Hey it’s Sophie, Alex, and Paige!
Sophie and Alex would like to welcome our new member of the lab Paige Monyak. She is a first year from Ohio interested in geology and environmental studies. She joined the geomorphology lab at the beginning of her first semester here at Oberlin and has been working on the China project. Over the 2019 Winter Term, she will be traveling to the Sichuan Province of China with a group of students and staff to visit various nature reserves and to have a more in depth understanding of the China project.
Sophie and Alex recently went to the Geological Society of America meeting in Indianapolis to present their research for the China project. It was so much fun to meet other people in the field, learn more about geomorphology, and contribute to a larger conversation surrounding the use of fallout radionuclides.
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| Sophie and Alex presenting at GSA |
Sophie and Alex have been showing Paige the ins and outs of the lab. This semester, the sediment samples were wet sieved to separate them into different grain fractions. The separated sediment (<63um) will be used to begin the leaching process! By using these smaller grain sizes, the grain size dependencies of 137Cs and 210Pb can be eliminated. The next steps will be to run the sieved samples in a detector, create a leachate, then rerun the leached samples in a detector.
Next semester, Alex and Sophie will be studying abroad in New Zealand and Bolivia respectively. Paige and an additional lab member will be taking over! We trust our grains with her :)
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| Sophie, Alex, and Paige in the lab |
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