Stanford Earth Undergraduate Research Symposium
Summer research projects from the 2020 SESUR cohort
Terachet Rojrachsombat, Salvatore Pascale, Morgan E. O’Neill Past comprehensive climate models exhibit large biases in their simulation of the North American Monsoon (NAM), a major contributor to annual rainfall in a vast area of the North American Southwest (Geil et al., 2013; Liang et…
Authors: Mitchell Zimmerman; Dana Chadwick; Kathleen Grant; Corey Lawrence Abstract: Soil organic carbon (SOC) holds a significant portion of terrestrial carbon stores, and studies have found that the stability of this carbon stock could be dependent on soil manganese (Mn) limiting microbial decomposition processes….
Authors: Natalie Cross, Dr. Nik Sawe, Dr. Tierney Thys, Dr. Brian Knutson Abstract: With over 145 million followers, National Geographic’s Instagram page is one of the most popular pages on Instagram. This study analyzed a set of 890 photographs posted on National Geographic’s Instagram…
Authors Akua M. McLeod1, Sean T. Peters1, Dustin M. Schroeder1,2, Nicole Bienert1, Tun Jan Young3, Poul Christoffersen3 1: Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford, CA United, States 2: Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA United, States 3: University of Cambridge, Scott Polar…
Annabel Conger, Emma (Mickey) MacKie, Dustin Schroeder In the past fifty years, advances in radio-echo sounding (RES) collection and processing coupled with an increasing amount of available data have allowed the community to identify hundreds of Antarctic subglacial lakes. Although the bright, smooth, and…
Authors Maya Passmore, Maria DiGiano, Nicole Ardoin Abstract Understanding the human response to climate change is crucial, in order to develop effective action measures. This includes understanding individual hopes and concerns around climate change, the sense of place and connection to nature individuals exhibit,…
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