Summer 2021
- Higgins, Machel, (Ph.D.) Geodetic Exploration of the Kinematics and Fault Slip Rates of the Southeastern and Western Caribbean Plate Boundaries and the Caldera Dynamics of the Sierra Negra Volcano
- Clyne, Elisabeth, (Ph.D.) Geophysical Investigation of Basal and Hydrologic Conditions in Glacier and Ice Shelves
- Jahn, Kalle, (Ph.D.) Physical and chemical controls on subsurface contaminant fate and transport
- Del Vecchio, (Ph.D.) Joanmarie, Appalachian pasts, Arctic futures: permafrost landscape response to warming
- Stephens, Kristen (Ph.D.), Eyes from the Sky: Using Radar Satellites to Image Surface Displacements in Volcanic Regions
- Bolton, David (Ph.D.), Characterizing acoustic emission signals throughout the laboratory seismic cycle: Insights on seismic precursors
- Forgeng, Michael (M.S.), Investigating the dominant controls on nitrate transport and denitrification at two scales: from a single cultivated field to a HUC-10 watershed
- Garcia, Victor, (M.S.), Viscous Magma Incursion into the Shallow Plumbing System of Telica Volcano, Nicaragua: Evidence from the 2011 and 2015 Eruption
Fall 2021
- Chen, Si (Ph.D.), The formation of iron (hydr)oxide minerals in surface environments
- Cleveland, Claire (Ph.D.), Oreodont adaptation, evolution, and extinction in Oligocene-Miocene North America
- Irizarry, Kayla (M.S.), The Environmental Origins of Cambrian Rhynchonelliform Brachiopods
- Mundell, Hailey (M.S.), Fluid-rock interaction at sub-arc conditions: A petrological investigation of three eclogite-facies vein systems, Tauern Window, Eastern Alps
- Contreras, Kaelie (M.S.), Shear Wave Velocity Structure of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa from a Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Rayleigh Wave Group Velocities
- Hone, Samuel (M.S.), Seismic observations and velocity inversion from thunderquakes using an underground fiber-optic array
- Cromwell, Copeland (M.S.), Development of the Queen Charlotte Terrace in Response to the Initiation of Transpression Along the Queen Charlotte Fault at the Miocene-Pliocene Boundary
Spring 2022
- Ferland, Troy (Ph.D.), Fire, Climate, and Vegetation in the Pleistocene East Africa: Insights from Bulk Organic and Compound Specific Indicators at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Hayworth, Benjamin (Ph.D.), Atmosphere and Climate Evolution on Earth and Earth-like Planets
- LaFond, Julia (M.S.), Efficient Maintenance and Distribution of the Comprehensive SETI Bibliography on the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- Walker, Jasmine (M.S.), Controls on Paleochannel Form and Scale in a Large Ancient River Network: Triassic Mungaroo Formation (offshore Northwest Australia)
- Chung, Dongyoun (M.S.), Changes in crystal structures of metal oxide/hydroxide minerals during dissolution and heating: An in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction study
Summer 2022
- Carr, Julia (Ph.D.), Rock strength and sediment controls on feedbacks between tectonics and erosion
- McKenzie, Kristen (Ph.D.), Studies of Upper-Plate Deformation at Subduction Zone Plate Boundaries
- Xing, Guangchi (Ph.D.), DECIPHER SEISMIC ATTENUATION: FRACTAL DESCRIPTION, WAVEFIELD MODELING AND Q FULL WAVEFORM INVERSION
- Pippin, James (M.S.), Relative Source Time Functions and Spectral Ratios for the Source Physics Experiment
- Shepherd, Garrett (M.S.), Tropical Temperatures during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Proxy Fidelity in Pennsylvanian to Permian Carbonates of the US Midcontinent Sea, Eastern Kansas
- Leapaldt, Hanna (M.S.), Seasonal lacustrine carbonate early diagenesis via in situ microbial metabolisms in Green Lake, New York
- Hartke, Emma (M.S.), Lipid biomarker records of environmental conditions and habitation during the mid-Neolithic (Dalmatia Coast, Croatia)
- Taylor, Kaitlin (M.S.), Early Triassic Weathering Intensity and Climate Recovery After the end-Permian Extinction
- Aquino, Carl Frederick (M.S.), Greenland Ice Sheet drives sea-level rise differences between model and expert projections
Fall 2022
- Barnes, Benjamin (Ph.D.), The biogeochemical cycling of rare earth elements in the modern and ancient oceans
- Cipar, Jacob (Ph.D.), Thermal evolution of the Rio Grande Rift and Basin and Range lithosphere: a petrochronologic investigation
- Shaughnessy, Andrew (Ph.D.), Weathering Dynamics in Watersheds: Connecting River Chemistry to Subsurface Mineral Distributions
- Lucas, Erica (Ph.D.), Mantle structure and seismicity of Antarctica
- Grosswiler, Kathleen (M.S.), A U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS date (230.964 Ma ± 0.077 Ma) for the Maple Creek Gabbro, Wrangellia Large Igneous Province, Kluane Range, the Yukon
Fall 2019
- Perri Silverhardt (MS) "Land use Versus Climate Controls on Erosion at a Farmed Headwater Catchment in Central Pennsylvania" Adviser: Roman DiBiase
- Cathleen Bressers (MS) "Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northern East African Plateau from P- and S-wave Body-wave Tomography" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
- Damaris Wyatt (MS) "Constraints from Monazite Petrochronology on the Assembly of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone" Adviser: Andrew Smye
- Chloe Stanton (MS) "Documentation of Diatom and Cyanobacteria Associated Calcification in a Lacustrine Whiting Event at Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA" Adviser: Lee Kump
- Aoshuang Ji (MS) "Seismic Attenuation Improves the Understanding of Hydrate Saturation and the gas Hydrate Morphology on the South Hydrate Ridge" Adviser: Tieyuan Zhu
- Abby Kenigsberg (PhD) "Elastic and Mechanical Properties of Smectite-Rich Fault Gouge" Advisers: Demian Saffer and Chris Marone
- David Yoxtheimer (PhD) "Utilization of the Square Array Earth Resistivity Method for Characterizing Anisotropy in Fractured Sedimentary Rock" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
- Judith Sclafani (PhD) "Morphological Diversity in Space and time: A case Study of Strophomenid Brachiopods at the late Ordovician" Adviser: Mark Patzkowsky
- Thamer Alotaibi (PhD) "Lithospheric Geodynamics of The Arabian Margin" Adviser: Kevin Furlong
- Virginia Marcon (PhD) "The Effect of Lithology on (Bio)geochemical Weathering: Sandstone to Serpentinite" Adviser: Susan Brantley
Spring 2020
- Allison Karp (PhD) "The role of fire Ecology in Vegitation Change During the Neogene: New Applications of Molecular and Isotopic Proxies for Vegetation Burning in the Paleorecord" Adviser: Katherine Freeman
- Austin White-Gaynor (PhD) "Body and Surface Wave Tomography of West Antarctica and Southern Africa: Implications for Lithospheric Architecture, Tectonic Development, and Geodynamics" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
- Erica Pitcavage (PhD) "Geochemical Investigations of Continental Rift Magmatism: A case Study in East Africa's Western Rift" Adviser: Tanya Furman
Fall 2018
- Helen Gall (PhD) "A Geochemical Approach to Mantle and Crustal Dynamics in Central Anatolia" Adviser: Tanya Furman
- Benjamin Madara (PhD) "Laboratory Studies of Permeability Evolution: Roles of Fracture, Shear, Dynamic Stressing, and Reservoir Rock Properties" Adviser: Chris Marone
- Haley Ramirez (MS) “The Seismic Hazards Posed by Offshore Segments of the Ranong and Khlong Marui Faults” Adviser: Kevin Furlong
- David Soto (MS) “P and S Body Wave Tomography of the Upper Mantle in Central and Eastern West Antarctica” Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
Spring 2019
- Cathleen Bressers (MS) "Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northern East African Plateau from P- and S-wave Body-wave Tomography" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
- Jared Carte (MS) "Explaining the Unexpected Variability of Uranium-Series Activity Ratios in Near Surface Soils, State College, PA” Adviser: Matthew Fantle
- Jonas Kinter (PhD) "An Investigation of Seismological Source Parameterization" Adviser: Charles Ammon
- Matthew Reinhold (MS) "Constraints on Earth's Thermal Evolution from the Heavy Noble Gas Content of the Mantle" Adviser: Brad Foley
- Adrianna Rizzo (MS) "Ocean Ecosystem Transformation During Rapid Warming and Sea Level Rise: Examples from the Pleistocene Cariaco Basin (MIS 9-7)" Adviser: Timothy Bralower
- Gabriella Rossetto Harris (MS) "Fossil Evidence for Patagonian Arucaria Sec. Eutacta and its Implications for Conifer Turnover During the Ecocene Initial Isolation of South Americas" Adviser: Peter Wilf
- Elena Stiles (MS) "Plant Extinction and Recovery Dynamics Across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Transition in Southern South America" Adviser: Peter Wilf
- Timothy Witham (MS) "Ultrasonic Monitoring od Laboratory-Scale Hydraulic Fracturing" Adviser: Chris Marone
- Joshua Woda (MS) "Using Citizen Sciences, Stream Methane and a Localized Case Study to locate and Understand Hydrocarbon Related Contaminant Sources in Pennsylvania" Adviser: Susan Brantley