigraphy, Justine Paul A. Berina
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology

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Creating An ArcGIS Dashboard For Climate Data Management And Visualization, Sydney Noel Case
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology

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Analyzing The Effects Of Climate Change On Glacier Loss In The Himalayan Region And The Agriculture Economies Of The Indo-Gangetic Plains Using GIS Techniques, Srushti Chaudhari
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology

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Modeling Meets Mirror Lake: How Highly Urbanized Areas Influence Surface Water- Groundwater Interactions At The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Mazvita Marilyn Chikomo, Shelley Judge, Audrey H. Sawyer, and Kathleen M. Meiner
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology

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The Glacial History Of Wolf Lake Valley And The Development Of A 4000 Year Tree Ring Record In Glacier Bay National Park And Preserve, Alaska, Richard Allen Papay Jr.
Department: Earth Sciences

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Model Of A Biotic Hard Substrate Community: Paleoecology Of Large Trepostome Bryozoans From The Upper Ordovician (Katian) Of The Cincinnati Region, Usa, Kate Runciman
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology

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Carbon Storage Capacity And Potential Of The Metasequoia Glyptostroboides To Serve In Urban Forests At Secrest Arboretum In Wooster, Ohio, Leo M. Weeks
Department: Earth Sciences

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021

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Climate change impacts go beyond the surface: Groundwater recharge rates and aquifer resources across the Contiguous United States, Kendra R. Devereux
Department: Earth Sciences

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Lateral Volcanic Blasts and Why They Occur, Grant D. Holter
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology

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Quantifying How the Retreating Cold Microclimates Around Glaciers in Southeast Alaska Affect Rates of Warming in Nearby Mountain Ecosystems., Julia M. Pearson
Department: Earth Sciences

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The Mass Movements of Fern Valley, Morgan Antonio Pedroso Curry
Department: Earth Sciences

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There's Something in the Water: A chemical analysis of the Floridan Aquifer System, the Sagamore Aquifer, and the Killbuck Creek Aquifer, S. R. Troen
Department: Earth Sciences

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019

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Forcing a Numerical Ice Flow Model with Mass Balance Estimates Derived From Tree Rings: Experiments on the Historic Advance of Columbia Glacier, South-Central Alaska, Joshua Charlton
Department: Earth Sciences

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Have You Ever Seen the Rain? An Investigation of the Climatic Variations and the Resulting Changes to Social and Environmental Dynamics at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Melissa Dods
Department: Archaeology; Earth Sciences

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America’s Best Idea: Arguing for Bears Ears National Monument Through Leopold’s Land Ethic, Olivia Hall
Department: Earth Sciences; Philosophy

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Classic Ostreoliths Revisited: The Origin and Development of Oyster Balls from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Carmel Formation of Southwestern Utah, USA, Ethan G. Killian
Department: Earth Sciences

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The Greening of the Concrete Jungle: The Connection Between Young Farmers and the Remedying of Food Deserts, Taylor Myers
Department: Earth Sciences

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Effects of Global Climate Change on Extreme Flooding Events in Wooster, Ohio, Connor Moran O'Keeffe
Department: Earth Sciences

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An Assessment of Combined Sewage Overflow in the Washington D.C. Division of the Potomac River, Thomas D. Peterson
Department: Earth Sciences

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Reconstructing Glacier Mass Balance Through the Last Millennium Using Ring-Width and Blue Intensity Tree-Ring Records: Wolverine Glacier, South-Central Alaska, Victoria Race
Department: Earth Sciences

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Lithostratigraphy and Palagonitization of a Glaciovolcanic Tephra Cone, Undirhlíðar Ridge, Southwest Iceland, Ric Reynolds
Department: Earth Sciences

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Sclerobiont Paleoecology of the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation, Utah, Galen Schwartzberg
Department: Earth Sciences