Melinda Quock

Melinda Quock is a UVM undergraduate (’19) achieving a B.S. in Geology with minors in Geospatial Technologies, Applied Design, and Economics. During her time at UVM, she has processed meteoric and in situ ¹⁰Be samples and has undertaken fieldwork experience in Dominica and Italy. Her interests are vast and she is always ready to learn something new, whether it is related to geology or not. Her work in the lab (serving as her senior undergraduate honors thesis) focuses on temporal replication of ¹⁰Be to understand the effects of hurricane erosion on the Island of Dominica.

Undergraduate degree

University of Vermont, B.S. Geology, minors in Geospatial Technologies, Applied Design, and Economics, expected 2019

Refereed Papers

Quock, M., Schmidt, A.H., Corbett, L.B., Bierman, P.R., Hidy, A.J., and Caffee, M.W. (2022). Hurricanes alter 10Be concentrations in tropical river sediment but do not change regional erosion rate estimates. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi.org/10.1002/esp.5310

Abstracts

Schmidt, A.H., Quock, M., Grande, A., Corbett, L.B., Bierman, P.R., Hidy, A.J., Caffee, M.W., Lopez-Lloreda, C., Willenbring, J., McDowell, W.H., Hill, M., Monyak, P.N., Amber, E., Lewis, A., and Bordt, E. 2020. Using fallout and in situ radionuclides to understand the effects of a large tropical cyclone on erosion processes on Caribbean islands. Geological Society of America Virtual National Meeting. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 52 (6). doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020AM-355936

Amber, E., Lewis, A., Bermudez, E. A., Bordt, E. A., Hill, M., Quock, M., Soord, N., Corbett, L., Schmidt, A. H., and Bierman, P. R. (2019) Hurricanes alter short-term concentration of detrital ¹⁰Be, ²¹⁰Pb_EX, ¹³⁷Cs, and ⁷Be, but do not change long-term erosion rate estimates. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. v. 51(5), Abstract 124-7. doi:10.1130/abs/2019AM-338680

Hill, M., Bordt, E. A., Quock, M., Amber, E., Corbett, L. B., Biales, J., Schmidt, A. H., and Bierman, P. R. (2018) Assessing spatial erosion patterns resulting from hurricane maria on Dominica, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN. v. 50(6), Abstract 172-3. doi:10.1130/abs/2018AM-321777