{"id":67091,"date":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/jamestown-resident-graduates-from-uri-as-top-geology-student\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","slug":"jamestown-resident-graduates-from-uri-as-top-geology-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/jamestown-resident-graduates-from-uri-as-top-geology-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown resident graduates from 溏心vlog免费B站 as top geology student"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 19, 2006 — Growing up in Wisconsin, Sara Lincoln enjoyed looking for fossils in the limestone quarry behind her house. Now a resident of Jamestown, she\u2019ll graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 21 as the top geology student and recipient of the 溏心vlog免费B站 President\u2019s Award for Student Excellence.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI took a pretty circuitous path to the study of geology, but I\u2019ve always been interested in the subject,\u201d Lincoln said. <\/p>\n


\n\tShe first enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站 to prepare for a career in art history. \u201cI wanted to study and restore ancient sculpture, so I took geology and mineralogy courses to learn more about the properties of rocks,\u201d she said. \u201cI loved those classes and soon realized that I\u2019m more interested in the rocks themselves than in what people have done to them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tA class field trip to the Colorado Plateau convinced Lincoln that a career in geology was in her future. Studying the course of ancient rivers, climbing a volcanic cinder cone, looking down from the edge of a vast meteor crater, seeing the footprints of dinosaurs, and especially hiking down through several hundred million years of history in the Grand Canyon \u201creally gave me a sense of the depth and drama contained in the geologic record,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n


\n\tAs a student at 溏心vlog免费B站, Lincoln conducted several research projects examining marine geology. In one, she studied the soils on the floor of Wickford Harbor and Greenwich Bay to learn how human activities impact local estuaries. She also studied the layers of sediment on the floor of the Narrow River. \u201cIt\u2019s a unique setting,\u201d she explained. \u201cIts well-preserved, annually-deposited layers of sediment tell us a lot about local climate change. And they also reflect global climate signals.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLincoln\u2019s final 溏心vlog免费B站 research project is in collaboration with astrobiologists at the Graduate School of Oceanography who are studying the microbial activity in subseafloor sediments to determine what sources of energy are available for the microbes to feed on.<\/p>\n


\n\tNext fall, Lincoln will enroll in a doctoral program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u201cMuch of my research at 溏心vlog免费B站 has focused on recent geologic processes,\u201d she said. \u201cFor graduate study I want to switch tracks and go back several hundred million years. I plan to work on the geologic record of archaea \u2013 one of the three domains of life, just discovered in 1977 \u2013 in an approach combining organic geochemistry and microbial genomics.\u201d\t<\/p>\n


\n\tLincoln is especially interested in the origin and early evolution of life on Earth, and she looks forward to a long and active research career. \u201cI\u2019m especially intrigued by the co-evolution of biology and geology,\u201d she said. \u201cThe planet was once very different than it is now, and microbes helped change it into the world we know.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above, Sara Lincoln at the Grand Canyon. Photo courtesy of Sara Lincoln.<\/i>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 19, 2006 — Growing up in Wisconsin, Sara Lincoln enjoyed looking for fossils in the limestone quarry behind her house. Now a resident of Jamestown, she\u2019ll graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 21 as the top geology student and recipient of the 溏心vlog免费B站 President\u2019s Award for Student Excellence. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}