The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.
Dante Angelo Suyosa Tarzona (2021)
3D Visualization of Lost Gravesites Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) at Mount Tabor Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania
Benjamin Julius Eppinger (2020)
A Characterization of Critical Zone Architecture and Near-Surface Seismic Anisotropy in Oregon Ridge Park, MD
Kendra Elizabeth Bonsey (2019)
Investigation of Lead Isotopes and Trace Metals as Particulate Contaminant Tracers and Chronostratigraphic Markers for Lake Sediments in Lake Lacawac, Northeastern Pennsylvania
Allison Nicole Curley (2019)
Lead isotopes and trace metals as indicators of terrestrial contaminant sources associated with browning in Lake Giles, PA
Karuna Mira Sah (2019)
Can the Impact of Singular Events and Climate be Separated on Outlet Glaciers? A study of Gigjokull, Steinholtsjokull and Kaldaklifsjokull on Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland
James Andrew Fisher (2018)
Unraveling the Central Appalachians: Construction of a Balanced Cross Section through the Pennsylvania Salient
William Hardy Kochtitzky (2016)
Short-Term Climate Cycles, Recent Climate Changes, and Volcano-Ice Hazards: Nevado Coropuna, Arequipa, Peru
Ellen Hope Was (2014)
Thermal Evolution of Subglacial Pillow Lava
Breana Marquette Hashman (2012)
Organic-poor Neoarchean Banded Iron Formations From the Slave and the North China Cratons
William Lyle Seward (2012)
Growth of Rye in Icelandic Volcanic Ash
Gwen Elizabeth Dunnington (2010)
Recurrence and Flow Direction of Glaciers across the Kawdy Plateau, northern British Columbia
Christine Miller (2010)
Homogeneity of the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Canadian Cordillera: Petrographic Study of Xenoliths from Craven Lake, BC
Marci Allison Wills (2010)
A Study of Progressive Deformation in the Hinge of the Pennsylvania Salient; Southern Valley and Ridge Province, Perry County, PA
Courtney Elizabeth Haynes (2009)
Geochemical Analysis and Comparison of Two Legacy Sediment Sites Within the Yellow Breeches Creek Watershed, Cumberland County, PA
Michael Edward Burns (2007)
Taxonomic Utility of Ankylosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) Osteoderms: Glyptodontopelta Mimus Ford, 2000- a test case
Margaret Scott Jackson (2007)
Kinematics of the Susquehanna River Valley
Alexander Saylor Lloyd (2007)
Plagioclase Growth Rates in Pillow Basalts: A Study in Crystal Size Distribution and Thermal Modelling
Adrian J Biscontini (2006)
Departmental Honors in Geology
Matthew James Nogier (2006)
Stratigraphic Analysis of the Welded Sequence in the Pointer Ridge Deposit, Hoodoo Mountain Volcano, British Columbia, Canada
Kristen Slawter (2006)
Developing a Methodology for Determining Growth Rates in Fossil Bryozoans using Living Bryozoans from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia
Peter Andreas Enderlin (2005)
Hydraulic Evidence of Fracture Flow in a Carbonate Aquifer, South Middleton Township, Pennsylvania
Timothy M Samson (2005)
Implications of Sampling Strategy on c and o Isotope Chemostratigraphy: A Test from the Ordovician of Estonia
Kathryn Allyson Wetherell (2005)
Volcanology and Petrology of the West Tuya Lava field, Northwestern British Columbia, Canada
Shaun Tyler Brown (2003)
Departmental Honors in Geology
Jeremy David Coerper (2001)
Hydrogeology of the Cockburn Town Well Field, San Salvador, Bahamas: Implications for Aquifer Recharge and Subsurface Hydraulics
Christopher Kendall Junium (2000)
Hydrothermal Alteration of the Balls Bluff Silstone, Culpeper basin, Virginia
Catherine Marie Powers (1999)
Bryozoan Colony Growth Rates: A Proxy for Cool-Water Marine Carbonate Production Rates
Adam Paul Tagliamonte (1999)
Hydrogeochemical Analysis of the Cockburn Town Well Field, San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Implications for Sustainable Water Supply
Meredith Shirley Robertson (1998)
Sedimentology and Mineralogy of the Susquehanna Flats, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Tara Elizabeth Roth (1998)
Analysis of Deformation Mechanisms in the Weverton Quartzite Conglomerate at Hammond's Rocks, South Mountain, Pennsylvania
Susan Herrgesell Zimmerman (1998)
Preliminary geochemistry and carbon-sulfur-iron systematics of a Late Triassic Rift lake : Warford Member, Passaic Formation, eastern North America
Jonathan Wilder Cox (1997)
Geochemical Comparison of Early Jurassic Stratigraphy, Hartford and Newark basins: Implications for Paleoclimatic Interpretations of Van Houten Cycles
Jason Steven Erdman (1997)
Departmental Honors in Geology
Jason Steven Erdman (1996)
Hydrogeology of the Cockburn Town Aquifer, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, and the Change in Water Quality Resulting from the Development of a Resort Community
Jonathan Richards Gourley (1996)
Analysis of the Skolithos Ichnofacies from the Cambrian Montalto Quartzite Member of the Harpers Formation in South central Pennsylvania
Rolf Vincent Ackermann (1992)
An Examination of the Factors Governing the Development of Karst Topography in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania
Suzanne Kairo (1983)
A Study of the Catoctin Formation in a Portion of the Mount Holly Springs Quadrangle: Adams and Cumberland Counties, Pennsylvania
Charles T Herzig (1981)
Martian Debris Flows - Rock Glaciers as a Terrestrial Analog
Lisa McCalmont (1979)
A Discussion of Cleavage and Folding in Agua Verde Wash, Arizona
David A Robinson (1977)
Investigation of General, Regional, and Intrapack Features of Antarctic Pack Ice
Alex L Rugh (1971)
Petrography of Selected Basic Late-Stage Magmatic Dikes in South-Central New Hampshire, Concord Quadrangle
Michael J Hozik (1970)
Limonite Pseudomorphs after Pyrite from Chestnut Hill, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Kathryn Lee Wilson (1970)
The Origin of a Phosphate Deposit on South Mountain, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Thomas F Hoffman (1969)
Dynamics and Sediment Patterns in the Nearshore Environment
Lee E Evinger (1968)
Geology and Paragenesis of the Friedensville Zinc Deposit Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
M J Aldrich (1964)
A Structural Analysis of the Martinsburg Formation near Carlisle, Pennsylvania