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Author:

White-Gaynor, Austin Laurent

Title:

Body and Surface Wave Tomography of West Antarctica and Southern Africa: Implications for Lithospheric Architecture, Tectonic Development, and Geodynamics

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Seismic Tomography
Upper Mantle Seismic Velocity Structure
West Antarctica
Southern Africa

File:

Download White-Gaynor_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Ward Sparrow, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Neely, Alexander

Title:

bedrock fracture spacing controls on hillslope and channel erosion in steep landscapes

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

steep
bedrock fracture
erosion
mountain
river
hillslope
sediment
grain size

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_ABN_7-7_20.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Alexander Dibiase, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jones, Heather Louise

Title:

The recovery of calcareous nannoplankton following the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66.0 million years ago

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geology
geosciences
paleobiology
paleontology
micropaleontology
oceanography
paleoceanography
extinction
evolution
paleoecology
K-Pg
plankton
phytoplankton
calcareous nannoplankton
coccolithophores
morphometrics
fossils

File:

Download Dissertation_final_HLJ.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Bralower, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ma, Lisa

Title:

P-wave Velocity Structure of the Shale Hills Watershed, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

critical zone observatory
critical zone
czo
Susquehanna
Shale Hills
P-wave
velocity structure
shallow subsurface
geophysics
tomography
velocity
2D
two dimensional
seismic refraction
FAST
regolith
sonic logs
boreholes
frost-cracking
dissolution of chlorite
pyrite oxidation

File:

Download LM_ms_thesis_0914.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ajayi, Oluwaseyi Adebola

Title:

Examining the Fidelity of Carbon Isotope Records in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

PETM
DTW
dynamic time warping
CIE
carbon isotope excursion

File:

Download seyi_ajayi_phd_thesis_12-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Crist, Clarissa

Title:

Exploring how diagenetic alteration of marine carbonate sediments is accommodated in heterogeneous assemblages

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

carbonate diagenesis
marine biogeochemistry
carbonate proxy archives

File:

Download CCrist_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Payne, Rebecca

Title:

CO2, O2, and the History of the Greenhouse Effect: Select Problems in the Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere and Climate

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geoscience
climate
paleoclimate
astrobiology
photochemistry
climate modeling
Archean
Phanerozoic
Earth history
Earth climate
geology

File:

Download RCPayne_PhDdissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Kasting, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kasting, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Forgeng, Michael

Title:

Investigating nitrate transport and denitrification in hilly terrain from the scale of a single farm field to a HUC-10 watershed

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Agriculture
hydrology
hydrogeology
nutrient pollution
geochemistry
hydrogeochemistry

File:

Download Forgeng_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan M Duncan, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Kimberly Lau, Committee Member

Author:

Shreedharan, Srisharan

Title:

Frictional mechanics of stable and unstable fault slip: Insights from ultrasonic imaging of experimental fault zones

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Fault mechanics
fault friction
slow slip events
machine learning
asperity stiffness
lab earthquakes

File:

Download Srisharan_Dissertation_V25.01.21.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Garcia, Victor

Title:

Viscous Magma Injection into the Shallow Plumbing System of Telica Volcano, Nicaragua: Evidence from the 2011 and 2015 Eruptions

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

volcanology
telica nicaragua
viscous magma
magmatic plumbing system

File:

Download Garcia_Victor_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Maureen Feineman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member