Honors Theses from 2024
A 35-year lake ice phenology record reveals climate change impacts on High Arctic, Jialu Tao
Honors Theses from 2023
Radon Risk Mapping Using Uranium Series Geochemistry and Social Vulnerability in the North Carolina Coastal Plain, Heather Christensen
Modeled Changes in Foredune Morphology Influenced by Storm Intensity, Sea-level Rise, and Mitigation Strategies, Selwyn Heminway
The Age and Origin of Nelsonite in the Central Virginia Blue Ridge, Hannah Tebbens
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
Geologic Controls on 137Cs Cycling by Terrestrial Vegetation in the Eastern U.S., Kathleen Chellman
Age and Origin of the Albemarle-Nelson Mafic-Ultramafic Complex in Virginia's Eastern Blue Ridge: Rift Related Differentiated Sills?, Juliet Liscomb
Developing a Comprehensive 300-year Record of Contaminant Shifts in Lake Matoaka, Virginia, Rachel Parthasarthy
Honors Theses from 2021
Three Centuries of Vegetation Change in the William & Mary College Woods reconstructed using Phytoliths, Timothy Terlizzi
Honors Theses from 2020
Vulnerability and Resilience of Tidal Marshes along an Estuarine Salinity Gradient, Megan Gillen
Deposition and Deformation of Marbles at the Blue Ridge - Piedmont Transition, Central Virginia, Evan Laughlin
The Advantages of 241Am as a Dating Tool in Sedimentary Systems, Paul Volante
Unmasking a Terrane Triple Point in Central Virginia, Ryan Walter
Structural Analysis of the Shores Mélange at the Seven Islands, central Virginia Piedmont, Terri Zach
Honors Theses from 2019
The Dimetrodon dilemma: Reassessing posture in sphenacodontians and related non-mammalian synapsids, Caroline Patterson Abbott
Spheroidal Carbonaceous Particles in a Virginia Mill Pond Provide a Record of Local and Regional Coal Combustion, Kayla Cahoon
U/Pb Zircon Evidence for a Cryptic Suture in the Goochland Terrane, Virginia, Hope Duke
How Effective are Retention Ponds at Mitigating the Effects of Urban Runoff?, Joanne C. Ensley
An 8000-year record of climate and environmental change from Lake Sandsvatn, Faroe Islands, Emily Barrows Mushlitz
Honors Theses from 2018
The Mechanisms of Pond Expansion in the Marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, Joshua Himmelstein
Kinematics of Brittle and Ductile Deformation in the Catoctin Formation near Rockfish Gap, Virginia, Katherine Lang
Lacustrine Records of Holocene Climate History and Human-Driven Landscape Evolution in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, Genevieve Pugsley
Eclogitization and Shear Zone Kinematics in the Lofoten Islands, Northern Norway, Catherine Valery
Honors Theses from 2017
Thresholds of barrier island change: A case study of Parramore Island, Virginia Eastern Shore, Jessica L. Raff
Exploring the Calvert Cliffs: Interpreting classic Miocene sequences through the application of strontium isotope stratigraphy and paleoecology, Joshua B. Zimmt
Honors Theses from 2016
Development of cosmogenic 22Na as a tool to measure young water age in multiple watersheds, Claire Goydan
Paleomagnetic analysis of the Scottsville Mesozoic rift basin, Virginia: implications for regional geologic history, Nathan Charles Keithline
The Formation of Fluvial Valleys on Alba Mons, Mars, Karin Eva Lehnigk
Multi-proxy records of anthropogenic impacts on fluvial sediment discharge at Joppa Flats, Massachusetts, Justin Lee Shawler
Honors Theses from 2015
Priming for Supereruption: the hot pre-Peach Spring Tuff lavas and Peach Spring Tuff magmatic enclaves, Black Mountains, Arizona, Megan E. Flansburg
Knickpoints and disequilibrium in an ancient orogen: A study of central Appalachian channel profiles around Crabtree Falls, Virginia, Michelle Hoon-Starr
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
The Geometry, Kinematics, and History of the Thousand Lake Fault System, Central Utah, Hanna C. Bartram
Olfactory Ratio as a Potential Proxy for Behavior in Theropoda, William H. Brightly
Investigating Water Ice in Persistently Shadowed Craters in Mercury's North Polar Region, Ariel N. Deutsch
Study of Oil-Mineral Interactions by Atomic Force Spectroscopy, Jeffrey S. Knox
Honors Theses from 2013
Characterizing rock erodibility and channel geometry along the longitudinal profile of a bedrock-floored river, Maxwell T. Cunningham
Honors Theses from 2012
Ephemeral Organic Carbon Fluxes to the Chesapeake Bay from Agricultural Runoff on the Virginia Coastal Plain, Emma Katherine Caverly
Using GIS to Quantify Riparian Buffer Bypassing in the Coastal Plain of Virginia within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Lyndsey Karin Funkhouser
Structural Geology of the Scottsville Mesozoic Basin, Virginia, Kevn Quinlan
Variability of erodibility in bedrock-floored channels produced by differential weathering, Matthew S. Sparacino
Honors Theses from 2011
Dating Deformation: Thermochronology and Chemical and Mineralogical Changes in the Blue Ridge Basement Complex in Virginia, Chelsea Jenkins
The Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Depositional Environment of Vertebrate Microfossil Bonebeds from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation in Garfield County, Montana, Sean Michael Moran
Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Ferruginous Quartzites in the Chopawamsic Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia, Bradley J. Peters
A Morphological and Phylogenetic Examination of the Miocene and Pliocene Bivalve Genus Chesapecten, Judith Anne Sclafani
Honors Theses from 2010
Timing and Magnitude of Soil Erosion in Owens Valley, California: A Combined 137Cs and 210Pbex Approach, Guy Nathaniel Evans
Using In Situ 10Be Soil Profiles to Date Fluvial Terraces of the South Fork, Shenandoah River, VA, Jonathan L. Garber
3D Restoration of the Sugar Hollow Rift Basin Blue Ridge, Virginia, Andrew K. Laskowski
The Kinematics and History of Brittle Deformation in the Petersburg Granite, James K. McCulla
Spatially variable erodibility in bedrock channels produced by weathering, Brendan P. Murphy
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
Cretaceous and Paleogene Sedimentary Units of the Northern Fish Lake Plateau, Central Utah, Joyce E. Carbaugh
Geology and Structural History of the Blue Ridge Basement Complex, Albemarle County, Virginia, Graham Lederer
Alongshore Variations in Foreshore Morphology, Grain Size, and Wave Dissipation at a Shore Line Erosional Hotspot, Ethan John Theuerkauf
Bare Bedrock Erosion Rates in the Central Appalachians, Virginia, Jennifer Whitten
Honors Theses from 2008
Combining Field Data and Computer Modeling to Improve Designs for Two Wet Detention Ponds in James City County, VA, Nathan Alan Burgess
Newly Discovered Mesozoic Basins in the Virginia Blue Ridge: Sedimentology, Provenace, Structure, and Tectonics, Ari Hartmann
Evidence for knickzone generation and landscape disequilibrium through surficial studies of the James River, central Virginia Piedmont, Lauren Parker
Searching for Tectonic Moments: Geochemical Tracers in Young Anatolian Basalts, Sivas, Turkey, Charles Plummer
Honors Theses from 2006
Waipaoa River: Physical & Chemical Analysis of an Active Margin River, Keith Moodhe
Honors Theses from 2002
Factors that Control Trail Conditions in the College Woods, Ryan Scott McKinney
Honors Theses from 2001
Distribution, Mineralogy and Geologic History of the Travertine-Marl deposits along Falling Spring Run, Verona, Virginia, Christopher A. Carroll
Honors Theses from 1996
Geology of the Cactus Hill Archaeological Site (44SX202), Sussex County, Virginia, Kevin B. Jones
Honors Theses from 1990
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
