March 25, 2026
Climate, Earth, Geography

Visit the U-Mass Amherst College of Natural Science Graduate Student Research Symposium on March 26th, 2026, in the Campus Center Auditorium, to learn more about the amazing research that EGCS graduate students are doing:

NameTimeTypePresentation Title
Adam Elkin1:00 pm - 2:10 pmPoster
Foraminiferal Assemblages Across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Ava Healy1:00 pm - 2:10 pmPoster
Holistic Geography in Environmental Planning: A Case Study of the Multidisciplinary Geography of the Eel River’s Cattails
Clara Hogan1:00 pm - 2:10 pmPoster
Quantifying the Effects of Grassland Restoration on Soil Organic Carbon Stock
James Higby1:00 pm - 2:10 pmPoster
Magnificent Terrain and How to Model It: A Geovisual Exploration of Geology, Hydrology and Local History
Matt Belden1:00 pm - 2:10 pmPoster
Quantifying Hydrologic Responses and Water Losses Caused by Hydropeaking Dam Management Practices
Samantha Bombard1:00 pm - 2:10 pmPoster
The Miocene of the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica: The MCO and MMCT of DSDP Site 273
Sintra Reves-Sohn1:00 pm - 2:10 pmPoster
Using Geomorphic Classification and Remote Observations to Predict Salt Marsh Sediment Thickness in the Northeast US
Melissa Rymaszewski1:00pm - 2:10pmPoster
Efficacy of Novel Restoration Methods in Enhancing Salt Marsh Resilience
Alexander Wilk2:25pm - 3:35 pmPoster
Extreme Warming and Hydroclimate Instability in Tropical Southeast Africa: Three Superinterglacials at Lake Malawi
Drew Gauthier2:25pm - 3:35 pmPoster
Basin Hydrology and Hydrogeology in the Dry Andes
Heeyeon Sun2:25pm - 3:35 pmPoster
Holocene climate reconstruction of mid-latitude arid Central Asia using organic biomarkers in Lake Issyk-Kul
Tyler DeShong2:25pm - 3:35 pmPoster
Water and Lithium Flux Between Topographically Closed Basins Governs Deposit Formation in a High Andean Salar
Arev Kaligian2:25pm - 3:35 pmPoster
Mapping Resistance: Musa Ler and the Armenian Genocide
Lucas Kelley2:25pm - 3:35 pmPosterPromoting Multimodal Transportation in Amherst
Paddy Heng2:25pm - 3:35 pmPoster
Temperature and Hydroclimate of Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta Region Within MIS 3 and 4 Loess Records
Andrew Finn3:45pm - 5:00 pmLightning Talk
Improving Campus Safety with Near–Real-Time GIS