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Author:

Hayworth, Benjamin

Title:

Atmosphere and Climate Evolution on Earth and Earth-like Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

planetary habitability
habitability
early mars
mars
martian climate
limit cycling
carbon cycle
abiogenesis
origin of life
hadean
exoplanets
weathering
space weather

File:

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Committee Members:

Bradford Foley, Major Field Member
William Brune, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher House, Major Field Member
Guillaume Gronoff, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ferland, Troy

Title:

Fire, Climate, and Vegetation in Pleistocene East Africa: Insights from Bulk Organic and Compound Specific Indicators at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

organic geochemistry
PAHs
East Africa
paleoclimate
Olduvai Gorge

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Committee Members:

Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Major Field Member
Kate Freeman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mckenzie, Kirsty

Title:

Studies of Upper-Plate Deformation at Subduction Zone Plate Boundaries

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Geodynamics
Active Tectonics
Subduction Zones
Upper-plate Deformation
GPS
Plate Tectonics

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Kevin Furlong, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Diane Henderson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Donald Fisher, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Eric Kirby, Special Member

Author:

Lucas, Erica

Title:

Mantle Structure and Seismicity of Antarctica

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

seismology
tectonics
geophysics
Antarctica
mantle

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Committee Members:

Andrew Nyblade, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Major Field Member
Victor Sparrow, Outside Unit & Field Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cipar, Jacob

Title:

Thermal evolution of the Rio Grande Rift and Basin and Range lithosphere: a petrochronologic investigation

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Geology
Geosciences
petrology
metamorphic petrology
tectonics
rio grande rift
geochronology
petrochronology
zircon
u-pb

File:

Download Cipar_Jacob_Dissertation_resubmit_11292022.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Nyblade, Major Field Member
Andrew Smye, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jesse Reimink, Major Field Member

Author:

Shaughnessy, Andrew

Title:

Weathering Dynamics in Watersheds: Connecting River Chemistry to Subsurface Mineral Distributions

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Weathering
Watersheds Science
Hydrology
Geochemistry
Pyrite
Data Science

File:

Download Shaughnessy_Dissertation_2022_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Susan Brantley, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Fantle, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Major Field Member
Shujie Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Carr, Julia

Title:

Rock strength and sediment controls on bedrock river incision in the Taiwan Central Range

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

geomorphology
river
channel width
boulder

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Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Major Field Member
Donald Fisher, Major Field Member
Roman DiBiase, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xing, Guangchi

Title:

Deciphering seismic attenuation: fractal description, wavefield modeling and Q full waveform inversion

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

seismic attenuation
rock physics
fractal
forward modeling
wave propagation
full waveform inversion
critical zone

File:

Download GX_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Nyblade, Major Field Member

Author:

Barnes, Benjamin

Title:

The Biogeochemical Cycling of Rare Earth Elements in the Modern and Ancient Oceans

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

biogeochemistry
rare earth elements
paleoceanography
paleoclimate
carbonate chemistry

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Committee Members:

Miquela Ingalls, Major Field Member
Raymond Najjar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lee Kump, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Fantle, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair