Degrees Awarded
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DOCTORATE Degrees
2024
Chuxuan Li Augmentation and Use of WRF-Hydro to Predict Rainfall-Triggered Landslide Susceptibility at Regional Scales. Advisor: Dan Horton
Floyd Nichols Examining Lipid Biosignatures and Organic Carbon in Mars-Analog Hypersaline Lakes. Advisor: Magdalena Osburn
Pete Puleo Seasonally Resolved Paleoclimate Reconstructions in Greenland Over the Past 14,000 Years Using Lake Sediments and Novel Oxygen Isotope Proxies. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
2023
Anastasia S Montgomery An Analysis Of Urban Air Quality and Health Effects Using
Chemical Transport Model Simulations. Advisor: Dan Horton
Molly Gallahue Exploring the Causes of the Discrepancy Between Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps and Observed Shaking Data. Advisor: Seth Stein
Niloufar Sarvian Towards an Understanding of Ca and Sr Isotopes in Neoproterozoic Carbonates. Advisor: Matthew Hurtgen
2022
James Neely Insights into Earthquake Processes and Hazards Using Statistical Methods. Advisor: Seth Stein
Boris Roesler Using Global Moment Tensor Catalogs to Study Earthquake Source Processes. Advisor: Seth Stein
Howard Chen The Chemistry-Climate Dynamics of Warm Habitable Zone Planets. Advisor: Daniel Horton
Reece Elling Continental Rifting and Precambrian Tectonics: Insights from Gravity Modeling and Apparent Polar Wander Paths. Advisor: Seth Stein
2021
Caitlin Casar Geobiology of Biofilms in the Continental Deep Subsurface. Advisor: Magdalena Osburn
Gabriella Kitch Identifying and Constraining Biocalcification Stress from Geologic Ocean Acidification Events. Advisor: Andrew Jacobson
Laura Larocca Holocene Glacier and Ice Cap Fluctuations in Southern Greenland: Investigations Using Lacustrine Archives and Geospatial Methods. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Claire Annie Nelson Investigating Basalt Chemical Weathering in Iceland and its Role in Climate Regulation with Stable Calcium Isotopes. Advisor: Andrew Jacobson
Leah Salditch Investigating Earthquake Recurrence and Hazard Models. Advisor: Seth Stein
Fei Wang Crystal Structure and Ordering of Hydrogen-Related Defects and Ferric Iron in High-Pressure Silicates of the Mantle Transition Zone. Advisor: Steven Jacobsen
Jiuyuan Wang Investigation of Stable Ca and Sr Isotopes as Proxies for Ocean Acidification in Deep Time: Neoproterozoic, Permian-Triassic, and Cretaceous Case Studies. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
2020
Emiliano Monroy-Rios Advancements in our Understanding of the Yucatan Platform Sedimentary Geology, Speleogenesis, Ring of Cenotes, and Tectonic Stability. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
Nooshin Saloor Contributions to Modern Quantification of Seismic Sources. Advisor: Emile Okal
Vivian Tang The Power of Seismic Waves to Trigger Seismicity and Reveal the Inner Structure of the Earth. Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
Michelle Wenz Earth's Inner Workings Revealed through Mineral Inclusions in Diamond. Advisor: Steven Jacobsen
2019
Trevor Bollmann Features of the North American mantle during the Mesoproterozoic through Cenozoic eras from field studies and visualization experiments Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
Eddie Brooks Assessing the Performance of Earthquake Hazard Maps. Advisor: Seth Stein
Everett Lasher Holocene Climate Change in Greenland: Investigations Using Oxygen Isotopes of Lacustrine Organic Materials. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Jamie McFarlin Calibrating and Applying Sedimentary Leaf Wax Hydrogen Isotopes to Reconstruct Greenland Hydroclimate of the Holocene and Last Interglacial. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Amir Salaree Theoretical and Computational Contributions to the Modeling of Global Tsunamis. Advisor: Emile Okal
2018
Matt Jones Stratigraphic and Geochemical Investigations of Late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events and Greenhouse Sea Level Trends. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
John Lazarz Effect of Water on Thermoelasticity of Majoritic Garnet: Implications for the Seismic Structure at the Top of the Lower Mantle. Advisor: Steven Jacobsen
2017
Grace Andrews (Margaret Unterman) Carbon Cycling of Glaciated Landscapes: Investigation with Strontium Isotope Geochemistry. Advisor: Andrew Jacobson
Michael Witek Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Structure of East Asia from Ambient Noise Tomography. Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
2016
Laurel Childress The Active Margin Carbon Cycle: Influences of Climate and Tectonics in Variable Spatial and Temporal Records. Advisor: Neal Blair
Renee French Using Orbiter Spacecraft Data to Characterize Small-Scale Surface Features on the Moon and Constrain Geophysical Properties of the Martian Crust. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
Ashley Gilliam Titan through Time: Evolution of Titan's Atmosphere and its Hydrocarbon Cycle on the Surface. Advisor: Abraham Lerman
Brian Kristall Marine Sulfur and Strontium Cycling During the Transition from a Cool to Warm Greenhouse in the Early Cretaceous. Advisor: Matthew Hurtgen
Gregory Lehn Advances in Calcium Isotope Geochemistry: Method Development and Application in a Multi-Proxy Investigation of Alaskan Arctic Watersheds. Advisor: Andrew Jacobson
Josh Townsend The Effects of Water on the Physical Properties of Earth Materials and Equations of State (2014). Advisor: Steven Jacobsen
Emily Lynne Wolin Structure, Seismicity, and Instrumentation of Stable North American Lithosphere Properties of Earth Materials and Equations of State. Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
2015
Jeremy Gouldey The Relationship Between the Geochemical Cycles of Sulfur and Carbon in the Neoproterozoic. Advisor: Matthew Hurtgen
2014
Allison Baczynski Evaluating Carbon Cycle Dynamics and Hydrologic Change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Advisor: Francesca McInerney
Rosemary Bush Leaf Wax n-Alkanes as Paleoclimate Proxies: Calibrations in Modern Plants and Applications in Ancient Ecosystems. Advisor: Francesca McInerney
Yun-Yuan Chang Influence of Point Defects on the Elastic Properties of Mantle Minerals and Superhard Materials. Advisor: Steven Jacobsen
Maya Gomes Modern and Ancient Studies of Sulfur Isotope Cycling in Low-Sulfate Systems. Advisor: Matthew Hurtgen
Dan (Darcy) Li Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon: Its Past, Present, and Future. Advisor: Abraham Lerman
Miguel Merino Tectonics and Seismicity of Rifts Past and Present. Advisor: Seth Stein
2013
Young Ji Joo Late Cretaceous Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy and Analysis of Perturbations in Global Carbon and Sulfur Biogeochemical Cycles. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Xiaoting Lou Inferred and Predicted Seismic Velocities of the North American Mantle. Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
2012
Carl W. Ebeling Discriminants and Detectors: Seismological Studies of Tsunami Earthquakes and Hurricane Microseisms. Advisor: Emile Okal
2011
Derek D. Adams Biogeochemical Consequences of Low Sulfate Oceans: A Study of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. Advisor: Matthew Hurtgen
Richard Barclay Testing the Driving Mechanisms for Ocean Anoxic Event 2 (94 Ma) Using pCO2 Estimates and Carbon Isotopes Derived from Fossil Plant Material in the Dakota Formation of Southwestern Utah. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Simon Lloyd Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath South America: Variations in Precambrian Moho and Lithosphere-Athenosphere Boundary Depths and Seismic Velocity Structure at the Subducting Chile Ridge. Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
2009
Laura Swafford Space-Time Characteristics of Earthquake Sources in Various Tectonic Environments. Advisor: Seth Stein
2008
Heather Bedle Studies on the S-velocity Structure of the North American Upper Mantle. Advisor: Susan van der Lee
Jason Flaum Investigation of Phosphorus Cycle Dynamics Associated with Organic Carbon Burial in Modern (North Pacific) and Ancient (Devonian and Cretaceous) Marine Systems: Strengths and Limitations of Sequentially Extracted (SEDEX) Phosphorus Data. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Lingling Wu Chemical Weathering: Theoretical Models, Field Study in the Yellow River Basin, and Laboratory Study of Microbially-Mediated Basalt and Granite Weathering. Advisor: Andrew Jacobson
2007
Joniell Borges Continental Weathering Products: Clay Mineral Surfaces as Sinks for Organic Carbon in Marine Environments; Chemistry and Petrography of Bed Sediments from Large Rivers--Provenance and Chemical Weathering. Advisor: Bradley Sageman.
Robert Locklair Causes and Consequences of Marine Carbon Burial: Examples from the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation and the Permian Brushy Canyon Formation. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Kimberly Schramm The Role of Source Mechanism Geometry in Biasing Estimates of Earthquake Slowness. Advisor: Seth Stein
2006
Han Li Remediation of Scattered Light in NEAR-Shoemaker MSI Imager: A Study of Martian Debris Aprons. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
Alberto Lopez Tectonic Studies of the Caribbean: I) Pure GPS Euler Vectors to Test for Rigidity and the Existence of a Northern Lesser Antilles Forearc Block; II) Constraints for Tsunami Risk from Reassessment of the April 1, 1946 Alaska-Aleutians and August 4, 1946 Hispaniola Events. Advisors: Emile Okal and Seth Stein
2005
Audeliz Matias Development and Modification of Impact Craters on Venus and Mars. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
2004
Sarah Lee Andre Densities and Porosities of Ordinary Chondrite Meteorites: Study of Mercurian Topography Using Digital Elevation Models. Advisor: Mark Robinson
2003
Stephen Richard Meyers Integrated Cylcostratigraphy and Biogeochemistry of the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary Interval, Western Interior Basin, North America. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
2002
Po Fei Chen Distribution, Origin and Implications of Seismic Stress Release in Shallow and Intermediate Depth Subduction Systems. Advisor: Emile Okal
Eryn R. Klosko An Investigation of South American, Nazca Plate Boundary Zone Deformation Kinematics. Advisor: Seth Stein
2000
Erin K. Beutel Relative and Absolute Plate Motion Changes in the Southeast Pacific: Cause and Effect. Advisor: Raymond Russo
Jerome B. Cruz Surface Charge Behavior and Surface Hydroxyl Characterization of Andulusite and Al2O3/SiO2 Mixtures in Aqueous Solutions at Room Temperature. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
Andrew V. Newman Geodetic and Seismic Studies of the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Implications for Earthquake Recurrence and Seismic Hazard. Advisor: Seth Stein
Josef P. Werne A Geochemical Evaluation of Depositional Controls and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions in Organic-Rich Sediment Deposits: Evidence from the Modern Cariaco Bason, Venezuela, and Applications to the Devonian Appalachian Basin. Advisor: David Hollander
1998
John E. DeLaughter Evolution of the Lithospheres of Venus and Earth: Studies in Geoid, Topography and Heat Flow. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
Changrui Gong An Organic and Isotopic Geochemical Study of Santa Monica Basin Sediment, Offshore California. Advisor: David Hollander
Laura Lynn Marquez Integrated Structural and Geochemical Studies of Oceanic Fault Zones Across the Dike-Pluton Boundary, Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. Advisor: Susan Agar
William Phillip Richardson Surface Wave Tomography of the Ontong-Java Plateau: Seismic Probing of the Largest Igneous Province. Advisor: Emile Okal
John C. Weber New Madrid Seismic Zone Deformation from Repeat Global Positioning System (GPS) Surveys.
1995
Dezhi Chu Studies in Plate Kinematics: Plate Motion in East Africa and a Comparison of Paleomagnetic Methods. Advisor: Seth Stein
1994
Tom Shoberg Studies in Marine Tectonics: Propagating Rifts, Depth Anomalies, and Subduction Zone Anisotropy. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
Undergraduate Degrees
2024
Shayna C Garla
Emma L Havens
Ryan H Lopez
Aidan P Ocampo
Claire M Throckmorton
2023
Emma H Estberg
Abby E Hsiao
Tessa B Seifried
Dana M Small
Mia L Thompson
Catherine E Updegraff
Zoe G Vincent
2022
Cherish Anderson
Christina Carty
Bailey Fluegel Looking into the Subsurface: A Geophysical Investigation of a Unique Set of “Spotted” Hypersaline Lakes in British Columbia, Canada. Advisor: Mitchel Barklage
Michael Montoya
August Moody
Timothy Ellis
2021
Britt Bommer
Fang Ming "Cassia" Cai Mixed Layer Depth Climatology Over the NorthEast U.S. Continential Shelf (1993-2008). Advisor: Daniel Horton
Laura Caride
Tia Chung-Swanson
Jared Colin
Adam Flam
Robert Gallo
Annika Hansen
David Kaplan
Sohyun Lee
Lauren Simitz
Regan Steigleder
Caroline Webster
Lucy Weidner Quantifying the Yucatan Peninsula Holocene Fire History and Ecological Succession – Charcoal and Stable Isotope Analysis of Coastal and Lake Cores the Vista Alegre Maritime Maya Port and Inland Cenote/Lake Sites. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
2020
Jeremy Brooks Little Ice Age Climate in South Greenland inferred from Alpine Glacier Reconstructions Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Emily Dial
Kevin Eisenstein
Andrea Gomez-Patron
Christine Lee
Madeleine Lucas Adventures in Geophysics: From Caves to CHIMPs Advisors: Mitchell Barklage & Seth Stein
Grant McKnight Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) to Image Geologic Features at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA Advisor: Mitchell Barklage
Zoe Morfas
Kjetil Odden
Isaac Sageman Climatic and Paleoenvironmental Changes Associated with the Evolution of the First Mammaian Megaherbivore Coryphodon During Paleogene Hyperthermal Events, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming Advisor: Matthew Hurtgen
Claudia Sandine Dynamical Evidence for Terrestrial Planet Debris in the Asteroid Belt Advisor: Seth Jacobson
Rachel So Carbonate Mineral Identification and Quantification in Sediment Matrices Using Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (DRIFTS) Advisor: Neal Blair
2019
Hannah Dion-Kirschner Evaluating Compound-Specific Hydrogen and Carbon Isotopes of Plant Lipids as Proxies for Greenland Paleoclimate and Paleohydrology. Advisor: Magdalena Osburn
Jamie Easton
Monica Ha
Katherine Haile Coastal Mangrove Basin Hydrological Dynamics in Response to Changing Boundary Conditions of Ocean and Climate. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
Ava Polzin
Peter Puleo A ~14,500-year Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Record from Sediments of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Eric Van Camp
2018
Karalyn Berman Paleoecological and Geochemical Reconstructions of Isostatic Emergence and Holocene Environmental Change at a Coastal Lake near Buksefjord, SW Greenland. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Katherine Braun
Michael Campbell Seismic Forensics: Mapping Lake Superior’s Subsurface Structures to Characterize the Midcontinent Rift. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
Luis Cartagena
Lucero Flores
John Hayes Evolution of a Midwestern Reservoir’s Carbon Sources – Biomarker Evidence from TMAH Thermochemolysis. Advisor: Neal Blair
Caroline Schuette Isotopic Analyses of Inoceramid Shells as Evidence for the Plenus Cold Event and an Investigation of Nacre Tablet Thickness as a Proxy for Temperature. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Clark Skillman
Negatwa Tewodros
Jordan Todes Seismic and Geochemical Studies of Mantle and Paleoenvironmental Structure: Perspectives from Subduction Zones and the Western Interior Basin. Advisors: Magdalena Osburn, Bradley Sageman and Emile Okal
2017
Nicholas Ambruz Absolute and Relative Delay Time Uncertainties of Experienced, Inexperienced, and New Users within AIMBAT. Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
Jane Berkowitz
Barbara (Basia) Gawin (B.A. with Honors in Environmental Science, EPS minor) The Holocene Sedimentary Record of Lake T3 in Southwest Greenland: Timing of Isostatic Emergence and Evidence of Upstream Glacier Fluctuations. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Rachel Inderhees
Bethany Ketchem
Mark Schmid
2016
Erik Baker
Steve Brand
Peter Carlin Field Permeability Assessment Using Open-Source Hardware Design. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
Rui Chen
Marine Coste
Liz Fillion
Matthew Giuffre
Dana Johnson Phylogenetic Diversity and Lipid Biomarker Composition of Microbialites in the Freshwater Lake of Laguna Bacalar. Advisor: Magdalena Osburn
Tyler Kukla A Tale of Two CIEs: An Isotopic and Paleogeographic Comparison between the Mid Cenomanian Event and Ocean Anoxic Event 2. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Victoria Nelson
Jiayue Peng
David Rice
Joshua Williams
2015
Anna Hopkins
Margaret Isaacson Holocene Climate Change in the Southeastern Peruvian Andes: A Vegetation, Precipitation, and Fire History of Lake Yanacocha. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Mitchell Kirshner Olympus Mons, Mars: Rheological Properties of Lava Fans and Tubes. Advisor: Donna Jurdy
Alex Layng
Kay T. McMonigal (B.A. with Honors, EARTH/ISP/MATH) Developing a New Paleo Sea Level Proxy: Calcite Rafts of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
Andrew Pfeiffer Holocene Paleoclimate of Northwest Greenland Inferred from Lacustrine Sediments. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Henrik Westerkam Backcountry Visitor Impact Assessment at Katmai National Park and Preserve and the Alagnak Wild River. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
2014
John Hodges
Katie Jaycox
Zachary Kisfalusi Urban Hydrology of Northern Cook County. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
Margaret Koeppel
Brian Lach
Oscar Lopez
Ariel Melinger-Cohen
Tess Monical
Ruthie Norval
Nora Richter (B.A. with Honors, EARTH/ISP) Late Holocene Paleoclimate Reconstructed from Sediment Geochemistry and Chironomid Remains, Lake Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norway. Advisor: Yarrow Axford
Heather Tennant
2013
Ellie Bensinger Variation in Charcoal Abundance in Cores from Maya Port City of Vista Alegre, Quintana Roo. Advisor: Patricia Beddows.
Laura Beckerman
Caroline Binkley
Danny Ginzburg
Harry Hahn
Mariel Henkoff
Peter Ilhardt Investigation of Potential Microbialite Formations from Yucatán Peninsula Cenotes. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
Leah Isaman
Alex Kegley
Allegra Mayer
Jennifer Mills
Andrea Salus
Matthew Sullivan
2012
Clayton Brengman
Peter Carlson Lacustrine Gypsum as a Paleoprecipitation Indicator in Inland Belize. Advisor: Patricia Beddows
Catherine Carrio
Alice Carter Multiproxy Reconstruction of the Alegre Maritime Maya Coastal Archeological Site Using Sediment Cores. Advisor: Patricia Beddows.
Ekjyot (Joey) Gill
Benjamin Heath
Daniel Pfeffer
Matthew Strumpf
2011
Kristen Bartucci
Alexa Socianu
Joseph McKendree Walkowicz
2010
John Kapnik
Jessica Kunke
Michael Mounier
Michael Philben
Julia Swanson
Colleen Moore
Alan Wong
Theresa Wong
2009
Rene Boiteau
Sara Bosshart The Eocene-Oligocene Boundary in Oregon: A Mysterious Even-Over-Odd Predominance of n-alkanes. Advisor: Francesca McInerney
Latisha Brengman The Sulfur Isotope Composition of Early Neoproterozoic Seawater as Recorded in the Bitter Springs Formation, Australia. Advisor: Matthew Hurtgen
Rebecca Fischer Effects of Pressure on H Bonding in Minerals. Advisor: Steven Jacobsen
Stefan Jensen Geophysical Evidence for Medieval-Period Hydroclimatic Change in the Sierra Nevada. Advisor: Seth Stein
Ryosuke Kita
Timothy Reber
Reid Taylor
2008
Colin Carney Terrestrial Weathering and Nutrient Recycling: Bionutrient P Dynamics of the Late Devonian Appalachian Basin. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Ben Farah Altitudinal Effects on Leaf Wax Composition. Advisor: Francesca McInerney
Eric Kramer Tracking Arctic Climate Change in Alaska. Advisor: Andrew Jacobson
Nicki Kravis Tracking Arctic Climate Change in Alaska. Advisor: Andrew Jacobson
Ryan Lange Relative Teleseismic Wave Arrival Times at Seismic Arrays Across the U.S. Advisor: Suzan van der Lee
Benjamin Chartoff
William Defliese
2007
James Hebden Rayleigh Wave Propagation in Mid-Ocean Ridge Waveguides. Advisor: Seth Stein. Publication Reference - Hebden, J.S.and S. Stein (2009) "Time-dependent Seismic Hazard Maps for the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Charleston, South Carolina, Areas." Seismological Research Letters 80(1):12-20.
2006
Piyapa Dejtrakulwong Analysis of Sedimentary Phosphorus in Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) Deposits of the Western Interior Seaway: Implications for the Interpretation of Oceanic Anoxic Event II. Advisor: Bradley Sageman.
Sarah Krentz
2005
Alexander Bartolai
Michael Goldrich
Brandon Ray New Models in 40Ar/40K Dating and Escape of Radiogenic Material from Minerals. Advisor: Abraham Lerman
Daniel Zablotney
2004
Justin Sweet Frequency-Size Distribution of Intraplate Earthquakes. Advisor: Emile Okal
2003
Jessica Edmonds (B.A. with Honors) Variations in Size and Location of Albedo Features on Mars. Advisor: Mark Robinson
Sara Hohenshelt
Shawn Stevens
2002
Rachael Claxton
Julie Giardina
Verene Lystad Gazeteer of Mercurian Features. Advisor: Mark Robinson
Petra Pancoskova Spectral Analysis of Orbitally Forced Sediments Using Measured Sections and Photographic Images. Advisor: Bradley Sageman
Erik Stoltenberg
Brett Wilcox Comparison of Cratering on Asteroid Eros and the Moon: Comparison of Regoliths on Asteroid Eros and the Moon. Advisor: Mark Robinson
Matthew Williams Analysis of Organic Carbon Accumulation across a Bulk Sedimentation Gradient: Late Cenomanian, Hartland Shale Member, Western Interior U.S. Advisor: Bradley Sageman