Luke Beane '19
The Roots of Our Past: Using rhizolith geochemistry to reconstruct early Miocene paleoclimate in Kenya*
*Senior Thesis
Using paleosol chroma and mineralogy to track climate and environmental changes at Loperot, Kenya during the early Miocene
Investigating the Deep Time Critical Zone: Reconstructing the paleoenvironment of an early Miocene primate fossil site in Loperot, Kenya*
*Senior thesis
The Konnarock Snowball Fight: image analysis, rhythmite thickness, and facies associations determine the origin of the Neoproterozoic Konnarock Formation*
*Senior thesis
Identifying the terrestrial-to-marine transition in the rift-to-drift Chilhowee Group, upper Unicoi Formation
Investigating Early Miocene catarrhine evolution through paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Loperot, Kenya
Field mapping and petrographic analysis of various volcanic centers in the Lake Natron region, Tanzania*
*Senior thesis
Fingerprinting a footprint-bearing volcanic ash in northern Tanzania*
*Senior thesis
Stable isotope ecology of Holocene carbonates from the Frazier Mountain paleoseismic site, southern California*
*Senior thesis
Independent sedimentological studies on fluvial and lacustrine sediments from the Gray Fossil Site sinkhole, northeastern TN
Do playa sediments track paleoenvironment? Sedimentological analyses of Quaternary lake cores from Pilot Valley, NV