This spring, both seniors have had their thesis research presented at major geological meetings. In May, Mike Hendrickson (’11) traveled to the Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran section meeting in Logan, UT, to give a poster titled “Petrologic Investigation of Graphitic Breccia Pipe Adjacent to the Cu-Ni-PGE Deposit, Carlton County, MN.” He reported having good conversations with other researchers about the formation of breccia pipes. (Photo above: Mike, far left, talks to a conference attendee in front of his poster.) In June, Prof. Triplett attended the 9th International Symposium on Geochemistry of Earth’s Surface in Boulder, CO, where she presented a poster titled “Eight years of silica sequestration by Phragmites australis in a fluvial environment”, based on Carson Smith’s (’11) thesis research.