Hadley McIntosh
M.S. Student
Email: [[hamcintosh]]Phone: (804) 684-7424
Office: CBH S313
Department: Physical Science: Chemical oceanography
Biography
Hadley McIntosh is a Master’s graduate student with Dr. Elizabeth Canuel in the Organic Geochemistry lab. Hadley got her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the College of St. Benedict/ St. John’s University in St. Joseph, MN. There she did undergraduate research looking at the “Fatty Acid Composition of Egg Yolks” and the “Oxidation of 1-(9-Anthryl)-2,2,2-trifluoroethanol to 9-Anthryl trifluoromethyl ketone.” After her junior year she came to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) as an NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) and for 10 weeks worked on ““Assessing the Potential Viability of Algae for Remediation and as a Biofuel Source: Biochemical Composition.” This work was presented at the 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, OR and used for her senior thesis at the College of St. Benedict.
Hadley came to VIMS as a graduate student in the summer of 2010 and has since done well academically and in her research. She completed four one week research cruises aboard the R/V H.R. Sharp in the Delaware River and Estuary from 2010 to 2012. In May 2011, she was awarded the Craig L. Smith Memorial Educational Scholarship Endowment for excellence in research. Through the second half of her first year and second year, Hadley was the co-president for the VIMS graduate student association. During her second year, she presented at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City with the poster “sources and Composition of Particulate Organic Matter in the Delaware Estuary.” Hadley has also co-authored a paper in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Canuel, E.A., S.S. Cammer, H.A. McIntosh, C.R. Pondell. 2012. Climate Change Impacts on the Organic Carbon Cycle at the Land-Ocean Interface. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Vol. 40: 685-711. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105511). More recently she was awarded the opportunity to participate as a student intern during 2012 – 2013 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution NOSAMS radiocarbon facility. Her Master’s thesis work “Influence of Lipids on the Age of DOM and POM in the Delaware Estuary: Sources and Sinks” is expected to be completed by the summer of 2013.
