9:00 - 9:15

Title: Can climate resilient agricultural systems be developed to withstand Minnesota's shifting hydrologic regimes?

Authors: Lauren Bilek; Advised by Dr. Jessica Gutknecht

9:15 - 9:30

Title: Deciphering Solute and Reactive Transport in Triple Porosity Systems: Etched Rock Core Experiments and Numerical Modeling

Authors: Charles Soucey, Collin Sutton, Weipeng Yang, Christopher Zahasky, Peter K Kang

9:30 - 9:45

Title: Distribution Of Geochemical Proxies Of Marine Primary Productivity In The Northern Part Of The Bering Sea: Implications For Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions.

Authors: Vincy Winifred, Vera Pospelova, Evangeline Fachon, Kenneth Neil Mertens, Zhen Li and Donald M. Anderson

9:45 - 10:00

Title: Earthquake distribution and the subducting slab thermo-petrologic structure beneath southern Colombia

Authors: Benjamin Knott-Byars, Ikuko Wada, Brandon Bishop, Linda Warren, Sungwon Cho

10:00 - 10:15

Title: Re-evaluation of oriented and faceted inclusions in garnet as indicators of Ultrahigh Pressure/ Temperature metamorphism

Authors: Sithari M Nanayakkara, Donna L Whitney, Christian Teyssier

10:15 - 10:30

Title: Petrofabric investigation of the sulfide-rich basal Duluth Complex

Authors: Ishmael Cobbinah, Christian Teyssier and Donna Whitney

Title: Field-Scale Evaluation of Wind Erosion, Soil Health, and Sugar Beet Productivity under Cover Crop Rye in Minnesota

Authors: Mehmet Ozturk, Anna Cates, Lindsay Pease

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Title: Geochemical and textural analyses of the lawsonite to epidote transition

Authors: Sara E. Hanel, Donna L. Whitney, Jennifer T. Mitchell

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Title: Enhancing Soil Health Properties through Management: A Comparative Study of Soil Properties from Different Practices On a Conventional to Perennial Spectrum

Authors: Sarah E Wilson, Mckenna Kelso, Anna Cates

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Title: Understanding the influence of fracture network characteristics and fluid density on solute transport in sedimentary fractured rocks

Authors: Porraket Dechdacho, Matthew R. Sweeney, Jeffrey D. Hyman , and Peter K. Kang

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Title: Controls on Surface and Groundwater Levels and Their Relation to Water Quality in Wild Rice Lakes in the Otter Tail River Watershed, MN

Authors: Shauna Capron, Gene-Hua (Crystal) Ng, Cara Santelli, Amelia Olsen, Madeline Dickenscheidt, Zhaashiigid Nooding

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Title: Comparing Ring Width and Binary Surface Intensity Proxies for Thuja occidentalis Dendroclimatology

Authors: Naomi Schulberg, Daniel Griffin, Kurt Kipfmueller, Andrew Wickert

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Title: Use of Eliptical Fourier Analysis to Discriminate Osteoderm Placement In Alligatoroidea (Crocodylomorpha) With Description of Novel Osteoderm Morphologies

Authors: Hayley K. Orlowski, Alex K. Hastings

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Title: Characterization of Lawsonite in Eclogite from the Central Pontides, Türkiye

Authors: Charles Petty, Donna Whitney

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Title: Titanium-in-quartz applied to complex microstructures within a contact metamorphic gradient

Authors: Lydia Tuttle, Christian Teyssier, Donna L. Whitney

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Title: Local versus Regional Patterns of Growth in Red Pine in North-Central Minnesota

Authors: Kjersten Peterson, Kurt Kipfmueller, Sean Dunham

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Title: Petrology of the Syke Rock garnet amphibolite, Franciscan Complex (Mendocino County, CA)

Authors: Sarah Brandt, Donna L. Whitney, Jennifer Mitchell

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Title: Investigating stable isotopes of oxygen in firn cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet

Authors: Gabby Giving, Joel Barker

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Title: Water Quality and Environmental Health in the Otter Tail Watershed: Assessing Risks for Manoomin/Wild Rice Decline

Authors: Madeline Dickenscheidt, Amelia Olsen, Shauna Capron, Zhaashiigid Nooding, Gene-Hua Crystal Ng, Cara Santelli

Title: Bringing Research to Community and Community to Research 

STEM research is inadequate in addressing systemic injustices in climate, energy, water, transportation, agriculture, and other human-environment systems. Research typically lacks depth of understanding, breadth of perspectives, and comprehensive ethical considerations – most research is not inspired by lived experiences or community practices. Yet, marginalized communities are overwhelmingly affected by environmental injustices. For examples, nearly 50% of households on Tribal lands lack access to safe water or sanitation; this is nearly 50x the rate in the overall U.S. (Womble et al., 2018). The highly publicized example of water pollution in Flint, Michigan (a city with a majority Black population) is perhaps the most egregious regional example of environmental harm enacted on a community of color (Gostin, 2016; Masten et al., 2016). Within education, marginalized students have lowered access to resources and college-ready STEM courses, are less likely to have qualified science teachers, and are steered away from experiences needed to access college STEM majors let alone advanced degrees. In undergraduate and graduate education, many students experience cultural norms that are hostile to diverse perspectives. It is thus unsurprising that much STEM research fails to collaborate with those most impacted by systemic inequities.

Title: Nitrogen Fertilizer and Cover Crop Systems in Minnesota Corn - Agronomic and Environmental Considerations

Authors: Jake Kastenbauer, Fabian Fernandez, Vasudha Sharma, Rodney Venterea, Jared Spackman

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Title: What controls the composition of lawsonite?: host rock vs. external fluid sources

Authors: Erin Hudson, Sara Hanel, & Donna Whitney

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Title: Understanding Complex Discharge Response of a Karst Aquifer in Southeastern Minnesota

Authors: Jenny Huang, Charles Soucey, John Barry, Tony Runkel, Chris Langevin, Peter K. Kang

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Title: Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Stable Isotopes of Pedogenic Carbonates From Three Eocene Basins in Western North America

Authors: Sirena B. Rygiel, Emily J. Beverly, Jarred T. Asselta, Andrew G. Flynn

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Title: Alteration of Magnetic Mineralogy in the Giants Range Batholith by the Duluth Complex

Authors: Celia Cortopassi, Zsuzsanna P. Allerton, Joshua M. Feinberg

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Title: Early Eocene Stratigraphic Record Across the Wind River Basin, Wyoming

Authors: Jarred Asselta, Andrew Flynn, Mykola Stepchuk, Brynn Miller, Emily Beverly

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Title: Stoichiometric modulation of zooplankton grazing on organic matter biogeochemistry

Authors: Ziyu Guo, Katsumi Matsumoto

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Title: Late Holocene Primary Productivity Changes in the Cascadia Basin (NE Pacific): a Biogenic Silica Sedimentary Record

Authors: Sophie Davis, Vincy Winifred, Vera Pospelova

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Title: Imaging the Magnetization of Archaeological Ceramics Using Quantum Diamond Microscopy

Authors: Sophie Wright, Maxwell Brown, Joshua Feinberg

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Title: Evaluating Boreal Peatland Mercury and Methylmercury Responses to Increasing Temperatures and Carbon Dioxide

Authors: Connor Buckley, Cole Stenberg, Brandy Toner

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Title: Investigating the effect of plant species and soil geochemical properties on rhizosphere soil lead (Pb) concentrations in Twin Cities public parks 

Authors: Madeline Taylor, Cara Santelli

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Title: Animals shape the earth: Earthworms and the erosion of Minnesota forest soils

Authors: Nate Lund, Kyungsoo Yoo, Lee E. Frelich

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3:30 - 3:45

Title: A new microphysical model for dislocation-mediated seismic-wave attenuation in the upper mantle

Authors: Diede Hein, Thomas P. Breithaupt, David Wallis, Lars Hansen

3:45 - 4:00

Title: Re-core-ds of Paleoclimate from Paleosols in Baringo Basin, Kenya

Authors: Madison Rafter, Emily J. Beverly, William Lukens, Kathryn Snell, John Kingston, and Carly McCarthy

4:00 - 4:15

Title: Assessing blue oak (Quercus douglasii) growth resilience to extreme drought across fine-scale topography in California

Authors: Sandy K. K. Wong, Daniel Griffin, Matthew L. Trumper, Zachary Principe & Michael D. White

4:15 - 4:30

Title: A Comparison of Methods for Estimating Excess Ice Content in Permafrost-affected Soils

Authors: Megan L. Andersen, Nicolas A. Jelinski, Julie D. Jastrow, Mikhail Kanevisky, Yuri Shur, Chien-Lu Ping, Torre Jorgenson, Roser Matamala

4:30 - 4:45

Title: Developing a Climate Classification Framework for Antarctica: Integrating Reanalysis, K-Means Clustering, and In-Situ Observations

Authors: Julia R. Andreasen and Peter D. Neff

4:45 - 5:00

Title: Analyzing the factors that affect forearc stresses using numerical models

Authors: Viven Sharma and Ikuko Wada

5:00 - 5:15

Title: Investigation into the mobility and chemical forms of lead pollution in Twin Cities stormwater catchment ponds using synchrotron based X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Authors: Christof Zweifel, Lea Pollack, Ben Janke, Jacques Finlay, Emilie Snell-Rood, and Cara M Santelli