Dissertations from 2015
Magnetic Susceptibility of North American Ordovician Epicontinental Seas: Spatial Variability and Sandbian-Katian Boundary Correlation, Thomas J. Schramm
Rare Earth Element Patterns in Conodont Apatite from the Upper Ordovician: Testing Enrichment Sources and Possible Oceanographic Changes, Cody Christian Schulte
Seismic Velocity Characteristics of Partially Saturated Unconsolidated Sediments, Jie Shen
Holocene Palynology of the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea: Using Modern Palynomorph Distribution to Better Constrain Paleoenvironmental Changes, Marie Louise Thomas
Theses from 2014
Palynology of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron-Notom Sandstone, Utah, Isil Akyuz
Fault Kinematics Along the Coastal Plain of South Louisiana: Implications for Tectono-Climatic-Induced Deformation Along a Passive Continental Margin, Ali A. Al Dhamen
Channel-levee complexes and sediment flux of the upper Indus Fan, Taylor Landry Berlin
Preliminary Investigation of the Geometry and Kinematics of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture at the Basu Metamorphic Massif, SE Tibet, Chase Michael Billeaudeau
Changes in Climate and Moisture Availability in the Antarctic Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene: Evidence from Palynological and Stable Isotope Geochemical Analyses of the SHALDRIL and ANDRILL Cores, Kathryn Whitney Griener
Untangling Earth System Responses Recorded in Sulfate's Sulfur and Oxygen Isotopes at the Dawn of Multicellular Life and Today, Bryan Alan Killingsworth
Variations in Salinity and Temperature on the Flank of an Offshore Louisiana Salt Structure, Candice M. McCollum
Evaluation of Stromatolites from the 3.4 Ga Kromberg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Corey E. Shircliff
Paleoclimatology and Paleotempestology Study of Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize through Geochemical Proxies, Laura Carolyn Sorey
Theses from 2013
Controls on the composition of saline formation waters from coastal and offshore Louisiana, Marielle Elaine Ausburn
Subsurface stratigraphic architecture of Pleistocene sediments in the greater New Orleans area, James Ayrer
On the long duration of Till sheet construction : a reassessment of how quaternary grounding line translations relate to near-surface seismic-stratigraphy of eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica, Sydney Grace Bowles
Effects of stress and water saturation on seismic velocity and attenuation in near surface sediments, James Michael Crane
High Resolution Tephra and U/Pb Chronology of the 3.33 – 3.26 Ga Mendon Formation, Barberton, Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Nicholas Burns Decker
Analysis of the cyclostratigraphy at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in south-central Oklahoma, Ryan Michael Todd Ellis
Evaluation of thermal insulation by coal beds in the western Arkoma Basin, OK and implications for large scale geothermal resources, Matthew Freeman
The reduction and reoxidation of ceria : a natural abundance oxygen isotope approach, Justin Alan Hayles
Contractional tectonics : the Himalayan orogen and Perdido fold-thrust belt, Dian He
A clay mineral provenance study of the northern Pandora Trough continental margin, Gulf of Papua, Ashley Len Howell
Evaluating quaternary glacial till sheet volume and duration of grounding events using sediment flux calculations in the Eastern basin paleotroughs, Ross Sea, Anarctica, Logan Gregory Kirst
Natural Fracture Characterization in the Haynesville Shale, East Texas: A Core Study, Frank Leslie Morgan
Spatial variations in salinity and temperature around the Bay Marchand salt dome, offshore Louisiana, Laurie Richards
Temporal and spatial variations in the subsurface salinity of Lake Charles, Louisiana : an investigation of saline sources, Alexandria Suding
Theses from 2012
Sources of salinization of the Baton Rouge aquifer system: southeastern Louisiana, Callie Elizabeth Anderson
U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircon in quartzites of the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Sawtooth Range, Idaho, USA, Philip Gerard Bergeron
Mapping of the oil window in the Eagle Ford shale play of southwest Texas using thermal modeling and log overlay analysis, Austin Pourciau Cardneaux
Depositional environments of Upper Meiocene through Pleistocene siliciclastic sediments, Baton Rouge aquifer system, southeastern Louisiana, Elizabeth Laurel Chamberlain
Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility correlations for the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary and the placement of the North American Ochoan Series: Texas (USA) and South China, Matthew Allan Clark
Spatial variation analysis of salinity to determine fluid flow pathways and reservoir compartmentalization in a deepwater Gulf of Mexico field, William Jacob Daugherty
Sediment flux & fate for a large-scale diversion: the 2011 Mississippi River Flood, the Bonnet Carré Spillway, and the implications for coastal restoration in south Louisiana, Jeffrey Bryant Fabre
Evaluation of Pleistocene to Holocene (MIS 5 to 1) climatic changes in southwestern Black Sea: a palynological study of DSDP Site 380, Shannon Ferguson
Longitudinal Assessment of Shifting Microbial Community Composition in Sandy Beaches Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Remediation Efforts, Axita Ajaykumar Gupta
Evaluation of the depositional environment of the Eagle Ford Formation using well log, seismic, and core data in the Hawkville Trough, LaSalle and McMullen counties, south Texas, Zachary Paul Hendershott
Variations in pore water salinities above and below allochthonous salt sheets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: implications for mechanisms of solute transport, Miles Alexander McCammon
The Distribution and Diversity of Functional Gene Pathways Controlling Sulfur Speciation in Lower Kane Cave, Wyoming, Audrey Tarlton Paterson
A seismic attribute study to assess well productivity in the Ninilchik field, Cook Inlet basin, Alaska, Andrew Sampson
Palynostratigraphy of the Umir Formation, Middle Magdalena Valley Basin (MMVB) Colombia, Carlos Enrique Santos
Thermal and pore pressure history of the Haynesville Shale in north Louisiana: a numerical study of hydrocarbon generation, overpressure, and natural hydraulic fractures, William C. Torsch
Theses from 2011
Provenance and origin of Holocene beach ridge and modern beach sands from the Costa de Nayarit, western Mexico, Ruben Abe Cisneros
West Antarctic ice sheet retreat chronology of two middle-shelf grounding-zone wedges in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Lenora Nicole Copeland
Soft sediment relay zones: a high resolution seismic survey Livingston Parish, Louisiana, Erin T. Elliott
Antarctic plant and phytoplankton response to the first phase of the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum at South McMurdo Sound, Lee Foersterling
A palynological and sequence stratigraphic study of Santonian - Maastrichtan strata from the Upper Magdalena basin, Sandra Garzon
Geomicrobiology of Louisiana Coastal Marshes before and after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Chang Liu
Evaluating the duration of post-LGM grounding events in the Glomar Challenger Basin paleotrough, Eastern Basin Antarctica, using sediment flux calculations, Boluwatife Owolana
Stories of the Proterozoic earth: Paleoproterozoic Chuanlinggou arcitarchs and Neoproterozoic ¹⁷O-depleted Barite, Yongbo Peng
Laboratory scale seismic analysis of a spatially variable hydrological surface in unconfined, unconsolidated sand, David E. Smolkin
Dissertations from 2010
Diatom stratigraphy defining ice sheet grounding chronology, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Juan Manuel Chow
New age control on a mid-shelf grounding event in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea, Amy Noelle Cone
Palynological analysis of Tiger and Trinity Shoals, Louisiana continental shelf, Russell Ryan Crouch
Geothermal energy potential of South Bossier Parish, Louisiana, John Adam D'Aquin
Salinity variation as an indicator of fluid flow in the Lower Ellesmerian Sequence, North Slope, Alaska, Jacob Scott DeHamer
The Influences of Microbial Diversity on Carbonate Geochemistry Across a Transition from Fresh to Saline Water in the Edwards Aquifer, Texas, Cassie Jo Gray
Geothermal resource assessment of the Gueydan salt dome and the adjacent southeast Gueydan field, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, Taylor Austin Gray
Using inoceramid bivalve taphonomy as a paleoenvironmental indicator across the Cenomanian/Turonian horizon at the Pueblo, Colorado GSSP, Jacob Frederick Grosskopf
A functional and ontogenetic skull analysis of the extant rhinoceroses and Teleoceras major, an extinct Miocene North American rhinoceros, Mark Daniel Hagge
A Petrophysical Evaluation of Factors That Control Cap Rock Seal Quality, Andrew Tyler Harrison
Taphonomy and sedimentology of two Miocene vertebrate fossil sites on Fort Polk, Louisiana, Julie Lynn Hill
Volcanological and petrogenetic characteristics of komatiites of the 3.3 Ga Saw Mill Complex, Weltevreden Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Matthew Stephen Huber
Miocene fluctuations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the influence of meltwater on the Ross Sea Outer Continental Shelf: seismic-stratigraphic based interpretations, Sean Francis Kerrin
Oxidation of Reduced Sulfur Compounds: A Triple-oxygen-isotope Perspective, Issaku E. Kohl
Origin of Pyrite Nodules At the Top of the Nantuo Diamictites, Southern China, Changjie Liu
Evaluation of microfacies controls on hydrocarbon seal quality, Nchekwube Mbamalu
Metamorphic rocks in the Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho, USA: a window into the Precambrian basement of southwest Laurentia, Kyle Michael Metz
Delineation of a produced water plume in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, Matthew C. Smith
Spatial Variations of Salinity, Temperature and Pressure on the Flank of a Salt Dome, Offshore Louisiana: Implications for Mechanisms of Fluid Flow, Andrew Kevin Steen
Rare earth elements as an investigative tool into the source, age, and ecology of late Miocene to late Pleistocene fossils from the Tunica Hills, Louisiana, Lindsey Theresa Yann
Speciation of heavy metals in disturbed and undisturbed sediments from Atchafalaya Bay, Houma Navigation Canal, and Southwest Pass, Louisiana, Amanda Jo Zimmerman
Theses from 2009
Do laminated sediment-gravity-flow deposits on the Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf record ice sheet grounding events?, Vincent Clyde Adams
Provenance studies of volcanic clasts from the Santa Fe Group, San Luis Basin, Colorado: a guide to tectonic evolution, Corine Kay Armstrong
A geochemical paleoecological analysis of Miocene mammalian mega fauna of Fort Polk, Louisiana, Travis Lamar Atwood
Environmental influences on the mobility and speciation of arsenic in the geothermal waters of El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile, Lindsey R. Johnson
Holocene Evolution and Avulsion History of the Lower Mississippi River, Yazoo Basin, MS, Eric Prokocki
Role of shelf morphology in grounding-line stability: a numerical approach, Rhonika Robinson
A multi-proxy approach to investigating the latest Holocene (~4,500 yrs. BP) vegetational history of Catahoula Lake, Louisiana, Rebecca Ann Tedford
Source(s) of salinity in the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, Stephanie Erin Welch
Miocene herpetofaunas from the central Gulf Coast USA: their paleoecology, biogeography, and biostratigraphy, Michael John Williams
Dissertations from 2008
Dactyls reveal evolutionary patterns in decapod crustaceans, Jeffrey Guy Agnew
Deciphering controls on polyphase intraplate deformation in the Ertomiao region, Lang Shan, north-central China, Michael Blevins
Komatiitic flows of the pioneer ultramafic complex of the 3.3Ga Weltevreden Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: stratigraphy, petrology, and geochemistry, Marc Romain Cooper
Long-term subsidence and compaction rates: a new model for the Michoud area, south Louisiana, Clint H. Edrington