Student Profiles 2005
- Sean Armstrong
- Tyler Barnes
- Amanda Fafard
- Melissa Golschneider
- Michael Hussey
- Meegan Kelley
- Jason Messier
- Jason O'Neill
- John McLaughlin
Sean Armstrong
Sean is a Senior Environmental Science major with a Physics concentration. His Senior project focused on stream efficiency in handling storm discharge, and was titled A Preliminary Assessment of Drainage Efficiency Throughout the Cox Brook Drainage System, Central Vermont.
Tyler Barnes
Tyler is a Senior Environmental Science major with an English concentration. His Senior project, titled Natural and Anthropologic Influences on Water Chemistry Within Cox Brook, Central Vermont, focused on natural and manmade influences on stream chemistry.
Amanda Fafard
Amanda is a Senior Environmental Science major with a Biology concentration. Her Senior project, focusing on the effects of encroaching drilling contaminants on the water quality of a local pond, was titled A Water Quality Analysis of a “Moose Pond” Downstream from the OK Well Field, Central Vermont. Central Vermont.
Melissa Golschneider
Melissa is a Senior Environmental Science major with a Biology concentration. Her Senior project, Ecological Assessment of “Moose Pond”; Are Influences from Drilling Additives Observable?, focused on the health of aquatic organisms in a local pond. Melissa also did a research project in her Junior year titled The Competing Effects of Bedrock, Till and Dilution on Dissolved Solids in Paine Creek, Northfield, Vermont.
Michael Hussey
Michael is a Senior Geology major. His Senior titled: Trends of Bedrock Geochemistry Across Strike in the Cox Brook Drainage Basin, Central Vermont , that focused on the changes in whole rock compositions across an ancient volcanic basin.
Meegan Kelley
Meegan is a Senior Environmental Science major with an Engineering concentration. Her Senior project, Clast Lithologies of Late Wisconsinan Lodgement Till in the Cox Brook Drainage Basin, Central Vermont, focused on the rates of change in the gravel-sized component of glacial deposits in relation to changes in the rocks the ice runs over. Meegan also was a Student Research Fellow in 2004, working with Prof. Rick Dunn on Geology and Roman Tomb Construction at the Kenchreai Cemetery, Corinthia, Greece .
Jason Messier
Jason is a Senior Environmental Science major with an Engineering concentration. His Senior project focused on rates of change in sand-sized and finer glacial sediments in response to their source, and was titled Elemental Analysis of the Fine-Grained Fraction of Lodgement Till in the Cox Brook Drainage Basin, Central Vermont.
Jason O'Neill
Jason is a Senior with a double major, one in Environmental Science and the second in Geology. His Senior project, Subsurface and Surface Migration of Drilling Additives Down Gradient from the OK Well Field, Moretown, Vermont, focused on tracing contaminants over and through the ground. Jason carried out a project in his Junior year with Prof. Rick Dunn titled On the Possibility of a Two-Till Site in West Brookfield, Vermont.
John McLaughlin
John graduated in 2004 with a degree in History. He completed a project with Professor Richard Dunn that was presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, entitled Late-glacial to early post-glacial sedimentological evolution of Sunset Lake; a small, upland basin in central Vermont.
