Graduate Seminar Series
Every semester the School of Mines and Engineering and the Montana Tech Research Office host a Graduate Seminar Series.
Spring Semester 2011

An Examination of How Fundamental Rock Properties are Affected After Subjection to Supercritical CO2 |
Joseph Hawk |
Arsenic Cycling and Geochemistry in Warm Spring Ponds |
Joshua Lee |
Concept of Mechanical Specific Energy in Drilling Optimization |
Brannan Origho |
Contaminant Investigation of Sage Grouse Tissue on the Anaconda NPL Site |
Stephen Ehresman |
The Effect of Shear Rate on the Thickening TIme of Cement Slurry |
Kesiena Doghor |
Evaluating the Potential Contribution of Hot Springs to Mercury Concentrations |
Michelle McKnight |
Forecasting Drill Bit Consumption in Surface Drill and Blast Operations |
Johnathan Hoover |
Geothermal Resource Exploration Utilizing Ambient Seismic Noise |
Bailey Elkins |
Harvested Wildlife as Biosamplers |
Karen Gillespie |
Heat/Cold Stress |
Trevin Anderson |
Heat Transfer in Welding Arcs |
Nathan Huft |
Inorganic Lead Contamination in Precious Metal Assay |
Cristina Parada |
Material Characterization of 420 Porous Stainless Steel Substrates |
Tyler Salisbury |
Oxide Cleaning of Aluminum Using GTAW |
Shane Krause |
Phytostabilization of Abandoned Mine Tailings Emma Mine, Rochester Mining Districut Madison County, Montana |
Tessa Saylors |
Rocky Mountain Rod |
Chris Magnuson |
Secondary Enrichment of Copper at the Madison Gold Skarn, Silver Start Montana |
Jill Sotendahl |
Screening for Organic Wastewater Chemicals in the Summit Valley |
Jacqueline Timmer |
Storage and Transportation of LNG |
Segun Olorunsola |
Stratigraphy of the Bow Island Formation |
Tyler Croft |
Study of Above Ground Plant Physicological Responses Under High Soil CO2 |
Bablu Sharma |
Treating Brackish Groundwater with Renewable Energy |
Laura Moon |
Vapor Phase Removal of Rare Earth Contaminants from Spent LWR Fuel |
Diane Bell |
Wildlife as Biosamplers: Tissue Samples of Deer Near the Anaconda Smelter |
Jennifer Black |

Fall Semester 2010

2009 WECC Probing Test Results |
Echo Brown |
Analysis of Chromulina Frieburgensis Lipids and Saccharides for the Use of Biofuelds |
Amanda Mondloch |
Artificial Zeolite Formation as a Mechanism for Treatment of Eastern Montana Coal Salt-Laden Wash Water |
Sean Dudley |
Computer Aided Well Test Analysis |
Elvis Obidinma |
Computer Modeling of Enhanced In-Situ Combustion Processes for Heavy Oil Recovery |
Isaac Attobrah |
Dynamic Load Model in the WECC |
Stefano Pramono |
Economic Models for Mine Operations |
Christopher Taylor |
Estimating Drill Bit Consumption Rates |
Johnathan Hoover |
Finite Element Modeling of Geothermal Reservirs |
Jared Quilty |
Furbearing Wildlife as Biosamplers |
Karen Gillespie |
Improving and Evaluating Mode Meter Performance |
Gregory Smelich |
Lead Cross-Contamination in a Gold Mine |
Christina Parada |
Magnetic Particle Testing |
Jeremy Deter |
Montana Tech Campus Safety Survey |
Kristine Witt |
Performing Reservoir Simulation Using Neural Network Enhanced Data: Fort Collins Field Case Study |
Joshua Isaiah |
Physiology of Dandelion and Orchard Grass Leaves, and Plant Species Distribution at Deliberate Leaking Experimental Carbon Sequestration Field (ZERT) |
Bablu Sharma |
PPL Montana Internship |
Christopher Magnuson |
Relations of Electromechanical Damping to Intertie Loading |
Chelsea Carter |
Satellite-Based Monitoring of the Effects of Dam Removals/Dam Construction on Riparian Vegetation |
Christopher Kellogg |
Simulating Production Operations at a Large Open Pit Mine |
Clifford Stout |
The Autocatalytic Palladium Coating of Porous Metal Catalytic Substrates |
Stacy Davis |
The Rulison Project |
Jason Golloher |
Treating Brackish Groundwater Using Renewable Energy |
Laura Moon |
