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Author:

Regberg, Aaron Benjamin

Title:

THE EFFECT OF DISSIMILATORY IRON REDUCTION, NITRATE REDUCTION AND MICROBIAL GROWTH ON ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Biofilms
Kinetics
Electrical Conductivity
Reactive Transport Modeling
Dissimilatory Iron Reduction
Nitrate Reduction

File:

Download Aaron_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamini Singha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

Author:

Herrmann, Achim Dirk

Title:

Late Ordovician ocean-climate system and paleobiogeography

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Ordovician
ocean model
climate model
mass extinction
paleobiogeography

File:

Download eTDHerrmann.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member

Author:

Diefendorf, Aaron F.

Title:

ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES IN TERRESTRIAL ORGANIC CARBON

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

lipids
biomarker
fractionation
Carbon isotope
n-alkanes
Bighorn Basin
organic geochemistry

File:

Download Diefendorf_Dissertation_11-11-2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott W Wing, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member

Author:

Wall, Andrew James

Title:

ABIOTIC CONTROLS ON COPPER ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION DURING THE DISSOLUTION OF COPPER SULFIDE MINERALS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Cu isotopes
chalcocite
bornite
copper sulfides
isotope fractionation
synchrotron X-ray diffraction

File:

Download awall_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Heaney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Committee Member

Author:

Sitchler, Alexis K

Title:

Weathering Advance Rates in Basalt: Prediction and Comparison Across Scales

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

chemical weathering
basalt
porosity
diffusion
scaling
reactive transport modeling
weathering rinds

File:

Download ANS_final_thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Kirby, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Riccardi, Anthony

Title:

Carbonate-Associated Sulfate: Assessment of and Use as an Isotopic Proxy for Global Sulfur Cycling During End-Permian Mass Extinction

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Sulfur Isotopes
Mass Extinction
Geochemistry

File:

Download Riccardi_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Carlo G Pantano, Committee Member

Author:

Zerkle, Aubrey L.

Title:

Microbial Trace Metal Requirements: Limiting Nutrients and Potential Biosignatures

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

trace metals
biogeochemistry
nitrogen fixation
metal limitation
metallomics
biogeochemical cycling

File:

Download DISS_FINAL_ZERKLE.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Hunter J Carrick, Committee Member
Donald E Canfield, Committee Member

Author:

Reusch, Angela Marie

Title:

Using seismic data to interpret the mechanism for Cenozoic volcanism beneath Ross Island, Antarctica and the Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Africa
tomography
body waves
plumes
hotspot

File:

Download Mouse-Dissertation-FINAL-small.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Adams, Aubreya Nicole

Title:

A SEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE BENEATH THE ZAGROS MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN AND EAST AFRICAN PLATEAUS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Zagros Mountains
tomography
surface waves
plume
African Superplume
Africa
seismology
southern Africa
East Africa

File:

Download aadams_dissertation_finalsmall.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Rathbun, Andrew Paul

Title:

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FRICTIONAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SHEAR ZONES, WITH APPLICATION TO EARTHQUAKE FAULTS AND GLACIAL TILL

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Shear
Localization
Earthquakes
Friction

File:

Download ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Ennyu, Atsuhito

Title:

MIDDLE MIOCENE CLIMATE EVOLUTION IN THE PACIFIC REALM

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoceanography
paleoclimatology
middle Miocene
oxygen and carbon stable isotopes
foraminifera
Ocean Drilling Program

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member

Author:

Krug, Andrew Zachary

Title:

TAXIC AND PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING THE LATE ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION AND EARLY SILURIAN RECOVERY

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

recovery
mass extinction
Late Ordovician
diversity

File:

Download Andrew_Z._Krug_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member

Author:

Kimball, Bryn Elizabeth

Title:

Biogeochemical Cycling of Copper in Acid Mine Drainage

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

microscopy
isotopes
iron-oxidizing microorganisms
acid mine drainage
copper
spectroscopy

File:

Download Kimball_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Member
Brian Dempsey, Committee Member

Author:

LeVay, Brian James

Title:

Pre-anatectic and anatectic processes in an eclogite from the Erzgebirge, Southeastern Germany: Implications for arc magmatism

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

eclogite
anatexis
melting
migmatite
Erzgebirge
Saidenbach
adakite

File:

Download Thesis_BLeVay_714U.pdf

Committee Members:

Maureen Feineman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maureen Feineman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derrill Maylon Kerrick, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Lamptey, Benjamin Lantei

Title:

The Role of Land Cover Change in Long-Term Climate Change

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

urbanization
global and regional climate modeling
climate change
vegetation
land-use/land-cover change

File:

Download Lamptey-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric James Barron, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Toby Nahum Carlson, Committee Member
Paul Plassmann, Committee Member

Author:

Werner, Cynthia Anne

Title:

CO2 Emissions in Yellowstone, USA, and Solfatara Volcano, Italy: Use of Eddy Covariance and Mass Flux Modeling

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Yellowstone
carbon dioxide
Solfatara
volcanic degassing
diffuse fluxes
eddy covariance

File:

Download 01thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Deines, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member
David H Eggler, Committee Member
John Corry Wyngaard, Committee Member

Author:

Turich, Courtney Hanna

Title:

MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF ARCHAEAL ETHER LIPIDS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Archaea
Lipids
TEX86
isotopes

File:

Download TurichFinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Daniel Jones, Committee Member

Author:

Lopano, Christina Lynn

Title:

Time-Resolved Structural Analyses of Cation Exchange Reactions in Synthetic Birnessite

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

birnessite
cation exchange
X-ray diffraction
synchrotron
manganese oxides

File:

Download CLopano_Dissertation_Full_REVISED_.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
C Enid Martinez, Committee Member

Author:

Junium, Christopher Kendall

Title:

Nitrogen biogeochemistry and ancient oceanic anoxia

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

nitrogen cycle
nitrogen isotopes
black shale
porphyrins

File:

Download Junium_PhD_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Allan Arthur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member

Author:

Edmonds, Douglas Arthur

Title:

THE GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF RIVER-DOMINATED DELTAS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTARY NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

bifurcation
avulsion
delta
delta stability
delta growth

File:

Download Edmonds_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Rudy Slingerland, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Kirby, Committee Member
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
David N Hill, Committee Member