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Author:

Fox, Allison

Title:

Post-depositional Alteration of Organic Material: Implications for Interpreting Molecular Biosignatures

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Biosignatures
organic matter preservation
carbon isotopes

File:

Download Fox_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Santos, Dorivaldo

Title:

Focused Flow Along Faults and Heat Advection in the Northern Hikurangi Accretionary Prism

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Hikurangi
Numerical Model
Heat Flow
Fluid Flow
Faults

File:

Download Thesis_Santos-converted.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lyons, Shelby

Title:

The Role of Petrogenic Carbon in Cenozoic Climate Events

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoclimate
paleoceanography
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
PETM
geochemistry
thermal maturity
carbon cycle
Cretaceous-Paleogene
K-Pg
mass extinction
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
PAH
hopanoids
biomarkers
organic geochemistry
stable isotopes
alkanes
petroleum
thermal maturation

File:

Download Lyons_Dissertation_2020_final_approval.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Melton, Sierra

Title:

Iceberg Calving and Meltwater Drainage at the Ice-Cliff Terminus of Helheim Glacier, Greenland

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Greenland
Glaciology
Iceberg
Glacier
Meltwater
Glacial Hydrology
Remote Sensing
Satellite Imagery
Climate Change
Iceberg Calving
Helheim Glacier

File:

Download SierraMelton_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Byron Richard Parizek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Leeburn, Jeffrey

Title:

Magma-Faulting Interactions during the June, 2007 East Rift Zone Eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Kilauea
volcano
Coulomb
volcanic stress
decollement
Hawaii
InSAR
offset tracking
remote sensing
volcanic deformation
inversion
geodetic modeling
rift zone
stress changes
neighbourhood algorithm
intrusion
dike

File:

Download jeffleeburn_MSthesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christelle Wauthier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reinthal, Mary

Title:

Utilizing 234U/238U and 87Sr/86Sr to understand the provenance and fate of uranium in Shaver’s Creek, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

radiogenic isotopes
uranium
fertilizer
agronomy
CZO
critical zone
Shale Hills
Cole Farm
hydrogeology

File:

Download Thesis_Reinthal.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Lin Ma, Special Signatory
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wong, Gregory

Title:

Enhanced Evaluation of Martian Habitability in the Past and Present: The Search for Viable Electron Donors

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Mars
Astrobiology
Habitability
Geochemistry
Microbiology
Planetary Science

File:

Download Wong_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kasting, Committee Member
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair