Summer Research 2021 Poster Session
Summer 2021
Abstract: Phragmites australis is a fast growing invasive species native to Eurasia. Its faculatively clonal method of replicating allows it to create dense stands that drown out most other species, creating monocultures nearly everywhere they are found. A key aspect to mitigating their spread is knowing where they are, which is largely done by mapping … Read more
Phragmites australis is a fast-growing invasive species native to Eurasia. Its facultatively clonal method of replicating allows it to create dense stands that drown out most other species, creating monocultures nearly everywhere they are found. A key aspect to mitigating their spread is knowing where they are, which is largely done by mapping and remote … Read more
Abstract: Broomstick Ledges (BL) is part of the Northwoods public land preserve. Geologically, this area is in close proximity to the Eastern Border fault (EBf) and sits on the boundary between the sedimentary Hartford basin, part of the Newark supergroup, and the exotic accreted Bronson Hill terrane. At the end of the triassic, the land … Read more
Abstract: The International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Site U1537 is located in the Dove Basin off the northeast coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Scotia Sea, a region known as “Iceberg Alley.” After an iceberg breaks off the Antarctic Ice Sheet, it travels northward towards “Iceberg Alley” via the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the … Read more
Abstract: Ice-rafted sediment is deposited into the deep sea through abrasive and crushing processes causing the micromorphology of embedded quartz grains to alter. As quartz are high in silica and not easily eroded, their features could be paramount for accurate rebuilding of past ice-cap levels. Paleoclimate reconstructions require a quantitative analysis of ice-rafted debris (IRD)for … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Seafloor sediment is commonly used to give insight into the climatic history of planet Earth. Seafloor sediment is more suitable for this function than terrestrial sediment because of how dynamic the land on Earth is, and because of natural disasters that periodically affect the Earth’s topographical and geological features. … Read more
Abstract: In the Drake Passage, between Antarctica and South America, bioturbation increases during warmer (open ocean) intervals during Marine Isotope 31. Marine Isotope 31 is a period of time approximately 1 million years ago that is considered an analog to the modern day Antarctic climate because it is the most recent geological warm period and … Read more