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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:

Download Dissertation_wVita.pdf

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:

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:

Cañas, Caleb

Title:

Characterization of transiting planets and brown dwarfs using near-infrared spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

Exoplanets
Stellar binaries
Brown dwarfs
Transits
Spectroscopy

File:

Download Canas_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rebekah Dawson, Major Field Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Randy McEntaffer, Major Field Member
Eric Ford, Major Field Member
Chad F. Bender, Special Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rebekah Dawson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kanodia, Shubham

Title:

Developing new tools and techniques to probe the M dwarf planet population

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

exoplanets
astronomical instrumentation
m dwarfs
astrostatistics

File:

Download PSU_Thesis_Shubham_Kanodia_modified.pdf

Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Randy McEntaffer, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Major Field Member
Eric Ford, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Frederick Hearty, Major Field Member
Rebekah Ilene Dawson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jackson, Jonathan

Title:

Observational and Dynamical Constraints on High-eccentricity Migration of Hot and Warm Jupiters

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

exoplanets
planet formation
hot Jupiters

File:

Download JonathanJacksonDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Rebekah Dawson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Wright, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Caryl Gronwall, Major Field Member
Rebekah Dawson, Program Head/Chair
Eric Ford, Major & Minor Field Member

Author:

Tuchow, Noah

Title:

Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Assessing the Habitable Histories of Stellar Systems

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

Exoplanets
Astrobiology
Exoplanet Evolution
Biosignatures
Direct Imaging
Planet hosting stars
Habitable zone
Stellar properties

File:

Download nwtuchow_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Major Field Member
Michael Eracleous, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Ford, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rebekah Dawson, Program Head/Chair