2015 LDEO Summer Interns
Georgia M. Bolduc - Bowdoin College
Mentor(s) - Wade McGillis and Diana Hseuh
Bronx River Breathing: An analysis of the effect of pollution on productivity in the Bronx River – Abstract and Slide
Parker Case - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Allegra LeGrande, Kostas Tsigaridis
The Effect of Stratospheric Water Vapor in Large Volcanic Eruptions on Climate and Atmospheric Composition – Abstract and Slide
Dorthy Fang - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Andrew Juhl
Effects of Crude Oil on Growth Rate and Variable Fluorescence of Synechococcus sp. Marine Cyanobacteria – Abstract and Slide
Kayla Farrel - Barnard College
Mentor(s) - Brian Mailloux and Tyler Ellis
Investigating the Uptake of Inorganic Particulate Iron for the Pennate Diatoms Phaedactylum tricornutum and Thalassiosira pseudonana - Abstract and Slide
Camera Ford - Brown University
Discovery Program
Mentor(s) - Einat Lev
Red Hot: Determining the Physical Properties of Lava Lake Skin – Abstract and Slide
Karina Galinskaya - Brooklyn College
Mentor(s) - Dallas Abbot and Gary Mesko
Proposed Impact Lakes in the Russian Heartland – Abstract and Slide
Vincent Guarnaccia, Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Beizhan Yan
Transport of Oil from the Deepwater Horizon Spill – Abstract and Slide
Mariana Guzman Marquez - Bowdoin College
Mentor(s) - Alexandra Bausch, Joachim Goes
Why is green Noctiluca taking over the Arabian Sea? Assessing physiology with respect to N sources – Abstract and Slide
Thomas Harper - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Mentor(s) - Bill Menke
A Sharp Edge of the Cratonic Lithosphere of North America – Abstract and Slide
Allison Hooks - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Frank Nitsche
Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Hudson River Marshes – Abstract and Slide
Kevin Jackson - Lafayette College
Mentor(s) - Kevin Uno, Pratigya Polissar, Peter de Menocal
Changing Vegetation in Northeast Africa: Plant Wax Carbon Isotope Ratios Indicate Late Miocene Appearance of C4 Grasses – Abstract and Slide
Christy Jenkins - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Joachim Goes, Helga Gomes
Phytoplankton Community Structure, Biomass and Photosynthetic Competency Associated with Microscale Features and Frontal Zones of the Gulf Stream – Abstract and Slide
Omar Mahmood - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Ryan Abernathy and Lorenzo Polvani
Salinity Changes in the Southern Ocean – Abstract and Slide
Kelsey Markey - Columbia University
Program
Mentor(s) - Cheryl Palm, Stephen Wood
Assessing Nutritional Differences in Household Level Production and Consumption in African Villages – Abstract and Slide
Sarah McGrath - College of Wooster 
Mentor(s) - Allison Jacobel, Jerry McManus
Geochemical comparison of pink and white Globigerinoides ruber: Investigating habitat niches and their paleoclimatic significance – Abstract and Slide
Jenny Olson - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Yael Kiro and Steve Goldstein
Dead Sea Water Sources during Periods of Extreme Aridity: Insights from U Isotopes – Abstract and Slide
Rebekah Packer - Barnard College
Mentor(s) - Dorothy Pateet, Jonathan Nichols
Macrofossils from No Bottom Pond, Nantucket reflect three millennia of changing land use and depositional environment – Abstract and Slide
Judy Pu - MIT
Mentor(s) - Bess Koffman, Cristina Recasens, Mike Kaplan, Sidney Hemming
K/Ar geochronology as a tool for tracing dust provenance in the Southern Hemisphere – Abstract and Slide
Briana Ramirez - St. Mary's University
Mentor(s) - Heather Ford
Investigating Changes in North Pacific Intermediate Water During the Last 4 Million Years – Abstract and Slide
Sarah Raney - Eckerd College
Mentor(s) - Kim Popendorf
Where’s the P in Plankton? Phosphorus allocation to DNA across different picoplankton of the Sargasso Sea – Abstract and Slide
Danielle Schimmenti - University of Miami
Mentor(s) - Jerry McManus, Adi Torfstein
Geochemistry of Marine Particulates Before Deep Sea Burial: What is the fate of 231Pa and 230Th in the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea? – Abstract and Slide
Peter Skryzalin - Rutgers New Brunswick
Mentor(s) - Bill Menke
The Seismically Slow Feature in the Asthenosphere Beneath Southern New England is Small and Intense – Abstract and Slide
Jason Swann - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Sam Phelps, Pratigya Polissar
Has atmospheric CO2 decreased over the last 11 million years? – Abstract and Slide
Imari Walker Karega - University of California Berkeley
Mentor(s) - William D'Andrea, Andrew Juhl
Interrogating a paleothermometer: Understanding alkenone production by algae as a function of light and temperature – Abstract and Slide
Anna Weiss - Oberlin College
Mentor(s) - Jonathan Nichols, Dorothy Peteet
Can New Zealand Peatlands Reveal Shifts in Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds? – Abstract and Slide
Jack Wilding - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Won-Young Kim
High-resolution seismic tomography in the northeast United States using Transportable Array data – Abstract and Slide