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Sarah Baker (W&M BS, 2017) graduated with a major in geology. Sarah rediscovered her love of the ocean after spending a semester studying marine science onboard a ship in the South Pacific. She completed her senior thesis studying erosion on Plum Island Point / Reservation Terrace, in Plum Island, MA, through which she contributed to our 2019 Frontiers paper, on which Sarah is an author. |
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Bianca Boggs (W&M BS, 2019) graduated with a degree in geology, and as the star senior on the W&M Basketball team. From southern Maryland, with initial interest in physics and engineering, Bianca found an interest in geology and impacts humans have on climate change and earth processes. Her senior research project focused on barrier-island stratigraphy and response to sea-level rise, using field sites from New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, which formed a backbone of Shawler's 2021 Sedimentology paper, on which Bianca is an author. |
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Kallie Brown (W&M BS, 2016) graduated with a degree in geology. Kallie currently worked at the Center for Coastal Resources Management at VIMS, and part-time in the Coastal Geology Lab mapping marsh area changes on the Delmarva Peninsula. |
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Luiza Caminada was a volunteer in the VIMS Coastal Geology lab during the summer of 2015 when she worked on a study of marsh accretion rates in the Great Marsh, MA This followed a year of study at Montclair State University as part of a study abroad / internship program from her native Brazil. |
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Cameron Clarke (W&M BS, 2022) graduated with a major in geology and minor in marine science. Her senior thesis project was field- and GIS- based, focusing on Pleistocene sea-level change near Wachapreague, Eastern Shore, Virginia. |
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Ian Cook is a chemistry major at William & Mary, which he seeks to apply to geochemistry and ultimately medicine. He was a member of the Coastal Geology Lab for the first two years at his time in college, and has switched gears to focus on his chemistry studies. |
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Charlie Deaton (W&M BS, 2015) graduated from with majors in Geology and Environmental Science & Policy. Charlie's senior research project focused on the relationship between barrier-island migration and relative backbarrier sedimentation rates as derived from backbarrier marsh and tidal flat areas, and the impact of accelerated sea-level rise on those relationships; this work was published in Geology in 2017. |
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Kate DeMarco (W&M BS, 2018) graduated from with a major in Geology. Her senior thesis project focused on the development of the Chinocteague - Assateague - Wallops island system in Virginia and the records of environmental change and coastal response preserved within the beach and foredune ridges of these islands. |
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Haley Gannon (W&M BS, 2015) graduated with a major in Environmental Geology and minor in Environmental Science & Policy. For her senior research, Haley mapped changes in shoreline positions of Plum Island over the past 150 years, work for which she earned co-authorship on a Coastal Sediments Proceedings paper. Haley is now working on a masters at Johns Hopkins. |
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Ally Gravgaard (W&M BS, 2023) graduated with a Minor in Marine Science and is currently pursuring a graduate degree here at VIMS with the Multispecies Research Group. |
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Selwyn Heminway (W&M BS, 2023) graduated with high honors and with majors in Geology and Environmental Science. Her honors thesis was focused on modeling how different dune morphologies might respond to rising sea-levels and increased storminess brought by climate change in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The first part of this was published as a conference proceeding paper from Coastal Sediments '23. |
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Lauren Herbine (W&M BS, 2018) graduated with a major in Geology. Her senior thesis work focused on the role of storm overwash and barrier-backbarrier couplings on historical marsh accretion behind several of the Virginia barrier islands. |
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Nathaniel Ingle is a geology major at William & Mary. He was a member of the Coastal Geology Lab for the first two years at his time in college, and has switched gears to studying petrology. |
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Kendall King (W&M BS, 2019) graduated from William & Mary with a major in Geology and minor in Marine Science. For her senior research, Kendall investigated the role of hurricanes (specifically, Hurricane Irma) in delivering sediment to salt marshes at four sites across the southeast US. |
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Soely Luyando-Flusa is a recent graduate from the Department of Biology at the Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico. She was the VIMS Coastal Geology Lab Summer 2018 REU student, from which she was chosen as the VIMS student representative to the ASLO Multicultural Program (ASLOMP). Her REU project focused on human impacts on oyster populations and sedimentation in the upper Chesapeake Bay. |
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Sarah Grace Lott (W&M BS, 2021) graduated with a major in geology and minor in data science. Her undergraduate thesis work focused on headland sediment bypassing processes through mapping of downdrift spit systems at the mouth of Babitonga Bay, Brazil. For this, she participated in the VIMS REU program in summer 2020, and went on to complete an W&M Geology honors thesis. |
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Brody Marino (W&M BS, 2016) graduated with majors in Geology and Government, and minoring in Marine Science. Growing up near the Chesapeake Bay and the Outer Banks. His senior thesis project investigated the spatial and temporal scales of sediment reworking from the Merrimack River along Plum Island and nearby barriers. His work contributed to our 2019 Frontiers paper, on which Brody is an author. |
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Chloe Obara (W&M BS, 2020) graduated with a major in Geology and minor in Marine Science. Her senior thesis work focused on understanding the dynamic morphology, sedimentology, and history of rapid growth of "Fishing Point" at the southern tip of Assateague island. This formed a major component of Shawler's 2021 Quaternary Science Reviews paper, on which Chloe is an author. Chloe is currently working for the W&M Geology Department. |
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Jessica Raff (W&M BS, 2017) graduated following completion of an honors thesis with the VIMS Coastal Geology group. She studied the evolution of Parramore Island, VA and the role that changes in sea level and sediment supply have played in late Holocene change; this work was published in Marine Geology in May 2018. Jess is now a graduate student in the Goodbred Lab at Vanderbilt University. |
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Mahinaokalani Robbins (W&M BS, 2021) graduated with a major in geology and minor in mathematics. She completed her senior thesis studying historical island area and sand-volume changes along the Virginia barrier islands (a study published in 2022 in Geomorphology). Her work also contibuted to Shawler's 2021 Quaternary Science Reviews paper, on which Mahina is an author. Mahina is currently working towards her MSc in volcanology at Western Washington University. |
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Colleen Scott (W&M BS, 2020) graduated with a major in Geology and minor in Marine Science. Prior to joining our lab, Colleen was a Summer 2018 REU intern at VIMS researching changes in groundwater analyte concentrations. Her senior research focused on hurricane-induced marsh sedimentation along the southeast US coast, which developed a preliminary dataset used in a successful NSF proposal. Her work is now in prep for publication. |
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Luis Henrique Polido de Souza was an intern (May - Oct 2014) with the VIMS Coastal Geology lab. His primary undergraduate thesis focuses on marine phosphate deposits in southern Brazil under supervision of Prof Dr. José Gustavo Natorf de Abreu. Luis' primary study with the VIMS Coastal Geology group was on basin infilling at Tijucas Strandplain, Brazil, earning him co-authorship on publications in Sedimentology and Coastal Sediments Proceedings. |
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Ethan Stewart is a current student and WMSURE Scholar at William & Mary, who worked with our lab in Summer 2022. His myraid interests have taken him elsewhere, largely into the fields of Conservation. |
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Melanie Strik (W&M BS, 2021) graduated with a major in geology, after four years as a star member of the W&M Field Hockey team. Her senior research focused on the stratigraphic and sedimentologic differences between natural and artificial dunes along the North Carolina Outer Banks. She is currently working on a Masters in Sustainability in Munich, Germany. |
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Grace Weeks (W&M BS, 2023) graduated with a Minor in Marine Science, after serving as co-president of the W&M Marine Science Society and working for two years in the Coastal Geology Lab, engaging in all aspects of our coastal geology field and lab program. |
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Rebecca Whitney was a Summer 2016 REU intern with the VIMS Coastal Geology group and an undergraduate student majoring in Chemistry at Elmira College. As an REU intern, Rebecca worked with Chris Hein and Liz Canuel to analyze organic carbon and nitrogen markers in soil samples from Plum Island. |