2000-2009

Semester Year Last Name First Name Degree Advisor Thesis
 
2000
 Burkett Peter G PhD
 
2000
 Burkett Peter G. MS Richard Alley "Ice Fabric and Active Seismology: An Investigation and Interpretation of Central West Antarctica"
 
2000
 Campen  Richard Kramer MS Todd Sowers "Measurements of Gasses Trapped in a South American Ice Core:  Paleoatmospheric Composition and Inferred Microbial Activity"
 
2000
 Dias Robert Frederick PhD Katherine Freeman Stable Carbon-Isotope Geochemistry of Low-Molecular Weight Organic Acids in Oil-Associated Waters
 
2000
 Greenan Shannon L. MS Donald M. Fisher "Strain Histories from the Eastern Central Range of Taiwan"
 
2000
 Griggs Erin MS Lee R. Kump "The Fate of Wastewater-Derived Nitrate in the Subsurface of the Florida Keys: Key Colony Beach, Florida"
 
2000
 Guzofski Chris MS Kevin P. Furlong "Thermal-Petrologic Response of the Northern California Crust to Triple Junction Migration"
 
2000
 Hotinkski  Roberta PhD Lee R. Kump "Life's Influence on the Sedimentary Record: The Interplay of Ocean Circulation, Chemistry, and the Biological Pump"
 
2000
 Jubenville       Jennifer Joy MS Todd Sowers "A 106,000 Year N20 Record from the GISP II Ice Core"
 
2000
 Marshall  Jeffrey PhD Donald M. Fisher / Thomas W. Gardner Active Tectonics and Quaternary Landscape Evolution Across the Western Panama Block, Costa Rica, Central America
 
2000
 Matlack  Erin Margaret MS Michael Arthur "Spatial and Temporal Variability in Methane Flux from a Temperate Salt Marsh: Chincoteague Bay, VA"
 
2000
 Mellott  Nathan P. MS Susan L. Brantley "Evolution of Surface Roughness with Aqueous Corrosion of Alkali and Alkaline-Earth Aluminosilicate Minerals and Glasses"
 
2000
 O'Driscoll  Michael Anthony MS Richard Parizek "Methods for Determining Wetland Recharge Sources in the Vicinity of a Wasterwater Irrigation Site"
 
2000
 Olszewski Thomas PhD Mark E. Patzkowsky Testing for a Relationship between Paleocommunity Recurrence and Taxonomic Turnover Using a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework
 
2000
 Parizek  Byron R. MS Richard B. Alley "Thermomechanical Flowline Model For Studying the Interactions between Ice Sheets and the Global Climate System"
 
2000
 Scanlin Michael A. PhD Terry Engelder A New Tectonic Model for the Appalachian Plateau Detachment Sheet of Southwestern Pennsylvania

 

Semester
Year
Last Name First Name Degree Advisor Thesis
 
2001
 Abbado Dimitri MS Rudy L. Slingerland "The Origin of Anastomosis in the Upper Columbia River, British Columbia, Canada"
 
2001
 Alfano Mary Jo MS Eric Barron "Modeling European Vegetation and Permafrost during Oxygen Isotope Stage Three"
 
2001
 Altamura Robert PhD David P. Gold "Geology of the Lantern Hill Silicified Fault Zone Near North Stonington, Connecticut, with Integrated Geochemistry and Geochronology"
 
2001
 Foland Melinda MS
 
2001
 Guynn Robin Lee MS Susan L. Brantley "Fe Release and Isotopic Fractionation During Dissolution of Solid Substrates in the Presence of Soil Bacteria and Organic Ligands"
 
2001
 Kaleta Nathan MS Peter B. Flemings "Time-Lapse (4D) Seismic Investigation of the 13 and TA2 Sands, Kilauea Field, Green Canyon Block 6, Gulf of Mexico"
 
2001
 Keohane Meghan E MS Charles A. Langston "Mapping the Subsurface Structure of the Tecopa Basin, California, Using Gravity and Magnetic Data"
 
2001
 Lane Jennifer MS Roger J. Cuffey "Phyllolepids from Red Hill (Placodermi, Devonian, Pennsylvania)"
 
2001
 Moran Mark L. PhD Roy Greenfield "Imaging and Modeling of Ground Penetrating Radar Array Data with Application to the Gulkana Glacier, Alaska "
 
2001
 Nemitz Jennifer MS Richard Parizek "Nitrate Removal Efficiencies: Overland Flow Versus Wetland systems Receiving Secondary Sewage Effluent at Penn State's Living Filter Project"
 
2001
 Ono Shuhei PhD Hiroshi Ohmoto "Detrital Uraninite and the Early Earth's Atmosphere: SIMS Analyses of Uraninite in the Elliot Lake District and the Dissolution Kinetics of Natural Uraninite"
 
2001
 Parizek Heather MS Charles a. Langston "Upper Mantle Anisotropy and the SKS Receiver Function"
 
2001
 Pavlov Alexander PhD James F. Kasting "Photochemistry and Climate on the Archean Earth"
 
2001
 Pratt Beth A. MS Douglas Burbank "Landscape Disequilibrium on 1,000 - 10,000 Year Scales Marsyandi River, Nepal, Central Himalaya"
 
2001
 Swanson Alastair MS Peter B. Flemings "Imaging Drainage of Turbidite Reservoirs through Time-Lapse Seismic Analysis at Bullwinkle, Green Canyon Block 65, Offshore Gulf of Mexico"
 
2001
 Turner Benjamin F. PhD Susan L. Brantley "Effect of Temperature and Climate on Chemical Weathering in Two Contrasting High-Rainfall Mountainous Catchments"

 

Semester
Year
Last Name First Name Degree Advisor Thesis
 
2002
 Comisky Joseph MS Peter B. Flemings "Petrophysical Analysis and Geologic Model for the Bullwinkle J Sands with Implications for Time-Lapse Reservoir Monitoring, Green Canyon Block 65, Offshore Louisiana"
 
2002
 Clarke Amanda Bachtell PhD Barry Voight "Multi-Phase Fluid Dynamics of Pyroclastic Phenomena"
 
2002
 Foland Melinda Jean MS Katherine H. Freeman "Investigation of Ecosystem Response to Environmental Changes through Biomarker and Stable Isotope Analysis"
 
2002
 Formento-Trigilio Merri Lisa PhD Rudy L. Slingerland "A Conceptual Model of Strath Terrace Formation"
 
2002
 Herman Ellen Katherine MS Lee R. Kump / William B. White "Numerical Models of Ancient and Modern Microbial Mats"
 
2002
 Knight Kelly M. MS Tanya Furman "Tertiary Chemical Structure of the Afar Mantle Plume: Evidence From Primitive Mafic Lavas from Turkana, N. Kenya"
 
2002
 Krug Andrew Zachary NS Mark E. Patzkowsky "The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction and Early Silurian Recovery: Comparison Between Laurentian and Global Diversity"
 
2002
 Lewicki Jennifer Lynn PhD Susan L. Brandley "Soil Carbon Dioxide Flow Associated with the San Andreas and Calaveras Faults, California"
 
2002
 Lupa Jacek Andrzej MS Peter B. Flemings "Geopressure and Flow Focusing on the Slope of the Fulf of Mexico"
 
2002
 Malservisi Rocco PhD Kevin Furlong "Numerical Models of the Dynamics of Lithosphereic Deformation at Complex Plate Boundaries"
 
2002
 Rodenbaugh Amy Lynne MS Todd A. Sowers "The Stable Isotopic Composition of Nitrous Oxide over the Last Century, Derived from South Pole Firn Air, as a Prozy for the Changing Nitrous Oxide Budget"
 
2002
 Rogers Christie Marie MS Terry Engelder "Kinematic Implications and Dynamic Analysis of Regularly Spaced Joint Zones of the Navajo Sandstone, Zion National Park, Utah"
 
2002
 Rooney Tyrone O'Brien MS Richard R. Parizek "Hydrogeological, Three Dimensional, Numerical Flow Modelling of the Dublin Port Tunnel and Region"
 
2002
 Sak Peter Benjamin PhD Donald M. Fisher "Active Tetonics and Landscape Evolution Inboard of Subducting Seafloor Roughness: An Investigation across the Costa Rican Fore Arc, Central America"
 
2002
 Schneider Christopher MS Kevin Furlong "Geodynamic Setting of the Explorer Plate - Results from Gravity Modeling"
 
2002
 Vesper Dorothy Jean PhD William B. White "Transport and Storage of Trace Metals in a Karst Aquifer: An Example from Fort Campbell, Kentucky"
 
2002
 Watanabe Yumiko PhD Hiroshi Ohmoto "The Late Archean Biosphere: Implications from Organic and Inorganic Geochemistry of Shales and Palesols"
 
2002
 Werner Cynthia Anne PhD Susan L. Brandley "CO2 Emissions in Yellowstone, USA, and Solfatara Volcano, Italy: Use of Eddy Covariance and Mass Flux Modeling"
 
2002
 Whitlock Jaime MS Kevin Furlong "Evidence of a Mantle Wedge Source for Slab Window Volcanism in the Northern California Coast Ranges"
 
2002
 Yamaguchi Kosei PhD Hiroshi Ohmoto "Geochemistry of Archean-Paleoproterozoic Black Shales: The Early Evolution of the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Biosphere"

 

Semester
Year
Last Name First Name Degree Advisor Thesis
FALL
2003
 Arias Eliana Y. MS Charles J. Ammon "Short Period Surface-Wave Tomography Beneath the Central and Eastern Tibetan Plateau"
SUMMER
2003
 Batra Persaram Olitsky PhD Eric J. Barron "An Assessment of Interactively Coupled Paleoclimate-Vegetation Models"
SPRING
2003
 Carpenter Susan Jean PhD Stephen J. Mackwell "The Kinetics of Hydrogen Diffusion in Single Crystal Orthopyroxene"
SPRING
2003
 Das Sarah Borsody PhD Richard B. Alley "West Antarctic Ice Sheet Surface Melting and Holocene Climate Variability"
FALL
2003
 Doust Roeland Pieter MS Tanya Furman "Volcanis Hazard Assessment Gunung Agung, Ball, Indonesia"
SPRING
2003
 Dugan Brandon Eric PhD Peter B. Flemings "Hydrodynamics of the US Mid-Atlantic Continental Slope, Offshore New Jersey"
FALL
2003
 Dugda Mulugeta Tuji MS Andrew A. Nyblade "Crustal Structure in Ethiopia and Kenya from Receiver Functional Analysis"
SUMMER
2003
 Ennyu Atsuhito PhD Michael A. Arthur "Middle Miocene Climate Evolution in the Pacific Realm"
FALL
2003
 Hurtgen Matthew Thomas PhD Michael A. Arthur "Neoproterozoic Sulfur Isotopes, Snowball Earth Events and the Evolution of Microbial Sulfur Species"
FALL
2003
 Justh Hilary Lynne MS James F. Kasting "The CH4 Greenhouse and Anti-Greenhouse Effect on Early Mars"
FALL
2003
 Lee Tin-Wai MS Peter B. Flemings "Time-Lapse Impedance Inversion at Popeye Field, Offshore Gulf of Mexico"
FALL
2003
 Loop Caroline Marie PhD William B. White / Barry E. Scheetz "Aqueous and Precipitate Chemistry of Coal Mine Drainage Water in Alkalin Environments"
SUMMER
2003
 McRowe Kenneth Arthur MS Katherine H. Freeman "Carbon Isotope Discrimination in Marine Diatom Species"
SPRING
2003
 Moreland Michael Andrew MS Lee R. Kump "Biogeochemical Speciation of Dissolved Copper within Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, New York"
FALL
2003
 Parizek Byron Richard PhD Richard B. Alley "Modeling the West Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets: New Dynamic, Thermodynamic, and Isostatic Insights"
SUMMER
2003
 Reusch David Bradshaw PhD Richard B. Alley "Nonlinear Paleoclimatology: Reconstructions in West Antarctica"
SPRING
2003
 Savalli Laura Marie MS Terry Engelder "Mechanisms Controlling Rupture Front Geometries During Joint Propagation in Layered Clastic Sediments"
FALL
2003
 Seldon Benjamin John MS Peter B. Flemings "Reservoir Pressure and Sea Floor Venting: Predicting Trap Integrity in a Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Turbidite Minibasin"
FALL
2003
 Strickland Beth Yuvancic MS Peter B. Flemings "Integrated Time-Lapse Seismic Analysis of the Two G-Sand Facies, Popeye Field, Offshore Gulf of Mexico"
FALL
2003
 Winberry Jeremy Paul MS Sridhar Anandakrishnan "Seismicity and Structure of West Antarctica Rift System"

 

Semester
Year
Last Name First Name Degree Advisor Thesis
FALL
2004
 Anthony Jennifer Lynn MS Chris J. Marone "A Laboratory Study of Frictional Strength and Stability of Granular Fault Gouge"
SPRING
2004
 Ault Amanda Lynn MS Douglas W. Burbank "Landscape Evolution in the Rio Grande Rift"
FALL
2004
 Bazilevskaya Ekaterina Anatolevna MS Hiroshi Ohmoto "Ferric Hydroxide Formation in Silica-Rich Solutions"
SPRING
2004
 Dupont Todd Keith PhD Richard B. Alley "Abrupt Changes in Ice Shelves and Ice Streams: Model Studies"
SPRING
2004
 Eigenbrode Jennifer Lynn PhD Katherine H. Freeman "Late Archean Microbial Ecology: An Integration of Molecular, Isotropic and Lithologic Studies"
SUMMER
2004
 Gans Christine Rachel MS Kevin P. Furlong "Investigations of Strike-Slip Plate Boundaries: Numerical Modeling of Creeping Faults in Central California and Spatial and Temporal Slip Distribution in Southern California"
SPRING
2004
 Hermann Achim Dirk PhD Mark E. Patzkowsky "Late Ordovician Ocean-Climate System and Paleobiogeography"
SUMMER
2004
 Hidayat Dannie PhD Barry Voight "Source Mechanisms of Very-Long-Period Signals at Merapi Volcano, Indonesia, and Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, B.W.I."
SUMMER
2004
 Hong Tiancong MS Chris J. Marone "Effects of Variable Normal Stress on Shear Strength and Stability of Granular Fault Gouge"
SUMMER
2004
 Janssen Aaron MS Peter B. Flemings "Acquisition Azimuth Effects on Seismic Repeatability, and Implications for Seismic Reservoir Monitoring: A Case Study from the Bullwinkle Field, Green Canyon Block 65, Offshore Louisiana"
FALL
2004
 LeVay Brian James MS Derrill M. Kerrick "Experimental Constraints on Pelite Melting in Subduction Zones: A Novel Approach Using High Pressure Metapelites"
FALL
2004
 Lock Jane Margaret MS Peter Deines "Neogene Landscape Evolution of the Northern California Coast Ranges: Evidence for Mendocino Triple Junction Tectonics"
SUMMER
2004
 Montandon Laure Marie MS Shelton S. Alexander "Use of Remote Sensing with Ground Truth and GIS to Study the Hydrological Setting of the Hierakonpolis Archeological Site in Egypt"
SPRING
2004
 Pedentchouk Nikolai PhD Katherine H. Freeman "Lacustrine Paleoenvironments from Stable Isotopes of Hydrogen and Carbon in Lipids"
SUMMER
2004
 Sevilla Winchelle Ian G. MS Charles J. Ammon "Earthquake Rupture Processes Along the Philippine Trench"
SUMMER
2004
 Uzcategui Redescal Santiago PhD Terry Engelder "The Role of Flexure in Joint Development during Drape Folding and Oroclinal Bending"
FALL
2004
 Whitaker Amy Elizabeth PhD Terry Engelder "Analysis of Joint Set Dispersion as an Indicator of Stress Field Variability in Three Structural Provinces of the Ouachita Orogenic Belt, Oklahoma and Arkansas"
SPRING
2004
 Yeh En-Chao PhD Donald M. Fisher "Structural Evolution of Slate Belts: Examples from Taiwan and Eastern Pennsylvania"

 

Semester
Year
Last Name First Name Degree Advisor Thesis
SPRING
2005
 Junium Christopher Kendall MS Michael A. Arthur "Organic Matter Diagenesis and Nitrogen Isotopes in Cretaceous, Cenomanian/Turonian Black Shales"
SPRING
2005
 Leppold Daniel Ward MS Michael A. Arthur "Geochemistry of Albian (Early Cretaceous) Shallow-Water Carbonates of the Caribbean Province"
SPRING
2005
 Peters Leo Everett MS Sridhar Anandakrishnan "Sublacial Geology and Its Influence on Streaming Ice Flow: Observations and Interpretations along Two West Antarctic Ice Streams"