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Start Over Graduate Program Geosciences Year 2014 Committee Member Susan Louise Brantley

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

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

3. Topographic fingerprints of hillslope erosion in the central Appalachians as revealed by meteoric 10be: Toward understanding the evolution of critical zone architecture

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Open Access
Author:
West, Nicole R
Title:
Topographic fingerprints of hillslope erosion in the central Appalachians as revealed by meteoric 10be: Toward understanding the evolution of critical zone architecture
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
critical zone
beryllium-10
hillslope erosion
File:
Download NWest_Dissertation_Revisions_Jul18.pdf
Committee Members:
Eric Kirby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Douglas Miller, Committee Member

5. Measuring concentrations of natural gas in three streams in Pennsylvania to estimate methane fluxes from the subsurface

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Open Access
Author:
Grieve, Paul Luke
Title:
Measuring concentrations of natural gas in three streams in Pennsylvania to estimate methane fluxes from the subsurface
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Methane
Carbon isotopes
Stream monitoring
water chemistry
Groundwater
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Mass balance
File:
Download Grieve_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

6. The anatomy of weathering profiles on different lithologies in the tropical forest of northeastern Puerto Rico: from bedrock to clouds

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Open Access
Author:
Orlando, Joseph James
Title:
The anatomy of weathering profiles on different lithologies in the tropical forest of northeastern Puerto Rico: from bedrock to clouds
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
deep weathering
Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory
drilling
ground penetrating radar
metavolcaniclastic
hornfels
corestone
File:
Download Orlando_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor