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ON SITE RESEARCH:
Marie Brophy '08 and Miles Turner '08 collect Cecropia leaves
from the El Yunque rainforest for analyses for their Earth and
Environmental Sciences Department Senior Seminar Research Project. The
seniors are enrolled in E&ES 398, the capstone course for the E&ES
major. Brophy and Tuner were among 15 students and two faculty members
who traveled to Puerto Rico Jan. 7 to 13 to conduct multiple research
projects on the island. |
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Students presented their research to peers
and faculty. Michelle Chen '08, above, presented her research on the
depositional history of a salt flat near the shoreline city of Cabo Rojo,
Puerto Rico on March 6. Chen and her peers collected sediment core
samples in a lagoon to dissect, and discover the sediments’ substance. |
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Jordan Schmidt '08, center, presents her
group's leaf plasticity study on March 25. Group member Dana Powell '08
is pictured at left.
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Andrea Pain '08, left, explains how she and
group member Hannah Hastings '08 studied nutrient content in a
dinoflagellate-rich ecosystem off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico.
Tim Ku and Dana Royer, both assistant professors of earth and
environmental sciences, teach the class. (Classroom photos by Olivia
Bartlett) Additional information on
Senior Seminar Research Projects is online in a former Wesleyan
Connection article at:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2008/0308eescapstone.html |
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