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MS Thesis
Reconciling Holocene Alluvial Records in Buckskin Wash, Southern Utah
PhD Dissertation
Along-strike tectonic variability in the central Himalaya
Research Areas
Geomorphology, Neotectonics
Advisor
Doug Burbank
Research Area
Marine Hydrothermal Systems
Advisor
Dave Valentine
Research Area
Geothermal and mineral exploration
Advisor
Phil Gans
Thesis/Dissertation
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Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
MS Thesis:
Monazite Trace-Element and Isotopic Signatures of Ultrahigh- Pressure Metamorphism: Examples from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway
PhD Dissertation:
What Causes Ultrahigh-Temperature Metamorphism? A Case Study fromSouthern Madagascar
Research Areas
Metamorphic Petrology, Geochronology, Geochemistry
Advisor
Brad Hacker
Thesis
Geometry and Quaternary evolution of a laterally propagating fold and fault system, Santa Barbara Channel, California
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk
Thesis/Dissertation
Himalaya gneiss dome formation, focused radiogenic heating in southern Madagascar, and fertilization of the Neoproterozoic ocean by mantle-derived phosphorus
Research Areas
Geochronology, Tectonics
Advisor
Brad Hacker
Thesis/Dissertation
In Situ Observations of Seismic wave propagation
Research Area
Seismology
Advisor
Jaimie Steidl
Thesis/Dissertation
Interactions of tectonics, climate, and deposition in intermontane basins on the margin of the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina
Research Area
Tectonics, Geomorphology, Structural Geology, Stratigraphy
Advisor
Doug Burbank
Dissertation
Multi-mineral petrochronology of polymetamorphic terranes
Research Area
Petrochronology
Advisor
John Cottle
Thesis/Dissertation
A comparison of four age model techniques for Iberian Margin sediment cores from 0 to 140,000 years ago
Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki
Thesis/Dissertation
Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Nacientes del Teno and Rio Damas formations: insights into Middle to Late Jurassic Andean volcanism
Research Areas
Tectonics, Structural Geology
Advisor
Phil Gans
Thesis/Dissertation
Chemical and microbial insights from a deep sea disposal site.
Research Area
Marine Science (IGPMS)
Advisor
David Valentine
Thesis/Dissertation
Landslides: Geomorphology and Sea Cliff Hazard Potential, Santa Barbara - Isla Vista, California
Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
Research Area
Tectonics
Advisor
Cathy Busby
Thesis/Dissertation
Excitation of seismic waves by the atmosphere: monitoring severe weather with modern digital seismic data
Research Areas
Geophysics, Seismology
Advisor
Toshiro Tanimoto
Thesis/Dissertation
Time-scales of crustal anatexis: monazite petrochronology of Himalayan granites
Research Areas
Structural Geology, Tectonics
Advisor
John Cottle
Dissertation
Hydroclimate Reconstruction of Semi-Arid Central Asia: Insights from a Kyrgyz Speleothem.
Research Area
Advisor
Syee Weldeab
Thesis/Dissertation
Multiple double-couple analysis of recent large earthquakes and its application in detecting the dynamic stress triggering events
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Chen Ji
Thesis/Dissertation
Microbial Degradation of Macroalgal Polysaccharides by Members of the Kiritimatiellota phylum: From Lab Cultures to Marine Sediments
Research Area
Marine Science
Advisor
David Valentine
Thesis/Dissertation
Broadband Simulation With Physics-based Seismic Source Models
Research Areas
Seismic Wave Propagations, Seismic Source Dynamics
Advisor
Ralph Archuleta
Thesis/Dissertation
Holocene sea-level, climate, and estuarine stratrigraphy of Baffin Bay, Texas: studying past changes in coastal systems to elucidate future coastal response to changing sea-level and climate
Research Areas
Coastal Geology, Sedimentology
Advisor
Alex Simms
Thesis
Tectonostratigraphic reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic rift-to-drift transition in Southeast Death Valley
Research Area
Geology
Advisor
Francis Macdonald
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Paleoceanography
Advisor
Syee Weldeab
Thesis/Dissertation
Tracing Molecules Through Oligotrophic Marine Ecosystems: Microbial Hydrocarbon Cycling and Coral Trophic Ecology
Research Area
Advisor
Dave Valentine
Research Area
Paleobotany, Geochronology
Advisor
Bruce Tiffney
Research Area
Geothermal Systems
Advisor
Frank Spera
Areas of Research/Interests:
Vertebrate paleontology
Education
Thesis
Southern African Monsoon strengthening and weakening of Mozambique Channel through flow during Heinrich events
Research Area
Paleoclimatology
Advisor
Syee Weldeab
Dissertation
Nonlinear propagation and topographic diffraction of volcano infrasound
Research Area
Volcano infrasound, Volcano seismology
Advisor
Robin Matoza
Research Area
Magma Dynamics
Advisor
Frank Spera
Research Areas
Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Geomorphology
Advisor
Syee Weldeab
Thesis/Dissertation
Insights into South American Native Ungulate and Caviomorph Paleobiology
Research Area
Advisor
Andy Wyss
Research Area
Structural Geology and Petrology
Advisor
John Cottle
Research Area
Marine Science
Advisor
David Lea
Thesis/Dissertation
Microbial Oxidation of Marine Hydrocarbons: Quantifying Rates of Methane, Ethane, Propane, and Butane Consumption
Research Area
Geochemistry
Advisor
Dave Valentine
Thesis/Dissertation
Application of micro-CT and Elliptic Fourier Analysis on Molar Outline Shape for Group Discrimination among Notoungulates
Research Area
Paleobiology
Advisor
Andy Wyss
Dissertation
Late Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Deep Creek-Kern Mountains, eastern Nevada and western Utah: Magmatically induced large-scale folding, dynamothermal metamorphism and ductile strain at mid- to upper-crustal levels in the Sevier hinterland
Research Area
Advisor
Phil Gans
Thesis/Dissertation
Planktonic Foraminifereal Faunal Study and Mg/Ca -Temperature Calibration at the Hawaii Ocean Time Series
Research Area
Climatology
Advisor
David Lea
Thesis/Dissertation
Quaternary Chronology and Uplift of Gaviota Coast Marine Terraces, Santa Barbara County, CA
Advisor
Ed Keller
Dissertation
Dating Deformation with Titanite
Research Area
Advisor
Brad Hacker
Thesis/Dissertation
Stratigraphy, structure, and geochronology of the Abanico Formation in the Principal Cordillera, central Chile: Evidence of protracted volcanism and implications for Andean tectonics”
Research Areas
Tectonics, Structure
Advisor
Phil Gans
Thesis/Dissertation
Two New Oligocene “Notohippids” (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Toxodontia) from the Central Chilean Andes: Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
Research Area
Advisor
Andy Wyss
Thesis/Dissertation
Crustal extension and magmatism during the mid-Cenozoic ignimbrite flare-up in the Guazapares Mining District and Cerocahui basin regions, northern Sierra Madre Occidental, western Chihuahua, Mexico
Research Areas
Tectonics, Sedimentology, Volcanology
Advisor
Phil Gans
Thesis/Dissertation
The Hillslope Signature of Knickpoints Resulting from Stream Capture, Coastal Processes, and Resistant Bedrock on Santa Cruz Island, CA: Insights from an Automated Knickpoint-Selection Algorithm
Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Doug Burbank
Thesis/Dissertation
Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Na-Ca Aluminosilicate Liquids and Glasses by Molecular Dynamics Simulations at Elevated Temperature and Pressure
Research Areas
Silicate liquid thermodynamics, mantle processes, petrology, volcanology
Advisor
Frank Spera
Thesis/Dissertation
Estimates of Hydrologic Properties in Upper Ocean Crust of Juan de Fuca Ridge Eastern Flank Using Sulfur Hexafluoride Gas Tracer in Cross-Hole Multi-Scale Injection Experiment
Research Area
Hydrology (Geochemistry, Environmental)
Advisor
Jordan Clark
Thesis/Dissertation
Investigating the secular geochemical and geodynamic evolution of accretionary orogens with zircon petrochronology: A case study from West Antarctica
Research Areas
Geochemistry, Geochronology, Igneous Petrology, Magma Dynamics, Mantle Processes
Advisor
John Cottle
Thesis/Dissertation
Late Pleistocene to Holocene environmental history of Devereux Slough
Advisor
Alex Simms