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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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