Student Presentations & Reports || Chem 20204


Student presentations may be done alone or with a partner. Joint presenters should also write a report Please limit presentation to 10 minutes. Leave additional time for discussion.

See past presentation and report topics for inspiration.

2012 Presentations

Date

Name

Topic

1

Feb. 9

Kaitlyn Davis

Air Quality in Pittsburgh, PA

2

Feb. 14

Lauren Vela

Impact of Notre Dame's Power Plant

3

Emily Ly

Impact of Notre Dame's Power Plant

4

Feb. 21

Zachary Shary

Volcano

5

Feb. 24

Luisa Vera

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction

6

 

Michael Dore

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction

7

Feb. 24

Caroline Ko

Comparison of the Air Pollution in Three Cities

8

Mar. 20

Jonathan Chen

Nuclear Energy: Past, Present, and the Future

9

Mar. 6

Caroline Schaefer

Wind Power

10

Mar. 22

Kevin Shepherd

Renewable Energy Sources - Solar Power

11

Colleen McKenna

Renewable Energy Sources - Solar Power

12

Mar. 29

Timothy Schumer

Cost Analysis of Stinson Remick Solar Panels

13

Apr. 3

Nicholas Shappell

Ecological Effects of Eutrophication

14

Apr. 5

Linda Scheiber

Environmental Issues in the Chesapeake Bay

15

Apr. 10

Catherine Buckley

Trash Talle: Pollution from Our Own Water Ways?

16

Apr. 12

Augustus Amato

Impacts of Pollution on Human Health

17

Apr. 17

Alexander Yaney

Fort Wayne's Three Rivers' Problems: Pollution

18

Apr. 19

Lauren Jessup

The Hanford Site



2012 Reports - Due March 22

Name

Topic

1

Meghan Borzenski

Protecting the Great Lakes: Toxic Water Ways

2

McKenzie Brown

Keystone XL Pipeline Project

3

Joshua Choi

Increasing Sea Levels due to Global Warning and its Impact on Terrestrial Organisms

4

Julie Cooney

Indoor Air Pollution (from Solid Fuels)

5

Ryan Crosby

Electronic Waste

6

Hannah Darst

Low-Temperature Geothermal Potential

7

Michael Fischer

Will Fossil Fuels Ever Step Aside?

8

Michelle Fuhrman

The Refining Process: New Technologies to Limit Environmental Impact

9

Amanda Garza

Mexico, The Rio Grande River, and Efforts to Help

10

Claire Rin George

South African Agriculture Environmental Impacts and Sustainable Practices

11

Michael Kraft

The Effect of Air Pollution on Asthma

12

Michael Kress

Environmental Implications of "Fracking"

13

Emily Kujawski

Impact of Pollution on Human Health

14

Rachel Levy

The PCB Problem in the Great Lakes

15

Emily Ly

Impact of Notre Dame's Power Plant (with Lauren Vela)

16

Ross McCauley

Biofuels: Replacing Oil

17

Ryan J. McIntyre

Effects of Climate Change on Coral Reefs

18

Colleen M. McKenna

Renewable Energy Sources - Solar Power (with Kevin Shepherd)

19

Daniel Mulhall

Polmerical Material to Filter Greenhouse Gas Rich Air

20

Danae Nelson

Water Pollution in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

21

Marina S. Seminatore

The High Cost of Clean Coal

22

Kevin Shepherd

Renewable Energy Sources - Solar Power (with 18 Colleen McKenna)

23

Kevin Timperman

Pesticides: Problems and Outlook

24

Lauren Vela

Impact of Notre Dame's Power Plant (with Emily Ly)

25

Kevin Walsh

Tesla Motors and the Electric Car Market