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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:

Ramirez, Ramses Mario

Title:

Terrestrial planets under extreme radiative forcings: applications to habitable zones, early Mars, and a high-co2 Earth

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

habitable zones
habitability
Mars
collision-induced absorption
hydrogen
runaway greenhouse
carbon dioxide

File:

Download Ramirez_thesis_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

James Kasting, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Tollerud, Heather Joy

Title:

The role of water in the development of surface roughness and mineralogical variability on playa surface sediments: implications for aeolian erodibility and dust emission

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Aeolian erodibility
Atm. dust emission
Synthetic aperture radar
Remote sensing
Surface roughness
Black Rock Desert playa

File:

Download HeatherTollerudDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Scott Fantle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Special Member