NOVA Annandale | Geology | Bentley | "The Honors Roll"

Here is a list of my past geology Honors students and their projects, in reverse chronological order (most recent at the top):

Ngochti Dang
(GOL 105, Fall 2011)
Soil erosion, degradation, and organic farming		 Robin Rohrback-Schiavone
(GOL 105, Fall 2011)
Geologic history of the Roanoke Valley
Linh Huynh
(GOL 105, Fall 2010)
Eukaryotes and the endosymbiotic hypothesis		 Erik Sanchez
(GOL 105, Fall 2011)
A geologic history of the Potomac River
Robin Rohrback-Schiavone
(GOL 105, Spring 2011)
The effect of road salt on salinity of freshwater streams (collaboration w/ Erik Sanchez)		 Erik Sanchez
(GOL 105, Spring 2011)
The effect of road salt on salinity of freshwater streams (collaboration with Robin Rohrback-Schiavone)
Jeremiyah Mullins
(GOL 105, Fall 2010)
A geologic field guide to Razor Ridge, VA		 Troy Holland
(GOL 105, Spring 2011)
The geologic history of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
Robin Rohrback-Schiavone
(GOL 105, Fall 2010)
A geologic field guide to Gettysburg, PA		 Erik Sanchez
(GOL 105, Fall 2010)
A geologic field guide to Point of Rocks, MD
Esther Newman
(GOL 105, Spring 2010)
Gemstone coloration		 Elysia Howe
(GOL 105, Fall 2010)
A geologic field guide to Harpers Ferry, WV
Grecia Balboa
(GOL 106, Fall 2009)
Exploring the relationship between science and religion		 Sean Sukol
(GOL 105, Spring 2010)
Living with geologic inevitability
Ana Cuddihy
(GOL 106, Fall 2009)
Virginia's volcanic history		 Jared Fortner
(GOL 106, Fall 2009)
The "tsingy" of Madagascar
Dan Conway
(GOL 106, Fall 2009)
Mammal evolution through the Eocene		 Marcelo Arispe
(GOL 106, Fall 2009)
The geology of Torotoro National Park, Bolivia
Jason Von-Kundra
(GOL 105, Spring 2009)
The rise and fall of Pacific atoll islands		 Ryan O'Connell
(GOL 105, Spring 2009)
"Mass wasting": Curbing the use of inefficient technologies
Robin Landis
(GOL 225, Spring 2009)
Sustainable gardening for NOVA homes		 Jason Murray
(GOL 225, Spring 2009)
Kiawah Island, South Carolina: a case study in the pitfalls of coastal development
Ana Cuddihy
(GOL 225, Spring 2009)
Younger Dryas and the Little Ice Age: Two Examples of Rapid Cooling		 Victoria Martin
(GOL 225, Spring 2009)
Cleaning up Lake Erie
Hope Williamson
(GOL 255, Spring 2009)
How climate change is effecting Indian farmers		 Brian "Mic" McCracken
(GOL 225, Spring 2009)
Flooding at Great Falls: a perennial history
Ana Cuddihy
(GOL 105, Fall 2008)
Supervolcanoes: three case studies		 Kristen Plescow
(GOL 225, Spring 2009)
Agriculture, food production, and America
(original art by Kristen)
Hope Williamson
(GOL 105, Fall 2008)
How neo-tectonics is shaping the world today		 Mauricio Silva
(GOL 105, Fall 2008)
Volcanoes of Peru
Aaron Barth
(GOL 106, Fall 2008)
Geologic formations of Fort Valley & Massanutten 		Doug Graham
(GOL 106, Fall 2008)
Rewinding evolution.
Estefan Sevilla
(GOL 105, Spring 2008)
Paricutin: the 'James Dean' of volcanoes.		 Kathy Kuan
(GOL 105, Spring 2008)
Lusi, the mud volcano of East Java.
Victoria Martin
(GOL 106, Spring 2008)
'The Kinks' of Broad Branch: kink banding in Piedmont metagraywacke.		 N. Laura Tappan
(GOL 105, Spring 2008)
Virginia's hot springs: related to Eocene volcanism?
Spencer Ford
(GOL 106, Spring 2008)
Clast provenance in Chain Bridge metagraywacke: North America or island arc?		 Jason Murray
(GOL 106, Spring 2008)
Axial ratios of strained clasts, Klingle Valley metaconglomerate.
Iqra Mohammed
(GOL 105, Fall 2007)
The importance of water.		 Sara Aznan
(GOL 106, Fall 2007)
Australopithecine hominids in South Africa.
Stephen Howe
(GOL 105, Fall 2007)
Boulder movement in the Potomac River Gorge, Maryland.		 Victoria Martin
(GOL 105, Fall 2007)
The underwater Yonaguni structure of Japan: geological or manmade?
Katherine Richards
(GOL 106, Spring 2007)
Strain in metaconglomerate clasts, Klingle Valley, Washington, DC.		 Anastassia Bogosian-Scissors
(GOL 105, Fall 2007)
Silicified trilobite fossils from the mid-Ordovician Edinburg Formation, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.

Brian Hinnegan-Stevenson
(GOL 105, Spring 2007)
"Flood Geology" and "Creation Science": the intersection of faith and science.

 Kristen Plescow
(GOL 105, Spring 2007)
Global climate change.
Jay De Lanoy
(GOL 105, Fall 2006)
"Snowball Earth" glaciations and the rise of metazoan life on Earth.		 Bill Barnett
(GOL 105, Spring 2007)
Landforms on Mars.
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