Senior Theses
Cypress Macchi '27
Anna McFadden '27
Jasper Suvari '27
Kathleen Langston '26- Impact of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on Cultured Benthic Foraminifera
Robin Auwaerter '26
Olivia Kahn '26
Yidan Xu '24- Caves of Hella, Visual and Environmental Clues for Early Medieval Christian Settlement in Southern Iceland.
Julia Hale '25-Analysis of Crystal and Vesicle textures to investigate Eruption Triggers at Volcán Cosiguina, Nicaragua.
Ava Monello '25- Using the Geochemistry of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Tephra from a Marine Sediment core to Interpret Magmatic Process in the Kalta Volcanic System.
Alex Murphy '25 - Exploratory Imaging and Analysis of Vassar's Meteorites.
Abby Whittington '24 (Chem)- All About U: Novel Fluid Additives to Decrease Uranium Pollution Resulting from Fracking
Publications & Conference Abstracts
(Submitted to Environmental Science & Technology Toxicology) Kathrin Schilling, Grace Katz, Heidi Hannoush, Camryn E. Petersen, Sachi Kaneshiro, Laura Haynes, Clara Chang, Diane B. Re. “Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Enhance Uptake of Cadmium and Lead in Primary Human Vaginal Epithelial Cells”.
(Accepted at PLOS One) Brenner, L., Haynes, L.L., Saad, B., Klem, M., Lang, A., Linsley, E.G., Riley, W.*, Spink, S., Zhao, C., Turrin, M., and Curtin, L. “Hudson River Estuary sediments contain high abundances of preserved globothalamean foraminiferal organic linings at Piermont, New York”.
(2026) Clara Chang, Arijeet Mitra, Christopher Kinally, Nelima Tamana , Luigia Nekishon Lenaingisw , Heidi Hannoush, Alex Njugi, Laura Haynes, Vivian Hoffman, Richard Fuller , Ana Navas-Acien, Kathrin Schilling, and Anirban Bas. “Identifying Sources of Lead Contamination in Kale Crops using Isotopic Fingerprinting: Nairobi, Kenya”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2026.
(2026) Reed-Horn, M.*, Hoskison, E.*, and Haynes, L.L. “Evaluating the Influence of Microplastics on Health and Calcification of Benthic Foraminifera Ammonia confertitesta.” Geological Society of America Meeting, 2026.
(2026) McFadden, A.*, and Haynes, L.L. “Trace Element Geochemistry of Ordovician Microfossils from Baffin Island, Canada: Revisiting a Museum Archive”. Geological Society of America Meeting, 2026.
(2025) Laura Haynes, Jennifer S Fehrenbacher, Sean Baxter, Acadia Helfand, Kathleen Langston, Emmaline Miller, Madeleine Reed-Horn, Arlo Rucker, Austin Shinzato, Leocadio Blanco-Bercial, and Amy E Maas. "The Impact of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on Globigerinoides ruber Growth and Calcification". AGU Fall Meeting 2025.
(2024) Logan D Brenner, Laura Haynes, Batoul Saad, Maisie Klem, Amelia Lang, Grey Linsley, Sophie Spink, Carolyn Zhao. “A Foraminifera Census in Holocene Sediments from the Hudson River Estuary Provides a Preliminary Evaluation of the Benthic Ecosystem”. AGU Fall Meeting, 2024.