Image: Congratulations to our amazing Geology Undergrads who presented their work at CURO 2024 at the Classic Center in downtown Athens, GA! Talk Presentation: Jay Mrazek - Preliminary Results from Fiber Optic Distributed temperature Sensing of an Alabama Cave System Poster Presentation: William Bell - Mineral Alteration of Lunar Simulants. Sali Boyer - Mineral analysis of newly discovered granitic pegmatite: What it tells us about the Geologic history of the Elberton granite. Blair Cowan - Quantifying Graviportality: Sauropod Locomotion and Normalizing Allometry. Abigail Davis - Giant Barnacles as Keys to Unlocking Marine Shelf Conditions During the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition, Calvert Cliffs, Maryland. Sophie Forbes - Using Sclerochronology to Examine Indigenous and Post-Contact Harvest of the Eastern Oyster on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, U.S.A. Olivia Francois - Identifying Minerals from Elberton Quarry by using SEM Emma Head - ECO-Evolutionary relationships of Rugose Coral Morphology Maddie Hurd - The Three-Dimensional Fault Structure Underlying Carnegie Rupes, Mercury. Grace Lang - Elberton Granite: Classifying Pegmatite Anomaly with Photo-Microscopy James Muilenburg -Topographic Expressions and Growth of Thrust Faults on Mercury. Ruby Parcells - Did Chimborazo volcano cause the Late Antigue Little Ice Age or other climate changes at a regional to global scale. Kianna Pillay - Effects of Environmental Parameters on Biodegradation of Malathion Quentin Spencer, Davis Huber and Ben Kenney -The Effects of Climate Change on the Geomorphology of three Georgia Barrier Islands from 1988–2021: Sapelo, Blackbeard, and Cabretta. Sierra Wermuth - Crystal Revelations: Unravelling Elberton Granitic Pegmatite via XRD Analysis. Type of News/Audience: Department News Jay Mrazek - Preliminary Results from Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing of an Alabama Cave System William Bell - Mineral Alteration of Lunar Simulants Sali Boyer - Mineral analysis of newly discovered granitic pegmatite: What it tells us about the Geologic history of the Elberton granite Blair Cowan - Quantifying Graviportality: Sauropod Locomotion and Normalizing Allometry. Olivia Francois - Identifying Minerals from Elberton Quarry by using SEM Emma Head - ECO-Evolutionary relationships of Rugose Coral Morphology Maddie Hurd - The Three-Dimensional Fault Structure Underlying Carnegie Rupes, Mercury. Grace Lang - Elberton Granite: Classifying Pegmatite Anomaly with Photo-Microscopy James Muilenburg -Topographic Expressions and Growth of Thrust Faults on Mercury. Ruby Parcells - Did Chimborazo volcano cause the Late Antigue Little Ice Age or other climate changes at a regional to global scale. Quentin Spencer, Davis Huber and Benny Kenney - The Effects of Climate Change on the Geomorphology of three Georgia Barrier Islands from 1988–2021: Sapelo, Blackbeard, and Cabretta. Sierra Wermuth - Crystal Revelations: Unravelling Elberton Granitic Pegmatite via XRD Analysis.
