Conference poster presentation, Mineralogical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona
An SEM-EDS analysis of more than 3000 single particles reveals major shifts in climatic and environmental conditions in the Peruvian Andes since the late glacial stage.
Proceedings paper and poster presentation, Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
Methodology of using cryo-SEM to view, image, and obtain elemental and crystallographic information on single particles entrapped in ice cores. Presented by Dan Veghte. Citation: Veghte, D., Weber, A. M., Beaudon, E., and Thompson, L. G. (2025). Microscopy and Microanalysis 37(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/mam/ozaf048.966
Conference poster presentation, U.S. Ice Core Community Meeting, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
A computerized and machine learning approach to identifying mineral particles in ice cores using a scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (SEM-EDS).
Conference poster presentation, Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Chicago, Illinois
On the development of an open source software package that allows users to work with SEM-EDS data in MATLAB for the purposes of identifying mineral particles and visualizing x-ray energy spectra.
Talk and poster, Interdisciplinary Water Research Symposium hosted by Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Presentation on results published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres about water stable isotope and accumulation records preserved in ice cores from Nevado Huascarán (Peru).
Talk and poster, Graduate Climate Conference hosted by the University of Washington and MIT, Virtual Meeting (COVID-19 Pandemic)
Preliminary results from a Peruvian ice core reveal that forest cover changes within the Amazon Basin may be archived in the ice core mineral dust record.
Conference poster presentation, Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Berea, Kentucky
Results from my REU study at the Smithsonian Institution in the summer of 2019. Poster was awarded 1st Place in the Geology category.