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Author:

Higgins, Machel

Title:

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.

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Geodesy
Fault Slip Rate
Strain Partitioning
GPS
InSAR
Trapdoor faulting

File:

Download Machel_Higgins_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Peter La Femina, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Si

Title:

THE FORMATION OF IRON (HYDR)OXIDES IN SURFACE ENVIRONMENTS: A CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND KINETIC

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

hematite
goethite
ferrihydrite
hydrohematite
iron oxides
iron hydroxides
transformation
XRD
X-ray diffraction
synchrotron
neutron
neutron scattering
geochemistry
low temperature
kinetics
crystallographic
surface environment
DFT
First principle study
hydrous hematite
hydrous
deficient
vacancy
mineralogy
iron oxyhydroxides

File:

Download ChenSi2021-Thesis-draft-100121-v7.pdf

Committee Members:

William Burgos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Heaney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Susan Brantley, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Major Field Member

Author:

Clyne, Elisabeth

Title:

Geophysical Investigation of Basal and Hydrologic Conditions in Glaciers and Ice Shelves

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Glaciers
Thwaites Glacier
Ice Shelves
Geophysics
Rhone Glacier
Reflection Seismic
Radar
Ground Penetrating Radar
Basal Conditions
Hydrology
Glacial Hydrology

File:

Download Disstertation_draft3.pdf

Committee Members:

Luke Trusel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Byron Parizek, Major Field Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Alley, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hayworth, Benjamin

Title:

Atmosphere and Climate Evolution on Earth and Earth-like Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

planetary habitability
habitability
early mars
mars
martian climate
limit cycling
carbon cycle
abiogenesis
origin of life
hadean
exoplanets
weathering
space weather

File:

Download Dissertation_wVita.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradford Foley, Major Field Member
William Brune, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher House, Major Field Member
Guillaume Gronoff, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bolton, David

Title:

Characterizing Acoustic Emission Signals Throughout The Laboratory Seismic Cycle: Insights On Seismic Precursors

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Earthquakes
Acoustic Emissions
Laboratory stick-slip experiments
Foreshocks

File:

Download Bolton_DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Jacques Riviere, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Donald Fisher, Major Field Member

Author:

Cleveland, Claire

Title:

Oreodont adaptation, evolution, and extinction in Oligocene-Miocene North America

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

oreodonts
grassland expansion
North America
Cenozoic
Oligocene
Miocene
morphology
ecometrics
browsers
grazers
hypsodonty
cursoriality
Principal Component Analysis
Procrustes Analysis
evolutionary paleoecology
Artiodactyls
Merycoidodonts
Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodontinae
evolution
ecology
paleobiology
trilateration
3D models
adaptation
extinction
extirpation
flora
grass
mammals
Central High Plains
High Plains
climate
seasonality
deciduous
evergreen
frost

File:

Download C_Cleveland_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Russell Graham, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ferland, Troy

Title:

Fire, Climate, and Vegetation in Pleistocene East Africa: Insights from Bulk Organic and Compound Specific Indicators at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

organic geochemistry
PAHs
East Africa
paleoclimate
Olduvai Gorge

File:

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Committee Members:

Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Major Field Member
Kate Freeman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gonzalez Santana, Judit

Title:

Remote Sensing Observations and Modeling of Volcano Flank Instability

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

InSAR
Time-series analysis
Numerical modeling
Volcano deformation
Flank instability
Satellite remote sensing

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Christelle Wauthier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Ye, Haochen

Title:

Application of uncertainty quantification, benchmarking, and model diagnostic tools to inform climate risk assessments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Climate risk
Uncertainty analysis
Sensitivity analysis
Benchmark

File:

Download Dissertation_Haochen_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Murali Haran, Outside Unit & Field Member
Antonia Hadjimichael, Major Field Member
Klaus Keller, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Nicholas, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Homman, Kyle A

Title:

Crustal Structure and Stress Regime of the Appalachian Basin and Surrounding Areas

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Crustal Structure
Receiver Functions
Seismology
Geophysics
Precambrian Structure
Appalachian Basin

File:

Download Homman_CrustalStructureAndStressRegimeAcrosstheAppBasinandSurroundingRegions_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Nyblade, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Major Field Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair