Rachel Grand, Fall 2001.  Rachel will be monitoring four springs in Greene County: Ward Branch Spring, Welch Spring, Young Valley Spring and an unnamed spring.  She will take field measurements and will collect a water sample for further analysis.  After several months collecting data, she will process and plot the information to infer about the water flow, connectedness of the springs and water chemistry.

Tylene Coonts, Summer 2001.  Tylene collected and organized information on a soil contaminated site near Ava, Missouri.  Several reports on the site, Internet, and oral communications were the sources for her investigation.  Her final report included information about the release of waste and a time sequence towards developing an environmental assessment of the site.

Brittany Flokstra, Summer 1999 through Fall 1999. As a continuation of Lisa Shepard's study (below), Brittany determined the heavy metal uptake of fescue grass in soils amended with sewage sludge. This research was done as a senior honors project presented to the Department of Geography, Geology and Planning and the Honors College of Missouri State. Brittany was awarded an undergraduate research grant from the Geological Society of America - North Central section, to partially cover fieldwork expenses. Her results will be presented at the GSA meeting in Fayetteville, AR, next April 2000.

Lisa Shepard (now Lisa Schwartz), Fall 1995 through Spring 96. A senior honors project presented to the Department of Geography, Geology and Planning and the Honors College of Missouri State. The project involved the identification of the clay mineralogy of Wilderness soils in Christian County, Missouri, and the relationship of the mineralogy to the soil chemistry, specifically the possible retention of metal in the soils caused by several years of sewage sludge disposal in specific areas.