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GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH Martin Briggs My first year as a graduate student with the Syracuse University Earth Sciences Department has been very positive and productive. During the fall of 2009 I worked along with my advisor, Dr. Laura Lautz, and Dr. Jeffery McKenzie of McGill University to determine the spatial distribution and magnitude of contaminated groundwater inflow to a stretch of lower Nine Mile Creek, not far upstream of Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. This work was done in conjunction with the consulting firm O’Brien and Gere, and we were able to identify a focused groundwater input and quantify the incoming volume per time using several methods including a relatively new fiber optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) method. I then travelled to the professional conferences of GSA in Portland, AGU in San Francisco, EGU in Vienna and CUAHSI in Boulder to present these and related findings. Currently I am working near Lander, WY using both innovative DTS applications and other cuttingedge tracer methods to determine flux patterns and associated biogeochemical patterns and microbial reactivity around beaver dams. I am working alongside Danielle Hare, a very determined undergraduate from the department. Tim Daniluk with sledge hammer! trout within walking distance of the bunkhouse, also helps the cause! None of this would have been possible without funding from the Syracuse University Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Science Foundation’s CAREER grant awarded to Dr. Lautz. I look forward to presenting this summer’s research in both manuscript form and personally at further scientific conferences. Joe Catalano I begin my second year of my M.S. degree at Syracuse this fall. I am working with Suzanne Baldwin on the Magmatic Evolution of the Woodlark Basin in Papua New Guinea. I am in the process of gathering 40Ar/39Ar ages and whole rock geochemical data from a spread of volcanic rocks from the Milne Bay Province. I also was a part of the field work, in March 2010, collecting samples, Danielle Hare with the “catch of the day” We have also had field assistance from Tim Daniluk, local community college professors and students, and Dr. Laura Lautz. Danielle and I are staying on a 40,000+ acre ranch owned by the Nature Conservancy, an organization which has been very supportive of our efforts. The amazing red rock walled canyon and field site, teeming with rainbow Joe at field camp this June overlooking the geology of the Proterozoic granite and slate at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River National Monument. structural data, and characterizing rock relationships
from the outer islands of Milne Bay. In June 2010 I attended field camp through the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in the San Juan Mountains near Silverton, Colorado to fulfill the deficiency required to graduate. This trip would not have been possible without the financial support that I received from the department – which is backed by support from generous alumni to whom I would like to thank. It was a valuable learning experience. This December I plan to present some of my preliminary data at the annual meeting for Papua New Guinea as well as at A.G.U. in San Francisco. Timothy Daniluk For two weeks from June 27 until July 10, 2010, I taught surface water hydrology at the University of Missouri’s Branson Field Laboratory in Lander, Wyoming. There were 39 students at the camp from all over the country, and these were divided into four smaller groups for instruction. During the first week, I instructed students how to gauge stream discharge using a variety of methods of varying complexity. Students were lectured on the basics of hydrology such as determining the cross-sectional area of a stream, stream velocity, and stream discharge. Estimation methods included timing an orange floating down the channel, flow meter calculations, dilution gauging using a slug test, and dye tracer tests. more, less, or the same amount of water (and dye) exited the canyon at the rise as it entered at the sinks. The students also sampled surface and subsurface geochemistry and water table elevations to generate a water table map for the island on which the camp is located. The final exam was a comprehensive, synthesizing surface water, groundwater, and geochemical methods to characterize surface and subsurface flow in a mountain tributary creek through an alluvium floodplain. Now back in Syracuse, I will return to my research with Dr. Laura Lautz on hyporheic exchange in restored streams in Upstate New York. I am using temperature to quantify fluxes into and out of the streambed, and geochemistry to identify oxygenated and low oxygen environments in the hyporheic zone of the streambed. Tathagata (Ted) Dasgupta Last Spring I have successfully defended my PhD thesis, which probably has the longest title in the history of this department: ‘Geochemistry and Geochronology of Alleghanian and ‘atypical’ Alleghanian granites from south-central Appalachians: Tim (left) with student group at Branson Field Lab. During the second week, 11 students elected to take part in advanced hydrogeology projects. These included a trip to the Fremont County Landfill, creating a water budget for Dry Lake and Gauging the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River, then performing a dye test through the underground karst network in Sinks Canyon. The students calculated whether Dr. Dasgupta’s link from the Geology Department at Kent State. Implications for magma evolution and late Paleozoic terrane accretionary history in the southern Appalachians’! I would like to take this opportunity to thank my supervisor Dr. Scott Samson, all my committee members, especially Dr. Marion Bickford, for teaching me how to enjoy writing science articles,
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