REU class of 2012

REU Students' 3-minute presentations

	Jason Alonzo California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 2014 Electrical Engineering Mentor: Richard Quinn "Preliminary studies for the ORganices Exposure in Orbit (OREOcube) experiment on the International Space Station"
	Alex Baldwin California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 2014 Computer Engineering Mentor: Gerry Harp "Better, Cleaner, Faster: Code to tackle ATA data in real time"
	Aaron Castellonos California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 2014 Electrical Engineering and Physics Mentor: Gerry Harp "Can you hear me now? Improving the ATA from telescope observations through data collection and analysis"
	Heather Chilton California State University - Fullerton 2012 Geology and Physics Mentor: Cynthia Phillips "Temporal Contrast Changes in Dark Slope Streaks on Mars"
	Allyn Durbin Villanova University, PA, 2013 Astronomy and Astrophysics Mentor: Adrian Brown "Simulating snowfall: Water deposition on the martian northern ice cap"
	Rachel Harris Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 2014 Astrobiology Mentor: David Des Marais / Niki Parenteau "Hot Tub Time Machine: A glimpse into early earth habitability with acidophilic purple non-sulfur bacteria"
	Rebecca Nakaba Bennington College, Bennington, VT 2013 Astronomy, Physics Mentor: Friedemann Freund/Richard Dahlgren "Mysterious Current: Refinement of Rock Stress Experiments previously conducted in August 2011"
	Abigail Nastan The University of Montana--Missoula, MT 2013 Geology Mentor: Nathalie Cabrol "Linking present environmental change on Earth to rapid climate change on Mars at the Noachian / Hesperian boundary: Implications for habitability"
	Sarah Peacock University of Virginia 2013 Astronomy-Physics Mentor: Jean Chiar "Growing grains in the Perseus star forming region"
	Elyse Rankin-Gee University of California - Los Angeles 2012 Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Mentor: Oana Marcu "Molecular and Biochemical Responses of Volvox Carteri to Oxidative Stress"
	Kathryn Steakley University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2013 Astronomy and Physics Mentor: Peter Jenniskens "Meteor Showers of the February Sky"
	Ian Szumila Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, 2014 Physics and Geology Mentor: Janice Bishop/Lori Fenton "Differing Abundances of Gypsum in the primary and secondary dunes of the Martian dune field Olympia Undae"