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Multiscale Variability Of Heavy Metals In A Western U.S. Snowpack, Kelsey Hefner
Multiscale Variability Of Heavy Metals In A Western U.S. Snowpack, Kelsey Hefner
Student Research Symposium
Natural and anthropogenically sourced particulates are deposited from the atmosphere to landscapes via dry and wet deposition, making frozen winter snowpack a natural archive of atmospheric elemental composition. Wildfires in the Western United States are increasing in extent, duration, and severity, especially in alpine regions. Severe fires remove forest canopy and can impact how atmospheric elements are dispersed and stored across snow-dominated watersheds. We evaluated Al, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, As, Zn, Se, Mo, Cd, and Pb concentrations in 394 winter snow core samples. We collected samples in 2019 and 2020 from a chronosequence of eight forests that burned …
Climate Change: Is It An Existential Crisis?, Whit Lawrence, Emily Payne
Climate Change: Is It An Existential Crisis?, Whit Lawrence, Emily Payne
Scholars Day Conference
With the help of Dr. Knight, we did a literature review of four different books on climate change. These books covered different aspects of the controversial topic. After reading, we made our own conclusions on whether or not climate change was the existential crisis many say it is.