SBI Summer Internships
Over 120 students were granted SBI internships from 2006 to 2011,
the final summer. Below is a summary of
each year along with project titles and PDFs of posters or
presentations made during the internship meetings held each year.The goal of the program was to provide undergraduates
with
rewarding research experiences at Oregon State University that will
stimulate their interest in the subsurface biosphere and encourage them
to pursue graduate studies.
Summer
2011 Internships
This summer more than 25 undergraduates worked in the
field and
in OSU laboratories. The interns were paired with mentors from a
variety of disciplines including oceanography, soil science, pharmacy,
environmental engineering, microbiology and geosciences. The mentors
helped guide the students as they worked independently on a suite of
diverse projects. Example topics include the role of microbes in
nutrient cycling, engineering wetlands, groundwater remediation and
fuel cells.
The 2011 Summer Intern Poster Session
was held September 1, 2011, in the Memorial Union, OSU. The event was a
chance for interns to share their work with other interns, faculty
members, and graduate students. Below is a list of interns (in bold
type) and
their poster
titles with the title linked to a PDF of their poster if available:
Elisa Alphandary, Khaled
Almabruk and Taifo Mahmud
Drug
Discovery from Soil Bacteria
Mentor: Taifo
Mahmud, Pharmacy
Kirsten Burch
The
Oxidation of Methylene Blue in a Corona Discharge Microreactor
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| Jackson
Olson Dougan and Stephanie Vargas showing their poster to Kate Lajtha
(left). |
Mentor:
Alex Yochochi, Chemical, Biological and
Environmental Engineering
Jackson Olson Dougan, Stephanie Vargas,
Kate Lajtha, and Renee Brooks
Fractionation
Patterns of Extracted Soil Moisture
Mentors: Kate
Lajtha, Botany and Plant Pathology, and Jillian
Gregg, EPA; Forest Ecosystems and Society
Carl Evans, Jed E. Cappallazzi,
David D. Myrold
Quantifying
Bacteria in a Mycorrhizal Birth/Death Study using Quantitative PCR
Mentor: Dave
Myrold, Crop and Soil Science
Ben Foley
New Polymer Binder for
Microbial Fuel Cell Cathode
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
E. Freund , M. Bunn, M. Delaney,
Alex Yokochi
Liu
Biocide Leaching
Rates
and Electrochemical Methods for Antifouling
Marine Paints
Mentor: Alex
Yochochi, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Bridget Guildner, Dr. Markus
Kleber, and Myles Gray
Removal of Mineral Ash
from Biochars and its Effect on Moisture
Retention
Mentor: Markus
Kleber, Crop and Soil Science
 Naomi
Spevack discusses her summer 2011 poster with Jeff Nason.
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Carter Haag, Anne E.
Taylor, and
Peter J. Bottomley
Response
of Nitrification in Soil Slurry and Whole Soil Assays
Mentor: Peter
Bottomley, Microbiology
Chris Hoff, Jeff Nason,
Sherry
Huang
Fish Bone Apatite for
Copper Removal from Stormwater Runoff
Mentor: Jeff
Nason, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Jamie Hughes, Lewis
Semprini
Inhibition of Nitrosomonas
europaea by Emerging
Contaminants
Mentor: Lewis
Semprini,
Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Lacey Kloster, Jeffrey
Nason
Optimizing Coagulation
Pretreatment of Drinking Water for Membrane
Filtration
Mentor: Jeff
Nason, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Nicholas
Kraaz
Adsorbent
Materials for Oil Spill Cleanup
Mentor: Skip
Rochefort, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Will Krett, Nick Curcio,
Markus
Kleber and Julie Pett-Ridge
Long-term silica flux and soil
development in the H.J. Andrews
Mentor: Julie
Pett-Ridge, Crop and Soil Science
Anna Leitschuh
Optimization of
Photobiological Hydrogen Production in Synechocystis sp. PCC. 6803
Encapsulated in Silica Sol-Gel
Mentor: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Adam Lindsley, Lydia
Zeglin and
David Myrold
Effects of
Moisture on Extracellular Enzyme Activity in Prairie Soil
Mentor: Dave
Myrold, Crop and Soil Science
Chris Neighbor, Megan
Kaufman,
Rick Colwell
Analysis
and
Modeling of Urea Hydrolysis
by Ureolytic Bacteria for Use in Subsurface Calcium
Carbonate Precipitation
Mentor: Rick
Colwell, COAS
Daniel Pierson, Tom
Wanzek,
Marco Keiluweit, John Bahm, Markus Kleber
Matsumura
Potentiometric Titrations Implemented to Identify Quinone Functional
Groups in Biochar
Mentor: Markus
Kleber, Crop and Soil Science
Haoyu
Qin, Heather Lavalleur, Frederick Colwell
Culturing and Identifying
Microorganisms in Basalts Targeted for Geologic Carbon Sequestration
Mentor: Rick
Colwell, COAS
Daniel Reid
Electrosynthesis with
Iron Oxidizing Bacteria
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Julie Rorrer, Mary Isham
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| Danyelle
Webb, Rick Colwell, and Lew Semprini at the 2011 poster session. |
Nitrogen
Removal in
Engineered Wetlands
Mentor:Christine
Kelly, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Libby Runde, Jeff Hart,
Mary
Isham, Julie Rorrer, Mark Dolan
Selection of a Carbon
Media Source for Denitrification in a Constructed Wetland
Mentor: Mark
Dolan, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Naomi Spevack, Shanna
Myers,
Mohammad Azizian, Lewis Semprini
Effects of High TCE Toxicity on
Ability of Dehalococcoides sp. to
Degrade Chlorinated Solvents
Mentors: Lewis
Semprini and Mohammad
Azizian,Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering.
J. Summering, M.
Keiluweit, M.
Goñi, P.S, Nico, M. Kleber
Effects of Reactive
Mn(III)-oxalate Complexes on Structurally Intact
Plant Cell Walls
Mentor: Markus
Kleber, Crop and Soil Science
James Teeter, Michael Berry
Deep Vadose Zone Contaminate Immobilization via Foam Transport
Mentor: Jack
Istok
Lisa Thompson, Cheng Li,
Dr.
Hong Liu
Fermentative Hydrogen Production
of Citrobacter Using Different
Substrates
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Danyelle Webb, Tyler
Radniecki,
and Lew Semprini
The Effect of BSA and
Na-Alginate on Silver Ion Inhibition
Mentor: Tyler
Radniecki and Lewis
Semprini, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering.
Summer 2011 interns not represented at the poster
session
Sarah Acker
Investigation of the Mechanistic Transformation of Raz
by
Quantifying Respiration Rates of Five Different Types of Microbial
Cultures.
Mentor: Roy
Haggerty, Geosciences
Yvette Gibson
Studying Soil Solution Chemistry, Examining How Litter
Treatments Influence Soluable Nutrients and Cation Availability in
Soil.
Mentor: Kate
Lajtha, Botany and Plant Pathology
Summer 2010 Internships
The 2010 Summer Intern Poster Session
was held September 2, 2010, in the Memorial Union. The event was a
chance for interns to exhibit their work and the research
lessons they learned. Below is a list of interns (in bold type) and
their poster titles with the title linked to a PDF of their poster if
available:
Delancy Albers, Mohammad
Azizian
and Lew Semprini
Designing of an
Experiment Finding a Method for the Dechlorination of
TCE at High Toxic Concentrations
Mentors: Lewis
Semprini, Mohammad Azizian, Chemical, Biological and
Environmental Engineering
Joe Anderson, Tyler
Radniecki,
Lewis Semprini
Protection of Nitrosomonas europaea from
Silver-Induced Inhibition
Mentors: Lewis
Semprini, Tyler Radniecki, Chemical, Biological and
Environmental Engineering
Dinara Andirova, Jillian
Gregg,
Claire Phillips
Water Use
Efficiency and
Nitrogen Availability Altered for Grasslands
Exposed to Global Warming
Mentor: Jillian
Gregg, EPA; Forest Ecosystems and Society
Melanie Bishop, Jeremy
Campbell,
Greg Rorrer
Study of the Diatom
Pinnularia
sp. Using
Raman
Spectroscopy
Mentor: Greg
Rorrer, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
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| Rick
Colwell and Chris Neighbor, Summer 2010 poster session. |
Justin
Chi, Jeffrey Nason
Effect of Aggregate
Morphology on Low-Pressure Membrane Fouling:
Development of a Bench-Scale System and Improved Analytical Techniques
Mentor: Jeff
Nason, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Ben Foley, Yanzhen Fan,
Hong
Liu
Developing a Novel
Membrane to Increase the Performance of Single
Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Nathan Fulton
Removal of Pathogens
from Drinking Water with Biosand Filters
Mentor: Brian
Wood, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Jacob Greber, Roy
Haggerty,
Alba
Argerich, Jim Fredrickson
Assessment of Hanford,
WA, Sediment Water Transport and Biogeochemical
Reaction Rates Characterized by the Razasurin-Resofurin System
Mentor: Roy
Haggerty, Geosciences
Evelyn Harper, Jillian
Gregg
Alternative to Tipping
Bucket for Greater Accuracy
Mentor: Jillian
Gregg, EPA; Forest Ecosystems and Society
Caroline Kaster, Hong Liu,
Lewis
Semprini, Mohammad Azizian
TCE Removal Using
Microbial Electrochemical Cells
Mentors: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Lewis Semprini,
Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Justin Madrigal
Design and
Testing of a
Device to Separate Tightly-Bound and Mobile
Water Pools in Soil (Paper)
Mentor: Kate
Lajtha, Botany and Plant Pathology
Rebecca Miller, Jed
Eberly,
and
Roger Ely
Mitigating Carbon
Pollution Using a Thermophilic Cyanobacteria,Thermosynechococcus
elongatus
Mentor: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Josh Miner, Brian Wood
Does Flow Direction
Affect Solute Dispersion Across an Interface?
Mentor: Brian
Wood, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Ryan Moore, H. Poppen, F.
Colwell
Development of an
Absolute Standard for Quantitative PCR using
E. coli DH5ɑ
16S rRNA Gene Cloned into a Plasmid
Mentor: Rick
Colwell, COAS
Christopher Neighbor,
Jeremy
Campbell, Greg Rorrer
Characterization and
Optimization of an Airlift Photobioreactor
Mentor: Greg
Rorrer, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Gregory Petrossian, Dahai
Zhang,
Neal Goebel, and T. Mark Zabriskie
I: Discovery and
Isolation of Bioactive Natural Products from Rare
Non-Streptomyces Actinomycete Bacteria II: Isolation of a New
Antibiotic from a Commercial Feed Additive
Mentor: Mark
Zabriskie, College of Pharmacy.
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| Keri
Robinson with her summer 2010 poster. |
Keri
Robinson, Stephanie
Silliman, Kelsey Yee, Christine Kelly
Biomass Hydrolysis:
Enzyme Synergies
Mentor: Christine
Kelly, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Soleil Rowan-Caneer, Dave
Dickson, Roger Ely
Characterization of Growth and Hydrogen Production from Photoantennae
Mutants Syanobacterium Synechocystis
sp. PCC 6803
Mentor: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Anees Sardari, Sean
Sandborgh,
Tyler Radniecki, Mark Dolan
Inquiries into
Nitrification Inhibition in Nitrosomonas
europaea
Mentor: Mark
Dolan, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Melissa Schaffer
Analysis of
Polycarbonate Plastic Bottles Under High Stress Conditions
Mentor: Skip
Rochefort, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Kristina Schmunk, Kate
Lajtha,
Jillian Gregg, Claire Phillips, Jennifer Wig, Kate Townsend
Effects of Symmetric
vs.
Asymmetric Warming on Soil Organic Matter
(SOM) Stabilization
Mentor: Kate
Lajtha, Botany and Plant Pathology
Stephanie Silliman, Audrey
Oldenkamp
Oil Spill Cleanup:
Testing the Effectiveness of Oil Absorbing Materials
(This poster won first place in the National Student
Poster
Competition, Engineering Education Division, during the 2010 AIChE
Annual Student Conference in Salt Lake City.)
Mentor: Skip
Rochefort, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Chad Thomsen
Synthesis of Plain and
Labeled TiO2 Nanoparticles for Study of Fate and
Transport in the Environment
Mentor: Jeff
Nason, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Martine Torres, Ganti Murthy
Biosorption of Algae
Green 3 (AG3) Using Palmaria
Mollis
Mentor: Ganti
Murthy, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Sarah Williams, Dylan
Stankus,
Jeffrey Nason
Influence of
Natural
Organic Matter on the Aggregation Kinetics of Gold
Nanoparticles
Mentor: Jeff
Nason, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Spencer Witter, Neeraja
Vajrala,
Luis Sayavedra-Soto, Daniel J. Arp
Can Hydroxylamine or
Phenylacetylene Differentiate Ammonia Oxidizing
Activity of Bacteria & Archaea?
Mentor: Luis
Sayavedra-Soto, Botany and Plant Pathology
Summer 2010 interns not represented at the poster
session
Erin Flannery
Erin performed experiments with N. maritimus and helped
to
determine its protein composition.
Mentor: Luis
Sayavedra-Soto, Botany and Plant Pathology.
Summer 2009 Internships
A reception for SBI Undergraduate Interns was held
Thursday,
September 3, from 2:30 to 4:30 pm in Room 109 of the Memorial Union,
OSU. Interns shared their research experiences through a scientific
poster session. Below is a list of interns (in bold type) and their
poster titles with the title linked to a PDF of their poster if
available:
Michelle Adlong
Characterization
of nC60 Fullerene Particles in Natural and
Synthetic Waters
Mentor: Jeff
Nason, Environmental Engineering
Coralie Backlund, Kelsey
Yee,
and Christine Kelly
Production
of
the Lignin Degrading Enzyme Recombinant
Manganese Proxidease
Mentor: Christine
Kelly, Chemical Engineering
Nicole Bauer, Ellen
Swogger,
and Lewis Semprini
Effect of Nitrosomonas europaea
Growth
Rate on rRNA Degradation and Phenol Inhibition
Mentor: Lewis
Semprini, Environmental Engineering
Sonal Bhargava Shoutao Xu,
Hong Liu
Microbial
Fuel Cell (Current Density Generation Using
Multiple Substrates)
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Celene Christensen, Roy
Haggerty, and Alba Algerich
Development
of a“Smart” Tracer: Microbial Respiration in
Stream Sediment and the Resazurin-Resorufin System
Mentor: Roy
Haggerty, Geosciences
Emery Collins,
How Does Biochar Affect Soil Properties? Chapter
1:Hydrophobicity
Mentor: Markus
Kleber, Crop and Soil Science
Paul Dornath, Skip
Rochefort
and
Nicholas Kraaz
Analysis
of
“BPA-free” TritanTM Copolyester Under High
Stress
Conditions
Mentor: Skip
Rochefort, Chemical Engineering
Kristin Egan, Tyler
Radniecki,
and Lew Semprini
The Role of
Trace
Metals in Protecting Nitrosomonas
europaea From Silver Ions and Silver Nanoparticles
Egan.pdf
Mentor: Lewis
Semprini, Environmental Engineering
Calvin Elser,Laurel Kluber,
Lydia Zeglin, and David Myrold
Microbial Community Associated with Birth and Death of
Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) Mats
Mentor: Dave
Myrold, Crop and Soil Science
Victoria Grimwood, Katharine
Field, Jeffrey Shaman, and Hyatt Green
Patterns of Occurrence and Prevalence for Avian Fecal
Markers
detected by GFB, GFC, and GFD
Mentor: Kate
Field, Microbiology
Jayson Hieter, Brandon
Briggs,
Fredrick Colwell
Analysis of Macroscopic Biofilms in Methane Hydrate
Bearing
Sediment As They Relate to Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane
Mentor:Rick
Colwell, COAS
Kaalindi Misra
Electrolysis
Cells - Generation of Hydrogen Gas from
Different Types of Bacteria
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Thomas Kendig, Dusty
Berggren,
Mohammad Azizian
Evaluation
of
Sulfate Reduction and TCE Reduction by the
Evanite and Point Mugu Cultures
Mentor: Lewis
Semprini, Environmental Engineering
Michelle Land, Neeraja Vajrala, Luis
Sayavedra-Soto, and Daniel Arp
Can You Differentiate the Ammonia Oxidizers in Soil?
Mentor: Luis
Sayavedra-Soto, Botany and Plant Pathology
Betsy Leondar, Dave Myrold
Soil
Processes
in Restored Wetlands
Mentor: Mary Santelmanm, Geosciences; Dave
Myrold, Crop and Soil Science
Mikkel Leslie, Dylan
Stankus,
Jeff Nason, Kate Saili and Stacey Harper
Characterization
and Toxicity Results on Silver and Gold
Nanoparticles Samples
Mentor: Jeff
Nason, Environmental Engineering
Felicia Molatore,
Soil
Fractionation
Mentor: Kate
Lajtha, Botany and Plant Pathology
Shane Monares,
Adapting
the
Methylene Blue Sulfide Detection Method for
use
in a Microfluidic In Situ Monitoring Device
Mentor: James
Ingle, Chemistry
Nicole Nasholm,
Hydrophobicity
Determination of Bacteria, Colloids and
Surfaces
Mentor: Brian
Wood, Environmental Engineering
Hoang Nguyen, Martin Fisk,
Jerry Yamamuro, David Cann, Eric Patterson, Jason
Ideker, Skip Rochefort
Hawaii Giant Landslides
and Their
Strength
Mentor: Martin
Fisk, COAS
Kayli Paterson,, Hatem
Mohamed
Growth
of
Cyanobacterial Cells with a Carbon Source Added
Mentor: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Jean Plotkin Hongqiang Hu
and
Hong Liu
The
Effects of
Cathode Variation on Hydrogen Production in
Microbial Fuel Cells
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Hilary Rogers
Engineering a Mutant Strain of Synechocystis PCC 6803
to
Over-Express Cyanoglobin
Mentor: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Devin Seitz
Development
of
an Experimental Procedure to Determine
Volatile Matter Content in Biochar
Mentor: Markus
Kleber, Crop and Soil Science
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| Kedy
Shen points out a detail to Stephanie Yarwood during the
summer 2009 poster session. |
Kedy Shen,
Joyce E. Loper,
Marcella D. Henkels
Identification
of
Phytotoxic Secondary Metabolites in Pseudomonas
fluorescens Pf-5
Mentor: Joyce
Loper, Botany and Plant Pathology
Cassandra Viéville
Genetic
Engineering of Yeast for Manganese Peroxidase
Production
Mentor: Christine
Kelly, Chemical Engineering
Hiu Tung Yip, Brandon
Briggs,
Rick Colwell
Characterization
of Microbiological Communities in the
Columbia River Basalts before Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Mentor:Rick
Colwell, COAS
Summer 2009 interns not represented at the poster
session
Eva Arndt
Pesticide
Use Practices and the Impact on Water Quality in Oregon Communities
(paper)
Mentor: Jeff
Jenkins, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology.
John Lebsack
Green Synthesis of Boron-Doped TiO2 Nanostuctured
Photocatalysts for Waste Water Treatment.
Mentor: Greg
Rorrer, Chemical Engineering
Wansak, Tom
Soil Enzyme and Microbial Activities that are Related
to
Cycling Nitrogen in Soils
Mentor: Dave
Myrold, Crop and Soil Science, OSU
Summer 2008 Internships
There were 16 SBI
interns during Summer 2008. You can read highlights about their
experiences in the August
2008 SBI research feature. The 2008 interns and their project
titles are listed below and linked to slides from their final
presentations if available:
Dusty
Berggren,
Environmental Engineering
Anaerobic Transformations of
Chlorinated
Ethenes: Kinetics Study of Batch Systems
Mentor: Lewis
Semprini, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Alese
Colehour,
Macalester College
Methodologies
and Preliminary Results of
Soil Microbial Community Structure Under Different Agricultural
management treatments
Mentor: Dave
Myrold, Crop and Soil Science
Ed Davis,
Microbiology
Identification
of Antibiotics Responsible
for Bacterial Inhibition by Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5
(paper)
Mentor: Joyce
Loper, Botany and Plant Pathology
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| Kristin
Egan returned to intern in the environmental engineering laboratory
after working there as a high school student in the Saturday
Academy apprenticeship program. |
Kristin
Eagan, Brigham
Young University
Inhibition
of Nitrosomonas
europaea by
Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Linking the Inhibition on
Nitrite Production to Cell Membrane Changes
Mentor: Lewis
Semprini, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Lucy
Keenlyside,
Chemical Engineering
Enzymatic
Lignin Degradation
Mentor: Christine
Kelly, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Brett Levy,
Chemical Engineering
Microbial
Fuel Cells
Mentor: Hong
Liu, Biological and Ecological Engineering
China Lim,
Chemical Engineering
Cyanobacteria
for Hydrogen Production
Mentor: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Mei Lee
Ling,
Microbiology
sPsaE
knockout mutant in T.
elongatus
Mentor: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
Stacey
Long,
Bioengineering
Reporter
Constructs Based on N.
europea to Identify Nitrification Inhibitors in Wastewater
Mentor: Luis
Sayavedra-Soto, Botany and Plant Pathology
Brian
Maloney,
Biological Engineering
Leaching
of Bisphenol-A From Polycarbonate
Containers
Mentor: Skip
Rochefort, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Marc Nabelek, Whitman College
Studies
on the Development of a 'Smart'
Tracer for the Assessment of Microbiological Activity and
Sediment-Water Interaction in Natural Waters
In May 2009, Marc presented his work in a
poster at the Geological Society of America meeting in Kelowna, BC.
Mentor: Roy
Haggerty, Geosciences
Richard Oleksak, Chemical
Engineering
Bacterial/Colloid
Transport in
Porous Media
Mentor: Brian
Wood, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Katelyn Powers, Microbiology
Effects
of
Sample Size on Microbial
Community Diversity in Marine Sediments
Mentor: Rick
Colwell, Oceanography
Amanda Schwartz, Microbiology
Microbial
Communities in Methane Hydrates
beneath the Permafrost in Alaska (poster)
Mentor: Rick
Colwell, Oceanography
Brian Wakefield, Biology, Whitman College
Autotrophic
vs. Heterotrophic
Nitrification
in Soils from the H.J. Andrews DIRT plots
Mentor: Dave
Myrold, Crop and Soil Science
Priscilla Woolverton, Soil Science and Natural Resource
Management
Study
of a Hydrophobic Soil
Mentors: Maria
Dragila and Markus
Kleber, Crop and Soil Science
Summer 2007 Internships
Seven students participated in the 2007 summer
internship
program. They worked on a diverse set of projects with faculty members
in the colleges of Agricultural Science, Engineering, and Science. The
interns presented short talks on their research at a reception held in
September.
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| Kendra
Brown gives a presentation about her summer 2007 SBI internship. |
Interns and project
titles are listed below and linked to slides from their final
presentations if available:
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Kendra Brown,
Environmental
Engineering
Water
Wet -
Building a Hydrophilic,
Two-dimensional, Micro-scale Flow Cell
Mentor: Dorthe
Wildenschild, Environmental Engineering
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Caslin Gilroy,
Bioengineering
Chemical
Inhibition of Nitrosomonas
europaea
Mentors: Lewis
Semprini, Environmental Engineering
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Tuan Cong Huynh,
Bioresource
Research
Physical Mechanisms Governing the
Coating
of Droplets by Particles on Hydrophobic Soil
Mentor: Maria
Dragila, Crop and Soil Science
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Rachel Huber, Chemistry
Amphibian
Exposure to Pesticides through
Lake Sediment
Mentor: Staci
Simonich, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
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Emily Thornley,
Environmental
Engineering
Measurement
of Thin Film Characteristics
In
Porous Media
Mentor: Dorthe
Wildenschild
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Colin Sexton, Chemical
Engineering
A
Means for
Biophotosynthesis that
Directly
Converts Light and Water to Hydrogen Gas
Mentors: Roger
Ely, Biological and Ecological Engineering
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Darren Taylor,
Physiology and
Developmental Biology, Brigham Young
Universitry
Comparing
Oxidation Efficiency in Large
and
Small Samples of High and Low Carbon Content Soils (abstract)
Mentor: Markus
Kleber, Crop and Soil Science
Summer 2006 Internships
Eleven students participated in the 2006 summer
internship
program. They came from seven different departments and worked on a
diverse set of projects with faculty members in the colleges of
Agricultural Science, Engineering, Forestry, Ocean and Atmospheric
Science, and Science.
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| Samantha
Lewis explaining her summer 2006 SBI internship poster to Lew
Semprini. |
In early September, a reception and poster session gave
the
interns a chance to present their work. Ten SBI interns presented
posters and about 35 faculty members, researchers, parents and students
attended the event. Interns and project
titles are listed below and linked to a PDF of their poster if
available:
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Wade Denny,
Environmental
Engineering
Reduction
Analysis Using the Colorimetric
Method
Mentor: Lewis
Semprini
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Colette Griffith,
Chemical
Engineering
GC
Analysis of Chlorinated Aromatics as
Metabolized by Nitrosomonas europaea
Mentor: Mark
Dolan
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Ian Hunter, Botany
Soil Microbiology in Agriculture
Mentor: Anita
Azarenko
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Danielle Jansik,
Chemical
Engineering
Three-Dimensional
Characterization of
Microbial Biomass in Porous Media
Mentor: Dorthe
Wildenschild
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Megan Kelly, Zoology
Characteristics
of Mutants of Pseudomonas
flourescens Pf-5
Mentor: Joyce
Loper
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Samantha Lewis, Zoology
Peristaltic
Pump-Coupled Chambers for In
Situ Microbial Cultures
Mentor: Martin
Fisk
-
Kendra Seniow, Chemical
Engineering
Image
Processing and Calculation of
Interfacial Area in Unsaturated Porous Media
Mentor: Dorthe
Wildenschild
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Zach Sutton,
Environmental
Science
My
Summer Internship with Earth, Wind and
Fire
Mentor: Elizabeth
Sulzman
-
Danelle Bertrand, Civil
Engineering, and Benjamin Garcia, Environmental
Engineering
Oak
Creek Groundwater Lab Internships
Mentor: Jack
Istok
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Marco Clark, Political
Science
Mentors: Beverly
Law/Jon Martin)
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