Bella Bennett

Bella is a doctoral student in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, a graduate research fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment, and a member of the NSF/UVM Cosmogenic Community Facility. During her time at UVM, Bella has focused on two major projects: expanding access and inclusion in STEM through the development of an undergraduate research program (AUgR), and measuring rates of landscape change in the tropics using cosmogenic isotopes. Bella greatly enjoys teaching students of all ages about Earth systems. When she's not in the lab, teaching, or working on a manuscript, Bella loves to backcountry ski, hike with her dog Duncan Idaho, and make art.

PhD Candidate, Natural Resources (University of Vermont, in progress)

Research and training in the tropics: quantifying erosion and denudation in Puerto Rico and Cuba; developing a STEM access program for undergraduates
Thesis proposal slides download .pptx file
Dissertation Proposal download .pdf file

Undergraduate degree

Skidmore College, B.A. Environmental Studies, 2017

Email Address

Isabella.Bennett@uvm.edu

Refereed Papers

Bennett. I. and Bierman, P.R. (2024) A century of urban landslides: the legacy and consequences of altering riverbank landscapes, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Lyell Society. 10.1144/qjegh2023-032

Abstracts

GSA 2023 poster download .pptx file

AGU 2023 poster download .pptx file

Bennett, I. B., Soto-Villanueva, K., Bierman, P. R., Corbett, L. B., Acosta-Colon, A., Hughes, K. S., Whittaker J. A., (2022) Inventing AUGR: reflections on designing and implementing an authentic undergraduate geoscience research experience. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract 25-6. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022am-381693

Goodwin, J., Rodriguez-Ramos, I., Taylor, B. H., Mercado-Mercado A. P., Kane, M., Bennett, I. B., Perdrial, J., Bierman, P. R., (2022) Evaluating E. coli, dissolved organic carbon, and total dissolved nitrogen within two southeastern Puerto Rico watersheds. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract 197-3. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022am-382818

Kane, M., Rodriguez-Ramos, I., Mercado-Mercado A. P., Taylor, B. H., Goodwin, J., Bennett, I. B., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W., Woodruff, T. E., (2022) Erosion rate analysis of two watersheds in southeastern Puerto Rico using 10Be. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract 29-4. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022am-383033

Taylor, B. H., Kane, M., Mercado-Mercado A. P., Goodwin, J., Rodriguez-Ramos, I., Bennett, I. B., Bierman, P. R., Racela, J., Dethier, D. P., (2022) Cracking the dissolved inorganic materials code: comparing two Puerto Rico rivers across seasons. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract 269-13. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022am-382951

Mercado-Mercado A. P., Rodriguez-Ramos, I., Goodwin, J., Kane, M., Taylor, B. H., Bennett, I. B., Bierman, P. R., Corbett, L. B., Caffee, M. W., Woodruff, T. E., Racela, J., Dethier, D. P., (2022) Water quality and erosion rates of landscape change in two watersheds, southeastern Puerto Rico. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract 29-3. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022am-382542

Bennett, I. B., Bierman, P. R., Halsted, C. T., (2021) A century of urban landslides: the legacy and consequences of altering our landscapes. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Abstract 88-14. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2021am-371201

Bennett, I. B., (2016) Finding Aotearoa: the role of the Kaharoa eruption in early Polynesian navigation and perception of New Zealand as “the land of the long white cloud”. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract 50-9. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2016am-284698 Research and training in the tropics: quantifying erosion and denudation in Puerto Rico and Cuba; developing a STEM access program for undergraduates