Student Presentations

Geological Society of Maine Student Meeting

University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME April 7, 2019

Gaby Moroz ('21), Sahra Gibson ('20), Patricio Gallardo Garcia Freire ('18)

Outstanding Student Poster Presentation: Sahra Gibson

Northeast Geological Society of America Meeting,

Portland, ME  March 17-19, 2019

Four COA student presentations as well a presentation by COA faculty (Van Vliet and Hall) in the session: Beyond Sustainability: The Anthropocene as a Paradigm for Thinking about Earth across Disciplines

Sahra Gibson: Geomorphic map of Kebo Brook Watershed: Identifying characteristic channel geometry and channel head locations for a small post-glacial coastal New England watershed

2017-2018 coming soon....

Acadia National Park, Brown-bag talk series, Bar Harbor, ME, June 1, 2016

Will Minogue presented his senior project Installation of Stream Discharge Monitoring Sites On Mount Desert Island, Maine in the form of a 45-min talk at the Acadia National Park brown-bag talk series to a crowd of collaborators from ANP, Friends of Acadia, and COA. Well done, Will!  He also presented a poster at the ANP Science Symposium. His project established an ongoing watershed study in ANP streams monitored by COA students and Friends of Acadia interns.

Geological Society of Maine Meeting,

UMaine, Orono, ME, April 1, 2016

Ian, Alba, and Gemma all presented their work at the regional GSM meeting at UMO. All three were acknowledged for their excellent presentations. Outstanding Student Poster Presentation: Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla and Gemma Venuti. Great job!

Northeast Geological Society of America Meeting,

Albany, NY, March 21-23, 2016

Spencer Gray: Geology of Mt. Desert Rock and Great Duck Island

Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla (left) and Gemma Venuti (right): Glacial erosion and pre-existing fractures networks collaborate to cret the Acadia National Park landscape

Awarded Outstanding Student Poster

Ian Medeiros: Documenting the rocks, soils, and biota of serpentinite outcrops in western Massachusetts

Acadia National Park Science Symposium,

Schoodic Institute, April 2013

Tyler Prest: Tyler presented on behalf of his fellow students, Miranda Galey and Jane Strader. Their work was the culmination of the Mineralogy a Petrology advanced tutorial: Assembling a teaching collection at COA: outcrop, hand-sample, and thin-section analysis of rocks from Mt. Desert

Gabriela Moroz: Is there a correlation between the location of geologic structures and private well water chemistry: A view from northern Mt. Desert Island

Maria Fe Aragon Oreggo: Matching skill to need: A multi-institutional approach to field-based Environmental-STEM (ESTEM) studies and professional development skills

Patricio Gallardo Garcia Freire: Past, present and future of the College o the Atlantic Stream: A small coastal watershed assessment.

Geological Society of America

Montreal (remote), Oct 26-30, 2020

Gaby Moroz ('21),

Poster and short video presentation

Isidora Muñoz Segovia ('22)

Poster and short video presentation, also presented at the Geological Society of Maine meeting (April 2021)

Maine Sustainability and Water Conference, March 2022

Multiple COA students presented posters of  their independent research projects at the Maine Sustainability and Water Confernence, our first in-person conference in two years! Find pdfs of the posters here (bottom of the page).

Adam Feher ('23)

Ben Capuano ('23)

Ludwin Moran ('24)

Hallie Arno ('22)

COA students at the MSWC in Augusta

Geological Society of Maine Spring Meeting, April, 2022

Six COA students presented their work at the virtual GSM spring meeting! One benefit to vitural meetings is that they are often recorded. Watch the meeting here: view the student presentations as well as an update from the state Geologist, Steve Dickson, and a keynote talk by Dr. Shreya Arora on active tectonics in the Himalaya.

Six COA geoscience students presented their work alongside other current COA students, alums, and faculty members at the symposium held at Schoodic Institute. Read a  COA news article about the symposium here. Some of the student water quality posters are available here at the bottom of the page. Geoscience students included: Ben Capuano, Lily Dutton, Adam Feher, Joshua Harkness, Ludwin Moran, and Lenka Slamova.

Acadia National Park Science Symposium, October, 2023

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