Senior Capstone Projects

Research topics for recent Senior Capstone and Honors Thesis Projects are provided below.  Additional information is available at the Theses, Dissertations, and Reports page.  For details about the Undergraduate Senior Capstone Experience, go here.

 

Comparison and analysis of 2009 NASS cropland data layer to 2009 field verified crop data throughout southern Arizona
 
  • Dylan Cobean, BS EHY 2011
  • Capstone Highlights:  Awarded Donald R. Davis Undergraduate with Distinction Award at El Dia del Agua student research symposium, March 2011
 
Effect organic and particle loads have on the modified fouling index for ultrafiltration membranes (MFI-UF)
 
  • Jose Calvillo, BS EHY 2011
  • Capstone Highlights:  Research carried out at the Bundeswehr University of Munich, Germany, Institute of Hydroscience, during a Summer Internship Scholarship Program.  Research supervised by Dr F. Wolfgang Gunthert and his research team.
 
Estimating bank storage of a gaining reach of the San Pedro river, Arizona
 
  • Michael Gaas, BS EHY 2011
  • Capstone Highlights:
 
Effect of stock ponds on ephemeral stream groundwater recharge in the Sierra Vista subwatershed
 
  • David Bernard, BS EHY 2011
  • Capstone Highlights:
 
Constraining the hydrogeology of the Willcox basin in southeast Arizona using natural tracers
 
  • Philip James Calabrese, BS EHY 2010
  • Capstone Highlights:  Awarded Donald R. Davis Undergraduate with Distinction Award at El Dia del Agua student research symposium, March 2010
 
Statistical characterization of ecologically significant streamflow parameters in southwestern basins
 
  • Michael L. Barnes, BS EHY 2009
  • Capstone Highlights:  Research was carried out at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Colorado.  Michael worked with HWR Alum Dr. David Gochis on research focused on the North American monsoon.
 
Source and distribution of isotopically-depleted groundwaters in the Columbia plateau basalt aquifers, Washington
 
  • Damian Leigh Gosch, BS EHY 2009
  • Capstone Highlights:  Awarded Donald R. Davis Undergraduate with Distinction Award (Inaugural Award Year) at El Dia del Agua student research symposium, March 2009
 
Modeling and calibration of groundwater affecting drain flow in the lower Rio Grande basin
 
  • Andrew Scott Hartz, BS EHY 2009
  • Capstone Highlights:
 
Sources of groundwater in glacial till and bedrock aquifers in the Illinois basin
 
  • Lisa C. Wade, BS EHY 2009
  • Honors Thesis Highlights: 
 
Trend of actual and modeled precipitation intensity in the southwest US and northwest Mexico
 
  • Aida Demet Arik, BS EHY 2008
  • Capstone Highlights:  Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program:  Research carried out at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York.
 
Using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to characterize bioluminescent bays
 
  • Justin Allen Clark, BS EHY 2008
  • Capstone Highlights:  Research project supervised by Dr. Jennifer McIntosh.  As an American Chemical Society Scholar, Justin completed his Capstone research project during a summer internship experience in Puerto Rico.
 
Factors affecting recharge in ephemeral channels: a multivariate approach
 
  • Christopher A. Jones, BS EHY 2007
  • Capstone Highlights:  Research through student internship program with the U.S. Geological Survey, Tucson, Arizona.
 
Title Pending Gawad
 
  • H. Jeffrey John Gawad, BS EHY 2007
  • Capstone Highlights:
 
Effects of water supply on environmental justice concerns: using multi-criteria decision analysis to evaluate a proposed water supply project in northwest New Mexico and northeast Arizona
 
  • Colin Patrick McKenzie, BS EHY 2006
  • Capstone Highlights: 
 
Title Pending Gluski
 
  • Heather Gluski, BS EHY 2005
  • Capstone Highlights:
 
Title Pending Thompson
 
  • Dick Lee Thompson, BS EHY 2005
  • Capstone Highlights:  Research undertaken (full-time employee) at the Southern Avra Valley Storage and Recovery Project with Tucson Water Department, City of Tucson.
 

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