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Arthur M. Hussey Award
This award is given each year to an outstanding student majoring in Geology as judged on scholarship and field work leading to a better understanding of the geology of Maine.
Award Recipients to date:
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2008 Forrest Horton
2007 Astrid Rodriguez
2006 Elizabeth Hoering
2005 Scott Drew
2004 Daniel Abraham
2003 Brandon Levy
2002 Lindsay Szramek
2001 Harriet Van Vleck
2000 David Thomas
Honors Projects
Also see Department Honors (pdf)
or Honors Schedule 2007/2008 (pdf)
"EBSD and HRXCT Analysis of Elongated Garnets of the Spring Point Formation, Casco Bay, ME" Forrest Horton, 2007-2008
"Pigeonite Microstructures in Martian Meteorite EETA 79001" Astrid Rodriguez, 2006-2007 (pdf)
"Seasonal and Long-Term Hydrographic Variability in the Gulf of Maine (2001-2005)" Elizabeth Hoering, 2005-2006
"A Geochemical Analysis of the Metavolcanics of south-central Maine" Scott Drew, 2004-2005
"A Radiochemical Tracer Study of Submarine Groundwater Discharge at Waquiot Bay, Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Quahog Bay, Harpswell, Maine" Daniel Abraham, 2003-2004
"The Peaks Island Member of the Cushing Formation Interpreted as a Sub-Aqueous Volcanic Flow Succession in South-Central Maine" Brandon Levy, 2002-2003
"Correlation and Stratigraphy of Exotic Blocks in the Vinalhaven Pluton, Maine, to the Seal Cove Formation" Lindsay Szramek, 2001-2002
"A Geochemical Comparison of Mafic, Felsic, and Ultramatic Rocks in the Hurricane Moutain Melange and the Boil Mountain Ophiolite Complex, West-Central Maine" Harriet Van Vleck, 2000-2001
Summer Research
2007
Millan AbiNader = "Developing Protocols for Quantifying Alexandrium cysts in Casco Bay Water and Sediments" This past summer I studied Alexandrium cysts in Harpswell Sound. For unknown reasons, Harpswell Sound blooms earlier than other parts of Casco Bay, making it an indicator site for Harmful Algal Blooms. Researchers postulate that there is a cyst bed in Harpswell that contributes to the early blooms. I took bottom samples and counted the cysts present in the mud using epifluorescent microscopy. This research will help us gain an idea of the number and location of Alexandrium cysts in the sound. I also compared current data from the Bowdoin College buoy with the PSP score in Harpswell Sound, to see if the current had any impact on blooms. This research will add to our understanding of the bloom dynamics in Harpswell Sound.
2006
Eric Hawes - "Strain Partitioning in Anorthosite"
Thomas Duffy - A Gibbons Instructional Technology Fellowship used Google Earth to assist in developing teaching materials for Sedimentary and Glacial Geology.
Astrid Rodriguez - "Microstructural Investigation of Martian Meteorite EETA79001"
Astrid's summer was spent using the EBSD to examine pigeonite microstructures in two lithologies that are separated by a linear contact.
Owen McKenna - "Geology of the Vinalhaven Magmatic Complex, Coastal Maine"
Owen is focused his research on the Vinalhaven Intrusive Complex on Vinalhaven Island off of mid-coast Maine. By taking thin sections of rock samples and using Bowdoin's Electron Backscatter Diffraction system, he hoped to shed some light on the flow and compressive events that helped shape this Complex.
Greg Wyka - "Mapping Harpswell Sound"
Greg spent his days out on the 21' Seaway surveying the floor of Harpswell Sound with a Knudsen Echosounder. He found sediment waves that were discovered by a student in a prior year and compared the findings. He also made a bathymetric map of Harpswell Sound using a multibeam sonar system.
Other
Abstracts of research that students presented in March 2002 at NE GSA in Springfield, MA.