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2000-2010 Honors Projects

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2010 Honors Projects

Madelyn Mette

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2010

Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy and Magnetic Susceptibility of the Upper Ordovician Daravgai and Gashuunovoo Formations, Gobi-Altai Terrane, Shine Jinst Area, Southern Mongolia 

Jeffrey Dobbins

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2010

A Geochemical Analysis of the Tuffaceous Deposits at Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska

Nora Catolico

Advisor: Kristi Curry Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2010

Osteohistological Analysis of a Late Cretaceous Herpetofauna (Maevarano Formation, Madagascar)

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2009 Honors Projects

Rachel Murray

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2009

A Geochemical Framework For Fossilization In The Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine And Judith River Formations of Montana 

Hannah Wydeven

Advisor: Kelly MacGregor
Senior Honors Thesis: 2009

Paleoenvironmental change over the past 4000 years in Glacier National Park, Montana: carbon and nitrogen in lake cores from Lake Josephine and Swiftcurrent Lake

Alana Bartolai

Advisor: Kelly MacGregor
Senior Honors Thesis: 2009

Reconstructing The Paleoenvironment Of The Great Salt Pond On Block Island, Rhode Island: A Stable Isotope Analysis Of Foraminifera Elphidium Excavatum Over The Last 1750 Years

Kenneth Nelson

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2009

Clay Mineralogy Across A Sequence Boundary In The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation, North-Central Montana

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2008 Honors Projects

Danny Bowman

Advisor: Karl Wirth
Senior Honors Thesis: 2008

Seismicity and Evidence for Undersea Hydrothermal Activity on Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Robin Canavan

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2008

Authigenic Cements and Rare Earth Elements Signatures in Microfossil Bonebeds from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation, Northcentral Montana

Sophia Kast

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2008

Reconstructing Late Cretaceous Climate in the Mahajanga Basin of Northwestern Madagascar

Alexandros Konstantinou

Advisor: Karl Wirth
Senior Honors Thesis: 2008

Origin of Lake Superior Region Super-Mature Quartz Arenites: Evidence from U-Pb Detrital Zircon Ages of Early Paleozoic Sandstones

Scott Persons

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2008

A Field Laboratory Study of the Ediacaran Fossils of Hewitt’s Cove: Evidence of Tectonic Deformation and Consideration of Paleobiology

Tom Tobin

Advisor: Kelly MacGregor
Senior Honors Thesis: 2008

Water Discharge and Glacier Hydrology at West Washmawapta Glacier in British Columbia, Canada

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2006 Honors Projects

Cara L. Harwood

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2006

Authigenic Mineralization and Geochemical Taphonomy of Vertebrate Microfossils from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana

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Honors Projects 2005

Mara Brady

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2005

An Experimental and Field-Based Approach to the Taphonomy of Microvertebrate Assemblages: A Case Study in the Judith River Formation of North-Central Montana

Chris Dwyer

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2005

A Comparative Investigation of Diagenesis in Fossil Teeth and Fish Scales from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine and Judith River Formations of Montana

Brett Dennis-Duke

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2005

Revisiting the Magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations, Northwestern Madagascar

Josephine Williams

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2005

Authigenic cements and Rare Earth Element Concentration in Fossil Bones from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, Northwestern Montana

Kirsten Fristad

Advisor: John Craddock
Senior Honors Thesis: 2005

The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katmai National Park, Alaska as a Mars Analogue

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2004 Honors Projects

Anna Jerve

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2004

Geochemical analysis and characterization of paleosols from the Upper Cretaceous Masorobe Member of the Maevarano Formation, Mahajunga Basin, northwestern Madagascar

Brady Z. Foreman

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2004

Geochemical Charaterization and Discrimination of Bentonites in the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, Northwestern Montana

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2003 Honors Projects

Michelle M. Casey

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2003

Magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano and Berivotra Formations, Mahajanga Basin, Northwestern Madagascar

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2002 Honors Projects

Jennifer A. Anziano

Advisor: John Craddock
Senior Honors Thesis: 2002

Calcite Twin and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Analyses of Ultramafic Lamprophyre Dikes: A Study of Strain Orientations and Flow Fabrics

Alexander W. McKiernan

Advisor: John Craddock
Senior Honors Thesis: 2002

Stress-Strain Analysis in Precambrian Quartzites from Wisconsin: Evidence for Eastward Continuation of the ca. 1650 Ma Mazatzal and Central Plains Orogenies

Elizabeth A. Hajek

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2002

Comparative Sedimentology of Two Late Cretaceous Localities near New Ulm, Minnesota

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2001 Honors Projects

Rebecca Terry

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2001

Character and Significance of a Silicified Unconformity in Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Strata of the Limpopo Valley, Southern Zimbabwe

Travis O. Sandland

Advisor: Karl Wirth
Senior Honors Thesis: 2001

A Fusion Based Method of Whole Rock Dissolution for ICP-Mass Spectrometry and the Origin of Midcontinent Rift Granophyres

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2000 Honors Projects

Joshua Miller

Advisor: Ray Rogers
Senior Honors Thesis: 2000

Paleosols as Indicators of Paleoclimate in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Northwestern Madagascar

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