People
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Coastal Geology
Advisor
Alex Simms
Dissertation
Structural Evolution of an Extensional Terrane Margin: Case Studies from the Colorado River Extensional Corridor, Southeastern California, USA
Research Area
Advisor
Phil Gans
Thesis/Dissertation
Structural Evolution of the Central Schell Creek Range, White Pine County, Nevada
Research Areas
Geologic Field Mapping, Structure
Advisors
Phil Gans & John Cottle
PhD Dissertation
Potential for stable minor sulfur isotope tracer to measure microbial sulfur reduction rate and fractionation values simultaneously.
Research Area
Organic geochemistry
Advisor
Morgan Raven
Dissertation
Applications of Infrasound to Volcanic Eruptions and Atmospheric Sensing
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Robin Matoza
Thesis/Dissertation
Estuarine Response to Disturbance: A Holocene Record of Storm Episodes and Seismicity as Preserved in Coastal Systems
Advisor
Alex Simms
Dissertation
Late Holocene Environmental History of UC Santa Barbara, Campus Lagoon
Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
Dissertation
Spatiotemporal Variability in Exhumation in Response to Large-Scale Drainage Capture and Evolving Tectonics in the Northwest Himalayas
Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Kristin Morell
Thesis/Dissertation
Compilation of deglacial benthic stable carbon isotope data for reconstructing ocean circulation change, terrestrial biosphere change, and 3D visualizations
Research Areas
Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography
Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki
Thesis
Distributed Extension across the Ethiopian Rift and Plateau Illuminated by Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Scattered Body Waves
Research Area
Seismology
Advisor
Zach Eilon
Thesis/Dissertation
Petrochronology of Ultrapotassic Intrusive Rocks and Associated Rare Earth Element-Bearing Carbonatite, Mountain Pass, California
Research Areas
Geochemistry, Geochronology, Igneous Petrology
Advisor
John Cottle
Thesis/Dissertation
Geochemical evidence for the incorporation of multiple hotspot components in the Lau and North Fiji Backarc Basi
Research Areas
Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geodynamics, Mantle Processes, Marine Geology/Geophysics/Geochemistry
Advisor
Matt Jackson
Dissertation
Onset and Deglaciation of Cryogenian Snowball Earth
Research Area
Geology
Advisor
Francis Macdonald
Thesis/Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
David Valentine
Research Area
Hydrogeology, Fluvial Process Morphology
Advisor
Jordan Clark
Thesis/Dissertation
Structural and Metamorphic Controls on Gold Mineralization in the Rochford District: A Comparison to the Homestake Mine, Black Hills, South Dakota
Research Areas
Field Geology/Mapping, Structural Geology
Advisor
Phil Gans
MS Thesis
A probabilistic approach to calculate lags between benthic d18O signals across Termination 1
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki
Thesis/Dissertation
Investigating mantle isotopic heterogeneity from the micro- to regional scale with high precision mass spectrometry
Advisor
Matt Jackson
Thesis/Dissertation
The Late Quaternary Evolution of the Southern California Coast: Sea-Level Change, Storms, and Subsidence
Research Areas
Sedimentology, Quaternary Geology
Advisor
Alex Simms
Thesis/Dissertation
The Holocene History and Facies Architecture of the Nueces Bayhead Delta of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
Research Areas
Climate Change/Climatology, Coastal Geology, Quaternary Geology, Sedimentology/Stratigraphy
Advisor
Alex Simms
Research Areas
Hydrogeology, Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
Thesis/Dissertation
Dissertation: "Studies in Neoproterozoic Paleontology"
Research Area
Early Eukaryote Paleontology
Advisor
Susannah Porter
Thesis
Remote Hydroacoustic and Infrasonic Detection and Characterization of Anak Krakatau Eruptive Activity Leading To, During, and Following the December 2018 Major Flank Collapse and Tsunami
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Robin Matoza
Thesis/Dissertation
Remote detection and localization of explosive volcanic eruptions, mass wasting, and ambient noise sources using infrasound: Applications in Alaska and Washington, USA
Research Area
Volcano infrasound geophysics
Advisor
Robin Matoza
Thesis/Dissertation
Examining the Thermochemistry and Trace Element Geochemistry of Magma Mixing and Hybridization by Exploratory Modeling
Research Areas
Magma Dynamics, Metamorphic Petrology, Continental Dynamics
Advisor
Frank Spera
Research Areas
Geomorphology, Structural Geology, Tectonics, Continental Dynamics
Advisor
Doug Burbank
Thesis/Dissertation
Phase-equilibria modeling of magma mixing: Petrogenetic case studies featuring the Magma Chamber Simulator
Research Areas
Magma dynamics, Igneous petrology, Volcanology
Advisor
Frank Spera
Thesis/Dissertation
Recycling of Continental Crust Captured in Pamir Xenoliths
Advisor
Brad Hacker
- Alumnus
- PhD Summer 2012
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Chen Ji
Thesis/Dissertation
Sulfur Isotope Fractionation Accompanies Dimethylsulfide Disproportionation by Methanosarcina sp. Strain MTP4
Research Area
Geomicrobiology
Advisor
Dave Valentine
Thesis/Dissertation
Antarctic Raised Beaches: Insight on Geochronology, Relative Sea Level, and Coastal Processes
Research Area
Sedimentology
Advisor
Alex Simms
Thesis/Dissertation
Source Characterization of Micro-seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing Experiment in Taft, California
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Chen Ji
Research Areas
Structure, Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics, Geochronology
Advisor
Brad Hacker
Thesis/Dissertation
Glacial-Interglacial changes in sea level and seawater delta-O-18 gradients
Research Area
Paleoclimatology (IGPMS)
Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki
Thesis/Dissertation
Genesis and Evolution of the Pamir Plateau: a Petrochronologic View
Research Areas
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Geochemistry
Advisor
Brad Hacker
Thesis/Dissertation
Hyperpycnal currents with reversing buoyancy
Research Areas
Sedimentology, Quantitative Stratigraphy
Advisor
Alex Simms
Thesis/Dissertation
Regional Benthic Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotope Stacks for the Last Glacial Cycle
Research Area
Paleoclimatology
Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki
Thesis/Dissertation
The Geodynamics of Relamination, Delamination, and Foundering of the Lower Crust
Research Area
Advisor
Brad Hacker
Thesis/Dissertation
New middle Cambrian hyolith genus and species and echinoderm ossicles from the Georgina Basin, Australia
Research Areas
Paleobiology/Paleontology
Advisor
Susannah Porter
Thesis
Spatial distribution of near-shore gas seepage from sub-sea permafrost in the Laptev Sea Shelf, Arctic Ocean
Research Area
Marine Geophysics
Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk
Research Area
Fluvial Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
Dissertation
Changes in beach deposit characteristics on Joinville and Livingston Islands, Antarctica
Research Area
Sedimentology
Advisor
Alex Simms
Thesis/Dissertation
Neogene Tectonic Evolution of the NE Pamir margin, NW China
Research Areas
Geomorphology, Tectonic Geomorphology
Advisor
Doug Burbank
Research Areas
Seismology, Volcanology, Planetary Science
Advisor
Frank Spera
Thesis
Organic Preservation of Vase-Shaped Microfossils from the Late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Research Area
Paleontology
Advisor
Susannah Porter
Dissertation
A Comparative Morphologic Analysis of Hydrocarbon Induced Terrains in the Gulf of Mexico and Offshore Southern California
Advisor
Dave Valentine
Thesis/Dissertation
Seismic Noise Analysis to Constrain Shallow Velocity Structure in the southern San Andreas Fault Region
Research Areas
Geophysics, Seismology
Advisor
Ralph Archuleta
Thesis/Dissertation
Cosmogenic 35S as an Intrinsic Hydrologic Tracer for Young Groundwater in Mountain Basins and Managed Aquifer Recharge Facilities
Research Areas
Hydrology, Geochemistry
Advisor
Jordan Clark
Dissertation
Mining molecular systems from the marine environment that have biotechnological applications on Earth and beyond
Research Area
Advisor
Dave Valentine