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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:

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:

Peterson, Daniel Adam

Title:

Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Red Hill Site near Hyner, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

fluvial
Devonian
tetrapod
avulsion
Acadian orogeny
Pennsylvania
Red Hill
stratigraphy
floodplain
paleosol
sandstone

File:

Download Thesis_-_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark E Patzkowsky, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
MARK E PATZKOWSKY, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jones, Daniel Seth

Title:

MICROBIAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF SULFIDIC KARST ECOSYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

biogeography
sulfide oxidation
acidophile
karst
Hydrogen sulfide
Acidithiobacillus

File:

Download Jones_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Macalady, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Brian Dempsey, Committee Member

Author:

Currano, Ellen Diane

Title:

VARIATIONS IN INSECT HERBIVORY ON ANGIOSPERM LEAVES THROUGH THE LATE PALEOCENE AND EARLY EOCENE IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING, USA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
insect herbivory
plant-insect interactions
Bighorn Basin
global warming

File:

Download Thesis_Currano_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Scott W Wing, Committee Member
Conrad C Labandeira, Committee Member
Russell W Graham, Committee Member
Lee Ann Newsom, Committee Member

Author:

Bonelli, James Rocco

Title:

Linking Paleobiological Patterns Across Geographic Scales: An Example Using Upper Mississippian Fossil Assemblages From The Illinios And Appalachian Basins, USA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoecology
paleobiology
late Paleozoic Ice Age
biofacies
paleo-biodiversity

File:

Download Bonelli_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Rhodes, Matthew E

Title:

The Diversity and Coping Mechanisms of Life Inhabiting the Hypersaline Dead Sea

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Lateral Gene Transfer
Haloarchaea
Halophile
Dead Sea
Metagenomics

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

Author:

Olszewski, Thomas D.

Title:

Testing for a relationship between paleocommunity recurrence and taxonomic turnover using a sequence stratigraphic framework

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoecology
bivalve
brachiopod
sequence stratigraphy
Permian
Pennsylvanian

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Sluyter, Committee Member
Roger J Cuffey, Committee Member
Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Member
Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jiuyuan

Title:

The origin of a basin-scale thin limestone: the Middle Devonian Cherry Valley Member, Marcellus Formation

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Depositional environment
Redox condition
Marcellus shale

File:

Download Wang_Jiuyuan_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Allan Arthur, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chamberlin, Ellen Putnam

Title:

Using Fluvial Stratigraphic Architecture to Isolate the Role of Avulsion Processes in Alluvial-basin Filling

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

fluvial stratigraphy
rivers
Cretaceous
avulsions
autogenic

File:

Download Chamberlin_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Outside Member