2019 Senior Thesis Final Presentations:

At the end of each academic year seniors in the EPS department  present the work they completed for their senior thesis projects. Below are titles and recordings of the presentations from the last academic year. The full abstracts can be seen on the Final Presentations program.

1. Thomas Andrew Lee - Detection of a “Silent” Magma Intrusion Using Ambient Seismic Noise Autocorrelation Functions from the 2018 Kīlauea, Hawai`i Eruption  

(link to full thesis)

Advisors:  Miaki Ishii, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Head Tutor, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Harvard University, and Paul Okubo, Research Geophysicist – Seismology, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, United States Geological Survey University

2. Molly Michael Wieringa - Changing Rains Down in Africa: Verifying Shifts in the Position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Using a New Seasonal Rainfall Model 

(link to full thesis)

Advisor:  Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University, and Angela Rigden, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

3. Margaret Powell - Four Years of Alaskan Methane Emissions from the Carbon in the Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) Aircraft Campaign Show Substantial Late Season Contributions 

(link to full thesis)

Advisor:  Steven C. Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Harvard University

4. Rebecca Cleveland Stout - Leveraging preservation bias in Last Interglacial coral sea-level records to refine global ice volumes over the ice age 

(link to full thesis)

Advisors:  Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University and Jerry X. Mitrovica, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Harvard University

5. Maya V. Chung - Quantifying Isopycnal Heave Using Dynamic Depth Warping 

(link to full thesis)

Advisor:  Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University

6. Vlad Sevostianov - Sniffing Trees: A UAV Based Photoionizaton Detector for Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emission Measurements 

(link to full thesis)

Advisor:  Scot Martin, Gordan McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Harvard University