2012 REU Students' 3-Minute Presentations (Video)

SETI Institute 2012 REU Students:

Heather Chilton, California State University, Fullerton
Temporal Contrast Changes in Dark Slope Streaks on Mars
Mentor: Cynthia Phillips

Elyse Rankin-Gee, UCLA
Molecular and Biochemical Responses of Volvox Carteri to Oxidative Stress
Mentor: Oana Marcu

Rebecca Nakaba, Bennington College, VT
Mysterious Current: Refinement of Rock Stress Experiments previously conducted in August 2011
Mentors:  Friedemann Freund and Robert Dahlgren

Kathryn Steakley, University of Washington, Seattle
Meteor Showers of the February Sky
Mentor: Peter Jenniskens

Rachel Harris, Wellesley College
Hot Tub Time Machine: A glimpse into early earth habitability with acidophilic purple
non-sulfur bacteria
Mentors:  David Des Marais and Niki Parenteau

Allyn Durbin, Villanova University
Simulating snowfall: Water deposition on the martian northern ice cap
Mentor: Adrian Brown

Sarah Peacock, University of Virginia
Growing grains in the Perseus star forming region
Mentor: Jean Chiar

Abbey Nastan, Univeristy of Montana, Missoula
Linking present environmental change on Earth to rapid climate change on Mars at
the Noachian / Hesperian boundary: Implications for habitability
Mentor: Nathalie Cabrol

Ian Szumila, RPI
Differing Abundances of Gypsum in the primary and secondary dunes of the Martian
dune field Olympia Undae
Mentors:  Janice Bishop & Lori Fenton

Alex Baldwin, Cal Poly Pomona
Better, Cleaner, Faster: Code to tackle ATA data in real time
Mentor: Gerry Harp

Jason Alonzo, Cal Poly Pomona
Preliminary studies for the ORganices Exposure in Orbit (OREOcube)
experiment on the International Space Station
Mentor: Richard Quinn

Aaron Castellanos, Cal Poly Pomona
Can you hear me now? Improving the ATA from telescope observations through
data collection and analysis
Mentor: Gerry Harp