Sophie Greene

Sophie came to UVM in 2014. Sophie is a master’s student who studies how beryllium isotopes can be used to quantify millennial scale erosion rates in watersheds. She focuses on ⁹Be, the only stable isotope of Be, and the ways that it can be analyzed in conjunction with the cosmogenic isotope ¹⁰Be to further understand Be dynamics in fluvial systems. Sophie graduated from Carleton College in 2014 and began working in the Cosmo Lab the following fall.

MS Thesis, Geology (University of Vermont, 2016)

Comparing Meteoric ¹⁰Be, In Situ ¹⁰Be, and Native ⁹Be Across a Diverse Set of Watersheds
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Undergraduate Degree

Carleton College, B.A., 2014

Email Address

sophie.e.greene@gmail.com

Refereed Papers

Portenga, E., Bierman, P. R., Trodick, C., Dejong, B., Greene, S. and Pavich, M. (in review, 4/2017) Background rates of erosion and sediment generation in the Potomac River basin, USA, derived using in situ ¹⁰Be, meteoric ¹⁰Be, and ⁹Be. GSA Bulletin.

Greene, E. S., Bierman, P. R. and Perdrial, N. (in revision, 10/2017) Towards a better understanding of ¹⁰Be and ⁹Be dynamics in river sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Singleton, A. A., Schmidt, A. H., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D., Neilson, T. B., Greene, E. S., Bower, J. A. and Perdrial, N. (2017) Effects of grain size, mineralogy, and acid-extractable grain coatings on the distribution of the fallout radionuclides ⁷Be, ¹⁰Be, ¹³⁷Cs, and ²¹⁰Pb in river sediment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. v. 197, p. 71–86. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.10.007

Abstracts

Singleton, A., Isaacs, C., Hill, M., Dix, M., Greene, E. S., Schmidt, A. H. and Bierman, P. R. (2016) Acid leaching to increase detection limits in gamma counting unsupported ²¹⁰Pb. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. v. 48(7), Abstract 81-29. doi:10.1130/abs/2016AM-285747

Singleton, A., Schmidt, A. H., Sosa-Gonzalez, V., Qiu, Y., Neilson, T., Greene, E. S., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D., Campbell, M. K. and Woodmansee, S. J. (2015) Effects of grain size and mineralogy on the distribution of fallout radionuclides ⁷Be, ¹⁰Be, ¹³⁷Cs, and ²¹⁰Pb in sediment. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. v. 47(7), p. 240, Abstract 82-5. (download pdf)

Greene, E. S., Bierman, P. R. and Perdrial, N. (2015) Comparing meteoric ¹⁰Be, in situ ¹⁰Be and native ⁹Be across three watersheds. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. v. 47(7), p. 514, Abstract 204-9. (download pdf)