CURO Symposium: UGA Geology Presenters

The annual CURO Symposium highlights excellence in undergraduate research at UGA by allowing undergraduates to present their research and creative works through oral and poster sessions.

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UGA Geology Student Presenters (UGA Geology Student Name, Presentation Title (Mentor))

Tyler Cannida, PetrogrGneisses from the Mary Lou Quarry in Clinton, SC: Implications for Quantifying Mineral Compositions in the Critical Zone (Schroeder)

Anthony Arbise, Implications of Strike-Slip Faulting for Plate Tectonics on Europa (Klimczak)

Jared Conne, Application of Biochar for Low-Cost Treatment of Agricultural Wastewater (Nzengung)

Laura Dupont, Evaluating Human-Driven Environmental Change using a Stalagmite from Northwestern Madagascar: Implications for Research and Conservation (Railsback)

Bear Jordan, Changes in Clay Mineral Assemblages of Legacy Sediments in the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory, SC: Evidence for Anthropogenic Landscape Change (Schroeder)

Bear Jordan, Sydney Lee, Descriptive Mineralogy of Georgia’s Barrier Island Beaches (Walker)

Sophia Sanders, The Fate of Degraded Biotites in the Deep Critical Zone: Implications for the K-Uplift Hypothesis (Schroeder)