Research Students

I have had the good fortune to assist more than 50 senior honors students with their undergraduate theses in Geoscience, Chemistry and Environmental Studies at Williams College and have helped supervise (with Will Ouimet, University of Connecticut) the field studies of two dozen students who participated in the Colorado Project of the Keck Geology Consortium.

Year Student Title
2013 C. Corona

Geochemical response of two adjacent alpine streams in Green Lakes Valley, Colorado, in a low-snow year

2013 G. Lewis

Using geophysical techniques in the critical zone to determine the presence of permafrost

2013 I. Nesbitt

A comparative study of snowmelt-driven water budgets in adjacent alpine basins, Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range

2013 S. Rowe

Tree growth and climate: changing relationships in the Hopkins Forest, Williamstown, MA

2012
2011 JJ Augenbraun Residential solar thermal energy in Williamstown, Massachusetts
2011 E. Dethier Examining knickpoints in the Middle Boulder Creek catchment, Colorado
2011 K. Kantack Reconstructing Pinedale (latest Pleistocene) ice in the Green
Lakes Valley and adjacent areas, Colorado
2011 J. McCarthy Assessing eolian contributions to soils in the  Boulder Creek catchment, Colorado
2010 J.T. Trotta The distribution of tors in Gordon Gulch, Front Range, Colorado
2009 E. M. Buraas Getting water into the ground and to the channel  Gordon Gulch Colorado
2008 A. A. Weber Electrical conductivity as a proxy for soil characteristics in the Walla Walla Valley, OR
2008 A. J. Bubel Geomorphology of Devlin’s Park and the Caribou Creek catchment Colorado Front Range
2007 S. E. Tuttle Water resources of part of the west coast of Vinalhaven Island Penobscot Bay, Maine
2006 N. L. Matell Suspended sediment transport in Linnéelva Spitsbergen  Svalbard
2006 A. Burke The effect of the monsoon on coccolithophorid productivity in the Bay of Bengal
2005 R. S. Hahn Surficial deposits : digital mapping classification and GIS analysis
2005 J. E. Campbell Characterization of chemical weathering in the middle Boulder Creek : a step towards understanding front range evolution
2004 S. M. Arons Energy yield and visual impact studies of the Berlin wind project
2003 M. C. Jungers Chemical weathering and erosion rates of the Colorado Front Range west of Boulder, CO
2003 J. R. Frostenson Paleosurfaces and erosion rates of Tertiary fill basins in north-central Colorado
2001 W. B. Ouimet Sediment budgets and stream terraces : reconstructing the effects of historic land-use changes on sediment transport in the Birch Brook Catchment, Massachusetts
2001 M. Duffy Deflection of glacier flow by a bedrock ridge : Mendenhall Glacier Juneau Alaska  
2001 C. L. Carter Understanding glacier sliding from subglacially deposited silt skins
2000 T. F. Schildgen Fire and ice : the geomorphic history of Middle Boulder Creek as determined by isotopic dating techniques, Colorado Front Range
1998 C. A. Riihimaki Rates of Holocene aggradation and pedogenesis southeastern Puye Quadrangle, New Mexico
1998 S. K. Kampf The Upper Bandelier Tuff : pyroclastic flow dynamics and landscape evolution, Puye Quadrangle, New Mexico
1998 A. D. Fagenholz Evolution of a Late Pliocene lava-dammed lake and Pleistocene landslides, Española Basin, New Mexico
1997 J. K. Holbert Quaternary history and evolution of submarine banks Northern Puget Lowland Washington
1997 W. H. Crane The Quaternary evolution of Waldron Island Northern Puget Lowland Washington
1996 W. S. Morgan Terrestrial and marine evidence for changing ice regime during latest Pleistocene ice recession, northern Puget Lowland, Washington
1996 M. A. Hirshfeld Inside a latest Pleistocene ice-contact submarine fan northern Puget lowland Washington
1995 M. E. Montag A morphological and geochemical comparison of a partially reclaimed  open mine pit to a similar but undisturbed site, Cooke City, Montana
1995 M. N. Koppes A sedimentological and stratigraphical analysis of glaciomarine diamicts, San Juan Islands, Washington
1995 C. E. Shawl Occurrence of mercury and chromium in sediments and fish of NW Massachusetts
1994 C. R. Shin Determination of chromium and arsenic in Bridges and Moore’s Ponds in Williamstown, MA and Hopkins Memorial Forest
1994 D. P. White Sediment deposition and erosion during the Fraser Glaciation (Late Pleistocene) San Juan Islands, Washington
1994 C. M. Brookfield Reconstructing glacial flow through the San Juan Islands WA : striae as correlative temporal and spatial flow indicators
1992 G. Balco Late Pleistocene and Holocene history of La Malbaie Gaspesie Quebec
1991 N. Weicker Arsenic and chromium in Bridges and Moore’s ponds of Williamstown, Massachusetts
1991 P. Aengst Controversy, compromise and conflct: a critical analysis of the Wilderness Act and its implementation in California
1990 T. Sullivan The analysis of aqueous aluminum chemistry in Hopkins Memorial Forest
1990 E. Oelkers Stratigraphy  sedimentology and climatic implications of mid-Pleistocene fluvial deposits Western Espanola Basin, New Mexico
1989 B. M. Morris Chemistry and organic productivity in lakes of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — Quetico Provincial Park, Minnesota-Ontario
1989 A. C. Graham A case for integrated waste management in northern Berkshire County  
1988 M.M. Taylor A land-use plan for Williamstown, Massachusetts’ Stone Hill  
1987
1986
1985 T. Feist The chemistry of water soluble aluminum in soils from Hopkins Forest, Massachusetts  
1985 P. Bierman The deglaciation of northwestern Massachusetts
1984 K.A. Demsey Erosional history and soil development on Quaenary surfaces, northwest Espanola Basin, New Mexico
1984 B. A. Martin Stratigraphy, sedimentology and structure of the Chama-el Rito Member, Tesuque Formation, Espanola, New Mexico
1984 J.E. Ricker The sulfate chemistry of forest soils from northwest Berkshire County, Massachusetts  
1983 J.M. Hoff The effects of acid precipitation on forest soils