People

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2020

Thesis
Chronology and Recurrence of High-Magnitude Debris Flows in the Santa Barbara and Montecito, CA Areas

Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2020

Dissertation
A thermodynamic and geochemical evaluation of magmatic processes beneath the Samoan Islands and the thermodynamics of crystalline garnet solutions

Research Area
Volcanology, geochemistry

Advisor
Frank Spera

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2018

Dissertation
Subject-Oriented Finite Fault Inversions and Their Applications

Research Areas
Geodynamics,Geophysics, Seismology, Tectonics

Advisors
Ralph Archuleta & Chen Ji

  • Post Doc/Researcher
  • Lecturer
  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2016
  • PhD Summer 2021

MS Thesis
Spatial Variability of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Thresholds for Slope Failure at Sedgwick Ranch, California

PhD Dissertation
Short-term Patterns and Processes of Coastal Cliff Retreat, Rill Erosion on Colluvial Hillslopes, and a Sediment Budget for the 2018 Montecito Debris Flows

Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2013

Research Area
Quaternary Sedimentology and Geomorpholog

Advisor
Alex Simms

 

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2010

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Toshiro Tanimoto

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area

Advisor
Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Webb 2042
  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geology

Advisor
Francis Macdonald

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2022

Dissertation
The Thermal Evolution of Lower Continental Crust

Research Areas
Geochemistry and Petrology

Advisor
Roberta Rudnick and John Cottle

Awards
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2017–2022
Regents in Earth Science Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2017–2018
Fall Meeting Student Travel Grant, American Geophysical Union, 2017
On To the Future Scholarship, Geological Society of America, 2016

  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2011

Research Areas
Metamorphic Petrology, Structure and Tectonics

Advisor
Brad Hacker

 

  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2017

Dissertation
Testing for Physical Constraints on Intermediate-Depth Earthquake Fault Geometry via Finite-Fault Inversions

Research Area
Seismology

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Seismic Source Studies, Strong Motion Seismology

  • 805-893-8441
  • Webb 1111
  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2021

Thesis/Dissertation
Genomic Insights into the Marine Microbial Response to Oil Spills: Biogeographic Priming, Cryptic Hydrocarbon Cycling, and Substrate Specialization

Research Area
Marine Science (IGPMS)

Advisor
Dave Valentine

  • Distinguished Professor Emerita

Plate Boundary Behavior, Structure and Evolution of Ocean Spreading Centers

 

  • Alumna
  • PhD Program
Stanley Awramik
  • Professor Emeritus

Pre-Phanerozoic Biogeology

  • PhD candidate

PhD Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Adjunct Professor

Earth Science

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2013

Thesis/Dissertation
Heat and B-10 Enriched Boric Acid as Recycled Groundwater Tracers for Managed Aquifer Recharge

Research Areas
Hydrogeology,Environmental Geochemistry

Advisor
Jordan Clark

  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2016

Thesis/Dissertation
Establishing Foraminifera Based Biofacies within Shallow Marine Deposits, Carpinteria Slough, CA. Implications for Southern California Sea-Level Studies

Research Areas
Paleoclimate, Coastal Processes

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Webb 1049
  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2022

MS Thesis
Central Asia’s hydroclimate response to Heinrich events 4 and 5s

Research Area
Paleoclimate

Advisor
Syee Weldeab

  • Professor Emeritus

Sedimentary Petrology, Clastic Diagenesis, Petroleum Geology, Geochemistry

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2011

Research Area
Paleobiology

Advisor
Andy Wyss

 

Sophie Briggs
  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
The magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the Alpine Schist accretionary complex in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

Research Areas
Petrology (Igneous & Metamorphic), Geochemistry, Geochronology, Tectonics

Advisor
John Cottle

  • Earth Research Institute, Ellison Hall
  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Age, Provenance, and Facies Architecture of an arid-land fluvial system in equatorial Pangaea: The Cloud Chief Formation in western Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Research Area
Sedimentology (IGPMS)

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumna
  • MS 2018

Thesis/Dissertation
Petrogenesis of late-stage, high-K magmas within a continental arc: an example from the Ross Orogen, Antarctica

Research Areas
Geochemistry, Petrology, Geochronology

Advisor
John Cottle

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  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Zach Eilon

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Rates and mechanics of fold uplift and lateral bedrock planation in convergent foreland basins.Research Area(

Geomorphology

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisors
Roberta Rudnick & John Cottle

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Tectonic Geomorphology, Collisional Orogens, Sedimentation and Tectonics, Surface Processes

  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2014

Research Area
Seismology, Ground Motion Prediction Equations

Advisor
Chen Ji

 

  • Professor Emeritus

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Active Margins

  • Alumna
  • PhD Program

Dissertation
Withdrawn

Research Area
Seismology

Advisor
Zach Eilon

  • TIMS Lab Manager

Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry

  • Noble 1019
  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geobiology

Advisor
Morgan Raven

  • Affiliated Professor Emeritus

Geography

  • 805-456-2831
  • Ellison 4806
  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2012

Research Area
Strong Motion Seismology

Advisor
Jaime Steidl

 

  • Professor

Geochemistry, Hydrology

  • 805-893-7838
  • Webb 2115
  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2020

Dissertation
Joint Study of the 1952 Kern County, California Earthquake

Research Area

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Professor
  • Vice-Chair
  • Graduate Advisor

Tectonics and Geochronology 

 

  • 805-893-7315
  • Webb 2031A
  • PhD candidate

Thesis/Dissertation
In progress

Research Area

Advisor
David Valentine

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Fall 2012

Research Area
Petrology 

Advisor
Frank Spera

 

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Fall 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
High Frequency Ground Motion from Finite Fault Rupture Simulations

Research Area
Seismology

Advisor
Ralph Archuleta

Molly Crotteau Head Shot
  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Organic Geochemistry, Geobiology

Advisor
Morgan Raven

  • Lab Mechanician
  • 805-893-3345
  • Webb 1055A
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2023

Thesis/Dissertation
Saline-Alkaline Lakes of the Eocene Green River Format

Research Area

Advisor
Stan Awramik

  • Undergraduate Program Coordinator
  • 805-893-4831
  • Webb Hall 1006
  • Lecturer
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2020

Thesis/Dissertation
Constraining Hydraulic Properties in Oceanic Crust near the Juan de Fuca Spreading Center

Research Area
Geohydrology

Advisor
Jordan Clark

  • PhD
  • Fall 2023

Dissertation
Rapid infrasound propagation corrections using empirical climatologies: Applications in volcano monitoring and systematic reanalyses of multi-year global datasets

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Robin Matoza

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