People
- Alumna
- MS Summer '06
Thesis
Beach Asphalt (Tar) Accumulation at Coal Oil Point, CA: Identification of Processes Controlling Temporal Variations
Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk
- Alumna
- MS Summer 2015
Thesis/Dissertation
Stress drop and its Uncertainty for Earthquakes M3.8-5.5 in Central California and Oklahoma
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Ralph Archuleta & Toshiro Tanimoto
- PhD candidate
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Coastal Sedimentology
Advisor
Alex Simms
- Affiliated Professor Emeritus
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
- Alumna
- MS June 2017
Thesis/Dissertation
Timing and Mechanisms of REE Mineralization at Central City, CO
Research Area
Geochemistry
Advisor
John Cottle
- PhD candidate
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Structural Geology
Advisor
Phil Gans
- MS Summer 2018
Thesis
EXTREME ENRICHED AND HETEROGENEOUS 87SR/86SR RATIOS RECORDED MAGMATIC PLAGIOCLASE FROM THE SAMOAN HOTSPOT
Research Area
Advisor
Matt Jackson
- Associate Professor
Seismology, Tectonophysics, Inverse Theory
- Alumna
- MS Winter 2011
Research Area
Crustal Evolution and Development
Advisor
Brad Hacker
- Alumna
- PhD Summer 2023
Thesis/Dissertation
Ross Orogen evolution: Investigating the magmatic record along the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana
Research Area(s)
Geochronology, Geochemistry
Advisor
John Cottle
- MS Winter 2020
- PhD candidate
MS Thesis
A new species of Pinnarctidion from the Pysht Formation of Washington and phylogenetic analysis of basal pinnipedimorphs (Eutheria, Carnivora)
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
Andy Wyss
- Post Doc/Researcher
Areas of Research
Structural geology and tectonics
Sponsor
Krstin Morell
- Alumna
- PhD 2017
Thesis/Dissertation
Character and significance of volcanism in the lower Colorado River extensional corridor; insight into extensional tectonics
Research Area
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Volcanology, Igneous Petrology
Advisor
Phil Gans
- MS candidate
Thesis
In progress
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Robin Matoza
- Alumna
- MS Spring 2016
Thesis/Dissertation
The Geomorphic Transition between the Santa Barbara and Ventura Fold Belts near Rincon Point, California
Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
- Professor
Structural Geology, Regional Geology and Tectonics, Argon Geochronology
- Affiliated Professor
Geography
- Alumnus
- PhD Fall 2017
MS Thesis:
Localization of Deformation in a Lower to Mid-Crustal Convergent Margin, Sierra de Pie de Palo, Argentina.
PhD Dissertation:
Titanite Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: Constraints on UHP Continental Subduction and Emplacement.=
Research Areas
Geochronology, Tectonics, Metamorphic Petrology, Rheology, Structural Geology
Advisor
Brad Hacker
- Alumnus
- MS Summer 2015
Thesis/Dissertation
Tectonic Significance of the Chambers Well Dike Swarm Whipple Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, CA
Research Areas
Field Geology/Mapping, Geochronology, Structural Geology, Tectonics
Advisor
Phil Gans
- Alumna
- PhD Spring 2022
Dissertation
Investigation of conditions relevant to the use of reclaimed water for managed aquifer recharge in two aquifer systems in the United States
Research Area
Advisor
Jordan Clark
- MS Summer 2021
Dissertation
Insights into the Sea-Level History of the South Shetland Islands from Ground Penetrating Radar on Livingston Island, Antarctica
Research Area
Sedimentology
Advisor
Alex Simms
- Alumnus
- MS Fall 2011
Research Areas
Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics
Advisor
Hacker
- PhD candidate
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Zach Eilon
- Alumnus
- PhD Spring 2011
Research Areas
Geomorphology, Tectonics
Advisor
Doug Burbank
- Alumna
- PhD Fall 2018
Thesis/Dissertation
Geochemistry of Molybdenum and Other Variably Chalcophile Elements
Research Area
Geochemistry
Advisor
Roberta Rudnick
- Alumna
- MS Summer 2015
Thesis/Dissertation
Paleoceanography of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Insights from a new Carnegie Platform stratigraphic record
Research Areas
Climate Change-Climatology, Geochemistry, Marine Geochemistry-Geophysics-Geology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography
Advisor
David Lea
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics, Geochronology
- Alumnus
- PhD Summer 2015
Dissertation
The Metamorphic and Magmatic History of the Ross Orogen in Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica
Research Areas
Geochemistry, Geochronology, Tectonics
Advisor
John Cottle
- PhD candidate
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geochemistry
Advisor
Roberta Rudnick
- Alumnus
- PhD Summer 2021
Dissertation
Fault accommodation of permanent strain in the northern Cascadia forearc
Research Area
Advisor
Kristin Morell
- Alumnus
- PhD Summer 2015
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
- PhD candidate
PhD Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geochemistry
Advisor
Matt Jackson
- Professor Emeritus
Marine Geology and Geochemistry, Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems, Mid-Ocean Ridges, Seafloor Volcanism
- Visiting Researcher
Areas of Research
Petrology, Geochemistry and the evolution of continent
Sponsor
Roberta Rudnick
- Alumna
- PhD Spring 2011
Research Area
Marine Hydrothermal Systems
Advisor
Dave Valentine
- Alumnus
- MS Winter 2013
Research Area
Geothermal and mineral exploration
Advisor
Phil Gans
- MS Program
- Lapsed
Thesis/Dissertation
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Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
- PhD candidate
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Paleoclimatology
Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki
- Affiliated Professor
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
- Alumnus
- PhD Summer 2018
- MS Winter 2014
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
- Alumna
- MS Fall 2006
Thesis
Geometry and Quaternary evolution of a laterally propagating fold and fault system, Santa Barbara Channel, California
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk
- Professor Emeritus
Igneous Petrology (Ophiolites, Granitic Plutons and Migmatites, Cascade Volcanoes)
- PhD candidate
PhD Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Kristin Morell
- Alumnus
- PhD Spring 2015
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
- Alumnus
- MS Spring 2017
Thesis/Dissertation
In Situ Observations of Seismic wave propagation
Research Area
Seismology
Advisor
Jaimie Steidl
- PhD candidate
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Coastal Geology
Advisor
Alex Simms