Contact Information

Sharon L. Kanfoush, Ph.D.
Program Chair
176 Gordon Science Center

(315) 792-3134

Geoscience at Utica College

School of Arts and Sciences    Utica College Bachelor's Degree


Student Research



Past Student Geoscience Research Projects

 

2008


Tessa Malcarne – Environmental Audit of Utica College

Greg Hurd (Wesleyan University of CT Earth & Environmental Science major; Dr. Kanfoush was his research advisor at the invitation of Dr. Suzanne O'Connell at Wesleyan) – High-Resolution Multiproxy Analysis of Adirondack Lake Sediments to Constrain the Timing and Frequency of Multiannual- to Decadal-Scale Variations and Identify Potential Causes

2007

Adriane Spytko – Morphological Variations in Diatoms in Lake Erie Sediments in Response to Historical Nutrient Loading

2006


Amanda Whittemore (with Dr. Provost in Biology) – Examination of Sediment Grain Size and Organic Content in Marsh Sediments and Implications for Polychlorinated Biphenyl Affinity and Distribution. 

2005


Michael Washburn – Morphology of Ice-Rafted Debris in the Southeast Atlantic Across Glacial Termination V. 

Jennifer Lounsbury and Elizabeth Hyer (with Dr. Provost in Biology and Dr. Pulliam in Chemistry) – Occurrence of Poly-chlorinated Biphenyls in the Utica Marsh, New York.


2004


Gillian Chapman (Hamilton College Geology major; Dr. Kanfoush was her senior thesis advisor at the invitation of Dr. Eugene Domack at Hamilton) – Grain Size Analysis of Fine Sediments at Site 1094 (South Atlantic): Eolian vs. Hemipelagic Origin. 


Resulting Student Research Poster Presentations


(Student authors shown in bold.)

Whittemore, A., Kanfoush, S.L., Provost, T. and C. Pullium, 2006. Examination of polychlorinated biphenyl affinity with sediment grain size and organic matter. American Chemical Society Abstracts with Programs, Northeast Regional Meeting, Binghamton, NY.

Kanfoush, S.L. and M.W. Washburn, 2006. Preliminary study of morphology of ice-rafted debris in the southeast Atlantic across Termination V. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs vol. 38, no. 2: p. 14. Regional Meeting, Harrisburg, PA.

Hyer, E.A., Lounsbury, J.A., Kanfoush, S.L., Provost, T.L. and C.R. Pulliam, 2006. Downcore occurrence of polychlorinated biphenyls in the Utica Marsh, central New York. American Chemical Society Abstracts with Programs, Northeast Regional Meeting, Binghamton, NY.

Lounsbury, J.A., Hyer, E.A., Kanfoush, S.L., Provost, T.L. and C.R. Pulliam, 2006. Downcore occurrence of polychlorinated biphenyls in the Utica Marsh, central New York. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs vol. 38, no. 2: p. 80. Regional Meeting, Harrisburg, PA.

Chapman, G.E., Kanfoush, S.L. and E. Domack, 2004. Fine sediment in ODP Site 1094 (South Atlantic): Eolian versus hemipelagic determination. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36 (2): 154. Regional Meeting, Washington, D.C.


 

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