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Dissertations from 2024

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A History of Fire and Ice on Mars: Using Remote Sensing to Examine the Chemical Origins of Volcanism, Liquid Water, and Regolith-Ice on Mars, Augustus Bates

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Petrogenesis of Key Archean Metamorphic Lithologies from the Eastern Beartooth Mountains, Montana, USA, Larry Fisher Cliff-Tuttle

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TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS FROM DENSE NODAL SEISMIC ARRAY TO IDENTIFY BASIN STRUCTURE IN URBAN LOS ANGELES: SAN BERNARDINO, CHINO AND SAN GABRIEL BASINS, Ritu Ghose

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Unpinning of the Ross Ice Shelf from Ross Bank, in Ross Sea of Antarctica, Ben R. Lindsey

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Palynostratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Paleocene-Eocene Alaminos Canyon Section, Gulf of Mexico, Tiffany A. Nordstrom

Theses from 2023

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Palynology of the Gulf of Mexico Stones Field Well WR 508 #1: New Biostratigraphic and Environmental Data of a Deepwater Wilcox Group, Barry G. Boler

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GROUNDING LINE AND CALVING FRONT RETREAT IN GLOMAR CHALLENGER BASIN AND PENNELL TROUGH OF ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA RECONSTRUCTED FROM DIATOM ABUNDANCES AND ASSEMBLAGES, Jaren Bradford

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Sedimentary Processes and Instability on the Mississippi River Delta Front Near the Wreck of the SS Virginia, Nathan Figueredo

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ROSS SEA OCEAN-TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION AND MARINE RADIOCARBON RESERVOIR EFFECT CALIBRATION FROM MODERN AND PRE-MODERN SCLERACTINIA, Colby Knight

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Seasonal Seepage Fluid Flow and Pressure Detection Beneath Flood Protection Levees in the Lower Mississippi River Valley Using Non-Invasive Geophysical Methods, Daniel Locci

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SNOW DISTRIBUTION AND INFLUENCE IN TAYLOR VALLEY, ANTARCTICA, USING REMOTE SENSING, Katherine McNulty, Peter Doran, Mark Salvatore, and Suniti Karunatillake

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GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERGROUND STORAGE IN SALT DOMES DURING THE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION, Joses B. Omojola

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COLLAPSE OF THE BINDSCHADLER ICE STREAM AT 11.5 CAL KYR BP VIA MARINE ICE CLIFF INSTABILITY, Anna Sivils

Dissertations from 2022

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Seismic Inversion and Modeling for Improving Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Rasheed Ajala

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Quantitative Analysis of the Maximum Rate and Minimum Duration for a 200 km Stepwise Retreat of the Bindschadler Ice Stream at ~11.5 cal kyr BP, Matthew E Kratochvil

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Archean Metamorphosed Ultramafic Rocks and Chromitites from the Beartooth Mountains, Montana, USA: Insights into Mantle Geochemistry and Tectonics, Rachel M. Gnieski

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Connections Between Interglacial Variation and Lithological Variability within Midland Basin Permian Shale Rocks in Martin County, Texas, Helen Rice Hammon

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Connections between Interglacial Variation and Lithological Variability within Midland Basin Permian Shale Rocks in Martin County, Texas, Helen Rice Hammon

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Spatial Variations in the Stress Field Near the Wilmington Blind-Thrust, an Earthquake Source Beneath Los Angeles, California, Justin Kain

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Sediment Buffering and Recycling on an Annual to Centennial Scale Along the Mississippi River, Nikki E. Neubeck

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Hydrological Connectivity Between a Geographically Isolated Wetland and the Upper Floridan Aquifer, Nicholas Priehs

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GPS Observations of Subsidence in South Louisiana over Seasonal and Sub-seasonal Timescales Associated with Hydrologic Loading, Nicholas Schuler

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Sedimentology, Elevation Dynamics, and Flood Risks of the Fluvial-to-Tidal Transition Zone in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh, Leslie Anne Valentine

Theses from 2021

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Investigating the impact of meteoric diagenesis on the geochemistry of carbonate eolianites, Eleuthera and Water Cay, the Bahamas, Graham S. Bonnot

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Causes and Characteristics of Electrical Resistivity Variability in Shallow (<4 >m) Soils in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, William S. Gutterman

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Application of Compound-specific Stable Isotopes and Molecular Biomarkers to Paleoclimatic and Paleoecological Reconstructions, Mingqiu Hou

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Palynology and Paleoclimatology of the Chicxulub Impact Crater in the Early Paleogene, Vann Smith

Dissertations from 2020

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The Long-Term Outlook of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Bifurcation: A Convergence of Engineering, Economics, and Deltaic Evolution, Thomas Mitchell Andrus

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Seasonal Infilling And Sedimentary Characteristics In Sandy Versus Muddy Coastal Borrow Areas On The Louisiana Continental Shelf, USA, Matthew Barley

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Detrital Zircon (U-Th)/He Thermochronology in the Greater Caucasus: Implications for Thermal and Tectonic History Along-Strike, Kate Gutterman

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U/Pb Zircon Ages of Felsic Veins in the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Idaho, U.S.A: Implications for Magmatism and Vein Source, Kyle Tollefson

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Response of Transient Base Level Signals to Erodibility Contrasts in Bedrock Streams, Joshua A. Wolpert

Dissertations from 2019

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Coupled Landscape and Channel Dynamics Across the Ganges-Brahmaputra Tidal-Fluvial Continuum, Southwest Bangladesh, Edwin Jefferson Bomer IV

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The Modern Mississippi: Provenance Indicators and Human Impact, Brittney Anne Gregory

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Reinterpreting the Tectonic Model of the Southern Part of the Taconic Orogeny through a Provenance Study of Late Ordovician Sandstones, Juan Carlos Guerrero

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Multicomponent Model of Crustal Stress at Cajon Pass, Southern California with Implications for Stress Field Heterogeneity, Elliott Conley Helgans

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Exploring Planetary Surfaces with Remote Sensing, Donald R. Hood

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Structure Beneath the Northern Los Angeles Basins from Teleseismic Receiver Functions, Guibao Liu

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Exploring Geochemical Proxies for Identifying Cryptic Sequence Boundaries in the Geologic Past Using Modern Bahamian Analogues, Evan B. Magette

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Role of Glaciers in Halting Syrtis Major Lava Flows to Preserve and Divert a Fluvial System, Connor Matherne

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Suspended Sediment Transport Revealed by Patterns in Turbidity and Electrical Conductivity Curves in Three Cave Systems in Missouri, USA., Caroline M. Mierzejewski

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Spatiotemporal Impact of Snow on Underwater Photosynthetically Active Radiation in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, Madeline E. Myers

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Deltaic Wetland Dynamics from Seasonal to Centennial Scales, Giancarlo A. Restreppo

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Rare Earth Geochemistry of Apatitic Fossils from the Middle-Upper Ordovician Southern Margin of Laurentia, Rafael Adrian Villanueva

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Sandy Dredge Pit Sedimentation – Characteristics and Processes in Caminada Borrow Area, Ship Shoal, Louisiana Shelf, USA, Zehao Xue

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Neogene Chemical Weathering and Provenance Records of the Western Himalaya Preserved in the Arabian Sea, Peng Zhou

Theses from 2018

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Reconstruction of Antarctic Cenozoic Paleoenvironments Through Palynological Analysis of Subglacial Lake and Ice Stream Sediments, Patrick Baudoin

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SH-Wave Seismic Reflection Imaging and Inversion: An Analysis of Architectural and Physical Properties of a Near-Surface Point-Bar, Nathan William Benton

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Vertical Sediment Accretion in Jamaica Bay Wetlands, New York, Ryan Christopher Clarke

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A Regional Survey of River-plume Sedimentation on the Mississippi River Delta Front, Andrew J. Courtois

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The Sedimentology and Origins of a Giant Mass Transport Complex: The Nataraja Slide, Arabian Sea, Sarah Dailey

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Topographic Control on Post-LGM Groundings of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Whales Deep Basin, Eastern Ross Sea, Matthew Danielson

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Joint Geodetic and Seismic Analysis of Englacial and Subglacial Hydraulic Effects on Surface Crevassing near a Seasonal, Glacier-Dammed Lake on Gornergletscher, Switzerland, Louis Stephen Garcia

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Stratigraphic Reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene Bald Cypress Forest Discovered on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf, Suyapa Michell Gonzalez Rodriguez

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Signal Propagation, Provenance, and Climate Records in the Indus Submarine Canyon since the Last Deglacial, Yuting Li

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Groundwater and Thermal Legacy of a Large Paleolake in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica as Evidenced by Airborne Electromagnetic and Sedimentological Techniques, Krista Falcon Myers

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Analysis of Fluvial Scroll Bar Development With Surface Wave Inversion: False River, Louisiana, Blake Odom

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New Borehole Breakout Derived Stress Constraints and their Implications for Stress Heterogeneity Near High Risk Fault Systems in the Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California, Edward Harris Pritchard

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Spatial Trends and Variability of Marsh Accretion Rates in Barataria Basin, Louisiana, USA Using 210Pb and 137Cs Radiochemistry, Samuel Bryant Shrull

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An Evaluation of Modified Bed Load Sediment Transport Equations for Enhanced Sediment Transport Quantification in Steep Mountain Streams – Case Study Little Fountain Creek, Colorado Springs, Co., James Emerson Smith IV

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Investigating Trace Metal Sequestration of Reducing Environments in Modern and Ancient Settings, Adam Charles Turner

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Investigating Uranium incorporation in modern carbonates by sequential extraction: Applied to the Permian - Triassic boundary in Lung Cam, Vietnam, Christopher Michael Wray

Theses from 2017

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Boulder Distribution Analysis of Impact Craters in the Tharsis Region and Elysium Planitia, Mars, Nicole Button

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When, How, and Why Did the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat in the Ross Sea Since the Last Glacial Maximum Using Foraminiferal And Porewater Geochemistry, Matthew DeCesare

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A Palynostratigraphic Investigation of Holocene Coastal Texas Bays: Implications for Future Coastal Change, Shannon Marie Ferguson

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Palynostratigraphy and Environmental Implication of Organic-walled Microfossils Recovered from IODP Site U1435, Mitchell Clifford Gregory

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Spatial Variability of the Depth to the Magma Reservoir Beneath the Yellowstone Caldera Inferred from Observations of Seiche Loading Induced Strain, Kevin James Gryger

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Quaternary River Erosion, Provenance, and Climate Variability in the NW Himalaya and Vietnam, Tara Nicole Jonell

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The Relationship between the Timing of Hydrocarbon Generation Between the Bristol Bay Depositional Basin and the Port Moller Area and Southern Portion of the Bristol Bay Basin of the Alaska Peninsula, Claire Rochelle Jones

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Evidence of Subglacial Brine Inflow and Wind-Induced Mixing from High Resolution Temperature Measurements in Lake Bonney, Antarctica, Jade Lawrence

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Paleoenvironmental Variation and Provenance Records from Neogene Deep Sea Sediment of the South China Sea, Chang Liu

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Overbank Deposition of Sand and Mud within Two Point Bars Bound by the Mississippi River Levee System: Implications for Coastal Restoration Sediment Budgets, Christopher Magliolo

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Investigating Core Shale Depositional Environments of Late Pennsylvanian Cyclothems Utilizing Geochemical Proxies to Test the Superestuarine Model, Bryce A. Mathis

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Microseismic Event Characteristics Associated With The Spatial And Temporal Stages of Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Laboratory Experiments, Abigail Arielle Maxwell

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Post-LGM grounding line and calving front translations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Whales Deep paleo-ice-stream trough, eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica, Austin James McGlannan

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Shallow Shear-Wave Seismic Analysis of Point Bar Deposits of False River, Louisiana, Martial James Morrison

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Sediment Infilling of Louisiana Continental-Shelf Dredge Pits: A Record of Sedimentary Processes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Meg Cathlin O'Connor

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In Search of Antarctica's Last Vegetation Refugium Within the McMurdo Dry Valleys, David Rau

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Modelling and Observational Evidence for the Igneous Evolution of the Elysium Volcanic Province on Mars, David Andrew Susko

Dissertations from 2016

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First-Principles Simulations of Structure, Density, and Diffusivity of Silicate and Oxide Melts: Implications for Deep Mantle Magma, Suraj K. Bajgain

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Examining the Holocene Paleoenvironment of Okak Bay, Labrador, Canada using Microfossils and Sedimentary Indicators, Jillian Bambrick Banks

Sedimentation Dynamics and Stratigraphy of Middle Breton Sound Estuary, Southeast Louisiana: Spatiotemporal Evidence for Subdeltaic Evolution, Edwin Jefferson Bomer

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In Situ Geochemistry of Middle Ordovician Dolomites of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Evaluation of the Dorag Model and New Implications for Dolomitizing Fluids, John Michael Callen

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Intracontinental Neotectonics: Case Studies from the Tian Shan Orogen and Kuqa Fold-Thrust Belt, Cindy M. Colón

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Geologic Extremes of the NW Himalaya: Investigations of the Himalayan Ultra-high Pressure and Low Temperature Deformation Histories, Dennis Girard Donaldson

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High-Resolution Correlation Using Geophysical and Geochemical Methods on Three Cambrian Drumian Marine Sedimentary Successions in The House Range Embayment, Western Laurentia, Emad I. Elfar

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Study of Resistivity and Shear Wave Velocity as a Predictive Tool of Sediment Type in Levee Foundation Soils, Louisiana Gulf Coast Levee System, Derek Stephen Goff

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Spatiotemporal Distribution of the Himalayan Leucogranite: Implications for Mountain-building as a Function of Indian Slab Dynamics, Hongcheng Guo

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Theory and Utility of the Three Isotope Fractionation Relationship, Justin Alan Hayles

Plagioclase Corona Around Garnets: Implications of Pressure-Temperature Paths in Aluminous Gneisses, Anna Atasha Hoffmann

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A Geochronological and Stratigraphic Reconstruction of the Middle Barataria Bay Receiving Basin, Joseph Ethan Thomas Hughes

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An Empirical Estimate of Post-LGM Grounding-Event Duration in Eastern Ross Sea: Implications from a Comparison with Constraints from New Radiocarbon Dates, Benjamin Krogmeier

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Using Wavelet Transforms to Detect Small-Scale Features within the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Louisiana & Mississippi, Samiha Naseem

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Particulate inorganic carbon flux and sediment transport dynamics in karst: Significance to landscape evolution and the carbon cycle., Randall Lee Paylor

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Metamorphic Conditions of Aluminous Gneisses in the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Idaho, USA: Implications for the Middle-Lower Crust, Eleanor Wesley-Anne Smith

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Using Tourmaline As An Indicator Of Provenance: Development And Application Of A Statistical Approach Using Random Forests, Erin Lael Walden

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Source Mechanism Analysis of Single-Well Microseismic Data Using Full-Wavefield Moment Tensor Inversion, Trudy Watkins

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Archean Geodynamic Conditions Using P-T Constraints of the East Pilbara Craton TTGs, Andrew Kody Webb

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Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of Phosphate from Igneous Rock Weathering Profiles, Ziran Wei

Comparing the Geology of the Pilbara and Isua Archean Terranes: Viability of Vertical Tectonics in the Eoarchean, Jiawei Zuo