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Honors Theses from 2024

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A 35-year lake ice phenology record reveals climate change impacts on High Arctic, Jialu Tao

Honors Theses from 2023

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Radon Risk Mapping Using Uranium Series Geochemistry and Social Vulnerability in the North Carolina Coastal Plain, Heather Christensen

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Modeled Changes in Foredune Morphology Influenced by Storm Intensity, Sea-level Rise, and Mitigation Strategies, Selwyn Heminway

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The Effect of Varying Soil and hydrologic conditions on GPR interpretations to detect unmarked graves in Colonial Williamsburg, Vera Soltes

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The Age and Origin of Nelsonite in the Central Virginia Blue Ridge, Hannah Tebbens

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From the Iapetus to the Atlantic: Geology, Geochronology, and Petrology of the eastern Blue Ridge cover sequence, central Virginia, Olivia Wachob

Honors Theses from 2022

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Geologic Controls on 137Cs Cycling by Terrestrial Vegetation in the Eastern U.S., Kathleen Chellman

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Honey as a Biomonitor for Air Pollutant Deposition in the Eastern United States using Ion Chromatography and Scanning Electron Microscopy, Cole Cochran

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Age and Origin of the Albemarle-Nelson Mafic-Ultramafic Complex in Virginia's Eastern Blue Ridge: Rift Related Differentiated Sills?, Juliet Liscomb

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Developing a Comprehensive 300-year Record of Contaminant Shifts in Lake Matoaka, Virginia, Rachel Parthasarthy

Honors Theses from 2021

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Three Centuries of Vegetation Change in the William & Mary College Woods reconstructed using Phytoliths, Timothy Terlizzi

Honors Theses from 2020

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Vulnerability and Resilience of Tidal Marshes along an Estuarine Salinity Gradient, Megan Gillen

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Deposition and Deformation of Marbles at the Blue Ridge - Piedmont Transition, Central Virginia, Evan Laughlin

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The Advantages of 241Am as a Dating Tool in Sedimentary Systems, Paul Volante

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Unmasking a Terrane Triple Point in Central Virginia, Ryan Walter

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The effects of climate change and megafaunal extinction on the body size and diet of the hispid pocket mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus) over the late Quaternary, Peyton Winter

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Structural Analysis of the Shores Mélange at the Seven Islands, central Virginia Piedmont, Terri Zach

Honors Theses from 2019

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The Dimetrodon dilemma: Reassessing posture in sphenacodontians and related non-mammalian synapsids, Caroline Patterson Abbott

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Spheroidal Carbonaceous Particles in a Virginia Mill Pond Provide a Record of Local and Regional Coal Combustion, Kayla Cahoon

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U/Pb Zircon Evidence for a Cryptic Suture in the Goochland Terrane, Virginia, Hope Duke

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How Effective are Retention Ponds at Mitigating the Effects of Urban Runoff?, Joanne C. Ensley

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An 8000-year record of climate and environmental change from Lake Sandsvatn, Faroe Islands, Emily Barrows Mushlitz

Honors Theses from 2018

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Reconstructing Late Holocene sea level change and impacts on early settlements in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, Moussa Dia

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The Mechanisms of Pond Expansion in the Marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, Joshua Himmelstein

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Kinematics of Brittle and Ductile Deformation in the Catoctin Formation near Rockfish Gap, Virginia, Katherine Lang

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Lacustrine Records of Holocene Climate History and Human-Driven Landscape Evolution in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, Genevieve Pugsley

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Eclogitization and Shear Zone Kinematics in the Lofoten Islands, Northern Norway, Catherine Valery

Honors Theses from 2017

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Thresholds of barrier island change: A case study of Parramore Island, Virginia Eastern Shore, Jessica L. Raff

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Exploring the Calvert Cliffs: Interpreting classic Miocene sequences through the application of strontium isotope stratigraphy and paleoecology, Joshua B. Zimmt

Honors Theses from 2016

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Development of cosmogenic 22Na as a tool to measure young water age in multiple watersheds, Claire Goydan

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Paleomagnetic analysis of the Scottsville Mesozoic rift basin, Virginia: implications for regional geologic history, Nathan Charles Keithline

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The Formation of Fluvial Valleys on Alba Mons, Mars, Karin Eva Lehnigk

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Multi-proxy records of anthropogenic impacts on fluvial sediment discharge at Joppa Flats, Massachusetts, Justin Lee Shawler

Honors Theses from 2015

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Priming for Supereruption: the hot pre-Peach Spring Tuff lavas and Peach Spring Tuff magmatic enclaves, Black Mountains, Arizona, Megan E. Flansburg

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Knickpoints and disequilibrium in an ancient orogen: A study of central Appalachian channel profiles around Crabtree Falls, Virginia, Michelle Hoon-Starr

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A petrologic and structural analysis of metavolcanic rocks in the western Piedmont and eastern Blue Ridge provinces, central Virginia, Ciara M. Mills

Honors Theses from 2014

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The Geometry, Kinematics, and History of the Thousand Lake Fault System, Central Utah, Hanna C. Bartram

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Olfactory Ratio as a Potential Proxy for Behavior in Theropoda, William H. Brightly

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Investigating Water Ice in Persistently Shadowed Craters in Mercury's North Polar Region, Ariel N. Deutsch

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Study of Oil-Mineral Interactions by Atomic Force Spectroscopy, Jeffrey S. Knox

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Spatially variable rock erodibility related to the interaction between erosion rate and weathering in bedrock channels, Great Falls area, Virginia, Charles Shobe

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An assessment of the frequency and cause of concentrated flow on agricultural fields in the Virginia Coastal Plain portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Monica H. Stone

Honors Theses from 2013

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Characterizing rock erodibility and channel geometry along the longitudinal profile of a bedrock-floored river, Maxwell T. Cunningham

Honors Theses from 2012

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Ephemeral Organic Carbon Fluxes to the Chesapeake Bay from Agricultural Runoff on the Virginia Coastal Plain, Emma Katherine Caverly

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Using GIS to Quantify Riparian Buffer Bypassing in the Coastal Plain of Virginia within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Lyndsey Karin Funkhouser

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Structural Geology of the Scottsville Mesozoic Basin, Virginia, Kevn Quinlan

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Variability of erodibility in bedrock-floored channels produced by differential weathering, Matthew S. Sparacino

Honors Theses from 2011

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Dating Deformation: Thermochronology and Chemical and Mineralogical Changes in the Blue Ridge Basement Complex in Virginia, Chelsea Jenkins

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The Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Depositional Environment of Vertebrate Microfossil Bonebeds from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation in Garfield County, Montana, Sean Michael Moran

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Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Ferruginous Quartzites in the Chopawamsic Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia, Bradley J. Peters

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A Morphological and Phylogenetic Examination of the Miocene and Pliocene Bivalve Genus Chesapecten, Judith Anne Sclafani

Honors Theses from 2010

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Timing and Magnitude of Soil Erosion in Owens Valley, California: A Combined 137Cs and 210Pbex Approach, Guy Nathaniel Evans

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Using In Situ 10Be Soil Profiles to Date Fluvial Terraces of the South Fork, Shenandoah River, VA, Jonathan L. Garber

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3D Restoration of the Sugar Hollow Rift Basin Blue Ridge, Virginia, Andrew K. Laskowski

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The Kinematics and History of Brittle Deformation in the Petersburg Granite, James K. McCulla

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Spatially variable erodibility in bedrock channels produced by weathering, Brendan P. Murphy

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The effects of sexual dimorphism on survivorship in fossil ammonoids: A role for sexual selection in extinction, Claire E. L. Still

Honors Theses from 2009

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Cretaceous and Paleogene Sedimentary Units of the Northern Fish Lake Plateau, Central Utah, Joyce E. Carbaugh

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Tectonic Significance of the Late Neoproterozoic Swift Run Formation and Basement-Cover Unconformity in the Virginia Blue Ridge, Adam Gattuso

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Field, Petrographic, and Geochemical Constraints on the Geologic History of the Fees Rhyolite Member : Mount Rogers Formation, Blue Ridge Province, VA, Sara C. James

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Geology and Structural History of the Blue Ridge Basement Complex, Albemarle County, Virginia, Graham Lederer

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Alongshore Variations in Foreshore Morphology, Grain Size, and Wave Dissipation at a Shore Line Erosional Hotspot, Ethan John Theuerkauf

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Bare Bedrock Erosion Rates in the Central Appalachians, Virginia, Jennifer Whitten

Honors Theses from 2008

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Combining Field Data and Computer Modeling to Improve Designs for Two Wet Detention Ponds in James City County, VA, Nathan Alan Burgess

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Newly Discovered Mesozoic Basins in the Virginia Blue Ridge: Sedimentology, Provenace, Structure, and Tectonics, Ari Hartmann

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Lithologic and structural control on the evolution of a knickzone on the James River, central Virginia Piedmont, Karl Lang

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Evidence for knickzone generation and landscape disequilibrium through surficial studies of the James River, central Virginia Piedmont, Lauren Parker

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Searching for Tectonic Moments: Geochemical Tracers in Young Anatolian Basalts, Sivas, Turkey, Charles Plummer

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Examination of the abundance and geographic range of rare taxa: survivorship patterns of Miocene-Pliocene marine invertebrate fauna of the Virginia Coastal Plain, Austin L. Pryor

Honors Theses from 2006

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Waipaoa River: Physical & Chemical Analysis of an Active Margin River, Keith Moodhe

Honors Theses from 2002

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Factors that Control Trail Conditions in the College Woods, Ryan Scott McKinney

Honors Theses from 2001

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Distribution, Mineralogy and Geologic History of the Travertine-Marl deposits along Falling Spring Run, Verona, Virginia, Christopher A. Carroll

Honors Theses from 1996

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Geology of the Cactus Hill Archaeological Site (44SX202), Sussex County, Virginia, Kevin B. Jones

Honors Theses from 1990

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A Study of Shale as it Affects Carbonate Concretion and Barite Nodule Growth at an Outcrop of the Millboro Shale near Boiling Spring, Virginia, Christopher Weesner