Senior Independent Study Theses from 2024
Using Seismic Stratigraphy to predict the Tectonics of the Morant Basin, Jamaica Passage, James VanWyke Beever
Department: Earth Sciences
Soil Erosion: The Impact of Precipitation and Deficient Drainage Tile on Soil Willoughby Grove Farm, Union Township, Licking County, Ohio, James Leonard Fisher
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
Testing Stickiness and Effectiveness of Baseball Rubbing Mud, Corey Knauf
Department: Earth Sciences
Comparing Cases of Illegal Mining and Conflict Mineral Extraction in Different Post-Colonial States: Brazil, Venezuela, Ghana, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mike Paskus
Department: Earth Sciences; History
Morphological Descriptions of Freshwater Sponge Spicules from Brown’s Lake and Their Potential as Paleoenvironmental Proxies When Supplemented with Diatom Biostratigraphy, Garrett Ross Robertson
Department: Earth Sciences
The Coevolution of Humankind and Lake Erie – Past, Present, and Future Interactions, Natalie Tanner
Department: Earth Sciences; Sociology and Anthropology
On Thinning Ice: A Geoscientific Perspective on the Politics of Resource Exploration in a Changing Arctic, Athena Tharenos
Department: Earth Sciences
An Analysis of Stratigraphic, Paleoecologic, and Geochemical Variability in the "Squaw Bay Formation," Michigan Basin, Ainsley Wiesner
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Utilizing Selective Seed Breeding to Optimize Carbon Sequestration in Winter Wheat in Wooster, Ohio, Grace A. Braver
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
Climatological Analysis of Recent Pluvial Conditions in Northeast Ohio and Implications for Water Management, Caitlyn A. Denes
Department: Earth Sciences
Assessing And Projecting Stream Patterns In Hydrogeomorphology In Low-Elevation Watersheds, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA, Matthew Monroe Engfer
Department: Earth Sciences
Determining the White Spruce Climate Response and Extending the Chronology in Nabesna, Alaska, Maxwell C. Fletcher
Department: Earth Sciences
Understanding the Effects of Warming Temperatures on Mountain Hemlock Trees Located in Proximity to Columbia Glacier, Southern Alaska, USA, Nivaan Lobo
Department: Earth Sciences
An Analysis of Drought, Wildfire, and Landslide Activity Across Ventura County, CA, Christopher M. Roche
Department: Earth Sciences
Creating a Hydrological Profile of Northern Shreve, Ohio, Through Groundwater Well Analysis, Ryan Henry Sullivan
Department: Earth Sciences
Magmatic Evolution of the Bræðravirki Ridge Basalts in Western Iceland, Judith G. Topham
Department: Earth Sciences
An Analysis of the Effects of Water Chemistry on Diatom Ecology Over Time in the American Upper Midwest, Richard Cabral Torres
Department: Earth Sciences
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
Tracing Source Material For Bræðravirki Ridge Through Isotopic Analysis, Layali N. Banna
Department: Geology; Earth Sciences
Unearthing The Effects Of European-American Settlement On A Northeast Ohio Kettle Lake Through Diatom Stratigraphy, Justine Paul A. Berina
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
Creating An ArcGIS Dashboard For Climate Data Management And Visualization, Sydney Noel Case
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
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
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
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
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
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
Climate change impacts go beyond the surface: Groundwater recharge rates and aquifer resources across the Contiguous United States, Kendra R. Devereux
Department: Earth Sciences
Lateral Volcanic Blasts and Why They Occur, Grant D. Holter
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
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
The Mass Movements of Fern Valley, Morgan Antonio Pedroso Curry
Department: Earth Sciences
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
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
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
America’s Best Idea: Arguing for Bears Ears National Monument Through Leopold’s Land Ethic, Olivia Hall
Department: Earth Sciences; Philosophy
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
The Greening of the Concrete Jungle: The Connection Between Young Farmers and the Remedying of Food Deserts, Taylor Myers
Department: Earth Sciences
Effects of Global Climate Change on Extreme Flooding Events in Wooster, Ohio, Connor Moran O'Keeffe
Department: Earth Sciences
An Assessment of Combined Sewage Overflow in the Washington D.C. Division of the Potomac River, Thomas D. Peterson
Department: Earth Sciences
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
Lithostratigraphy and Palagonitization of a Glaciovolcanic Tephra Cone, Undirhlíðar Ridge, Southwest Iceland, Ric Reynolds
Department: Earth Sciences
Sclerobiont Paleoecology of the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation, Utah, Galen Schwartzberg
Department: Earth Sciences