Keck Geology Consortium projects for 2009/2010. Locations of projects here.

Deadline for Student applications will be Monday, February 2nd, 2009.  Online application process.

Oregon Project

Title: Source to Sink – Weathering of volcanic rocks and their influence on soil and water chemistry in Central Oregon.

Project faculty: Holly Frey (Union) and Kathryn Szramek (WLU)

Students: 6

Wisconsin Project

Title: The Geology and Ecohydrology of Springs in the Driftless Area of Southwest Wisconsin

Project Faculty: Susan Swanson (Beloit) and Maureen Muldoon (UW-Oshkosh)

Students: 6

Mongolia Project

Title: Paleobiogeographic Reconstruction of the Gobi-Altai Terrane, Mongolia.

Faculty: Connie Soja (Colgate), Paul Myrow (Colorado College), and Jeff Over (SUNY-Geneseo)

Students: 8

Southeast Alaska Project

Title: Exhumation of the Coast  Mountains Batholith during the Greenhouse to Icehouse transition in Southeast Alaska: A multidisciplinary study of the Paleogene Kootznahoo Formation.

Faculty: Cameron Davidson (Carleton College); Karl Wirth (Macalester College); Tim White (Penn State University)

Students: 9

Alaska - Aleutians Project

Title: Late Cenozoic Volcanism in the Aleutian Arc: Examining the pre-Holocene record on Unalaska Island.

Faculty: Kirsten Nicolaysen (Whitman College) and Rick Hazlett (Pomona College)

Students: 6

Title:The Geomorphology and Dating of Holocene high-water levels on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Faculty: Greg Wiles, Geology (The College of Wooster), Ed Berg, Ecologist (US Fish & Wildlife Service, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Soldotna, Alaska) and Dick Reger (Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys - retired).

Students: 3

Title: Holocene and Modern Climate Change in the High Arctic, Svalbard, Norway.

Faculty: Al Werner (Mount Holyoke College), Steve Roof (Hampshire College), Mike Retelle (Bates College)

Students: 6

Colorado Project – Front Range – year 2

Title: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Critical Zone, Boulder Creek Catchment, Front Range, Colorado.

Director: David Dethier (Williams College)

Students: 3