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Author:

Perkons, Eriks

Title:

The Contribution of Regional Variability to Beta Diversity: A Case Study of the Deep-water Marine Communities of the Middle Upper Ordovician of Eastern Laurentia

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Paleontology
Paleoecology
Geobiology
Ordovician
Trenton
Gradient
Biofacies
Beta diversity
Salona
Coburn

File:

Download Perkons_Thesis_Upload_2.pdf

Committee Members:

MARK E PATZKOWSKY, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Allan Arthur, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vieceli, Rhiannon Elizabeth

Title:

Detecting and Locating Small Earthquakes On Remote Oceanic Transform Faults

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Cross Correlation
Seismic event detection
Oceanic transform faults
Earthquake seismology

File:

Download THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles James Ammon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hudak, Michael Ryan

Title:

Insight from Inside the Volcano: Genesis and eruption of Thríhnúkagígur volcanics, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

fissure; eruption; basalt; mantle sources; assimilation; magma s

File:

Download FINAL_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Maureen Feineman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Christopher Lafemina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Foecke, Kimberly Kjaisa

Title:

Surface Microanalysis of Staining on Vertebrate Fossil Bone from the Santa Fe River, Florida

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Black staining
fossils
microanalysis
electron probe
EDS
WDS

File:

Download Foecke_Final_updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell W Graham, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maureen Feineman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hagedorn, Jacob Gerrit

Title:

THE LIVING FILTER: MONITORING NITRATE ACCUMULATION AFTER 50 YEARS OF WASTEWATER IRRIGATION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Living Filter
Nitrogen

File:

Download Hagedorn_Thesis_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Garett Mattingly

Title:

Distribution and abundance of benthic marine taxa in shelf margin depositional sequences: San Andres Formation (Guadalupian, Permian), Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

shellbeds
biofacies
stratigraphic archiecture
condensation
Permian

File:

Download Brown_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark E. Patzkowsky, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth A. Hajek, Committee Member
Michael A. Arthur, Committee Member

Author:

Neely, James Scott

Title:

LITHOSPHERE TEARING AND THE FORMATION OF A NEW TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Earthquake
Subduction Zone
Solomon Islands
Lithosphere Tearing
STEP Fault
Transform Boundary
Plate Boundary

File:

Download Neely_Upload_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin Patrick Furlong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member

Author:

Oddo, Perry Charles

Title:

Accounting for deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections is critical to understanding risk trade-offs

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

storm surge
flood adaptation
global sensitivity analysis
decision-making
deep uncertainty

File:

Download Oddo_MS-thesis_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

Author:

Borrego, David James

Title:

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE RUNGWE VOLCANIC PROVINCE AND REGION SURROUNDING THE NORTHERN LAKE MALAWI RIFT BASIN

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Africa
East African Rift System
Receiver Functions
Joint Inversion
Rungwe Volcanic Province
Magmatism
Crustal Structure
Malawi Rift

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andy Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles J. Ammon, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member

Author:

Ilhardt, Peter Donald

Title:

Micro-Scale Sulfur and Carbon Isotope and Trace Metal Analysis of a Neoarchean Stromatolite: Evidence for a Redox Transition in Epeiric Platform Carbonates Prior to the Great Oxidation Event

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Neoarchean
Stromatolite
Geochemistry
Sulfur Isotopes
Carbon Isotopes
Trace Metals
Great Oxidation Event
Pyrite
Microanalysis
Mass-Independent Fractionation

File:

Download Ilhardt_PSU_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Heaney, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member

Author:

Wnuk, Kendall Coleman

Title:

Temporal evolution of magma sources and surface deformation at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala revealed by InSAR

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Volcanology
InSAR
Geodesy
Pacaya Volcano
Deformation
Magma
Modeling
Inversion
Basaltic

File:

Download Wnuk_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christelle Wauthier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Christopher Lafemina, Committee Member
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member