ED31F:
Undergraduate Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean, and Space Science Research and Outreach Showcase Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Aisha Renee Morris, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO, United States and Lina C Patino, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Aisha Renee Morris, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Pranoti M Asher, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lee Phillips, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Geology, Greensboro, NC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Characteristics of Coronal Mass Ejections
Ariane Katrina Marchese, Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, NY, United States, Famim Talukder, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Taran Tulsee, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY, United States
 
An Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Project (USIP) to Develop New Instrument Technology to Study the Auroral Ionosphere and Stratospheric Ozone Layer Using Ultralight Balloon Payloads
Rachel Gamblin, Erika Marrero, Edgar A Bering III, Barry Leffer, Bonnie Dunbar, Hamza Ahmad, Daniel Canales, Chris Bias, John Cao, Megan Pina, Arian Ehteshami, Daniel Hermosillo, Abdul Siddiqui and Diego Guala, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
Evaluating the Effects of Clouds on Solar and Longwave Radiation From Moored Buoys in the North Pacific
Kelly Balmes, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Meghan F Cronin, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Calibration of a Cavity Ring Down Spectrometry and Nephelometry Setup for Measuring Aerosol Optical Properties
Isabel D Colon-Bernal, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Chemistry, Cidra, PR, United States
 
Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Dust Bowl
Evan James Cazavilan and Eric M Leibensperger, SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, United States
 
Physicochemical evolution of Saharan mineral dust aerosol during the transport over the North Atlantic Ocean
Karimar Ledesma, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Vernon Morris, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States
 
A Comparison of Mass-Based Emission Factors from Laboratory Combustion of Boreal and Sub-Tropical Peat
Joseph Knue1, Reddy L. N. Yatavelli1, L.W. Antony Chen1, Vera Samburova1, Madhu S Gyawali1, Adam Watts1, Rajan K Chakrabarty1, Hans Moosmuller1, Xiaoliang Wang1, Barbara Zielinska1, Judith C. Chow1, John G Watson1 and Anna Tsibart2, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Moscow State Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia
Analysis of El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomena’s Effect on the Gross Domestic Product of Western Pacific Nations
Matthew O'Connell1,2, Akilah Lewis3 and Daniel Mezzafonte1, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Commack High School, Commack, New York, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
Development of the Southern Ocean Climate Model Atlas
Joellen L Russell, Jessica Rudd and Paul J Goodman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Planetary Boundary Layer Dynamics over Reno, Nevada in Summer
Addison Liming1, Benjamin Sumlin2, Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar2, Heather Holmes2 and William P Arnott2, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States
 
Understanding the 2013 Boulder Flood: Assessing Extreme Precipitation Events and Future Climates in the Community Earth System Model (CESM)
Ryan Adams, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA, United States and Richard B Neale, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Physical and Biochemical Alteration of the Platte River by Phragmites australis, an Invasive Species of Wetland Grass
Rachel C Mohr1, Russell Krueger1, Laura Triplett1, Tal Michal2 and Karin M Kettenring3, (1)Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, United States, (2)Aix Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 03, France, (3)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
Linking nutrient enrichment, sediment erodibility and biofilms
Brianne Conrad, Ryan Mahon and Sarah Lawson Sojka, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA, United States
 
A Detailed Study of Debris Flow Source Areas in the Northern Colorado Front Range.
Ashlyann Arana-Morales1, Rex L Baum2 and Jonathan Godt2, (1)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States
 
Classification of Slope Collapse and Deposition after Typhoons in Chenyulan Watershed, Taiwan
Yuan-Jung Chen and Chuphan Chompuchan, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
 
Quantifying the Rate of Surface Soil Drying Following Precipitation Events Using PBO H2o Soil Moisture Time Series
Ann Marie Prue, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI, United States
 
Analysis of Atmospheric Delays and Asymmetric Positioning Errors in GPS
Kathryn Materna and Thomas Herring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
A Sedimentological Multi-Proxy Study of Late Holocene Climate Change in Southern Patagonia
Emma Carolina Hutchinson, Sverre L Leroy and Robert B Dunbar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Establishment of a Riparian Buffer Strip for Alleviating Lake Eutrophication in Eastern China
Michael Kennedy, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States, Kozma Naka, Alabama A & M University, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Normal, AL, United States and Yongbo Wu, Nanjing Forestry University, Forest Resources and Environment, Nanjing, China
 
Elucidating the effects of dam restoration on hydrologic patterns in streams and tributaries
Molly Rose Cain1, Tess A Russo1, Pamela L Sullivan2 and Andrew L Neal3, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)University of Arizona, State College, PA, United States
 
THE ROLE OF STRUCTURE AND STRATIGRAPHY ON GROUNDWATER/SURFACE-WATER INTERACTIONS IN A GAINING REACH OF THE EL RITO WATERSHED
Noah Sebastian Stewart-Maddox1, Amber Degon2, Elizabeth Tysor1, Jake Swanson2, Jordan Howard2, Marty D Frisbee3, John L Wilson4 and Brent D Newman5, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Georgia Southern University, Geology and Geography, Statesboro, GA, United States, (3)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Testing a community water supply well located near a stream for susceptibility to stream contamination and low-flows.
Elizabeth H Tysor1, Jake Swanson2, Noah Sebastian Stewart-Maddox3, Amber Degon2, Jordan Howard2, Lani Tsinnajinnie1, Marty D Frisbee1,4, John L Wilson5 and Brent D Newman6, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Georgia Southern University, Geology and Geography, Statesboro, GA, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Subsurface Structure of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: An Application of Geophysics
Gerardo Vallejo1, Brynn Loryn Galindo1, Valerie Carranza2, Carlos Gomez3, Kameron Ortiz4, Joel Castro4, Christian Falzone5, Jonathan Guandique5, Erica Emry6, Susan Jane Webb7 and Andrew Nyblade6, (1)California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, United States, (2)Los Angeles Valley College, North Hollywood, CA, United States, (3)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (4)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (5)Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (7)University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
 
Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Upper Ocean in the Drake Passage
Matthew Hurley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States and Matthew R Mazloff, SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Revisiting Antarctic Circumpolar Current Transport Estimates
Lauren Ann Sommers1, Kathleen A Donohue2 and Kellen Rosburg2, (1)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, (2)Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
Assessing ocean vertical mixing schemes for the study of climate change
Armando McNeil Howard1,2, Fari Lindo1, Jovian Fells1, Vijay Tulsee1, Ye Cheng2 and Vittorio Canuto2, (1)Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
 
CHANGES IN THE ISOTOPIC VALUE OF SEDIMENTARY NITROGEN AT CALIFORNIA MARGIN SITE 1010: A RECORD OF DENITRIFICATION CHANGES OVER THE LAST FIVE MILLION YEARS
Jessica Pu-Yu Jin, Fabian Batista and Ana Christina Ravelo, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Toward Radiocarbon Measurement of Individual Amino Acids in Marine Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM): Δ14C Blank Quantification for an HPLC Purification Method.
Amy Lynn Bour1, Taylor Broek1, Brett D Walker2 and Matthew D Mccarthy1, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Determining the Location and Magnitude of Basin and Range and Laramide Faulting, Southern Nevada
Chelsea Elizabeth Brundrett1, Melissa A Lamb1 and Sue Beard2, (1)University of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN, United States, (2)USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Variable Water Concentrations in the Asthenospheric and Lithospheric Mantle Underneath the Eastern United States
Brendan Soles1, Greg W Brennan1, Elizabeth A Johnson1, Sarah E Mazza2 and Esteban Gazel2, (1)James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Microlite Characterization of Basaltic Pumice from Two Plinian Eruptions of Chikurachki Volcano
Amalys Pena, Chance Dylan Jones, Tammy Danner, Elizabeth N Orange and Lindsay Ann Szramek, Austin Peay State University, Department of Geosciences, Indian Mound, TN, United States
 
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