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Author:

Hummer, Daniel Robert

Title:

Mechanisms of Aqueous Crystallization and Phase Transformation in Titanium Oxide Minerals

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

anatase
rutile
titanium oxide
titanium dioxide
crystallization
precipitation
time-resolved X-ray diffraction
time-resolved small angle X-ray scattering
nanoparticles
phase stability reversal
surface energy
nucleation
crystal growth
hydrolysis
global optimization
kinetic fitting
kinetic modeling

File:

Download Hummer_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Heaney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Daniel Seth

Title:

MICROBIAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF SULFIDIC KARST ECOSYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

biogeography
sulfide oxidation
acidophile
karst
Hydrogen sulfide
Acidithiobacillus

File:

Download Jones_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Macalady, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Brian Dempsey, Committee Member

Author:

Currano, Ellen Diane

Title:

VARIATIONS IN INSECT HERBIVORY ON ANGIOSPERM LEAVES THROUGH THE LATE PALEOCENE AND EARLY EOCENE IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING, USA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
insect herbivory
plant-insect interactions
Bighorn Basin
global warming

File:

Download Thesis_Currano_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Scott W Wing, Committee Member
Conrad C Labandeira, Committee Member
Russell W Graham, Committee Member
Lee Ann Newsom, Committee Member

Author:

Beal, Emily J

Title:

Geochemical Requirements of the anaerobic oxidation of methane in the Eel River Basin

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

thermal history
Anaerobic Methane Oxidation
early Earth
ferrihydrite
birnessite
sulfate

File:

Download Beal_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Member
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member

Author:

Herman, Ellen K

Title:

Quantitative studies of suspended sediment in karst aquifers

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

sediment
springs
karst
time series

File:

Download ekh_thesis_master_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Blaine White, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

Author:

Hausrath, Elisabeth M.

Title:

Basalt weathering on Earth and on Mars

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

basalt
weathering
Mars
biosignature
Svalbard
astrobiology

File:

Download HausrathThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
David H Eggler, Committee Member
Peter J Heaney, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

Author:

YEH, EN-CHAO

Title:

Structural evolution of slate belts: examples from Tawain and eastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Taiwan
tectonics
thermochronology
inclusion
kinematics
fold

File:

Download PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Derrill Maylon Kerrick, Committee Member

Author:

Moret, Geoffrey John Maxted

Title:

ANNUAL VARIATIONS IN GROUND-WATER TEMPERATURE AS A TRACER OF RIVER-AQUIFER INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

hydrogeology
temperature

File:

Download moretdissertationrevised.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Rudolph Parizek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

Author:

Hayes, Gavin P.

Title:

Integrating Seismological and Tectonic Studies to Constrain Lithospheric Evolution at Complex Plate Boundaries

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

velocity ratio
tectonics
Macquarie Ridge
receiver functions
seismology
Mendocino triple junction
plate reconstructions
dike injection

File:

Download GHayes_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Horgan, Huw Joseph

Title:

GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS OF POLAR ICE SHEETS AND ICE SHELVES

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

seismology
greenland
antarctica
basal melt
grounding line
ice sheet
ice shelf
glaciology
geophyscis
remote sensing

File:

Download horgan.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Committee Member