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Author:

Rodriguez, Laura Elise

Title:

THE REACTIVITY OF NITROGEN HETEROCYCLES IN COMPLEX PREBIOTIC MIXTURES: USING CHEMICAL TRENDS TO EVALUATE PLAUSIBLE STRUCTURES OF PRIMITIVE GENETIC MATERIAL ON EARLY EARTH

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Astrobiology
Origins of life
Nucleobases
RNA World
Pre-RNA
Mass spectrometry
Michael addition

File:

Download Dissertation_Rodriguez_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Outside Member

Author:

Witham, Timothy

Title:

Ultrasonic Monitoring of Laboratory Scale Hydraulic Fracturing

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Fracturing
Fractures
Hydraulic Fracturing

File:

Download TWitham_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris J Marone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member

Author:

Woda, Joshua

Title:

WORKING WITH CITIZEN SCIENTISTS AND HOMEOWNERS IN PENNSYLVANIA TO UNDERSTAND HYDROCARBON-RELATED CONTAMINATION OF WATER RESOURCES

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Shale gas
water quality
methane
hydraulic fracturing
oil and gas
contamination
citizen science

File:

Download Woda_thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Kintner, Jonas

Title:

Relative Seismic Event Location and Size Estimation, Contributions to Earthquake Analysis and Seismic Discrimination at Local Distances

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Geophysics
Seismology
Iran
Caribbean
Pennsylvania
Wyoming

File:

Download JonasKintner-DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles James Ammon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member

Author:

Rizzo, Adriana

Title:

OCEAN ECOSYSTEM TRANSFORMATION CAUSED BY RAPID WARMING AND SEA LEVEL RISE IN THE PLEISTOCENE CARIACO BASIN (MIS 9-7)

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoceanography
coccolithophores
phytoplankton
paleoecology
organic geochemistry
Pleistocene
Climate Change
harmful algae bloom
productivity
sea level
ITCZ
Cariaco Basin
micropaleontology
UK37
nutrients
Emiliania huxleyi
Florisphaera profunda
dinoflagellates
Margalef's Mandala
MIS 8

File:

Download Rizzo_Thesis_PostDefense_tosubmit2.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member

Author:

Harris, Gabriella

Title:

EOCENE FOSSILS OF ARAUCARIA SECT. EUTACTA FROM PATAGONIA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FLORAL TURNOVER DURING THE INITIAL ISOLATION OF SOUTH AMERICA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Araucaria
Araucariaceae
conifers
EECO
Eocene
Laguna del Hunco
Patagonia
rainforest
Río Pichileufú
total evidence phylogeny

File:

Download Rossetto_Harris_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member

Author:

Reinhold, Matthew

Title:

CONSTRAINTS ON EARTH'S THERMAL EVOLUTION FROM THE HEAVY NOBLE GAS CONTENT OF THE MANTLE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Thermal evolution
Subduction
Subduction thermal regime
Earth history
Plate tectonics
Mantle

File:

Download Matthew_Reinhold_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradford James Foley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew James Smye, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

Author:

Stiles, Elena

Title:

PLANT EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY DYNAMICS ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE TRANSITION IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Extinction
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Macrofloras
Recovery
Southern Hemisphere
Patagonia
K-Pg
Paleobotany

File:

Download Thesis_Stiles_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member

Author:

Ji, Aoshuang

Title:

HOW DO THE GAS HYDRATE SATURATION AND HYDRATE MORPHOLOGY CONTROL SEISMIC ATTENUATION: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SOUTH HYDRATE RIDGE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Seismic attenuation; Hydrate saturation; Hydrate morphology; Rock physics modeling

File:

Download MasterThesis_AoshuangJi1111.pdf

Committee Members:

Tieyuan Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stanton, Chloe

Title:

Documentation of novel diatom-associated calcification in a lacustrine whiting event at Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

calcium carbonate
biomineralization
diatom
cyanobacteria
whiting
carbonate muds

File:

Download Stanton_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bressers, Cathleen

Title:

Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northern East African Plateau from P- and S-wave Body-wave Tomography

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

tomography
East African Rift System
AfricaArray
Uganda
Upper Mantle
VanDecar
lithosphere
multi-channel cross correlation
Kenya Rift
East African Plateau

File:

Download Bressers_2019_Thesis_FINAL_rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member

Author:

Carte, Jared L

Title:

Uranium-series Geochemistry in Residual Soils: Examples from Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Uranium
Weathering
Geochemistry
Soils
Soil Uranium

File:

Download Jared_Carte_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Herschel Adams Elliott, Committee Member

Author:

Kenigsberg, Abby

Title:

Elastodynamic and Mechanical Properties of Smectite-Rich Fault Gouge

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

smectite
fault gouge
velocities
fabric
permeability

File:

Download kenigsberg_dissertation_091619.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member
Jacques Riviere, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sclafani, Judith

Title:

Morphological change in response to mass extinction: a case study of Strophomenida (Brachiopoda) at the Late Ordovician

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Late Ordovician mass extinction
recovery
morphometrics
paleoecology
evolutionary history

File:

Download DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark E Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wyatt, Damaris Christine

Title:

Constraints from Monazite Petrochronology on the Assembly of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Lower Crust
Metamorphism
Lower Continental Crust
Monazite
U-Pb Geochronology
Metamorphic Petrology
Tectonics
Trace Element Geochemistry
Thermobarometry
Pseudosection Modeling

File:

Download wyatt_ms_2019____.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew James Smye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yoxtheimer, David

Title:

UTILIZATION OF THE SQUARE ARRAY EARTH RESISTIVITY METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ANISOTROPY IN FRACTURED SEDIMENTARY ROCK

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

earth resistivity
square array
anisotropy
fractured bedrock
karst
hydrogeology
paradox of anisotropy

File:

Download Yoxtheimer_dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Anthony Robert Buda, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Silverhart, Perri

Title:

Land use versus climate controls on hillslope erosion at a farmed headwater catchment in central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

erosion
agricultural erosion
critical zone
czo
cesium-137

File:

Download silverhart_thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Alexander Dibiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Marcon, Virginia Margaret

Title:

THE EFFECT OF LITHOLOGY ON (BIO)GEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING: SANDSTONE TO SERPENTINITE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

biogeochemical weathering
critical zone
Shale Hills
87Sr/86Sr
mineral biosignatures
δ13C
porosity

File:

Download MarconDissertation_Formatted_Nov2019b.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alotaibi, Thamer

Title:

Lithospheric Geodynamics of the Arabian Margin

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Lithospheric geodyanmics
Arabian Margin deformation
Red Sea rifting evolution

File:

Download PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin Patrick Furlong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Member
Rocco Malservisi, Special Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair