2016 NAGT-USGS Interns
James Amato
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Mentor: Robert Al-Chokhachy
Location: Yellowstone and Bozeman, Montana
Project: Understanding the variability in climate-aquatic Linkages
Jeremy Ashburn
Baylor University
Mentor: Walter Mooney
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Earthquake hazards in the Central and Eastern U.S.
Kimberly Barry
University of Texas, Arlington
Mentor: Jeffrey Chaplin
Location: Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Project: Geochemical processes relating to resource extraction and human health
Kristin Beck
University of Washington
Mentor: James Vallance
Location: Vancouver, Washington
Project: Volcanic hazards in the Cascades: teasing out the history of explosive eruptions from far-traveled volcanic ash deposits
Julia Bowe
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Mentor: John Mullaney
Location: East Hartford, Connecticut
Project: Support of the Connecticut groundwater-level Network
Isaac Bukoski
East Carolina University
Mentor: Denis LeBlanc
Location: Northborough, Massachusetts
Project: Cape Cod hydrologic research
Rials Christensen
University of Utah
Mentor: Marci Robinson
Location: Reston, Virginia
Project: Microfossil indicators of Paleocene and Eocene paleoenvironments
Hannah Cohen
University of Illinois
Mentor: Katherine Skalak
Location: Reston, Virginia
Project: Hydrologic/geologic technician
Tait Earney
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Mentor: Victoria Langenheim
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Geophysical investigations related to geothermal, mineral, and water resources and to natural hazards in the western U.S.
Frederick Fenner
University of Houston
Mentor: Jeffrey Chaplin
Location: Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Project: Geochemical processes relating to resource extraction and human health
Marcel Gaztambide
University of Utah
Mentor: Celeste Journey
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Project: Multidisciplinary assessment of water resources for various projects including Bridge Deck Runoff, Groundwater Model Development, and National Water Quality Assessment Program
Robert Gibler
University of Houston
Mentor: Shane Detweiler
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Geological and geophysical studies of the San Andreas Fault System
Gabriel Gordon
University of California, Santa Cruz
Mentor: James O'Connor and Ralph Haugerud
Location: Portland, Oregon
Project: Mapping the Missoula floods
Annette Hein
University of Wyoming
Mentor: John Nimmo
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Modeling and measurement of unsaturated zone flow processes
Andrea Hylant
University of Michigan
Mentor: John Lane
Location: Storrs, Connecticut
Project: Applied hydrogeophysics research
Chelsea Jolley
Brigham Young University, Idaho
Mentor: Miriam Jones
Location: Reston, Virginia
Project: Peatland responses to centennial and millennial-scale changes in North Pacific hydroclimate
Caroline Kellner
Cornell University
Mentor: Stephen Kirby
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Field and laboratory investigations of serpentinites and associated rocks in the Northeastern California Coast ranges
Mitchell Lassa
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Mentor: Gerard Butch
Location: Troy, New York
Project: Surface-water and ground-water networks
U.S. Department of the Interior Education Program
U.S. Geological Survey Office of Science Quality and Integrity, April 2016
NAGT/USGS 2016 Cooperative Summer Field Training Program Internship Placements
Zoe Lefebvre
Washington University
Mentor: Kristen Hart
Location: Davie, Florida
Project: Sea turtle movements and habitat-use, American crocodile nest monitoring and Burmese python movement and habitat-use
Geoffrey Lutty
Slippery Rock University
Mentor: Billy Justus
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Project: Biological, water-quality, and hydrological assessments in Arkansas streams and groundwater
Joseph Mason
Fort Lewis College
Mentor: Stephen DeLong
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Tectonic geomorphology and seismic hazard in Northern California
Ian McBrearty
Iowa State University
Mentor: Joan Gomberg
Location: Seattle, Washington
Project: New clues to pre-and post- earthquake deformation
Emma McConville
University of Maryland
Mentor: Jacob Lowenstern
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Geologic databases and fieldwork for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
Bethany Morter
University of Oregon
Mentor: Walter Mooney
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Volcano and seismic hazards assessments
Joshua Mudge
Fort Lewis College
Mentor: Melinda Erickson
Location: Mounds View, Minnesota
Project: Arsenic in Minnesota groundwater: occurrence and relation to hydrogeologic and geochemical factors
Samuel Nilsson
Western Washington University
Mentor: Geneva Chong
Location: Jackson, Wyoming
Project: Plant phenology, climate change and wildlife habitat quality
Madeline O'Brien
Wesleyan University
Mentor: Laura Clor and Greg Vaughan
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Photogrammetry of active thermal areas in Long Valley Caldera
Adam Ofstun
University of Pittsburgh
Mentor: Perry Jones
Location: Mounds View, Minnesota
Project: Assessing environmental conditions in areas of known mineralization in the Lake Superior basin
Nick Ogasa
University of California, Santa Cruz
Mentor: J. Ole Kaven
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Stress states of the Coso Geothermal Field throughout its production cycle
Emily Paine
Rice University
Mentor: Nancy Simon and E. Terrence Slonecker
Location: Reston, Virginia
Project: Characterizing individual cyanobacteria species using hyperspectral data
Jeremy Patterson
Colorado State University
Mentor: Claire Tiedeman
Location: Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Project: Groundwater flow and contaminant transport in fractured-rock aquifers
Sean Payne
Humboldt State University
Mentor: Jennifer Morace
Location: Portland, Oregon
Project: Columbia Plateau principal aquifer study
Lincoln Pettinger
Montana State University
Mentor: Erik Beever
Location: Bozeman, Montana
Project: Investigating factors which determine the niche of a species that lives in rocky talus slopes: merging ecology, biogeography, climate and geology to inform conservation of the American pika
Hannah Podzorski
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mentor: Edward Stets
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Project: Fluvial biogeochemistry at multiple scales: the role of streambed processes in controlling nutrient and carbon cycling in stream ecosystems
Mattie Reid
Bucknell University
Mentor: Scott Bennett
Location: Seattle, Washington
Project: Paleoseismologic and geologic investigations of active faults in the Pacific Northwest
U.S. Department of the Interior Education Program
U.S. Geological Survey Office of Science Quality and Integrity, April 2016
NAGT/USGS 2016 Cooperative Summer Field Training Program Internship Placements
Charlene Rogers
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Mentor: John Mullaney
Location: East Hartford, Connecticut
Project: Support of the Connecticut groundwater-level network
Kelly Sanks
Illinois State University
Mentor: Meagan Eagle Gonneea
Location: Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Project: Fate of salt marsh carbon in eroding and drowning marshes
Jonathan Schafer
Bowling Green State University
Mentor: Ian Jezorek and Patrick Connolly
Location: Cook, Washington
Project: Wind River watershed cooperative fish population and restoration assessment
Daniel Scheeler
Minnesota State University
Mentor: Cliff Hupp
Location: Reston, Virginia
Project: Vegetation and fluvial geomorphic relations
Jonathan Schwing
University of Oklahoma
Mentor: Ryan Crow and Kyle House
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Project: Geologic mapping and geomorphic analysis of early Colorado River deposits
Brian Snow
Western Washington University
Mentor: Nicholas Johnson
Location: Millersburg, Michigan
Project: Block the migration of an invasive fish using low voltage pulsed direct current
Alicia Solomon
University of Kentucky
Mentor: Robin Stewart
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Investigations into the bioavailability and bioaccumulation of selenium and mercury in the San Francisco Bay estuary
Alivia Stoller
Illinois State University
Mentor: Carol Prentice
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Paleoseismology of the northern San Andreas Fault system
John Swiecichowski
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Mentor: Denise Akob
Location: Reston, Virginia
Project: Microbial degradation of organic compounds in hydraulic fracturing produced waters
Mark Szymanski
California State University, Chico
Mentor: Jacob Lowenstern
Location: Menlo Park, California
Project: Geologic databases and fieldwork for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
Douglas Tebo
University of Texas, Arlington
Mentor: Roger Denligner and Wes Thelen
Location: Southwest Washington
Project: Field assistant for iMUSH seismic stations
Meghan Thompson
Boston University
Mentor: Greg Boughton
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Project: Wyoming groundwater quality monitoring network
Ryan Till
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Mentor: Michael Poland
Location: Vancouver, Washington
Project: Geodetic monitoring of Cascade Range volcanoes and Yellowstone
Emily Tinkler
Whitman College
Mentor: Donald Sweetkind
Location: Denver, Colorado
Project: Digital geologic map compilation in northern Sacramento Valley, the Sierran Foothills, and the California Coast ranges
Meghan Toft
University of Massachusetts
Mentor: Gregory Walsh
Location: Montpelier, Vermont
Project: Northeast bedrock mapping
Wesley Weisberg
Missouri State University
Mentor: Albert Hofstra
Location: Denver, Colorado
Project: Melt and fluid inclusion analysis in resource investigations
Elizabeth Whiddon
University of Michigan
Mentor: Rob Striegl
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Project: Aquatic biogeochemical cycling: inland waters carbon fluxes