2023
Smith College Campus ADA Accessibility Report, Lily Gould, Olivia Kraft, Allison Pasbjerg, and Mia Schildbach
2022
Determining Conditions for Storage and Release of Road Salt Pollution in a Calcareous Fen: A Hydrological and Geochemical Analysis of Kampoosa Bog, Stockbridge and Lee, MA., Wayne D. H. Ndlovu, Honors Project
Animal Abundance and Redox Conditions During the Furongian Cambrian SPICE Event, Western Utah, Amelia E. Olsen, Honors Project
Assessing Global Seismic Moment Balance, George C. Pharris, Honors Project
Skeletal Abundance and Diversity in the Lower Ordovician Catoche and Fillmore Formations: Tracing the Roots of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, Ashley Rivas, Honors Project
Reconstructing Past Temperatures from Lake Sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania, Australia Using the brGDGT Biomarker Proxy, Ibuki Sugiura, Honors Project
2021
Elemental tungsten partitioning in the SE Greenland Archean Thrym Complex, Victoria Eileen Devlin McLoughlin, Honors Project
Evaluating redox conditions during the Cambrian SPICE event, western Newfoundland, Canada, Amy Patricia Isabelle Hagen, Honors Project
Investigating strike-slip faulting parallel to the Icelandic plate boundary using boundary element models, Anna Elaine Rogers Pearson, Honors Project
2020
Understanding the role of slow slip events in the Cascadia earthquake cycle, Juliette Paule Saux, Honors Project
2019
Tracking magma evolution using strontium isotopes in plagioclase antecrysts in the Cuillin Center, Scotland, Sofia Jean Johnson, Honors Project
Analysis of pre-extinction archaeocyathan reefs of the lower Cambrian Harkless formation, southwest Nevada, Olivia Renton Leadbetter, Honors Project
Microbial metazoan interaction and the generation of microbial fabrics, Molly Megan, Honors Project
The abundance of animals in lower Cambrian carbonates of the western United States : ǂb the effects of the archaeocyath extinction on benthic communities, Rhiannon Zoe Nolan, Honors Project
Modern benthic foraminifera of Carbla Beach, Shark Bay, Western Australia: population ecology and taphonomy, Daniel Eli Wood, Honors Project
2018
Effects of mineral weathering and acid mine drainage on Pco2 in Davis Mine Brook and Maxwell Brook Watersheds, Rowe, Ma., Casey L. Armanetti, Honors Project
An ecosystem analysis of legacy heavy metal contamination in central New Hampshire : regional atmospheric deposition versus localized impacts from historic mining, Emma Elizabeth Harnisch, Honors Project
Sedimentary redox geochemistry of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, British Columbia, Chiza Ngachize Mwinde, Honors Project
Sources of dissolved constituents in a high arctic glacial meltwater stream, Molly Dennison Peek, Honors Project
Fossils preserved by iron-bearing minerals in the Lower-Middle Cambrian Carrara formation, Jade Ziqiu Zhang, Honors Project
2017
Locating slow slip events in Cascadia across space and time, Elias Greylin Molitors Bergman, Honors Project
Modeling sediment transport during sluicing events in Paradise Pond, MA, Cheryl Lyn Watts, Honors Project
2016
Origin and metamorphism of xenoliths in the Cuillin Center, Isle of Skye, Scotland, Emily Abbott DiPadova, Honors Project
Experiments investigating retention of sodium in peatlands affected by road-salt pollution, Hannah Ruth Francis, Honors Project
Archaeocyathan reefs and chemostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian wood canyon formation in Titanothere Canyon, Death Valley, California, Teresa Claire McGann, Honors Project
A study of geomorphologic and geochemical evidence for prehistoric floods from Paulina Lake in Newberry Crater, Central Oregon, Heather Elizabeth Upin, Honors Project
2015
Petrography, geothermobarometry and metamorphic history of metapelites from the Central Ruby Range, southwest Montana, Clémentine Hamelin, Honors Project
Microfossil assemblages in Cryogenian (~716 Ma) cap carbonates of Namibia, Zambia, Mongolia and Arctic Alaska, Kelsey Reed Moore, Honors Project
Geologic mapping and characterization of Nicholson Crater, Mars, Alyssa Christine Pascuzzo, Honors Project
2014
Determining the surficial vs. penetrative origin and distribution of caliche crusts in Quaternary carbonate eolianite deposits on San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Sarah Katherine Brisson, Honors Project
Modeling coseismic slip of the 2012 Nicoya Peninsula earthquake, Costa Rica : roles of megathrust geometry and surface displacement, Paula M. Burgi, Honors Project
Early Cambrian phosphatized archaeocyathans and small shelly fossils of southwestern Mongolia, Camille Honoré Dwyer, Honors Project
Ooid formation at Pigeon Creek Delta, San Salvador Island, the Bahamas, Kiara Jeannelle Gomez, Honors Project
2013
Experimental investigation of garnet nucleation from chlorite + quartz mixtures at 8kbar pressure, Samantha Elizabeth Blanchett, Honors Project
Paleoecology of post-extinction fossil assemblages of the lower Triassic virgin limestone member in the Muddy Mountains, Southern Nevada : new insights into silicification of recovery faunas, Sophie Westacott, Honors Project
2012
Conflicting kinematics of the Salerno Creek deformation zone, Grenville Province, Ontario, Naomi Anna Barshi, Honors Project
The Hrafnfjordur central volcano : petrogenesis of a volcanic sequence in the early stages of an Icelandic rift zone, Emily Francis Carbone, Honors Project
Geochemical analysis of the Cambro-Ordovician Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada, Katherine Amelia Castagno, Honors Project
Investigating the ecology of post-Sturtian (~716 Ma) microfossil assembleges in a cap carbonate, the Rasthof formation, northern Namibia, Lilly Alaine Dalton, Honors Project
Experimental calibration of Fe and Mg partitioning between garnet and biotite samples at elevated pressures, Kathryn Elaine Durkin, Honors Project
Sedimentology and paleobiology of a putative cap carbonate, the Virgin Springs limestone, in the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak formation, Death Valley, CA, Kaylyn Oates, Honors Project
Computer modeling of the evolution of the Gilkey and Thiel Glacier Valley profiles, Juneau Icefield, Alaska, Jenna Marie Zechmann, Honors Project
2011
The formation of large garnets at Gore Mountain, New York : experimental partial melting of amphibolite and meta-gabbro, Jennifer Anne Axler, Honors Project
Insights into the origin of the South Fork fault detachment, Wyoming, using calcite strain analysis, Katherine Ann Kravitz, Honors Project
Characterization of trace metal concentrations and mining legacy in soils, Boulder County, Colorado, Ellen Marcia Maley, Honors Project
Origin of the enigmatic breccia and folds in the Turners Falls formation, Deerfield Basin, Western Massachusetts, Lily Elizabeth Seidman, Honors Project
Structural analysis of Precambrian mylonite zones, Henry's Lake Mountains, southwest Montana and Idaho, Alianora Walker, Honors Project
2010
The Forsterite-Anorthite-Albite system at 5 kb pressure, Kristen Elizabeth Rahilly, Honors Project
2009
Atmospheric mercury deposition in an isolated environment : a 150-year record at Block Island, Rhode Island, Rachel Neurath, Honors Project
Metamorphism of graphitic schists from Syros, Greece, Roxanne Renedo, Honors Project
Mineralogy and origin of Zn-rich horizons within the arctic volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Ambler District, Alaska, Danielle Schmandt, Honors Project
Geochemical investigation of weathering in a high arctic watershed and provenance of ssediments in Kongressvatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Maya Li Wei-Haas, Honors Project
2008
The influence of geologic and anthropogenic interactions on geochemical processes in the critical zone of vineyards near Milton-Freewater, Oregon, Ruth Indrick, Honors Project
Stratigraphy, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the Bolivar Cu-Zn skarn deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico, Merilie Reynolds, Honors Project
1949
An Areal Study and Petrographic Description of the Triassic Igneous and Sedimentary Rocks of the Black Rock Area, South Hadley, Massachusetts, Rachel M. Barker, Honors Thesis