The Summer Research Program in the Sciences and Mathematics is designed to encourage and support research projects conducted by Puget Sound students and their faculty mentors in the natural sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, computer science, or exercise science. The grant program seeks to foster imagination, creativity, and accomplishment.

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Submissions from 2023

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Examining the Effect of Varying Dilutions of Octopamine on the Gut Microbiome of Lab-raised and Wild Acheta Domesticus By Brandon Nelson University of Puget Sound Biology, Brandon Nelson

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Comparing fungal communities in Tsuga heterophylla seedling roots across nurse log decay stages and the forest floor, Ellie Olpin and Reisha Foertsch

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Does Faceted Ice Growth Follow a Characteristic Pattern, Spencer Racca-Gwozdzik

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Continuum Model of Faceted Ice Crystal Growth in Cirrus Clouds in 1 Dimension, Ella Slattery

Submissions from 2022

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A Comparison of RNA and DNA Dinucleotides on Ice, Cas F. Almond

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Two Dimensional Continuum Model of Ice, Maximilian Bloom

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Does environmental flow speed affect the local relative abundance of Vorticella convallaria?, Tia S. Bottger

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Relating urban heat island effect to avian diversity in connective matrices of Tacoma, Amanda Dougherty

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Population Dynamics and Trends of an Endangered Seabird: Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) in Washington, Olivia M. Fross

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Identifying Critical Marine Foraging Habitat of Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in South Puget Sound, Sam Gerrish

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Differential Star Photometry, Austin Glock

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Using Boric Acid and Additives to Catalyze Direct Amidation Reactions, Kate Jernigan

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Weather Patterns and Lunar Cycles Shape the Soundscape of an Estuarine Ecosystem, Liam David Kimball

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Characterizing Marine Foraging Habitat for the Endangered Marbled Murrelet in the South Puget Sound, Max D. Merrill

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The Effect of Cold Water On The Mammalian Dive Reflex, Christopher I. Nicol

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Striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus) do not adjust foraging position or boldness in response to the plant odorant 2-E-hexenal, Henry L. Norton and Stacey Weiss

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The Impact of Operation Pedro Pan in the Pacific Northwest: Issues of Community, Identity and Memory, Isabella M. Rodriguez

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Perceived Familial Social Support After Coming Out Predicts Mental Health in Gender-Diverse Adolescents, Hayden Smith

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The Impact of Amateur Hockey Leagues on NHL Performance, Leah Emily Smith

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Generating a novel fly line to quantify cellular oxidative stress on developing Drosophila melanogaster, Hanna Washburn

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Catalytic Direct Amidation, Maddy L. Whitney

Submissions from 2021

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Varied Behavior of Dinucleotides on Ice, Cas Almond and Nick Wolff-Gee

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RNA’s Thermodynamically Favored Position on Ice, Maximilian Bloom and Steven Neshyba

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The effects of Sceloporus virgatus cloacal microbiota on the growth of pathogenic fungi, McKenna L. Boulet, Stacey Weiss, and Mark Martin

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Synthesizing Bismuth Nanoparticles, Courtney L. Cox

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The Role of an Invasive Snail in the Aquatic Food Web at Spirit Lake, Mount St. Helens, Wyatt C. Cranston

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Black Carbon on Mount Rainier, Isabella Rose Dunn Dias Ferreira and Charlie H. Henning

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Engineering an IEC Fusion Device, Ouyang Du

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Diets of coastal and inland Western Fence Lizard populations in Washington State, Alexi J. Ebersole, Stacey Weiss, and Kena Fox-Dobbs

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Population Dynamics and Trends of an Endangered Seabird: Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) in Washington, Olivia M. Fross

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Comparing 40-year sediment records of aquatic ecosystem evolution in two large lakes in the blast zone of Mount St. Helens, Maeve Gallagher, Kena Fox-Dobbs, Avery Shinneman, and Angelica Lucchetto

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After the Alum: The Fate of Sulfur in Waughop Lake, Pierce County, Washington, Colin K. Glaze

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Elevated Levels of Black Carbon on Mount Rainier in Correlation to Wildfires, Charlie H. Henning and Bella Dunn Dias Ferreira

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Tacoma’s Luxury Effect and the Ecological Influence of the Green Schoolyards Initiative, Karen M. Hunt

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Physiological and morphological differences between novel protist pathogens of the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera japonica, Kate L. Kelly and Megan Mooney

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Quantification of Skeletal Muscle Synthesis Pathway Proteins in Wild Type and MMP-2 Knockout Mice After Functional Overload of the Plantaris Muscle, Naia N. Kenney and Jung Kim

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mRNA Expression of Muscle Differentiation Markers in Wild Type and MMP-2 Knockout Mice After Functional Overload of the Plantaris Muscle, Natalie MacIlwaine, Gary McCall, and Jung Kim

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Decreasing precipitation due to climate change, and its effects on native fern species, Hannah Marx

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Morphological and genetic differences between novel protist pathogens of the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera japonica, Megan Elizabeth Mooney and Kate Kelly

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Determining Dynamic Population Trends with Biomarkers in Wastewater, Joelle Moroso and Daniel Burgard

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Petrology and Tectonic Setting of the Silver Pass Volcanics, Central Cascades, WA: Early Evidence of Farallon Slab Breakoff, Pauline Peterson and Jeff Tepper

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Using Geomagnetics to Identify a Previously unrecognized Fault within the Olympic Penninsula, Lincoln L. Pickering

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Marine habitat use patterns of the Endangered Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus), Bryce F. Poplawsky

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Investigating the Feasability of a Sum Frequency/Second Harmonic Generation Experiment to Examine the Behavior of RNA on Ice, Miranda Emily Roland

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The Role of MMP-2 on Satellite Cells and Hypertrophy of the Mouse Plantaris Muscle After Functional Overload, Layla Santos

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Analyzing Opioid Use and Disposal in Washington State Through Wastewater-Based-Epidemology, Diana Tran and Dan Burgard

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Geochemistry of Eocene to Miocene Rocks in a Rear-Arc Setting, Central Cascades, Washington, Audrey V. White and Jeffrey Tepper

Submissions from 2020

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Identifying the Effects of Alum Treatment on Water and Sediment Chemistry of Two Lakes in Pierce County, Washington, Colin Glaze

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Using dendrochronology to create a timescale of succession on nurse logs in the Olympic temperate rainforest, Sean Grealish

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Testing Mitigation Strategies for HABs at Spanaway Lake, Nancy Hollis

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Physarum Polycephalum Network Construction, Rei Ishii

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Polarization of Majorana Fermions in a Background Current, Lukas Karoly and David C. Latimer

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Replacement Policies in Semantic Database Caching, Colin Monaghan

Submissions from 2019

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Developing Techniques to Observe The Effects of Bisphenol AF on Guppy Embryo Development, Lauren Clarke

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Petrology of the Earliest Cascade Volcanic Units in Washington: the Northcraft, Tukwila, and Rattlesnake Mountain Formations and Implications for the Evolution of the Cascade Arc, Louisa Cryan and Jeffrey H. Tepper

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The effects of temperature on maternal investment of ovary tissue in the fish species Danio rerio, Noah R. Dillon and Alyce DeMarais

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Effects of Bisphenol-S and Estrogen on p53 Expression in Ovarian Tissue of Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Jess Fairbanks

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The influence of reintroduced beavers on sediment processes in post-wildfire headwater streams, Methow River, WA, Amanda Foster

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Magnetic Exploration of the Crescent Formation, Washington: The search for a hidden fault near Dusk Point, Samuel G. Furmanski

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Finding Predictors of Success in Novice Programmers' Editing and Testing Behaviors, SaraJane Griffiths

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The Role of the IGF-1/Akt/mTOR Pathway on Tibialis Anterior Muscle Hypertrophy During Regeneration in Cardiotoxin-induced Injury in Adult Mice, Cambria Kasten and Jung A. Kim PhD

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Efficient Query Execution over Large Databases through Semantic Caching of Bitmap Indices, Sarah McClain

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Investigating Cascade Magmatism Through Dating and Chemical Analysis of the Hatchet Mountain and Pe Ell Formations, SW WA, Robyn Organ, Jeffery Tepper, Wesely Von Dassow, and Tabor Reedy

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Petrology of the Eocene Goble Volcanics, Southwest Washington: an Early Phase of the Cascade Arc, Clara Phipps and Jeffrey H. Tepper

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Undescribed oomycete pathogens on Zostera marina and Z. japonica in the Puget Sound, Theresa Proctor

Submissions from 2018

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Impact of ROS Presence on Oncogenic Ras Activity, Chris Andersen

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The Role of Song in Reproductive Isolation in a New Secondary Contact Zone of White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys), William Brooks

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Quantitative Three-Dimensional Basal Ice Roughness from Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Katie Gray and Shreeti Patel

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Development of Bifunctional Thiourea Catalysts for Effective Direct Amidation Reactions, Alex Guzman

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Epiphyte Distributions Vary with Structural Heterogeneity in Acer Macrophyllum, Kaela Hamilton and Carrie L. Woods

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Quantifying Passive Joint Stiffness at the Elbow Following EIMD of the Elbow Flexors, Angus Lamont

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Hylocomium splendens: Microhabitat Selection and Potential Role in Forest Succession, Anna Marchand and Carrie Woods

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Polarizing Majorana Fermions, William Miyahira

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The Effects of depth on microplastics distribution and ingestion by a biological indicator species: Mytilus galloprovincialis, Marlowe Moser and Peter Hodum

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Using Age to Assess Retention Time of Ingested Plastic in Seabirds, Tessa G. Nania, Gary Shugart, and Peter Hodum

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Progress Towards the Synthesis of Iron-Based Hydrogenation Catalysts Using Hydroxypyridine Bidentate and Tetradentate Ligands, Sara Rockow

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Gravitational Radiation from a Toroidal Source, Aidan Schumann

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Modulating the Cancerous Effects of the Oncogene Src, Katherine Segar

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The Role of logmat Biofilm in the Spirit Lake Ecosystem after the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Emma Sevier

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Using CRISPR to Induce a Knock-out of dPRL-1 in Drosophila melanogaster, Alicia Walker

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EEG Experiment Scripting Tool for Novice Programmers, Sarah Walling-Bell

Submissions from 2017

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Bowing Behavior of Strings With Non-Uniform Mass Density, Andrew J. Brandt

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Investigating the Behavior of Novice Programmers in a Large Dataset, Ayse Hunt

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Radiation Reaction: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love E&M, Alexander R. Kaufman

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Investigating the Essential Roles of dPRL-1 in Drosophila melanogaster, Alex Lee

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The Effect of Beaver Dams on Macroinvertebrate Communities, Anna Shampain

Submissions from 2016

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Effect of Redox Environment on Number of Stem Cells in Drosophila Gut, Bridget Alexander

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The Acoustics of Harmon Mutes, Zachary T. Armstrong

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Vibrational Patterns in Curved Metal Plates, Samuel D. Berling

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A Simplification of Inclusion-Exclusion via Minimal Complexes, Andrew J. Brandt

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Controls on the Distribution of ASARCO Heavy Metals in Tacoma-Area Lakes, Angelica J. Calderon

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Effect of Humus and Structural Environmental Factors on Epiphytes in Acer macrophyllum in the Hoh Rainforest, Emma J. Didier

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Skin Lipids of the Striped Plateau Lizard (Sceloporus virgatus): Oleic and Stearic Acids as Potential Indicators of Mate Quality, Tiare Elaine Gill and Stacey Weiss

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Geochemistry and Origins of Thermal Springs Waters of the Olympic Peninsula and Cascade Range, Washington, Jon Kenneth K. Golla

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Characterization of the MalA Enzyme from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus through the Synthesis and Analysis of Maltose Derivatives, Joey R. Jepson

Moss Composition Affects Seedling Density of Western Hemlock and Sitka Spruce, Katy E. Maleta Ms.

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Reintroduced beavers rapidly influence sediment storage and biogeochemistry in headwater streams of the Methow River, WA, Rita McCreesh

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Comparison of the Chemical and Isotopic Composition of Groundwater and Surface Water in the South Sound Region, Andrew H. Oberhelman

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The Influence of Nurse Logs on Seedlings and Trees in Temperate Rainforests, Kimmy E. Ortmann

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Filling the gaps: A comprehensive understanding of diets and ecosystem interactions within the modern and fossil small mammal communities of Meade Basin, Kansas, Hannah Richardson, Kena Fox-Dobbs, and Andrew Haveles