People

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2013

Research Area
Hydrogeology, Fluvial Process Morphology

Advisor
Jordan Clark

 

  • MS candidate

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

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2019
  • PhD Fall 2023

MS Thesis
A probabilistic approach to calculate lags between benthic d18O signals across Termination 1

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Assistant Professor

Organic Geochemistry, Geobiology

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2018

Thesis/Dissertation
Investigating mantle isotopic heterogeneity from the micro- to regional scale with high precision mass spectrometry

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Alumna
  • PhD Winter 2018

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

  • Academic and Student Affairs Manager
  • 805-893-4688
  • Webb 1006
  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2015

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

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Spring 2013

Research Areas
Hydrogeology, Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Post Doc/Lecturer

Areas of Research
Early Eukaryote Paleontology

Sponsor:
Susannah Porter

  • Webb 1037
  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Dissertation: "Studies in Neoproterozoic Paleontology"

Research Area
Early Eukaryote Paleontology

Advisor
Susannah Porter

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
Roberta Rudnick

  • Associate Teaching Professor

Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry

  • 617-771-9317
  • Webb 1116
  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2020

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

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Noble 1009
Professor Roberta Rudnick
  • Distinguished Professor

Geochemistry and Petrology, Continent Formation and Evolution

 

 

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Zach Eilon

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Fall 2021

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

  • Webb 2042
  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geobiology

Advisor
David Valentine

  • Webb 2029
  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2015

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

  • Noble Annex 1017
  • MS Program
  • Lapsed

Research Areas
Geomorphology, Structural Geology, Tectonics, Continental Dynamics

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • Alumna
  • MS 2014 CSU Fresno
  • PhD Winter 2022

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

  • Senior Development Engineer
  • Woodhouse 2001
  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Recycling of Continental Crust Captured in Pamir Xenoliths 

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2012

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Associate Development Engineer
  • Woodhouse 2001
  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2013

Thesis/Dissertation
Sulfur Isotope Fractionation Accompanies Dimethylsulfide Disproportionation by Methanosarcina sp. Strain MTP4

Research Area
Geomicrobiology

Advisor
Dave Valentine

  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Antarctic Raised Beaches: Insight on Geochronology, Relative Sea Level, and Coastal Processes

Research Area
Sedimentology

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Professor

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy, Coastal Geology, Quaternary Science

 

  • Adjunct Professor

Earth Science

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Source Characterization of Micro-seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing Experiment in Taft, California

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2011

Research Areas
Structure, Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics, Geochronology

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Magma Dynamics, Properties of Magmas, Volcanology and Geomaterials

  • Alumna
  • PhD Winter 2020

Thesis/Dissertation
Glacial-Interglacial changes in sea level and seawater delta-O-18 gradients

Research Area
Paleoclimatology (IGPMS)

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Noble Annex 1019
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Genesis and Evolution of the Pamir Plateau: a Petrochronologic View

Research Areas
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Geochemistry

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumna
  • PhD July 2017.

Thesis/Dissertation
Hyperpycnal currents with reversing buoyancy

Research Areas
Sedimentology, Quantitative Stratigraphy

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Adjunct Professor

Earth Research Institute
(Researcher)

 

  • 805-893-4905
  • Ellison 6710
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Regional Benthic Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotope Stacks for the Last Glacial Cycle

Research Area
Paleoclimatology

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2023

Thesis/Dissertation
The Geodynamics of Relamination, Delamination, and Foundering of the Lower Crust

Research Area

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
New middle Cambrian hyolith genus and species and echinoderm ossicles from the Georgina Basin, Australia

Research Areas
Paleobiology/Paleontology

Advisor
Susannah Porter

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2010

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

 

  • Professor Emeritus

Tectonics, Petrology, Volcanology

  • Distinguished Professor

Seismology, Earth Structure

 

  • 805-893-8375
  • Webb 2112
  • PhD candidate

Thesis/Dissertation
In progress

Research Area

Advisor
David Valentine

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geology

Advisor
Francis Macdonald

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2011

Research Area
Fluvial Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2020

Dissertation
Changes in beach deposit characteristics on Joinville and Livingston Islands, Antarctica

Research Area
Sedimentology

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2013

Thesis/Dissertation
Neogene Tectonic Evolution of the NE Pamir margin, NW China

Research Areas
Geomorphology, Tectonic Geomorphology

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • Professor Emeritus

Angiosperm Paleo- and Neocarpology, Angiosperm Paleobiogeography, Paleobiology and Evolution of Land Plants, Plant-Animal Interactions in the Fossil Record

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2013

Research Areas
Seismology, Volcanology, Planetary Science

Advisor
Frank Spera

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