ED31B:
Undergraduate Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean, and Space Science Research and Outreach Posters

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Session ID#: 12358

Session Description:
This session will bring together undergraduate student presenters with faculty co-authors to highlight Earth, atmospheric, ocean, and space science research experiences and outreach efforts.  Students from community colleges to research institutions, from the freshman through senior years are encouraged to disseminate their original ongoing and completed projects.  The first author and presenter on the abstract must be an undergraduate student. This poster session is co-sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research-Geoscience Division, UNAVCO, UCAR – SOARS Program, and the American Geophysical Union.
Primary Convener:  Rebecca Haacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Aisha R. Morris, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Lee Phillips, Council on Undergraduate Research, Washington, DC, United States and Pranoti M. Asher, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Aisha R. Morris, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Rebecca Haacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rebecca Haacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Investigating Timing of Slip along N-S Extensional Faults in the Modi Khola and Marsyandi Valleys, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal (119578)
Claire Elizabeth Spangenberg, University of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN, United States and Jeni McDermott, University of St. Thomas, Geology, St. Paul, MN, United States
Identifying Variations in Hydraulic Conductivity on the East River at Crested Butte, CO (131702)
Kassidy Nicole Ulmer, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Helen Fitzgerald Malenda, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States and Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
The Effect of Regional Tectonics on Faults in Bonaire and the Bonaire Basin: A Seismic Reflection Study (141427)
Collin Brandl1, Robert Reece2, Jacob Bayer2 and Mary Kathryn Bales2, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States
Determining Changes in Groundwater Quality during Managed Aquifer Recharge (143021)
Margaret Houlihan1, Tanvi Gambhir2, Sarah Fakhreddine2, Jason Dadakis3 and Scott E Fendorf2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Orange County Water District, Fountain Valley, United States
Ghost Forest Rising: A Hyperspectral Approach to Assessing Vegetation Health and Tree Die-Off in Response to Saltwater Intrusion in a Coastal Environment (151666)
Lizzie Lightning1, Theodore Lawrence Jass2, Alexander McGirt3 and Ryan E Emanuel2, (1)Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, United States, (2)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States
Using Flow Charts to Visualize the Decision-Making Process in Space Weather Forecasting (152298)
Myo Thu Ya Aung1, Tun Myat1, Yihua Zheng2, M. Leila Mays3, Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira4 and M. Chantale Damas5, (1)Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (5)CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside, United States
Investigation of Characteristics of Large dB/dt for Geomagnetically Induced Currents (152745)
Danny Munoz, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States, Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States and M. Chantale Damas, CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside, United States
Comparing the Characteristics of Ionosphere for Different Solar Minimum Periods (152830)
Sylvanus Bawie, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States, Chigomezyo Mudala Ngwira, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States and M. Chantale Damas, CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside, United States
Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar for Mapping Fluvial Sediments at the East River Floodplain Near Crested Butte, Colorado (159350)
Grace Guryan, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Helen Fitzgerald Malenda, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Megan L Anderson, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, United States and Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Programmatically Optimized SEM Image Acquisition for Measurement of Contamination on Molybdenum Coated Foils from the NASA Genesis Mission (160912)
Armando Gil, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Strain Accommodation of Cenozoic Rifting in the Northern Margin of the Shire Graben, Southern Malawi Rift (161934)
Wesley Todd Prater1, Kevin Ian Vélez-Rosado2, Alejandra Santiago-Torres3, Amy Rianne Pritt1, Daniel A Laó-Dávila4, Elias Chikalamo5, Patrick Rafiki N Chindandali6, Lois Kamuyango5, Estella A Atekwana4, Mohamed Abdelsalam7 and Jalf Salima8, (1)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Geology, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (3)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Geology, Mayaguez, OK, United States, (4)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (5)Malawi University of Science and Technology, Geology, Limbe, Malawi, (6)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (7)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States, (8)Geological Survey of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi
Using Passive Sampling to Asses Ozone Formation in Sparsely Monitored Areas (163051)
Cole Matthew Crosby, Jacinda Mainord and Linda Acha George, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Biomass "Green" Power Vs. Coal "Traditional" Power: Who is the Largest Emitter in Humboldt County and How Should Regulations be Addressed? (164984)
Ana Maria Zurawski, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States
Analyzing Tropospheric Ozone and NOx Emission Levels and Patterns in a Rural Town in Oregon (165092)
Sara Renee Brunk1, Cole Matthew Crosby2, Jacinda Mainord1 and Linda Acha George1, (1)Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, (2)Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
1-D Photochemical Modeling of the Martian Atmosphere: Seasonal Variations (165364)
Christopher Boxe1, Samori Emmanuel2, Ume Hafsa1, Elvin Griffith3, Jalen Moore1, Johnathan Tam1, Iftikhar Khan4, Zhuo Cai5, Beatrice Bocolod6, Jonny Zhao7, Sean Ahsan8, Noah Tang9, Justin Bartholomew10, Rifat Rafi11, Kevin Caltenco11, Kai Smith12, Makaih Rivas13, Hamza Ditta14, Hanady Alawlaqi15, Natasha Rowley1, Fatima Khatim1, Nzinga Ketema1, Joel Strothers1, Ibrahim Diallo1, Charity Owens1, Jovana Radosavljevic1, Shermane A. Austin16, Leon P Johnson1, Rosa Zavala-Gutierrez17, Nathalie Breary1, Dickens Saint-Hilaire18, Dereck Skeete19, Joachim Stock20, Sharma Blue1, Devya Gurung21 and Oluwaseun Salako1, (1)CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (3)Notre Dame Catholic High School, Fairfield, NY, United States, (4)CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY, United States, (5)Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States, (6)University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, (7)Boston University, Boston, NY, United States, (8)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (9)Stuyvesant High School, Manahttan, NY, United States, (10)Medgar Evers Preparatory High School, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (11)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (12)New Visions Charter High School, Manhattan, United States, (13)Beford Stuyvesant Preparatory High School, Brooklyn, United States, (14)Utica College, Utica, NY, United States, (15)LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, United States, (16)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (17)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Physics and Computer Science, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (18)CUNY Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY, United States, (19)CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, United States, (20)Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC Glorieta de la Astronomía, Granada, Spain, (21)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Air Quality Modeling and Forecasting over the United States Using WRF-Chem (166181)
Christopher Boxe1, Ume Hafsa1, Sharma Blue1, Samori Emmanuel2, Elvin Griffith3, Jalen Moore1, Johnathan Tam1, Iftikhar Khan4, Zhuo Cai5, Beatrice Bocolod6, Jonny Zhao7, Sean Ahsan8, Devya Gurung9, Noah Tang10, Justin Bartholomew11, Rifat Rafi12, Kevin Caltenco12, Makaih Rivas13, Hamza Ditta14, Hanady Alawlaqi15, Natasha Rowley1, Fatima Khatim1, Nzinga Ketema1, Joel Strothers1, Ibrahim Diallo1, Charity Owens1, Jovana Radosavljevic1, Shermane A. Austin16, Leon P Johnson1, Rosa Zavala-Gutierrez17, Nathalie Breary1, Dickens Saint-Hilaire18, Dereck Skeete19, Joachim Stock20 and Oluwaseun Salako1, (1)CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (3)Notre Dame Catholic High School, Fairfield, NY, United States, (4)CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY, United States, (5)Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States, (6)University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, (7)Boston University, Boston, NY, United States, (8)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (9)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (10)Stuyvesant High School, Manahttan, NY, United States, (11)Medgar Evers Preparatory High School, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (12)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (13)Beford Stuyvesant Preparatory High School, Brooklyn, United States, (14)Utica College, Utica, NY, United States, (15)LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, United States, (16)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (17)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Physics and Computer Science, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (18)CUNY Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY, United States, (19)CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, United States, (20)Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC Glorieta de la Astronomía, Granada, Spain
Dst Profile Investigation of Long-Lasting Storms with Gamma Distribution and Diffusion-Like Distribution (168584)
Ying Dong1, Jason Chou1, M. Chantale Damas2 and Dst Team, (1)Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside, United States
Indigenous Waters: Applying the SWAT Hydrological Model to the Lumbee River Watershed (169767)
Jocelyn Painter1, Nitin Singh1, Katherine L Martin2, James Matthew Vose3, David N Wear4 and Ryan E Emanuel5, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Hot Springs National, AR, United States, (4)United States Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States, (5)North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States
Changes in bottom water conditions on the New Jersey paleoshelf during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (56 million years ago) (176498)
Jill Park1, Maria Makarova1, Kenneth G Miller2, James V Browning3 and James D Wright1, (1)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States
Magnetic Susceptibility: Correlations with Clay Content and Apparent Diffusion Coefficients Controlling Electrical Double Layer Polarization (178136)
Tonian Robinson1, Kristina Keating2, Judy Robinson3, Lee D Slater2 and Beth L Parker4, (1)Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)University of Guelph, School of Engineering, Guelph, ON, Canada
Pb inventory in an ombrotrophic bog decreases over time (178605)
Erin Baumann1, Jeff Jeremiason1 and Stephen D Sebestyen2, (1)Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, United States, (2)US Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, United States
The Impact of Climate Change on World Hurricane Activity (179489)
Sakhr Aldaylam1,2, Nadia Mardmomen3, Jeffrey Delfin4 and Tricia M Marchese1, (1)Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Hostos Community College, Engineering, Bronx, NY, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (4)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Identifying Chemical and Biological Factors Affecting Soil Carbon Cycling (179701)
Damien Nakoa Farrant, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Hannah Naughton, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst, MA, United States and Scott E Fendorf, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
New Mapping in the Sand Springs Range of Western Nevada Clarifies and Constrains Regional Deformation Sequences of the Luning-Fencemaker Thrust Belt (180052)
Sean Czarnecki1, Jacob Jarvis1 and Joseph I Satterfield2, (1)Angelo State University, Physics and Geosciences, San Angelo, TX, United States, (2)Angelo State University, Physics and Geosciences, San Angelo, United States
Pore Water Arsenic Dynamics in Rice Paddies Under Projected Future Climates (180479)
Mariejo Plaganas, University of California Riverside, Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, Tianmei Wang, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, E. Marie Muehe, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States and Scott E Fendorf, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Microbial Metabolic Response to Carbon Sources in a Uranium Contaminated Floodplain (181372)
Lilia Barragan, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, Kristin Boye, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, John Bargar, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States and Scott E Fendorf, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Analysis of the geochemical gradient created by surface-groundwater interactions within riverbanks of the East River in Crested Butte, Colorado (181448)
John Lunzer, USGS New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Kenneth Hurst Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Helen Fitzgerald Malenda, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States and Alexis Nararne-Sitchler, Colorado School of Mines, Geology & Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Urban Heat Islands (UHI) and the influence of city parks within the urban environment. (183991)
William Garcia1, Vivek Shandas2, Jackson Voelkel3 and Derek Espinoza1, (1)Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, (2)Portland State University, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland, United States, (3)Portland State University, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland, OR, United States
High-volume rainfall events in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and their relationship to HYSPLIT back trajectories and chemical constituents (189046)
Ann-Lise Lise Norman1, Kailyn Joyce Stenhouse2, Bryan Jansens3, Scott Beamish2 and Chenqi Ge2, (1)University of Calgary, Physics & Astronomy, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Atmospheric Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Perceptions of Shale Gas Development: Differences in Urban and Rural Communities (191301)
Grayson Melby, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Fault Lines: Seismicity and the Fracturing of Energy Narratives in Oklahoma  (192165)
Virginia Anne Drummond, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Upper-Crustal Structure of the Møre Margin, Offshore-Norway (192364)
Aramide Temitope Moronfoye1, Shuki Ronen2, Simon L Klemperer3 and Gustavo Catao Alves2, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Effect of Bacterial Microbiota on the Silica Uptake of the Marine Diatom, Odontella sp. (198093)
Edward Jie Hughes1, Michael Kempnich2 and Marilou Sison-Mangus2, (1)Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Assessing Future Projections of Climate Extremes Over the South Central USA (199449)
Dana Laurin Gillson, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, Derek H Rosendahl, South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center - Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Esther Mullens, USGS South Central Climate Science Center, Norman, OK, United States

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