Senior Independent Study Theses from 2026
Exploring FlamMap to Develop a Model of Potential Wildfire Dynamics in Wooster, Ohio, Cate Barkdoll
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
A Comprehensive Study of Derecho Events and Predictive Forecasting Methods in Wayne County, Ohio, Neil Edmiston
Department: Environmental Studies; Geology
Cuyahoga River Flow: Can We Learn About Past River Flow Using Tree-Ring Analysis?, Ethan Z. Ostrow
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
Using Crystal Size Distribution (CSD) Analysis of Fe-Ti Oxides to Evaluate the Origins of the Hjallin Lens, Lauren Segura
Department: Geology
Changing Communities: An interdisciplinary look at the land-use history along the Maury River, Ryann Taylor
Department: Archaeology; Geology
Stream Restoration of Apple Creek, a Meta Analysis, Aaron Walters
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2025
Analysis of Storm Surge in Key West, Florida in The Event of a Worst-Case Scenario Category 5 Hurricane Landfall, Vincent Baioni
Department: Geology
Morphological Differences in Stromatolites in Response to Changes in the Green River Lake System, Sanpete Valley, Utah, Rheo M. Hendrickson
Department: Geology
Using Olivine to Better Understand Glaciovolcanism at Bræðravirki Ridge, Hayden Jacoby
Department: Geology
Analyzing a Pioneering Reef Community Following a Disconformity at the Silurian-Devonian Boundary of Central Ohio, Jess Link
Department: Geology
Echoes of Exploitation: A Historical and Ecological Study of Land Use, Logging, and Environmental Change in Northeastern Ohio Since European Colonization., Grace Emily Neuman
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2024
Analysis and Statistical Correlation of The College of Wooster Fern Valley Field Station, Holmes County, Wooster, Ohio, Alex Anikeeff
Department: Geology
Examining Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North American Dinosaur Teeth and Their Paleoecological Implications in the Hell Creek of Carter County, Montana, Hudson B. Davis
Department: Geology
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
Assessing Soil Recovery Dynamics in the Aftermath of the Border 32 Wildfire, Noah Fox
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Geology
Mobility Assessment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Within Soil Systems, Jameson Sprankle
Department: Chemistry; Geology
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
The Morphology, Speleogenesis, and Classification of Cave Turnips in Lehman Caves, Great Basin National Park, Nevada (U.S.A.), Ryan James Johnston
Department: Geology
Uniaxial Compression of FOAMGLAS® and Bubble Deformation, Lauren Kreeger
Department: Geology
The Nuclear Densitometer: Its Design, Use in Construction, and an Experimental Application, Adeline N. Tagg
Department: Geology
Tree Ring–Dated Glacial History for the First Millennium CE, Lower Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay, Alaska, U.S.A., John D. Whitehouse
Department: Geology
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
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
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
Glacier Bay and Ice Extent: The Relationship between the Tlingit People and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Claire Cerne
Department: Geology
Lateral Volcanic Blasts and Why They Occur, Grant D. Holter
Department: Earth Sciences; Geology
Microbial Structures of the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Carmel Formation, Southwest Utah, William M. Santella
Department: Geology
The Development of a Procedure for the PXRF Analysis of Soil Cation Exchange Capacity in Collaboration with Colorado Farmers, Claire E. Wineman
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
Bad neighbors: Do race and income affect how close people live to industrial sites?, Sarah P. Bonnelle-Roberts
Department: Geology
Land Use Change and Its Effect on Eye Size Morphology in Western Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys obtusus, Matthew Thomas Conrad
Department: Biology; Geology
Ooids of the Middle Jurassic Co-op Creek Limestone Member in the Carmel Formation, Southwestern Utah, Anna M. Cooke
Department: Geology
A Geochemical Study of Bræðravirki Ridge (Western Volcanic Zone, Iceland) Reveals Regional Glaciovolcanic Variations and Complex Tindar Construction, Hannah Grachen
Department: Geology
Sourcing Groundwater Contamination From Possible Mine Drainage in Navarre, Ohio Using MODFLOW, Alexis Lanier
Department: Geology
A History of Groundwater Pollution and Treatment in Wooster, Ohio, Mason G. Minerva
Department: Geology
Paleoenvironments containing Coryphodon in the Fort Union and Willwood Formations Spanning the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, Emily N. Randall
Department: Geology
Paleoecology of Bivalves in the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic, Bajocian) of Utah, Evan L. Shadbolt
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
Petrogenesis of Braedvikir Tindar, Western Volcanic Zone, Iceland, Simon E. Crawford-Muscat
Department: Geology
An Analysis of Fractures around the Sevier Fault Zone near Orderville, Utah, Charley H. Hankla
Department: Geology
Can Heat Flux Data from Ocean Reanalyses Predict Seasonal Arctic Sea Ice Retreat?, Ben Sershen
Department: Geology
Using Tree Rings to Date Historical Structures and to Better Understand the Land Use History of Northeast Ohio, Juwan L. Shabazz
Department: Geology
Structural Comparison of the Deformation Styles in the Arapien Formation (Twelvemile Canyon Member: Hardy Units B and C), Ninemile Reservoir, Central Utah, Michael A. Thomas
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Quantifying the Impact of Drought on Vegetation Through Remote Sensing in Northwest Jordan, 1998 to 2017, Amineh B. AlBashaireh
Department: Geology
Geologists With Borders: American Scientific and Cultural Interactions with Europe and Japan after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Brandon B. Bell
Department: Geology; History
A Morphological Study of Pillow Lavas: Generating New Data on Submarine Pillows Along the 8°20’ N Seamount Chain, Eve M. Caudill
Department: Geology
Encrusting Sclerobiont Paleoecology and Bioerosion Of Oysters in the Type Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Southwestern France, Macy A. Conrad
Department: Geology
Climate change and GLOFs: A Multi-Locational Meta-Analysis on the Peak Discharge and Flood Volume of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, Michael N. Craigmile
Department: Geology
An Analysis of Caddisfly Larval Cases from Bioherms in the Upper Green River Formation, White Hill Cuesta, Ephraim, Utah, Peter B. Hurst
Department: Geology
River Development and Incision on Dominica, West Indies, Cole Jimerson
Department: Geology
The Effects of Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Ligands on Gallium and Aluminum Mineral Weathering and Soil Sorption, Benjamin W. Kumpf
Department: Geology
Stratigraphy and the Origin of Silica at Gal Hill, Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah: A Petrographic and Geochemical Study, Eduardo Luna
Department: Geology
Predictability of Arctic Sea Ice 1800-2013, Christopher Menolasino
Department: Geology
Locality Test of the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) in the Bering Strait, Jacob Nowell
Department: Art and Art History; Geology
The Richmondian Invasion of the Late Ordovician of Cincinnati with a Focus on Trepostome Bryozoans, or the Ekphrastic Geologist and Other Essays, Matthew Shearer
Department: English; Geology
The Interpreted Depositional Environment of Large Oncoids from the Flagstaff Formation, San Pitch Mountains, Central Utah, Mara Sheban
Department: Geology
Reconstructing the Cretaceous Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological Setting of Salina Canyon Using Paleosols, Sevier County, Utah, U.S.A., Emmett Werthmann
Department: Geology
Urban Surface Material Mapping Using Very High Resolution Hyperspectral Imagery and Thermal Imagery, Feiyi Wu
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Improving p-XRF Capabilities for In Situ Geochemical Analysis: A Case Study of Arkansas's Magnet Cove and Stanley Shale, Elizabeth Backman
Department: Chemistry; Geology
Brachiopods of the Decorah Formation exposed in northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota (Sandbian, Upper Ordovician), Dominique B. Bell
Department: Geology
Exploring the Significance of Water in Crystallographic Formation Through the Analysis of Olivine, George C. Buehler
Department: Geology
Magnetic Susceptibility as an Indicator of Anthropogenic Alteration to Three Wisconsin Temperate Lakes, Andrew L. Conaway
Department: Geology
Iron ooids in the Decorah Formation (Upper Ordovician, Sandbian), in southeastern Minnesota, Etienne V. Fang
Department: Geology
Animating the Dynamic of Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Conner Gelwicks
Department: Geology
Modeling Glacier Mass Balance and Glacial Dating in Alaska, Jeffrey Gunderson
Department: Geology
High Resolution Remote Sensing: Detection and Monitoring of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in the San Francisco Bay, Annette E. Hilton
Department: Geology
Origin and paleoecology of ferruginous oncoids ("snuff-boxes") of the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) in the Inferior Oolite Group of southern England and northern France, Cassidy D. Jester
Department: Geology
Lithologic and Well Log Analysis of a Four Well Case Study, in Morrow County, Ohio, Kevin M. Komara
Department: Geology
Western tropical Atlantic hydrology changes during abrupt climate events in the last glacial interval, Sarah M. McGrath
Department: Geology
An Analysis of the Erosion at Wooster Memorial Park near Wooster, Ohio, Sharron Osterman
Department: Geology
Projection of Groundwater Pumping Sustainability in Volta Wildlife Refuge, Merced County, CA, Helen Siegel
Department: Geology
Assessing the Life Modes of Conodonts within the Decorah Shale (Late Ordovician of Southeastern Minnesota and Northeastern Iowa), Dean E. Thomas
Department: Geology
Paleo-Ice Thickness of a Glaciovolcanic Tindar Ridge, Reykjanes Peninsula, Southwest Iceland, Chloe Wallace
Department: Geology
“Reading” Glacier Bay: a landscape of cultural and physical glaciation from the Little Ice Age to the 21st century, Andrew D. Wayrynen
Department: English; Geology
The Paleoecology of Prasopora falesi in the Decorah Formation (Upper Ordovician) of northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota, Rachel M. Wetzel
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
Ice Springs Volcanic Field: New Insights and History for a Series of Complex Eruptions, Kelli W. Baxstrom
Department: Geology
Investigating Blue Light Intensity in Tree Rings to Generate High-Sensitivity Summer Temperature Records for Southern Alaska., Madeline Happ
Department: Geology
An Isotopic analysis of belemnites from the Speeton Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Filey Bay, North Yorkshire, England., Mae L. Kemsley
Department: Geology
Paleoecology and Depositional Environments of the Passage Beds Member (Upper Jurassic, North Yorkshire, England), Meredith E. Mann
Department: Geology
Late Holocene Glacial History of Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska., Daniel R. Misinay II
Department: Geology
Mentoring Structures in Undergraduate Research, Brittany A. Nicholson
Department: Geology
Analysis of Water Quality Parameters and Preliminary Investigation into the Impacts of Human Access on the Water Quality of the Nisqually River, Mount Rainier National Park, Eric Parker
Department: Geology
Volatile Analysis of Glaciovolcanic Glass Rinds Collected From Pillow Ridge in the Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, Ncvp, British Columbia, Canada, Mary C. Reinthal
Department: Geology
The Use of Multiple Dating Methods to Determine the Age of Basalt in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Millard County, Utah, Krysden A. Schantz
Department: Geology
A Magmastatic Model: The Computational Exploration of Correlative Sheeted Dike Components and Implications for Dike Eruptibility, Trevor Shoemaker
Department: Geology
Regional Volcanic Extinction as a Mechanism for Subsidence in the Vatnsdalur Structural Basin, Skagi Peninsula, Northwest Iceland, Adam M. Silverstein
Department: Geology
Reconstructing Glacial History from Forests Preserved in the Wake of the Catastrophic Retreating Columbia and Wooster Glaciers, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Kaitlin N. Starr
Department: Geology
Emplacement Processes and Monogenetic Classification of Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Central Utah, Michael Williams
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
Grazer Dynamics on a Relict Acroporid Patch Reef System and Their Implications for the Carbonate Budget at Coral Gardens, Belize, Sarah K. Bender
Department: Geology
Zeolite Identification and Distribution in the Vatnsdalur Structural Basin, Northwest Iceland, Olivia L. Brown
Department: Geology
Dating the Glacial History Near Wolf Point, Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Southeast Alaska, Zachery Downes
Department: Geology
Macroborings and their Relationship to Encrusting Bryozoans on Brachiopods and Bivalves from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnatian Group, Coleman D. Fitch
Department: Geology
Dendroclimatology in the Far East: Two-century tree-ring reconstructions of Amur River flow, Sarah E. Frederick
Department: Geology
The Symbiosis Between Bioclaustrated Organisms and their Host Bryozoans in the Late Ordovician, G. William M. Harrison IV
Department: Geology
Growth Patterns of Acropora cervicornis Affected By Current Flows at Coral Gardens, Belize, Thomas R. Herold
Department: Geology
Analysis of gabbroic xenoliths in pillow basalts, Pillow Ridge, MEVC, British Columbia: implications for crustal contamination, metasomatic crystallization and petrogenesis., Leo Jones
Department: Geology
Extending the Reconstruction of Surface Air Temperature from the Gulf of Alaska Using Tree Rings, Wilson Nelson
Department: Geology
Origins of Oregon: A Cultural Geography of Two Oregonian Cities, Claire McNaught Ramey
Department: Geology; History