UW-River Falls - Geology Research

Geology Undergraduate Research

Owolabi Ademola - 3D Geological Model of West Waha and Worsham Bayer Field, West Texas (Advisor: Dr. Ian Williams)
Roy Christianson - Analysis of well MW-10 The New Richmond Core. (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen)
Alex Jones - Compressing Simple Materials in a Hand-Powered Compression Apparatus (Advisor: Dr. Ian Williams)
Kristine Liberatore - Late Pleistocene Paleoglacier and Paleoclimate Reconstruction of Rocky Mountain National Park (Advisor: Dr. Holly Dolliver)
Angie Malchow - Miocene Shark Tooth Hill Locality, Kern County, California (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Brett Mulhern - Stream morphology, sediment and velocity distribution of two stream segments of the South Fork, River Falls, WI (Advisors: Dr. Kerry Keen, Dr. Holly Dolliver)
Amy Nachbor - Nugget Lake County Park: A New Geology Program (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)
Patti Roettger - An Elasmosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Shale of East Central Montana (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Laura Murphy - Depositonal environment of the volcanoclastic rocks of the Imas and Disappointment Lake area (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)

Erin Glunz - Variable development of weathering profiles in the St. Peter Sandstone near an unconformity" (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen).
Benjamin Hoyt - Simple Computer application of Stereonet Projections. (Advisor:Dr. Williams)
Christina Morrison - Analysis of the Paleokarst Fills in the Hanley Road- Cut in the Oneota formation (Prairie du Chien Group), Hudson, Wisconsin. (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen)
Roy Zeman - "Gold in our Backyard" (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)

Samantha Saxton - The Precambrian Geologic History of the Opelt Quarry, Neillsville, Wisconsin (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)

Kristin Borup - Late Cretaceous Mammals of the Montgomery Ranch Locality,Hell Creek Formation Rosebud County, Montana (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Laura Hagen - Detection of a Cave through Gravity Measurements. (Dr. Williams)
Candy Hougo - "Preparation of a Dinosaur Bone", (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Joe Hudak - Geological Glacial Modeling Project (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)
Paul Karlstad - Esker Discharge Energy of Pleistocene Glacial Deposits in Carlton and Pine Counties, MN and Burnett and Polk Counties, WI (Advisor: Dr. Robert Baker)
Megan Koch - Geologic Structures of Car Wrecks. (Dr. Williams)
Ally Nestrud - Simulating Salt Crystal Growth in Sedimentary Environments" (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen)
Perry Ponshock - Cambrian-Ordovician Stratigraphy Paleo-Karst Features and Implications for Faulting Near the Hanley Road cut, St. Croix County Wisconsin (Dr. Kerry Keen)
Ross Wehrle - Geomorphology of Europa. (Dr. Williams)
Anders Wicklund - The Geological History of the Flambeau Mine" (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)

Stina Andrews - Investigation of mystery fossils from the Prairie du Chien group in the vicinity of River Falls, WI (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Allison Duchateau Locations of Decorah Shale in Pierce County (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)
Kristie Leland - Gravitron- a gravity anomaly. (Dr. Williams)
Zach Nelson - Using Geographic Information Systems to Analyze Karst Topography in Woodville, Wisconsin (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen)
Nick Vreeland - Quantifying the Degree of Strain in a Basal Till: Implications for the bed conditions of the Lake Michigan Lobe (Advisor: Dr. Robert Baker)
Josh Zwadlo - 3-D Seismics using Kingdom Suite. (Dr. Williams)

Devon Brecke - Age Determination of the Nokhu Rock Glacier, Colorado, USA, through a Lichenometric Analysis (Advisor: Dr. Robert Baker)
Amanda Gross - History of Precambrian Rocks in Chippewa Falls, WIÓ (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)
Jon Jarvis - Locating the Northern Extension of the Hastings Fault in Willow River State Park, St. Croix County Wisconsin (Advisor: Dr. Ian Williams)
Apryl Jennrich - Jbsim: a computer simulation program (Advisor: Dr. Ian Williams)
Cris Merta - Faunal Diversity in Maastrichtian age microfossils of the Hell Creek Formation near Forsyth, MT (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Elizabeth Roepke - Simulation of Martian craters: The presence of water and its effect (Advisor: Dr. Ian Williams)
Kate Sykora - Submarine Growth Faults (Advisor: Dr. Ian Williams)
Mike Thoma Relationships between Stream Profiles, Slopes, Orientation and Bedrock Geology (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen)

Jeff Bruesewitz - (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)
Meghan Claussen -
Becky Dahlke - Sandbox Experiments Modeling the Activation and the Reactivation of Growth Faults. (Advisor: Dr. Williams)
Ben Gray -
Andy Gunderson - Salt Crystal Molds in the Prairie Du Chien Group (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Jenni Hopfensperger - Realistic Craters. (Advisor: Dr. Williams)
Brian Nederloe - Strength Tests on the St. Peter Sandstone and Their Relationship to the Erosion of the River Falls Beltline Project (Advisor: Dr. Ian Williams)
Bobby Turnquist - Vertebrate Fauna of the Rex Hill Locality, Hell Creek Formation, Late Cretaceous (Advisor: Dr. Michael Middleton)
Tamara J. Wittmer - Evaluation Groundwater Interactionswith the South Fork of the Kinnickinnic River, River Falls, Wisconsin. (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen)
Andrew Young - Is there till in Buffalo County, Wisconsin? (Advisor: Dr. Robert Baker)

Alyssa Boock
Michelle Dupey, Evaluation of St. Croix County's ground water quality by means of spatial and graphical analysis (Advisor: Dr. Kerry Keen)
Jill Ewald - Post-Prairie du Chien faulting near Hastings, MN and its relationship to the Midcontinental Rift System. (Advisor:Dr. Williams)
Linda Kiesow - Shoreline erosion of the Trout Brook deltas, Afton State Park, MN (Advisor: Dr. Robert Baker)
Josh Hubin - SEM imaging of fossil bacteria in copper ore rocks from the Flambeau Copper Mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)
Chris Peters - Paleontology of the Rock Elm Disturbance, Pierce County, Wisconsin ( Co-advisors: Dr. William Cordua and Dr. Mike Middleton)
Jeff Starck - Petrography and analysis of a granite quarry and associated features in central Wisconsin (Advisor: Dr. William Cordua)