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Author:

Albrecht, Heidi Lynn

Title:

Bacteriohopanepoyols Across Environmental Gradients

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

bacteriohopanepolyols
hopanoid
geochemistry
biogeochemistry
organic geochemistry

File:

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Macalady, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Rooney, Tyrone O.

Title:

CONTINENTAL RIFTING IN CENTRAL ETHIOPIA: GEOCHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS FROM LAVAS AND XENOLITHS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Ethiopia
continental rift
Debre Zeyit
Butajira
Wonjii
geochemistry
fault belt
cinder cone
basalt
xenolith
crustal structure

File:

Download Rooney_dissertation_upload.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Rudolph Parizek, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Member
David H Eggler, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Barry B Hanan, Committee Member

Author:

Watanabe, Yumiko

Title:

The Late Archean biosphere: Implications of organic and inorganic geochemistry of marine shales and terrestrial paleosols

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geochemistry
biosphere
organic matter
shale
Archean
paleosol

File:

Download YumikoWatanabethesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Blair Hedges, Committee Member
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Karen Elizabeth

Title:

Exogenous and Endogenous Sources of Organic Compounds on the Early Earth: Investigating Carbonaceous Meteorites and Plausibly Prebiotic Complex Mixtures by Liquid Chromatography-mass Spectrometry

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

analytical chemistry
meteorites
mass spectrometry
liquid chromatography
geochemistry

File:

Download Smith_FINAL_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James David Kubicki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kasting, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Special Member

Author:

Yesavage, Tiffany Ann

Title:

Chemical and Physical Weathering in Regolith: An Investigation of Three Different Fe-rich Sites of Varying Climate and Lithology

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

chemical weathering
regolith
soils
Fe isotopes
geochemistry
Fe cycling

File:

Download Yesavage_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Scott Fantle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Heaney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dere, Ashlee Laura

Title:

Shale weathering across a latitudinal climosequence

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geochemistry
soils
Critical Zone
erosion
mineralogy
weathering rates

File:

Download Dere_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Stapler White, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member

Author:

Wendt, Anna Katherine

Title:

Geochemistry of the Union Springs Member, Marcellus Formation in Central Pennsylvania and Environmental Implications of hydraulic fracturing

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Marcellus Formation
geochemistry
uranium
hydraulic fracturing

File:

Download Wendt_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Allan Arthur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Gary Lee Catchen, Committee Member

Author:

Morrow, Christin Palombo

Title:

Crossing Scales with Computational Tools: Applications to Divalent Silicate Dissolution

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

density functional theory
molecular dynamics
mineral dissolution
silicate
computational
kinetics
geochemistry

File:

Download Christin_P._Morrow_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl T. Mueller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James D. Kubicki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Committee Member
William Noid, Committee Member
Vincent Crespi, Committee Member

Author:

Pitcavage, Erica

Title:

Geochemical investigations of continental rift magmatism: a case study in East Africa's Western Rift

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

East African Rift
geochemistry
petrology
isotope geochemistry
geochronology
Uganda
magmatism
volcanism

File:

Download EPitcavage_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tanya Furman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tanya Furman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member
Danny Glynn Sykes, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Si

Title:

THE FORMATION OF IRON (HYDR)OXIDES IN SURFACE ENVIRONMENTS: A CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND KINETIC

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

hematite
goethite
ferrihydrite
hydrohematite
iron oxides
iron hydroxides
transformation
XRD
X-ray diffraction
synchrotron
neutron
neutron scattering
geochemistry
low temperature
kinetics
crystallographic
surface environment
DFT
First principle study
hydrous hematite
hydrous
deficient
vacancy
mineralogy
iron oxyhydroxides

File:

Download ChenSi2021-Thesis-draft-100121-v7.pdf

Committee Members:

William Burgos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Heaney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Susan Brantley, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Major Field Member

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:

Farnan, Jimmy

Title:

The Environmental and Toxicological Impacts from Oil and Gas Wastewater Disposal Practices in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

contaminant fate and transport
water quality
beneficial reuse
geochemistry
freshwater salinization
oil and gas produced water management
dust suppression
winter road management
road palliatives

File:

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Committee Members:

William Burgos, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Major Field Member
John Vanden Heuvel, Outside Unit Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drohan, Co-Chair, Outside Field Member & Dissertation Advisor