Education
Rutgers University, NJ, Ph.D. Student, (2022-Present).
The College of Wooster, OH, BA Environmental Geoscience, Honors, Summa Cum Laude, 2022.
- Undergraduate Thesis: “Modeling Meets Mirror Lake: How Highly Urbanized Areas Influence Surface Water- Groundwater Interactions.”
Teaching Experience
Rutgers University, NJ
Teaching Assistant- Geology 101
The College of Wooster, OH
Teaching Assistant- Environmental Geology
-Geology of Natural Hazards
-Hydrology
Honors and Awards
- Rutgers Dean’s Fellowship-2022
- Phi Beta Kappa Prize- 2022
- Experiential Learning Student Award- 2022
- The Robert W. McDowell Prize in Geology- 2022
- Association for Women Geoscientists, Geoscience Inclusion, Diversity, Equality and Accessibility (IDEA) Scholarship- 2021
- Donald R. Coates Endowed Geology Scholarship- 2021
- Theodore Williams Scholarship- 2021
- Karl Ver Steeg Prize in Geology and Geography -2021
Publications
Shelley Judge, William Santella, Wylie Greeson, Juda Culp, Christa Craven, and Mazvita Chikomo, 2021.The Impact of a Team of Undergraduate TAs in a First-Year Seminar, eSource for July 2021 College Transitions, Vol. 18 No. 3, July 2021
Meeting/Abstracts
CHIKOMO, Mazvita, SAWYER, Audrey, and MEINER, Kathleen M. (2022, April). 11-6: MODELING MEETS MIRROR LAKE: HOW HIGHLY URBANIZED AREAS INFLUENCE SURFACE WATER- GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS. Geological Society of America, 2022 GSA North Central/ Southeastern Annual Section Meeting, April, 2022.Abstract
ABERCROMBIE, Chamari, HODGES, Grace, WILSON, Luke, YOON, Ellen, BRAUN, Elizabeth, LEISHER, Kai, CHIKOMO, Mazvita, BANNA, Layali, POLLOCK, Meagen, WIESENBERG, Nick and WILES, Greg (2022, April). Booth No. 37 The Community Water Project: Student Exploration Of The Geosciences In The Context Of Stormwater Management In Northeast Ohio. Geological Society of America, 2022 GSA North Central/ Southeastern Annual Section Meeting, April, 2022.Abstract
CHIKOMO, Mazvita, SAWYER, Audrey, and MEINER, Kathleen M. (2021, October).59-13- Modeling Meets Mirror Lake: How Highly Urbanized Areas Influence Surface Water- Groundwater Interactions. Geological Society of America, 2021 GSA Annual Meeting, October 2021.Abstract
MEINER, Kathleen M., Audrey, School of Earth Sciences, and CHIKOMO, Mazvita (2021, October). 59-8-Mirror Lake Monitoring: Water Level Observations and Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions. Geological Society of America, 2021 GSA Annual Meeting, October 2021.Abstract
Mazvita Marilyn Chikomo, Gregory C Wiles, Benjamin Gaglioti, Nicholas Wiesenberg and Wenshuo Zhao (2020, December). B100-05 Growth Decrease Linked to Warming Minimum Temperatures at Coastal Mountain Hemlock Sites, Gulf of Alaska. AGU Fall Meeting 2020.Abstract
Srushti Chaudhari, Mazvita Marilyn Chikomo, Wenshuo Zhao, Gregory C Wiles and Nicholas Wiesenberg (2020, December). B064-0014 Varying Tree Response to Pluvial Conditions by Natural and Exotic Species, Northeast Ohio, USA. AGU Fall Meeting 2020.Abstract
