2012 LDEO Summer Interns
Nadya Ali - Barnard College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Brian Mailloux
Sulfide Concentration and its Effect on Arsenic Speciation in Groundwater – Abstract and Slide
Tal Anderman - Columbia College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Roseline Remans
Assessing Tradeoffs for Human Wellbeing and Agro-diversity of Smallholder Cash Crop Production – Abstract and Slide
Daniel Berman - Cornell University, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Bill Ryan , Frank Nitsche , and Tim Kenna
Water Matters: Elemental Abundances in Sediment Cores Need to be Corrected for Porosity – Abstract and Slide
Robert Colgan - Columbia College, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Tim Crone
Developing an Apparatus to Study On-Demand Turbulent Bouyant Jets in the Lab - Abstract and Slide
Sara Donatich - Barnard College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - William D'Andrea
Early Miocene Climate: Investigating the relationships between Earth's orbital cycles and New Zealands's climate in the early Miocene – Abstract and Slide
Amanda Duchesne - Dartmouth College, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Trevor Williams , Sidney Hemming and Joel Gombiner
K/Ar Dating of Fine Grained Sediments Near Prydz Bay, Antarctica:East Antarctic Ice Sheet Behavior During the Middle-Miocene Climate Transition – Abstract and Slide
Peter Ferencevych - Ramapo College, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Tim Crone
Video Image Analysis of Turbulent Buoyant Jet Plumes Using Lab Simulations – Abstract and Slide
Nick Gogan - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Dallas Abbott and Baerbel Hoenisch
Were the Density Offsets in Hudson River Sediment Cores Caused by Tsunami, Storm Surge, or River Flood? – Abstract and Slide
Liora Hostyk - Barnard College, NOAA Funded Program
Mentor(s) - Kevin Anchukaitis , Richard Seager and Ben Cook
Late Victorian Holocaust: paleoclimate detection and attribution study of the 1876-78 megadrought – Abstract and Slide
Daniel Johnson - Washington University in St. Louis, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Sidney Hemming , Trevor Williams , and Joel Gombiner
Argon Concentrations of Fine-Grained Marine Sediments near Wilkes Land, Antarctica: Source Characterization and Implications for Ice Sheet Behavior during the Middle Miocene – Abstract and Slide
Sara Lavenhar - Columbia College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Krista McGuire
Assessing Ammonia-Oxidizing and Denitrifying Bacterial Abundance in Urban Rooftop Farming Systems receiving varied Fertilizer Amendments – Abstract and Slide
Robert Marter Jr. - Millersville University, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Xiaojun Yuan
SAM Global Telecommunication at Multidecadal Time Scales – Abstract and Slide
Elizabeth Matamoros - Harvard University, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Frank Nitsche and Tim Kenna
Color Tells a Story: Evidence of Megafloods into the Black Sea when the Alpine/Eurasian Ice Sheets Collapsed – Abstract and Slide
Jessie Mathews - Boston University, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Brad Linsley
Reconstructing the past: How coral Sr/Ca and oxygen isotopes can be used to reconstruct past sea surface temperature and salinity in the Makassar Strait, Indonesia – Abstract and Slide
Claire Mathieson 
- Barnard College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Michael Kaplan and Gisela Winckler
Cosmogenic Dating of Moraines in the Transantarctic Mountains – Abstract and Slide
Caitlin Meadows - University of Michigan, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Tim Creyts
An experimental look at subglacial water drainage – Abstract and Slide
Souha Ouni - Barnard College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Jonathan Nichols and Dorothy Peteet
How does carbon storage in Imnavait peatland, Arctic, AK shift with vegetational and climate change? – Abstract and Slide
Frank Pavia - Columbia College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Dorothy Peteet and Jonathan Nichols
Reconstructing paleoclimate and carbon storage of Alaskan Peatlands during the Holocene – Abstract and Slide
Samuel Phelps - Brown University, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Pratigya Polissar
Did Cooling of Subthermocline Waters Help Establish Modern Upwelling Regions? Evidence from ODP Site 716 in the Indian Ocean – Abstract and Slide
Molleigh Preefer- Columbia College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Pratigya Polissar
Delta D Precipitation Record from Laguna Blanca, Venezuela over the past 11,000 Years: Not So Black and White – Abstract and Slide
Alan Seltzer - Columbia College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Qiang Yang and Dave Goldberg
Assessing the Accuracy of the NUTMON Model on Agricultural Nitrogen Balances in Sub-Saharan Africa – Abstract and Slide
Kerri Sidebottom - Columbia College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Clare Sullivan and Jonathan Hickman
Paleohydrography south of Africa:How did the position of the Subtropical Front (STF) change and what is its role in regulating Agulhas Leakage since the Last Glacial Maximum? – Abstract and Slide
Alexandra Skrivanek - University of Michigan, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Allison Franzese
Chemical composition of core samples from Newark Basin, a potential carbon sequestration site – Abstract and Slide
Philipp Stoelting - Columbia Engineering, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Cantwell Carson , Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park , and Martin Stute
Carbon Dioxide Accounting-Sulfur Hexafluoride-Tagging of Supercritial CO2 to demonstrate Viability of 14CO2-Tagging for Carbon Sequestration – Abstract and Slide
Jaclyn Testani - Columbia College, Earth Intern Program
Mentor(s) - Neil Pederson and Dario Martin
Do temperate deciduous forests experience synchronous disturbances? – Abstract and Slide
Marissa Wright - University of South Carolina, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Sidney Hemming and Dave Barbeau
Characterizing Cretaceous Glaciation Events: K-Ar Ages of Southern Ocean Sediments – Abstract and Slide
Catherine Yeh - Hofstra University, NSF REU Sites Program
Mentor(s) - Trevor Williams and Dallas Abbott
What is the Age and Origin of the Spherule Bearing Layer in some Ross Sea Cores? – Abstract and Slide