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Student Studies
Often graduate and undergraduate geology students conduct research projects either as part of a course or as semester-long independent projects. These projects serve to provide the students with experience in field and laboratory methods and with experience writing scientific reports. The projects are limited in time to one semester and in space to one drainage basin and sometimes to one site within a drainage basin. Over the past five to ten years, I have advised several of these research projects. I am providing the data from those projects on this website. I am also including the objective of the project, a short description of the field area, the results of the project, and a summary of the findings. In a few cases, the entire final project that was prepared by the student has been converted into a pdf file and the pdf file has been made available.
The areas studied are often local because it is much easier for the students to gather data from the local area than from areas at a considerable distance from campus. Over the past years, students have studied the Jordan Creek watershed near Springfield Missouri, the Foster Branch and Fowler Creek in Southern Boone County, the Bonne Femme Creek and Devils Icebox Stream just south of Columbia, Little Dixie Lake in Callaway County, Maramec Spring in Maramec Spring Park (St. James Foundation), Perche Creek at the KATY Trail bridge, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refugee - Overton Bottoms North. Another student used a numerical model to investigate barite mineralization in the Barite Districts of Missouri. Another project investigated the concentrations of trace metals (jpg of poster) on the reproduction and and longevity of amphipods that served as surrogates for cave-dwelling species and was presented at the joint NABS-AGU meeting in 2005. Geochemical data available from Oregon Caves National Monument were analyzed and interpreted by a Masters student as part of project. An undergraduate compiled discharge data from springs of Missouri, water well level data from Missouri and compare those data to Palmer Drought Severity Index for the Dust Bowl years and for the drought of the 1980s. None of these studies has been subjected to rigorous peer review and are included here, so you may see the types of projects students (undergraduate and graduate) can conduct.
The data provided here are for your educational purposes only; please do not extrapolate these data. Remember that these data have not been subjected to scientific review, that these data were generated by students who were LEARNING techniques that were new to them, and that these data are limited in both time and space. Also cite these pages if you use these data. Thank you.
Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge - Overton Bottoms North
Bonne Femme Creek and Devils Icebox Stream (south of Columbia, MO)
Foster Branch and Fowler Creek (Southern Boone County, MO)
Jordan Creek watershed (near Springfield, MO)
Little Dixie Lake (Callawy County, MO)
Maramec Spring (Maramec Spring Park, near St. James, MO)
Oregon Caves National Monument
Perche Creek at the KATY Trail bridge (Boone County, MO)
Toxicity of Trace Metals in Cave Sediments (the karst regions of Missouri) (jpg of poster)