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Karst Research Group

Student Officers

PRESIDENT: Jason Polk, Ph.D Candidate (ESP/GEO, van Beynen) Cave sediment and speleothem paleoclimatology in Central America, Florida, & Newfoundland

VICE PRESIDENT: Beth Fratesi, Ph.D Candidate (GLY, Vacher) - Hydrogeology, Numerical Modeling of coastal karst

TREASURER: Leslie North, Ph.D Candidate (ESP/GEO, van Beynen) - Karst disturbance and education

SECRETARY:Dorien McGee, Ph.D Candidate (GLY, Wynn) - Condensation corrosion and carbon cycling in caves

Students

Aurel Persoiu, Ph.D Candidate (GLY, Onac) - Paleoclimate from ice and calcite speleothems in Romania

Jon Sumrall, MS Candidate (GLY, Onac)- Sulphur isotopes in Romanian Caves

Glen Hunt, BS Candidate (GLY)-

Damien Menning, Ph.D Candidate (BIO, Garey)-Biogeochemisty of underground/underwater estuary systems and cave
biota

Limaris Soto, Ph.D Candidate (GLY, Onac) - Speleothem paleoclimate of the Caribbean

Monica Exner, MA Candidate (GEO, Brinkmann)- Karst geomorphology

Boris Radosavljevic, BS Candidate (GLY, Wang)- Coastal management, dune-field evolution, caving

Former Students

Pam Fetterman, MS (ESP, Brinkmann) - Sinkhole wetlands in Pinellas County

Spencer Fleury, Ph.D (GEO, Brinkmann) - Karst and Public Policy

Grant Harley, MA (GEO, Reeder) - Cave sensitivity and disturbance inventories, cave managment

Melissa Hill, Ph.D (GLY, Stewart) - Hydrogeology, Geophysics

Kali Pace-Graczyk, MS (GLY, Onac) - Cave dripwater and Paleoclimate

Lee Florea, Ph.D. (GLY, Vacher) - Karst, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, Carbonate Geology of West Central Florida

Sarah Koenig, MA (GEO, Brinkmann) - Surface hydrology and phosphate mining

L. Don Seale, MS (GLY, Vacher) - Remote Sensing and GIS of Pinellas County karst

Kelly Wilson, MS (ESP, Brinkmann) - Remote Sensing, GIS,
Human Geography


Curt Walker, MS (GEO, Reeder) - Florida spring morphology

Daniel Dye, MA (GEO, Brinkmann) - Remote Sensing, Ecological Systems, and Karst. Currently a Fulbright, University of Helsinki




Karst Research Group Students in Belize.

 

Limaris Soto in Legend Cave, Florida

Jason Polk digging in Belize

 
 
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