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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:

Horgan, Huw Joseph

Title:

GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS OF POLAR ICE SHEETS AND ICE SHELVES

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

seismology
greenland
antarctica
basal melt
grounding line
ice sheet
ice shelf
glaciology
geophyscis
remote sensing

File:

Download horgan.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Committee Member

Author:

Winberry, Jeremy Paul

Title:

Geodetic and Seismic Observations of Ice-Stream Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

seismology
ice sheet
ice stream

File:

Download Winberry_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derrick L Lampkin, Committee Member

Author:

Peters, Leo Everett

Title:

A seismic investigation of basal conditions in glaciated regions

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

glaciology
AVO analysis
basal conditions
seismology

File:

Download LEP_PhD_diss_2009_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Committee Member

Author:

Dugda, Mulugeta Tuji

Title:

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE BENEATH EASTERN AFRICA FROM JOINT INVERSION OF RECEIVER FUNCTIONS AND RAYLEIGH WAVE VELOCITIES

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE
EASTERN AFRICA
JOINT INVERSION OF RECEIVER FUNCTIONS AND RAYLEIGH
ETHIOPIAN LITHOSPHERE

File:

Download MTDugda_PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

Author:

Kosarian, Minoo

Title:

Lithospheric Structure of North Africa and Western Eurasia

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Crustal thickness
Shear velocity structure
Surface wave dispersion
Receiver functions
Poisson`s ratio

File:

Download Minoo-Kosarian-Dissertation-2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Victoria Louise

Title:

Crustal Response to Changes in the Magmatic System at the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

locations
earthquake
volcano-tectonic
Montserrat
volcano
Soufrière Hills
focal mechanism
stress
VT-string

File:

Download VictoriaLMiller-PhD-Dissertation-2011.pdfDownload 9596-EarthquakeLocationsAnimation.movDownload 9596-EarthquakeLocationsTable.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Voight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Voight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Yongcheol

Title:

Upper Mantle Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath the Kenya Rift and the Arabian Shield

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

surface wave
body wave
seismic tomography
plume

File:

Download YP_Thesis_final_high2.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Christianson, Knut Andrew

Title:

Geophysical Exploration of Glacier Basal Processes and Grounding Line Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

glaciers
ice sheets
geophysics
ice-penetrating radar
GPS

File:

Download christianson_knut_thesis_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Peter Christopher Lafemina, Committee Member
Derrick J Lampkin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Zoet, Lucas Keith

Title:

A Study of Discrete Glacier Motion

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
glacial erosion
glacial sliding
unstable sliding
seismology

File:

Download lzoet-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Mulibo, Gabriel Daudi

Title:

Investigation of Mantle Structure beneath Eastern Africa: Implications for the Origin Of the Cenozoic tectonism and propagation of the Rift System

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Tomography
Receiver function
Superplume
East African Rift System
Cenozoic Tectonism

File:

Download Mulibo_Gabriel_Dissertation_Final.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, Special Member

Author:

Fegyveresi, John Michael

Title:

Physical Properites of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Deep Core: Development, Evolution, and Interpretation

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
WAIS Divide
Antarctica
Ice Core
Paleoclimatology
Ice Deformation
Ice Sheet
Total Air
Bubble Number-Density

File:

Download Fegyveresi_PhD_1_5_15_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard B Alley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Todd Anthony Sowers, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Joan J Fitzpatrick, Special Member

Author:

Holschuh, Nicholas Donald

Title:

Methods and applications of radio frequency geophysics in glaciology

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
Geophysics
Radar
Antarctica
Greenland

File:

Download Holschuh_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard B Alley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Byron Richard Parizek, Outside Member

Author:

Leeman, John Robert

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Fault Stability and Slow Earthquakes

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

slow slip
earthquake
fault mechanics
rock mechanics
fault stability
ice stream

File:

Download dissertation_leeman.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Riverman, Kiya Lihn

Title:

Flow dynamics of the NE Greenland Ice Stream with hydrological insights from englacial exploration of Larsbreen, Svalbard

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

glaciology
ice stream
geophysics
greenland
englacial hydrology
shear margin

File:

Download KLR-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Byron Parizek, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Christopher Duffey, Outside Member

Author:

Chai, Chengping

Title:

Multi-Objective Geophysical Inversion for Earth Structure and Earthquake Parameters

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Geophysical Inversion
United States
Antarctica
Sumatra
Earth Structure
Earthquakes

File:

Download ChengpingChai-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles J. Ammon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles J. Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Andrew Nyblade, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Pourpoint, Maeva

Title:

LITHOSPHERIC AND GLACIAL STRUCTURES FROM SEISMIC WAVE ANALYSIS IN GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Surface wave tomography
Greenland
Icequakes
Byrd glacier
Antarctica

File:

Download MaevaPourpoint_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles A. Ammon, Committee Member
Richard B. Alley, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouki, Outside Member

Author:

Madara, Benjamin James

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Permeability Evolution: Roles of Fracture, Shear, Dynamic Stressing, and Reservoir Rock Properties

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

permeability evolution
permeability
dynamic stressing
fracture
shear
permeability enhancement

File:

Download Dissertation_Madara.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

White-Gaynor, Austin Laurent

Title:

Body and Surface Wave Tomography of West Antarctica and Southern Africa: Implications for Lithospheric Architecture, Tectonic Development, and Geodynamics

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Seismic Tomography
Upper Mantle Seismic Velocity Structure
West Antarctica
Southern Africa

File:

Download White-Gaynor_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Ward Sparrow, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair