Solid Earth Geophysics
Interns working with in this group were:

Name	College
Katie Arnold	Hamilton College, NY
John Morton	William & Mary
Leslie Semler	Michigan Tech
David Williams	Indiana State University
Toni McKnight	Michigan Tech
Michelle Schumacher	Montana Tech
Andrea Llenos	Brown
Wendy Marshall	Western Washington University
Corrie Blodgett	Rochester Institute of Technology
Paul Schonfeld	Lawrence University
Kristin Morell	Wellesley College
Katrina Jacobs	University of South Dakota

Project Descriptions:

Working with Paul Layer, Jeff Drake, David Stone, and Jon Castro on projects involving geochronology, paleomagnetics, and petrology were John Morton, Leslie Semler, Katie Arnold and David Williams. Geochronology work was done using an argon laser/mass spectrometer computer automated system. A paleomagnetic investigation into loess and tephra deposits from Ester and Tok, Ak was completed by the group and led to a poster for the AGU meeting of December 2003. John Morton worked with visiting post-doc Jon Castro on petrology data collected with an SEM.

l-r Katie, Dave, John, Leslie
Collecting Samples at Ester

Michelle Schumacher and advisor Jeff Freymueller worked on a project involing GPS stations in Alaska.

Andrea Llenos worked with Doug Christensen on receiver functions for broadband stations in Alaska to determine crustal thickness.

Wendy Marshall's project consisted of analyzing river ice data to explore the relationship between behavior of ice and climate change. She worked in cooperation with sea-ice glaciologist Martin Jeffries.

Corrie Blodgett worked with Hajo Eicken on a project involving landfast ice and lead patterns in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.

Paul Schonfeld's project involved modeling volcanic ash plumes using computer simulation and satellite imagery. His advisors were Ken Dean, Rorik Peterson, and Laura (Cutler) Bickmeier.

Toni Mcknight worked with Doug Christensen on shear wave splitting and mantle deformation beneath the Alaska Range to find the flow of the mantle wedge between the Pacific sub-ducting Plate and the North American Plate.