Geology Graduate Student Theses
MASTERS DEGREES GRANTED
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruplinger, Alicia | 2024 | Heermance | |
| Travers, Abigail | 2024 | Evans |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bixler, Jonathan | 2023 | Dating the Alamo Mountain and Piru Creek Shear Zones Using U-Pb Zircon Geochronology: Insights into Late Cretaceous Tectonics in Southern California | Schwartz |
| Estrada, Alfredo | 2023 | Environmental Impacts of Oil Seeps in Coastal Watersheds | Hauswirth |
| Littleton, Shelby | 2023 | Using Carbon Isotopes, Phytoliths, and Geochemical Proxies to Constrain C4 Expansion Across Argentina in Response to Changes in Precipitation During the Late Miocene | Cotton |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brackman, Adam | 2022 | Schwartz | |
| Brown, Virginia | 2022 | Miranda | |
| Martinez, Priscilla | 2022 |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chong, Jeng Hann | 2021 | Evans | |
| Dietel, Matthew | 2021 | Miranda | |
| Ghosh, Adit | 2021 | Cotton | |
| Greenberg, Gillian | 2021 | Schwartz | |
| Hohn, Rachel | 2021 | Ganguli | |
| Persad, Liselle | 2021 | Marsaglia | |
| Schmitt, Erin | 2021 | Ganguli | |
| Stone, David | 2021 | Cecil | |
| Trammell, Cali | 2021 | Heermance | |
| Wales, Erin | 2021 | Schwartz |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andico, Solishia | 2020 | Schwartz | |
| Carty, Kendra | 2020 | Schwartz | |
| Pardo, Justin | 2020 | Cotton | |
| Ulloa, Sirena | 2020 | Lozos |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garcia, Colleen | 2010 | Tabidian | |
| Greenberg, Rebecca | 2010 | Miranda | |
| Guzman, Nathan | 2010 | Yule | |
| Hebeler, Aaron | 2010 | Yule | |
| Luna, Lorena | 2010 | Yule | |
| Nguyen, Chinh | 2010 | Weeraratne | |
| Parra, Julie | 2010 | Marsaglia | |
| Rivera, Kevin | 2010 | Marsaglia | |
| Toneva, Snejana | 2010 | Tabidian | |
| Ventimiglia, Matthew | 2010 | Squires | |
| Velasco, Noel | 2010 | Vazquez | |
| Fleck, Jenna | 2011 | Weeraratne | |
| McBurnett, Paul | 2011 | Yule | |
| McGuire, Kathleen | 2011 | Heermance | |
| McKay, Hannah | 2011 | Heermance | |
| Neil, Kenda | 2011 | Tabidian | |
| Ramirez, Cristo | 2011 | Weeraratne | |
| Annis, David | 2012 | Miranda | |
| Carrasco, Joseph | 2012 | Marsaglia | |
| Lafromboise, Eli | 2012 | Simila | |
| Ramzan, Shahid | 2012 | Yule | |
| Bender-Whitaker, Carrie | 2013 | Marsaglia | |
| del Angel, Jozi | 2013 | Heermance | |
| Nunley, Melissa | 2013 | Weeraratne | |
| Brand, Danielle | 2014 | Weeraratne | |
| Chehal, Simarjit K. | 2014 | Heermance | |
| Doran, Linda | 2014 | Marsaglia | |
| Escobar, Lennin | 2014 | Weeraratne | |
| Graham, Joshua | 2014 | Heermance | |
| Mohammadebrahim, Ehsan | 2014 | Simila | |
| Rains, Christine | 2014 | Weeraratne | |
| Sotirov ,Teodor | 2014 | Weeraratne | |
| Black, Lexine | 2015 | Weeraratne | |
| Clements, Brian | 2015 | Schwartz | |
| Nolasco, Jasmyn | 2015 | Marsaglia | |
| Rathnayaka, Sampath | 2015 | Weeraratne | |
| Riegel, Hannah | 2015 | Heermance | |
| Sadorski, Joseph | 2015 | Schwartz | |
| Tentori,听Daniel | 2015 | Marsaglia | |
| Bailey, Claire | 2016 | Marsaglia | |
| Cardona, Jose | 2016 | Yule | |
| Cohen, Hannah | 2016 | Heermance | |
| Decker, Meghann | 2016 | Schwartz | |
| Dickey, Nathan | 2016 | Heermance | |
| Gabauer,听Samantha | 2016 | Schwartz | |
| Johnson, Kyle | 2016 | Marsaglia | |
| Jones, Kaitlyn | 2016 | Yule | |
| Joseph, Jeffery | 2016 | Miranda | |
| McDonald, Eric | 2016 | Cecil | |
| Nissanka, Uchitha | 2016 | Weeraratne | |
| Rousseau, Nick | 2016 | Cecil | |
| Wiesenfeld, John | 2016 | Schwartz | |
| Gabriel, Katherine | 2017 | Yule | |
| Homan, Emily | 2017 | Cecil | |
| Huerta,听Brittany | 2017 | Yule | |
| Kennedy, James | 2017 | Seismic attenuation of the lithosphere and asthenosphere across the North America - Pacific Plate Boundary in Southern California | Weeraratne |
| Moe, Annelisa | 2017 | Heermance | |
| Stewart,Craig | 2017 | Miranda | |
| Buritica Alvarez, Luisa | 2018 | Schwartz | |
| Desjarlais, Ian | 2018 | Yule | |
| Hufford, Lonnie | 2018 | Miranda | |
| Martinez, Christopher | 2018 | Persistence of Metal Sediments at the Core-Mantle Boundary and Implications for the Seismic Ultra-Low Velocity zone | Weeraratne |
| McGinn, Courtney | 2018 | Miranda | |
| McNeil, James | 2018 | Yule | |
| Peshette, Paul | 2018 | Lozos | |
| Ruttenberg, Ian | 2018 | Marsaglia | |
| Sample, Bret | 2018 | Provenance of Miocene Strata of the El Paso Basin, Southern California: Constraints on the Late Cenozoic Paleogeography of the Southern Sierra Nevada Region | Cecil |
| Vilkas, Marius | 2018 | Heermance | |
| Wolff, Lisa | 2018 | Yule | |
| Gomez, Carlos | 2019 | Weeraratne |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| dePaula, Lemuel | 2000 | Pedone | |
| Fayez, Abdulaziz | 2000 | Simila | |
| Devlahovich, Vincent | 2001 | Weigand | |
| McCord, Brian | 2001 | Tabidian | |
| Tersibashian, Noune | 2001 | Tabidian | |
| Field, Leonore | 2002 | Weigand | |
| Saenz, Joseph M. | 2002 | Fischer | |
| Howland, Caryn L. | 2003 | Yule | |
| James, Dawn E. | 2003 | Marsaglia | |
| Sgriccia, Martha P. | 2003 | Fritsche | |
| Neameh, Majd | 2004 | Yule | |
| Orozco, Arturo A. | 2004 | Yule | |
| Shapiro, Shawn A. | 2004 | Marsaglia | |
| Stecheson, Mary | 2004 | Squires | |
| Caceres, Carmen | 2005 | Pedone | |
| DeVaughn, Alissa | 2005 | Marsaglia | |
| Fontilea, Kristin | 2005 | Marsaglia | |
| Gadley, Kyle | 2005 | Marsaglia | |
| Kear, Jordan Leigh | 2005 | Tabidian | |
| Telles, Franky | 2005 | Pedone | |
| Miles, Jack | 2007 | Tabidian | |
| Regmi, Anita | 2007 | Tabidian | |
| Yong, Alan | 2007 | Simila | |
| Green, Joseph | 2008 | Simila | |
| Pavia, Jennifer | 2009 | Marsaglia | |
| Rains, Jean | 2009 | Marsaglia | |
| Woolford, Jeffery | 2009 | Vazquez | |
| Zohar, Alana | 2009 | Vazquez |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flack, Michael | 1990 | Fritsche | |
| Oldershaw, Michael | 1990 | Fritsche | |
| Perri, Michael | 1990 | Fritsche | |
| Siegele, Paul | 1990 | Adams | |
| Armand, Pierre | 1991 | Simila | |
| Cote, Russell | 1991 | Squires | |
| Groves, Lindsey | 1991 | Squires | |
| Kirby, Michael | 1991 | Squires | |
| Mills, Gareth | 1991 | Fischer | |
| Smith, Theresa | 1991 | Fritsche | |
| Wang, Shin-Jieh | 1991 | Simila | |
| Anderson, Steve | 1992 | Weigand | |
| Copeland, Jeff | 1992 | Tabidian | |
| Gring, Michael | 1993 | Squires | |
| Ward, Michael | 1994 | Adams | |
| Larson, Robert | 1995 | Adams | |
| Shirley, James | 1995 | Simila | |
| Smith, James | 1995 | Simila | |
| Striegler, Glenn | 1995 | Dunne | |
| Zhang, Zhaohui | 1995 | Comprehensive Examination | Fritsche |
| Anderson, Desideria | 1996 | Fritsche | |
| Gossell, Melissa | 1996 | Tabidian | |
| Jones, Terry | 1996 | Simila | |
| Kelsch, Kenneth | 1996 | Fischer | |
| Norgauer, Carl | 1996 | Pedone | |
| Savage, Karen | 1996 | Weigand | |
| Swanson, Brian | 1996 | Dunne | |
| Evensen, James Jr. | 1997 | Tabidian | |
| Ocampo, Adriana | 1997 | Fritsche | |
| Cao, Aiguo | 1998 | Fritsche | |
| Davis, George | 1998 | Squires | |
| Martin, Rod | 1998 | Fritsche | |
| Schaaf, Joseph | 1998 | Tabidian | |
| May, James | 1999 | Weigand |
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| Student | Year | Project | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond, William | 1976 | Fischer | |
| Thor, Devin | 1977 | Fritsche | |
| Blom, Ronald | 1978 | Adams | |
| Testa, Stephen | 1978 | Weigand | |
| Reid, Stephen | 1979 | Fritsche | |
| Werner, Michael | 1979 | Dunne | |
| Anderson, Thomas | 1980 | Weigand | |
| Hartshorn, David | 1980 | Gustafson | |
| Rudat, Juhani | 1980 | Fischer | |
| Blake, Thomas | 1981 | Fritsche | |
| Blundell, Michael | 1981 | Fritsche | |
| Muir, Stephen | 1981 | Fritsche | |
| Ritterbush, Linda | 1981 | Squires | |
| Van Wagoner, Steven | 1981 | Fritsche | |
| Fowler, Julie | 1982 | Dunne | |
| Furst, Bruce | 1982 | Weigand | |
| Morrison, Lowell | 1982 | Fischer | |
| Peterson, Larry | 1982 | Adams | |
| Remsen,听Walter Jr. | 1982 | Fritsche | |
| Sterling, Stephen | 1982 | Fischer | |
| Advocate, David | 1983 | Squires | |
| Johnson, Elizabeth | 1983 | Molnia | |
| Muskat, Judd | 1983 | Adams | |
| Norby, Philip | 1983 | Simila | |
| Oborne, Mark | 1983 | Dunne | |
| Roush, James | 1983 | Fischer | |
| Schymiczek, Herman | 1983 | Squires | |
| Shariff, Asghar | 1983 | Fritsche | |
| Ticken, Edward | 1983 | Fischer | |
| Bouton, Katherine | 1984 | Adams | |
| Custis, Kit | 1984 | Dunne | |
| Kappeler, Kristine | 1984 | Squires | |
| Prevost, Dana | 1984 | Dunne | |
| Raftery, Peter | 1984 | Fischer | |
| Taylor, Gary | 1984 | Squires | |
| Webb, James | 1984 | Fischer | |
| Woods, Madeline | 1984 | Fischer | |
| Yaldezian, John | 1984 | Fritsche | |
| Hickey, Edward | 1985 | Simila | |
| Parker, Jonathan | 1985 | Squires | |
| Unruh, Mark | 1985 | Dunne | |
| White, David | 1985 | Squires | |
| Kraemer, Susanne | 1986 | Fischer | |
| Roush, Kathleen | 1986 | Fritsche | |
| Thomas, June | 1986 | Weigand | |
| Griffis, Robert | 1987 | Dunne | |
| Liggett, David | 1987 | Collins | |
| Oborne, Juli | 1987 | Fritsche | |
| Trembly, Wonderful | 1987 | Fritsche | |
| Chen, Xunhong | 1988 | Fritsche | |
| Clark, Frederick | 1988 | Fritsche | |
| Manz, Richard | 1988 | Adams | |
| Popelar, Stanley | 1988 | Fritsche | |
| Russell, Perry | 1988 | Fischer | |
| Condon, Michael | 1989 | Fritsche | |
| Daniel, Lori | 1989 | Fritsche | |
| Freitag, George | 1989 | Fritsche | |
| Jiao, Zunsheng | 1989 | Fritsche | |
| Lamb, Richard | 1989 | Squires | |
| Miller, Cynthia | 1989 | Dunne | |
| Ogawa, Craig | 1989 | Fischer | |
| Pitts, Brian | 1989 | Fritsche | |
| Thomas, Garold | 1989 | Fritsche | |
| Yamashiro, Daniel | 1989 | Squires |
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