Hello and welcome to my senior thesis webpage. I am an oceanography student at the University of Washington and will be traveling to Glacier Bay, Alaska in about 4 hours......I have waited till the last minute to update my webpage...oops. Please feel free to look over the assignments I have turned in regarding my research, located in the left column of the page. As you will notice I have changed my topic multiple times and will be updating you all later. Cheers.

May 31st, 2008

So now it's all over. The paper has been submitted and I am that much closer to graduating. For those of you who have not read my proposal or my final paper I will give you the jist of my project. While in Glacier Bay, Alaska (GB), I, along with Eric Wisegarver and the much needed help of our advisor Rick Keil, deployed three sediment net traps into the bay for a duration of approximately 24 hours. As some of you may have already heard one net was lost to the dangers of the deep and will forever rest at the bottom of GB. The purpose of this project was to determine the instantaneous (about a day) sedimentation rate of GB for late March and compare it to the geological average and other instantaneous rates done in GB during summer months. All data and discussion of my findings can be found in my final paper (there is a link in the left-hand column). Further analysis of my samples will take place this summer in Rick Keil's lab and I will do my best to keep you all posted. Thanks for your interest. -Christina Biladeau