2018 LDEO Summer Interns
Zoe S. Aarons - Bowdoin College
Mentor(s) - Suzana J. Camargo
• Tropical Cyclones in the NASA GEOS-5 Model and MERRA-2 Reanalysis – Abstract and Slide.
Kimberly Acevedo - Dominican College of Blauvelt
Mentor(s) - Robert Poirier, Reinhard Kozdon and Maureen Raymo
• What Determines the Quality of Benthic Foraminifera at Site 1089 in the Deep South Atlantic Ocean? – Abstract and Slide.
Alyson N. Churchill - Colby College
Mentor(s) - Jerry McManus
• Evidence for Heinrich Events and Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Central North Atlantic – Abstract and Slide.
Tyler A. Clemens - University of Idaho
Mentor(s) - Billy D'Andrea
• Past Environmental Change on Rapa Nui: Elemental Abundances and Leaf Waxes from Two New Lake Sediment Cores – Abstract and Slide.
Bridget Craig - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Yael Kiro and Steve Goldstein
• Isotopic Analysis of Dead Sea Sediment from the Last Glacial – Abstract and Slide.
Bronte Dalton - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Arlene Fiore, Martin Stute and Róisín Commane
• Quantifying the NYC Carbon Budget: Using a Particle Dispersion Model to Calculate Atmospheric Enhancement – Abstract and Slide.
Mamadou Diallo - Brooklyn College
Mentor(s) - Karin Block and Dallas Abbott
• Can We See Dust from the 1992 Fall of the Peekskill Meteorite in Hudson River Sediments and Can We Use It as a Stratigraphic Marker? – Abstract and Slide.
Darian F. Fernandez - Dominican College of Blauvelt
Mentor(s) - Beizhan Yan, Andy Juhl and Pam Factor-Litvak
• Impact of Nuisance Flooding on Contaminant Distribution in Coastal Floodplains – Abstract and Slide.
Natalia M. Figueredo - Barnard College
Mentor(s) - Elise Myers and Andy Juhl
• The Impact of Particle Association on Temperature-Dependent Growth and Light-Induced Mortality of Vibrio sp. in the Hudson River Estuary –Abstract and Slide.
Madison Q. Gaetano - The College of William and Mary
Mentor(s) - Robert Poirier, Reinhard Kozdon and Maureen Raymo
• Shifts in Benthic Foraminiferal Preservation Correspond with Ocean Circulation Changes During the Last Deglacial Transition – Abstract and Slide.
Solana Y. Huang - Brown University
Mentor(s) - Vicki Ferrini
• Morphologic changes in hydrothermal vent sites in the Lau Basin and their implications for the resiliency of vent fields in Back-Arc Basins – Abstract and Slide.
Ingrid Izaguirre - University of Miami
Mentor(s) - Laura Haynes and Bärbel Hönisch
• Changes in Deep Pacific Carbon Storage Over the MPT? B/Ca Derived Deep Pacific ∆CO32- Pre & Post Mid-Pleistocene Transition – Abstract and Slide.
Juan D. Jaramillo - Queensborough Community College
Mentor(s) - Steve Chillrud and James Ross
• Developing a Modular Array of Environmental Sensors for Epidemiological Investigations of Pediatric Asthma – Abstract and Slide.
Zoe R. Krauss - Colorado College
Mentor(s) - Bill Menke
• The Northern Gulf Anomaly (NGA): Characterizing a Continental-edge Asthenospheric Upwelling Using Seismic Velocity Perturbations – Abstract and Slide.
Jingyu Liu - Southern University of Science and Technology
Mentor(s) - Joachim Goes and Beizhan Yan
• Microplastic Contamination History in New York City – Abstract and Slide.
Brigid Lynch - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Qiang Yang and Steve Chillrud
• Comparing Particulate Pollutant Concentrations Inhaled by Bicyclists in NYC – Abstract and Slide.
Bridget M. McCann - Kingsborough Community College
Mentor(s) - Dallas Abbott and Ben Bostick
• Regional and Local Stratigraphic Markers in Three Hudson River Cores Taken Near Peekskill, New York: LWB4-3 – Abstract and Slide.
Tiara N. Ogus - SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Mentor(s) - Jonathan Nichols
• Analysis of Sterol Diagenesis Stages in a Peat Core from Kamchatka, Russia – Abstract and Slide.
Sarah Ortiz - Barnard College
Mentor(s) - Beizhan Yan and Joachmi Goes
• The Effect of Microplastic Type on Pharmaceutical Sorption in the Waterways of New York City – Abstract and Slide.
Celeste T. Pallone - Barnard College
Mentor(s) - Tim Kenna and Frank Nitsche
• Surface Sediment Texture in the Eastern Long Island Sound – Abstract and Slide.
Annemarie Pillsbury - Dutchess Community College
Mentor(s) - Jerry McManus
• Evidence of Ice Rafted Debris Suggests Icebergs Reached as far as the Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean During the Last Deglaciation – Abstract and Slide.
Michael D. Pirrie - Housatonic Community College
Mentor(s) - Bill Menke
• Evidence of Partial Melt in the Northern Appalachian Anomaly – Abstract and Slide.
Connor E. Sauceda - The University of Chicago
Mentor(s) - Joachmi Goes and Helga Gomes
• Positive Effects of Hypoxia and Increasing Atmospheric CO2 on Bloom-Forming Noctiluca scintillans – Abstract and Slide.
Katharine G. N. Scanlan - Barnard College
Mentor(s) - Brian Mallioux
• Identifying the Source of Carbon Fueling Arsenic Contamination of the Pleistocene Aquifer in Bangladesh – Abstract and Slide.
Sarah C. Shi - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Kevin Uno
• What Plant is That? Chemotaxonomy from n-alkane Molecular Distributions of East African Plants with Implications for Paleoecology – Abstract and Slide.
Sara Sobolewska - Kingsborough Community College
Mentor(s) - Julie Oppenheimer and Amanda Lindoo
• How Can Analog Experiments Help Understand Core Segregation in Small Planetary Bodies? – Abstract and Slide.
Jasmine K. Vera - Orange County Community College
Mentor(s) - Qiang Yang and Steve Chillrud
• Air Pollution: Optimizing Personal Air Monitors – Abstract and Slide.
Katherine A. Wegleitner - Columbia University
Mentor(s) - Einat Lev
• Investigating the Effect of Viscosity and Pulsating Effusion Rates on Lava Dome Morphology Through Physical Models – Abstract and Slide.
