Pamela Obura, Ph.D.
Graduate Students
Annie McGraw
Annie is an M.S. student who started in the Critical Zone Pedology Lab in Fall of 2019. She completed her Bachelor’s in Environmental Resource Management, Soil Science option from Penn State in December 2018. Originally from Maryland, she lived in Central Pennsylvania for 6 years before coming to Lexington to study sinkholes, their soils, and how carbon is stored and cycled within these systems. She looks forward to exploring the soils of Kentucky and growing as a pedologist.
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Hannah Somerville
Hannah is a MS student in the Critical Zone pedology lab. She is currently researching fragipan genesis, including formation processes and timelines. Hannah graduated from West Virginia University in May 2019 with a BS in soil science and a minor in geology. While at WVU she competed in collegiate soil judging and now is an assistant coach for UK’s newly formed soil judging team.
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Undergraduates
Hayley Anderson
Hayley Anderson is an undergraduate student at Wheaton College and 2019 summer intern in Dr. Shepard’s Critical Zone Pedology Lab in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Kentucky. She will graduate in 2020 with a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Wheaton College and has taken supplemental courses at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Au Sable Environmental Institute in Northern Michigan. In Dr. Shepard’s lab, she is spending 10 weeks investigating soil properties along a topographic gradient within sinkholes to better understand formation processes and biogeochemical processing. She hopes to draw conclusions about the carbon sequestration ability of sinkhole soils and present a research poster at the 2019 Geology Society of America Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. |