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Author:

Horisk, Kaitlyn

Title:

Plants, Precipitation, and People in Dhofar, Oman: Dryland Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Paleoecology
climate change
vegetation
Arabia
pastoralism
taxonomic turnover
isotopes
pollen
Agent-based model

File:

Download Horisk_DoctoralDissertation.2024.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Ivory, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joy McCorriston, Special Member
Kate Freeman, Major Field Member

Author:

Jahn, Kalle He

Title:

Physical and chemical controls on subsurface contaminant fate and transport

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

groundwater
contaminant
transport
PFAS
nitrate
vadoze zone
modeling
Living Filter
Oxisol
perfluoroalkyl

File:

Download KJahn_dissertation_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

John Watson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kate Freeman (she/her), Co-Chair of Committee
Roman DiBiase, Major Field Member
Demian Saffer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hyde, Andrew

Title:

Chemical energy sources for Enceladus and early Earth

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

prebiotic chemistry
Enceladus
thioamide
thioformamide

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Christopher House, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kate Freeman, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Outside Unit Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Outside Field Member

Author:

Wood, Clay

Title:

Imaging elastodynamic and hydraulic properties of fractured rock: Exploring effects of dynamic stressing, shearing, fracture aperture, and roughness

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Fracture mechanics
poromechanics
nonlinear elasticity

File:

Download WoodClay_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Co-Chair, Outside Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Major Field Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Deane, Chanel

Title:

Analysis of Seismic Source Characteristics Across A Broad Range Of Spatial Scales

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Geophysics
Seismology
Pennsylvania
Southwest Indian Ridge
South Africa

File:

Download Dissertation_final_cd.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Nyblade, Major Field Member
Charles Ammon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christelle Wauthier, Major Field Member

Author:

Del Vecchio, Joanmarie

Title:

Appalachian pasts, Arctic futures: permafrost landscape response to warming

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

geomorphology
permafrost
periglacial
cosmogenic
radiocarbon
morphometry
Arctic
Alaska
Appalachia
Last Glacial Maximum

File:

Download DelVecchio_dissertation_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Major Field Member
Roman DiBiase, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stephens, Kirsten

Title:

Eyes from the Sky: Using Radar Satellites to Image Surface Displacements in Volcanic Regions

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

InSAR
volcano geodesy
remote sensing
surface displacements
Nicaragua
Natron Basin
geodetic modeling
time-series analysis

File:

Download StephensKirsten_PhDdissertation_final_SU21.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Peter La Femina, Major Field Member
Guido Cervone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christelle Wauthier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bowden, Shelby

Title:

Geochemical Evolution of the Arabian Lithosphere and Genesis of Continental Basalts

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Volcanism
geochemistry
mantle
basalt
isotope
magmatism
harrat
cinder cone
Uwayrid
Ash Shaam
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
petrogenesis
geophysics
xenolith
Red Sea
Dead Sea Fault
metasomatism
Lithospheric drip
delamination
mineral
clinopyroxene
amphibole
phlogopite
carbonatite
olivine
orthopyroxene
geodynamic

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Danny Sykes, Outside Unit Member
Andrew Nyblade, Outside Field Member
Tanya Furman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jesse Reimink, Major Field Member

Author:

Ji, Aoshuang

Title:

The evolution of O2, O3 and CH4 and their interactions in the atmosphere–ocean system during the mid-Proterozoic

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

atmospheric chemistry
ozone layer
methane lifetime
oxygen level
mid-Proterozoic atmosphere

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Raymond Najjar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Macalady, Major Field Member
Matthew Fantle, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eugene Clothiaux, Outside Field Member