SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR 1996

PROGRAM OF STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

School of Oceanography, University of Washington

The student symposium on the results of their research projects is scheduled for Thursday, 23 May, and Tuesday, 28 May, from 1:30 to 4:30 pm, in Room 14 Oceanography Teaching Building on the University of Washington campus. The public is invited.

1:35 Judith Boughner

Holocene uplift in the Duwamish River Valley, Washington: implications for paleoearthquakes along the Seattle Fault

1:47 Michael Hutnak

Turbidity currents in Elliott Bay: a majormechanism for sediment transport to Puget Sound

1:59 Eric Maddox

Slope stability of the Fourmile Rock dredge disposal site: implications for the transport of contaminated sediment into the Main Basin of Puget Sound

2:11 Jennifer Lenaghan

Historical changes in the mercury concentrations in the sediments of Elliott Bay

2:23 Yoon Kyong Kim

Partitioning of iron in the Duwamish River estuary, Washington

2:35 Eric Rehberg

Sediment analysis at the Diagonal Way cleanup site in the Duwamish River, Washington: implications of depositional environment

2:47 Holly Dail

Probability for sediment erosion at the Diagonal Way cleanup site: implications for future sediment remediation

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3:10 Dave Hall

Intense mixing events in the Duwamish River estuary

3:22 Aaron Bird Bear

Circulation dynamics over a sill: East Waterway, Duwamish River estuary

3:34 Jeff Annis

An examination of surface salinity and windfield to confirm plume dynamics within Elliott Bay, Washington

3:46 Andrew Cookson

Does ferry traffic make a significant contribution to mixing in Elliott Bay?

3:58 Suzanne Thomas

A numerical model of the Duwamish River estuary, Seattle, Washington

1:35 Crystal Thimsen

Interactions between trace metal concentration and sediment concentrations in the Duwamish River estuary

1:47 Sean Steen

The effect of salinity on partition coefficients for silver, cadmium and lead

1:59 Sean Avent

Distribution of Eurytemora americana (Crustacea, Copepoda) in the Duwamish River estuary

2:11 Anna Liljevik

Effects of salinity stress on Eurytemora americana in the Duwamish River estuary, Washington

2:23 Jacqueline Thomas

Grazing rate of the copepod Eurytemora americana on free-living and particle-attached bacteria in the Duwamish River estuary

2:35 Amanda W. Jones

Concentrations of trace metals in two species of planktonic copepods from the Duwamish River estuary, Elliott Bay, and the Main Basin of Puget Sound

2:47 Jamie Zyskowski

Factors governing the distribution of dissolved ammonia in the salt wedgeintrusion of the Duwamish River estuary

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3:10 Nicholas Wolf

The spatial distribution of larvaceans and other zooplankton relative to a turbid river plume

3:22 Elaina Jorgensen

Trace metals and biota of the sea surface layer

3:34 Cathy Laetz

Benthic recolonization at two sediment-capped sites in Elliott Bay, Washington

3:46 Jeffrey Adams

Intertidal habitat restoration in the Duwamish River estuary: analysis and comparison of present and past epibenthic sampling results

3:58 Jason Miller

Effects of urbanization on mussels, Mytilus edulis, in Elliott Bay, Washington

4:10 Andrew Mitchell

Molecular genetic variation in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch): a preliminary assay of mtDNA in the Green River