People
- Alumnus
- PhD Winter 2006
Dissertation
The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Depositional, Structural, and Tectonic Evolution of the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk
- 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
- PhD candidate
Thesis/Dissertation
In progress
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
- PhD candidate
Dissertation
In progress
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
- 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